Inland, More Rain May Not Quench Thirst
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By Catherine Clabby, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 3--Eroding beaches and widening estuaries aren't the only water-related trouble expected from climate change in North Carolina.
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A Las Vegas shopping center is trucking in water from as far away as Canada to fill its fountains. Reno will have to dip into its drought reserve supply for the first time in a decade. The most popular public ramp on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe is closed because there's not enough water to float a boat.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Mar. 7--More people moving to North Carolina means more water usage in homes, businesses and industrial plants.
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Rain was forecast for much of the country Friday, with parts of the Southeast and the central states likely to escape the wet weather.
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By Huang Zhiling  CHENGDU: Continued droughts have left nearly 4 million people in Southwest China's Sichuan Province short of drinking water.  Since early last month, Sichuan has witnessed a rise in rainfall.
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By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun  Jun. 7--Grappling with an ever-tightening water supply, the growing town of Mount Airy has given up on tapping nearby rivers in favor of a renewed search for wells that can produce enough water so that homes already approved there can be built.
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Weather forecasters said there was a chance of rain yesterday. By 6 p.m., folks had to wonder if there was a chance it would ever stop.
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By The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Dec. 9--After more than a week of blue skies, the Central Coast's weather turned Friday and rain is expected to continue through the weekend.
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Though the day of the final dawned bright and sunny, the six inches of rain that drenched this part of the world over the last week made parts of the ground too soggy for a timely start.
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By The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 19--Way back when, you could drive through West Texas and see irrigation canals filled with water. Conservation wasn't in vogue in the '50s and '60s, so the runoff would just collect along the road.
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From the deserts of the American southwest to the pine forests of the Deep South, drought-weary residents have one thing on their minds: &quot;I wish it would rain!&quot; Technically, what they should be wishing for is &quot;more streamflow.&quot;  Find out why in today's story.
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By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Sep. 16--BROOKPORT, Ill. -- Barge traffic is temporarily unsnarled at Locks and Dam 52, thanks to rain and a little man-made hydraulic help.   Rainfall on Monday and Tuesday deepened the channel, assisted by the U.S.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald  Mar. 7--With Lake Okeechobee rapidly receding and no rain on the radar, regional water managers said Tuesday they were being forced to install pumps to keep water flowing -- to farms for now and possibly to South Florida's suburbs in the near future.
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GILFORD, N.H. -- Like farmers and postal workers, ski resort operators take a fatalistic attitude toward the weather. And late last week, when several inches of rain was dumped on New England, it wasn't looking so good for what many resorts say is their largest grossing weekend.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald Mar. 7--With Lake Okeechobee rapidly receding and no rain on the radar, regional water managers said Tuesday they were being forced to install pumps to keep water flowing -- to farms for now and possibly to South Florida's suburbs in the near future.
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Urban air pollution may be reducing rainfall in the Central Valley and along the heavily populated southern California coast, while trimming mountain snowfall that supplies much of the state's drinking and irrigation water and hydroelectric power, a Stanford University professor's study released Thursday shows.
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ATLANTA _ North and South Carolina are fighting over a river. In Tennessee, springs are drying up, jeopardizing production of Jack Daniels whiskey. The mayor of Los Angeles is asking residents to take shorter showers. And in Georgia, the governor is praying for rain.