More Water Battles Looming
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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 Roy Appleton, The Dallas Morning News  Sep. 14--Any decision is days, if not weeks, away. But the North Texas Municipal Water District and its customer cities moved Wednesday toward new, tougher water restrictions.
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By Wang Ying  Large-scale algae outbreaks are once again posing a threat to the drinking water supplies from Taihu and Chaohu lakes.
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By Matt Weiser and Jim Downing, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 3--The fate of a water supply serving two in three Californians has come down to tides, temperature and the mysterious movements of a tiny fish.
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Sep. 23--CLEVELAND -- Problems on the Great Lakes are approaching the tipping point and environmentalists need to intensify their push for Congress to fund restoration efforts on the lakes.
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The Swiss multinational, the CGT union and French government have all raised the level of brinkmanship in recent days over the future of the water business.
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By Associated Press  LEHI -- An official is calling it a "water war." Two Utah County communities are claiming their supplies will be diminished if the state allows new wells to be drilled by Salt Lake County-based water agencies.
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By Doug Smeath Deseret Morning News  Rocky Anderson is taking his fight for a more eco-friendly Salt Lake City to a new enemy: bottled water.
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Despite plenty of warnings, critics say, Georgia never got around to developing a water management plan to handle a severe drought. Now that reservoirs already are shrinking and water supplies are threatened, lawmakers are scrambling to cope.
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By Marcie Young, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 6--A meeting Thursday on a plan to take millions of gallons of water a day out of the Catawba River basin is shaping up as a contest to see which side can turn out a bigger crowd.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 24--South Carolina's legal salvo over the Catawba River, fired at its northern neighbor this month, was the latest sign of strain in a Southeast that has always seemed awash in water.
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By REX SPINGSTON  Newport News won another battle yesterday in its effort to build a controversial $235 million reservoir in King William County.
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By IAN STARRETT i.starrett@newsletter.co.uk  PLANNED new water legislation could threaten fish farming, textile and other industries here, a DUP councillor has claimed.
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Parts of England and Wales are likely to be hit by further heavy downpours following Friday's flooding.
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By Mike Taugher, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 26--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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More than a dozen states face a super-soaking and Florida another storm watch this weekend as what&#39;s left of Hurricane Ivan exits and Tropical Storm Jeanne nears.
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By Guan Xiaofeng  Huge algae outbreaks again pose a threat to drinking water supply from Taihu and Chaohu, two of China's major freshwater lakes.