Water Release From Reservoirs Worrisome
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By Anna Staatz  By Anna Staatz  THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL  Kansas may have to purchase storage rights in three federal reservoirs to prevent water in them from being released to enhance navigation on the Missouri River.
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By Gary Marks HUNDREDS of people were evacuated from their homes in South Yorkshire today after torrential rain led to fears that a dam could burst.
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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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By COLLEEN DISKIN and ALEX NUSSBAUM, STAFF WRITERS  Seventy percent of the state's waters  including crucial sources of drinking water such as the Oradell and Wanaque reservoirs  fail to meet federal pollution standards.
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Thousands of residents who were evacuated from the path of a leaking dam were urged to stay away through Monday after authorities released a torrent of water to ease pressure on the barrier.
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The water level in Lake Okeechobee, a reservoir for millions in parched south Florida, dropped to a record low Thursday, the local water district said.  The lake water level was 8.94 feet Thursday, breaking a record low of 8.97 feet set in a 2001 drought.
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By David Hendee, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Jun. 2--The owner of Lake McConaughy turned up the heat Friday on upstream irrigation regulators to protect flows into the state's largest reservoir.  "Nebraska is on the verge of the worst natural resource disaster in the state's history.
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China's huge Three Gorges Dam hydropower project could spark environmental catastrophe unless accumulating threats are quickly defused, senior officials and experts have warned.
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It's taking on water, and debt.
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By Erica Meltzer, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Dec. 13--New houses on the outskirts of Tucson are drawing down the water table, drying up streams and causing subsidence.
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Climate change may carry a higher risk of flooding than was previously thought, the journal Nature reports.
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By Dick Cook, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn.  Jun. 25--With drought continuing across much of Georgia, officials are  getting increasingly strict about enforcing the state's water use  restrictions.
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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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The financial risk of applying for Waitaki River water has been lessened for two major proposals.   Meridian Energy's hydro tunnel and the Hunter Downs Irrigation Scheme can apply for water separately from the other consents they need for their projects.
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By John Simerman, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jun. 27--SOUTH LAKE TAHOE -- What happened Tuesday was unexpected. Today, they know it could get worse.
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A proposed solution to channel water into the rapidly shrinking Dead Sea could carry critical side effects, a local expert warns.
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Years of drought along the Colorado River have created a harsh reality for the booming Las Vegas Valley: The metropolitan area will not be able to grow in the decades ahead without new sources of potable water.