Lehi, Highland Fear a Water Grab
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By Associated Press  LEHI -- An official is calling it a "water war." Two Utah County communities are claiming their supplies will be diminished if the state allows new wells to be drilled by Salt Lake County-based water agencies.
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Residents in parts of Perthshire are warned of a serious flooding risk, with levels expected to rise.
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It's taking on water, and debt.
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Real estate is often a long-term investment. But 10,000 years? Lo'ihi Development Co. will soon start offering oceanview lots speculators won't even be able to stand on for many millennia. That's because they're currently submerged more than 3,000 feet below sea level &#151; on an underwater volcano called Lo'ihi, located about 20 miles southeast of the Big Island.
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By Jared Paben, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Jun. 2--There's not enough water on Squalicum Mountain to serve a substantial number of homes, and drilling more wells for new houses may rob existing houses of water, a Whatcom County geologist told county officials.
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By The Stamford Advocate, Conn.  Mar. 8--Any region that gets deluged like we did late last week is going to find parts of itself under water.
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Bodies, dirty water spreading disease. Medical supplies have started to run out and panicked residents are fighting for provisions.
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A number of homes in County Tyrone are again without water after a pipe burst at a reservoir.
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Water supplies on some Indian Ocean islands may have been ruined for years or decades by the salt water that flooded them during the Asian tsunami.
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By Wang Ying  Large-scale algae outbreaks are once again posing a threat to the drinking water supplies from Taihu and Chaohu lakes.
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By DIRK MEISSNER  TELKWA, B.C. (CP) - A forest fire crew battled rising flood waters rather than flames Thursday as northern British Columbians fought feverishly to hold back rising flood waters near Smithers.
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By Murdo MacLeod  HEBRIDEAN crofters armed with old salmon nets are defying Atlantic storms which threaten to wash their island away.
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The 225m-long `Selendang Ayu&#39; ran aground near the Aleutian islands in the Bering Sea. The environment is at threat, but bad weather is preventing a clean-up.
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A Fiji islander frets about rising sea levels, while villagers cope with the destruction of mangrove swamps in India, and a Nepalese Sherpa fears his mountain valley will be flooded by melting glacier runoff high in the
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Water supplies on some Indian Ocean islands may have been ruined for years or decades by salt water from the tsunami.
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By Laura McCandlish, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 4--Summit faces issue of water vs.
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By Dean Narciso, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Dec. 18--A levee built as a short-term fix to protect a limestone quarry from flooding left a generation of potential problems for the Big Darby Creek.