Ready for a Water Fight?: Unifour Leaders Oppose Proposal to Transfer Millions of Gallons Daily From River Basin
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By Marcie Young, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 6--A meeting Thursday on a plan to take millions of gallons of water a day out of the Catawba River basin is shaping up as a contest to see which side can turn out a bigger crowd.
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By Mike Taugher, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 26--An environmental crisis could disrupt water supplies throughout California for the first time since the early 1990s, threatening to end the long cease-fire in the state's water wars.
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By Beck Eleven  Scarce Canterbury water is under threat after a decision to allow applications in a hotly disputed irrigation zone.
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Groundwater levels are dropping around China, where leaders face tough choices as cities, industry and farming compete for an unbalanced and finite water supply.
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Â· Millennium goals within reach for much of worldÂ· Unsafe water undermines educational reforms
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By SETH BORENSTEIN WASHINGTON - The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, top scientists will say next month at a meeting in Belgium.
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By Danielle Sottosanti, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Jun. 7--A proposed large increase in Oro Valley's water-connection fees met with opposition from development and building representatives at a public hearing Wednesday night.
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By Monica Chen, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Sep. 20--CHARLOTTE -- York County residents who oppose a plan from two North Carolina cities to draw water from the Catawba River pleaded their case to N.C. officials Tuesday during the last public hearing on the proposal.
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It's taking on water, and debt.
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By Tony Davis, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 22--A new city water-conservation proposal would hit apartment-building owners and renters much harder than single-family homeowners.
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By Andy Mead, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Jun. 3--The path that brings Kentucky American before the state Public Service Commission to argue for a new treatment plant has nearly as many twists and turns as the Kentucky River itself.
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The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, top scientists will say next month at a meeting in Belgium.
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By The Daily Oklahoman  Feb. 1--LIQUID, expensive, necessary and controversial. Water is the new oil in Oklahoma. We talk about it, fight over it and look apprehensively toward a time when we might have less than we need.
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WHITING, Ind. -- A proposal to allow BP to greatly increase the amount of pollutants it discharges into Lake Michigan from its refinery here has prompted a bitter war of words between officials in Illinois and Indiana.
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In recent years cartloads of sometimes nonsensical directives have come out of Europe controlling and manipulating the way we live our lives. However there are exceptions and one of these is the recent Water Framework Directive.
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By Joy L. Woodson, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Feb. 21--For almost a year, Northeast Richland homeowner Michael Harvey and owners of a Shumaker Homes development have been at odds over property lines and something no one can live without -- water.
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ROME, Jun 29 (IPS) - Water is not the stuff of business, it is a basic  human right. Hama Arba Diallo, executive secretary of the  Convention of the United Nations to Combat Desertification  (UNCCD), is persuaded that the United Nations is about to  formally recognise this principle, possibly by 2008.