This Year's Winner: Don't Flush Good Water After Bad
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In an address to the nation in 1977, President Jimmy Carter called the energy crisis the "moral equivalent of war." Several years later, Carter wrote in a magazine article that the attitude of the American people concerning conservation had changed.
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By Bertrand M. Gutierrez, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Mar. 9--Clean tap water. Unclogged wastewater pipes. Modernized treatment plants.
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By Margie Wood, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  May 26--The recent storms that have passed through Pueblo have caused the water level -- and therefore the level of E. coli bacteria -- in local waterways to rise significantly, the City-County Health Department said Friday.
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BEIJING - Beijing hopes the smelly reputation of its public restrooms will be, well, flushed down the toilet soon. City officials will use the 2004 World Toilet Summit, starting Nov. 17, to showcase efforts to transform the capital's lavatories from foul to fragrant, from crude to cultured.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 5--CHAPEL HILL -- Aqua North Carolina water company had a wastewater spill Thursday of an estimated 20,000 gallons from a cracked pipe in Carolina Meadows retirement community.
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It is safe to say that a world without safe, abundant and easily accessible water is hard for most Americans to imagine. The same goes for life without private, relatively clean places in which to go to the toilet.
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By Curtis Morgan, Ani Martinez and Logan Jaffe, The Miami Herald  Mar. 14--For the first time since 2001, South Florida homeowners and businesses will soon be under orders to use less water.
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Ewww... someone is marketing toilet water!
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By Christina Salerno, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Jun. 12--PATTERSON -- Mark Monroe rolled out of bed at 4 a.m. Friday and groggily turned on the shower faucet, which sputtered a few drops of water before turning to a trickle.
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Whether you have a septic system or are buying a house with one, know that whatever you flush or pour down the drain can come back to haunt you, either in major repair expenses or in simple embarrassment.
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(90 sec.) Winning Best Actress cursed many a leading lady. Will it happen again this year?
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Idiot 2.0 passes judgement on idiots This crock crock by CNET blogger Steve Tobak must take the award for 2007's most self-righteous, sanctimonious bollocks. Read on in wonder:â¦
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By Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Feb. 13--Columbus Water Works received two prestigious national awards Monday at the meeting of the Board of Water Commissioners.
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How to avoid bad movies in the name of a good cause.
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By Barbara Barte Osborn, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 11--GRASS VALLEY-A failure in the city's sewage system Sunday caused about 1,200 gallons of effluent to overflow from a manhole into Little Wolf Creek.
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A turn of Peter Heckel's tap Tuesday morning did nothing. Heckel, a decades-long resident of North Raleigh, woke up to no water. A record-breaking weekend of Triangle water use had left the private water system that provides Heckel's home with pressure too low.
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By James Hagengruber, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Feb. 16--Sewage treatment plants in Coeur d'Alene, Post Falls and Hayden are facing some of the strictest water quality standards in the nation under new requirements proposed Thursday by the federal government.