Environmental Groups Worry About State's Water Supply
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By Melissa Mcever, The Brownsville Herald, Texas  Feb. 18--Before water even starts its journey from the headwaters of the Rio Grande to the Gulf of Mexico, it's already spoken for.   Every drop of the Rio Grande belongs to a city, an irrigation district, an industry, a landowner.
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By Tim Carpenter  By Tim Carpenter  THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL  State attorneys and agriculture officials Tuesday urged legislators to prepare for expensive legal wrangling to force Nebraska and Colorado to comply with court-ordered agreements on water consumption.
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By Julia Reynolds, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Sep. 15--Several dozen water customers balked at the idea of consumers fronting the costs of California American Water's expansion, saying the private company is asking the public to carry its investment risk.
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Urbanisation and population growth are threatening the goal of improving water access, UN bodies warn.
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Today's session, sponsored by the state Department of Environmental Management, is part of an effort to protect the Scituate Reservoir system.
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By Sammy Fretwell, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Jun. 18--Despite federal warnings, the state has not set aside enough money to clean up leaks from buried petroleum tanks that threaten drinking water across South Carolina.
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By Mike TaugherSTAFF  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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ATLANTA - After one of the driest springs in recent history, and looking  ahead to a parched weather forecast, Georgia farmers, environmental  officials and local authorities face some tough decisions about using water.
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By John Ellis, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  May 26--Environmentalists are claiming victory after a federal judge in Fresno on Friday found a key opinion on the effects of water pumping in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta on the endangered delta smelt fish was "legally flawed." U.S.
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By Larry Parsons, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Dec. 17--A long environmental battle over storm runoff into ocean waters off the Monterey Peninsula is close to over, though several local jurisdictions could still challenge details of the antipollution program.
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By Marc Benjamin, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 11--With water wells running dry and well contamination reported in some areas, Fresno County is working to secure rights to 5,000 acre-feet of water each year.
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By Eric Berger, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 12--The board tasked with meeting the state's water needs through 2060 says climate change is uncertain enough that it's not worth accounting for in its long-range plans.
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By Mike Stanton; Journal Staff Writer  As the head of a neighborhood group asks a committee for stiffer penalties for polluters, senators grill state officials about the costs of the lawsuit.
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Supporters of the San Diego River Conservancy, which has been targeted for elimination by Gov. Schwarzenegger&#39;s government-efficiency commission, turned up at a public hearing yesterday to plead their case.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Sep. 22--U.S. Senate committee members were sympathetic Thursday to the plight of Lower Arkansas Valley communities trying to get federal support for a drinking water conduit, Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., said.
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ California is on the verge of blazing a new environmental path with the toughest restrictions in the nation on exotic clams, crabs and other nonnative aquatic species that harm river and bay environments, threaten water supplies and clog water pipes.
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Environmentalists in California and other western states are promoting the use of dirty or gray water to flush toilets and irrigate gardens.