Delta's Pumping Volume to Increase: Scarce Smelt Were Killed in Low-Level Transfers, but Irrigation Clamor is Rising.
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By Matt Weiser, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 13--Water exports from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are expected to increase significantly today, despite additional smelt killed this week and a lingering risk to the threatened fish.
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By Joyce Lobeck, The Sun, Yuma, Ariz.  Jun. 20--The Imperial Irrigation and Drainage District board declared there won't be enough water by 2008 to maintain the current level of use.
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By Mike Taugher, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. May 26--A federal judge ruled Friday that the permit that allows massive Delta water delivery projects to kill a tiny endangered fish is illegal.
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The long-term recovery of the Iraq marshlands is threatened by limited water supplies, research shows.
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By Anna King, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Feb. 5--BENTON CITY -- A lot of money is riding on a Kennewick Irrigation District proposal to bring more water to Red Mountain.
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By Jim Johnson, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 25--When the Petersens' well ran dry in June, the family dealt with the lack of water the best they could.   The Prunedale residents spent hundreds of dollars for thousands of gallons of water to be trucked to their home.
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Ukraine's project to build a canal in the Danube Delta - a unique wetland area - alarms environmentalists.
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In the opaque world of the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, âan increase in productionâ can mean âa reduction in supplyâ, while ânoâ can quite simply mean âyesâ.
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ONCE the answer to many of California's water worries, the problem-plagued Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta now faces so many question marks itself that Gov.
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Rising wages on China's more prosperous eastern coast are pushing some factories inland where labor is cheap.
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Investors who have seen energy prices   rocket due to scarce supplies are starting to wager that   forecasted shortages will cause the value of water to   skyrocket, offering big gains to companies active in the   sector.
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By Mike Taugher, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif. Jun. 23--FRESNO -- A federal judge on Friday denied an emergency request to shut down Delta pumping that environmentalists said was needed to prevent an endangered fish from going extinct.
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By Anna King, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Sep. 23--NACHES -- It's no easy job to keep tiny fish out of irrigation ditches and on their migratory path to the ocean.   Especially when small salmon really like slower moving waterways that offer plentiful bugs and hiding places.
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Water was released from three Chinese dams in response to an ongoing drought that has shrunk drinking water supplies for 5 million people nationwide.
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The Department of Water Resources (DWR) will increase pumping at its  Harvey O. Banks Delta Pumping Plant beginning Sunday, June 17.
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California's major urban areas and farmers should brace for cuts in water supplies following a federal judge's ruling that limits how much water may be pumped from the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta, water officials from around the state said on Wednesday.
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With drought conditions intensifying across the Southeast, efforts to conserve water are popping up everywhere Â even at the aquarium.