Water Replacement Plan Will Fail, State Engineer Predicts; More Wells Likely to Be Shut Down
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By Bill Jackson, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 23--A water replacement plan for irrigation wells in Weld, Morgan and Adams counties probably won't be approved and three cities are to blame, the state engineer said Thursday.
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By SCOTT HARPER  BY SCOTT HARPER  THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  RICHMOND - The State Water Control Board rejected two major development proposals Wednesday - one on the Peninsula, the other on the Eastern Shore - in decisions cheered by environmentalists and watermen.
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By The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 20--GULFPORT -- Workers will be repairing water lines along Washington Avenue next week, causing a boil water notice to be in effect then.   The outage is scheduled for Tuesday from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m.
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By David Hendee, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Sep. 6--HOLDREGE, Neb. -- Despite forecasts that Lake McConaughy will fall to a record low level this month, the reservoir will be tapped for irrigation next year.
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By BRENDAN RILEY  CARSON CITY, Nev. - Four federal agencies dropped their protests to a plan to pipe water to booming Las Vegas from a valley near the Nevada-Utah line, the state water engineer said Monday.
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An epic drought in Georgia threatens the water supply for millions. Florida doesn't have nearly enough water for its expected population boom. The Great Lakes are shrinking. Upstate New York's reservoirs have dropped to record lows. And in the West, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is melting faster each year.
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By Andy Reid, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 21--Year-round water restrictions could provide a lesson in conservation, but not the answer to solving South Florida's water woes, utility operators and environmentalists warned Wednesday.
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Lake levels reached record lows last year, and the region worries that fast-growing states and communities will try to grab its water.
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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 Blackwell Thomas  SPRINGFIELD - A plan to change how septic tanks are inspected in Illinois has some rural lawmakers raising a stink.
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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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By BARBARA WILLIAMS, STAFF WRITER  WEST MILFORD  The developer of a proposed 288-unit town-house project has asked to monitor 39 homeowners' wells to see if there is enough water for the development.  K.
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By Nancy Perkins Deseret Morning News  Water rights in southwestern Utah's Escalante Valley are a precious commodity, and farmers there are worried that a state- mandated plan may dilute those rights, after sinkholes were found in the area because of groundwater use.
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By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Mar. 11--The first sign of impending disaster would be a piercing hiss as thousands of pounds of chlorine gas rushed through a hole in one of the 4,000-gallon storage tanks at the Tarrant County Water Supply Project plant in Euless.
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By James Hagengruber, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jun. 14--Changes in operations at the Post Falls dam could be delayed for a year, according to the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality.
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By Don Spatz, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Jun. 18--The Reading Area Water Authority is embarking on an ambitious five-year plan costing tens of millions of dollars that includes replacing homeowners' water meters and dredging a portion of Lake Ontelaunee, and may include buying other water systems.
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Charles County could run out of drinking water by 2030 because its fast-growing population is depleting the county's underground supply, new findings by the state show.