SPAIN:  Provinces, Environmentalists Fight Over Diversion of Rivers
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MADRID, Sep 3 (IPS) - While in other parts of the world, like the Middle   East, the struggle over water sources fuels armed conflicts, a  political war  is being waged in Spain over the same question.
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By Kevin Howe, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Mar. 1--If Monterey Bay water officials are looking for alternatives to ensuring a regional water supply, they might start by deciding just what the "region" is.
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By Gorczyca, Beth  ELKINS - A debate over designating a section of stream for  catchand-release fishing could end up casting a question over the state's tax system.
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In an atmosphere of blockades by French fishermen and anger from Spain and Poland, the European Union&#39;s fisheries ministers have reached several compromises designed to restore what some say are dangerously low levels of several species.
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A proposal to build a hydroelectric dam on a river with diverse fish stocks has set off a controversy.
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Plans to directly divert flows from the Rio Grande near Santa Fe shouldn't harm the endangered silvery minnow or cause other serious harm to the environment, says an analysis released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.
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The Army Corps of Engineers sidestepped the governor's demand to stop draining reservoirs Wednesday, setting up a legal showdown between the federal government and state officials who blame the policy for intensifying a record drought.
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By Rex Springston, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 17--An environmental group is asking a court to throw out a state decision that aided Newport News' plans to develop a $235 million reservoir in King William County.
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By Marek Warszawski, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jan. 31--The San Joaquin River Gorge is like the Rodney Dangerfield of Sierra Nevada river canyons.   It gets little or no respect.
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By Dan Walters, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 3--THERE'S NO INHERENT -- i.e., rational -- reason why California could not resolve its two-sided water dilemma.
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Stranded passengers from the devastated towns of Real and Infanta rush to board an outrigger boat December 6. Food and water shortage forced residents to flee to other province and Manila as roads to Real and other towns destroyed by flash floods and
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By Ryan Teague Beckwith, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 18--Conservationists found an unlikely ally in the fight to save Marks Creek: a home builder.
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Rubber tappers, fishermen and Indians in western Brazil have joined environmental groups in battling a planned $9 billion hydroelectric project that will flood one of the Amazon's main tributaries.
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By MEG KINNARD  COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina's attorney general asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to stop North Carolina from draining millions of gallons from a river that provides drinking water and electricity to both states.
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Shepherds from across the world joined their Spanish colleagues to lead flocks of sheep through the streets of downtown Madrid on Sunday in defense of ancient grazing routes threatened by urban sprawl and manmade frontiers.
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By PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM\\ Staff Writer  SANTA CLARITA -- Water agencies, developers, environmentalists and local government will sit down together this week to draft what's intended as the ultimate plan to manage the region's most precious resource: water.
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By Dahleen Glanton, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Jun. 19--ATLANTA -- North and South Carolina are fighting over a river.  In Tennessee, springs are drying up, jeopardizing production of Jack Daniel's  whiskey. The mayor of Los Angeles is asking residents to take shorter showers.