N. Texas District Faces Pointed Questions in Water Shortage: Amid Residents' Criticism, Officials Work on Plans to Bolster Supply
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By Roy Appleton, The Dallas Morning News  Sep. 23--The shrinking of its main reservoir, the swelling demand for its water and the need for drastic conservation measures have put some heat on the North Texas Municipal Water District.
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By Laura McCandlish, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 4--Water shortage solutions are expensive   Mount Airy's water commission is pushing for an ordinance that would shut down development in the water-deficient town that straddles the border of Carroll and Frederick counties.
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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 Monica Chen, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Sep. 20--CHARLOTTE -- York County residents who oppose a plan from two North Carolina cities to draw water from the Catawba River pleaded their case to N.C. officials Tuesday during the last public hearing on the proposal.
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By Emily Ramshaw, The Dallas Morning News  Mar. 1--AUSTIN -- The House put a stamp of approval Wednesday on a bill to help manage water levels across the state, the first of several landmark water planning bills before the Legislature this session.
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By Beth Gallaspy, The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas  Sep. 12--Beaumont's per capita water use tops that of many Texas cities with stronger conservation programs, according to a Texas Water Development Board survey, but many of those gallons never make it to the city's homes and businesses.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 13--A plan to improve Cucharas Reservoir has been put on hold because a company that would have paid part of the cost can't get a permit for a power plant in northern Pueblo County in a timely manner.
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By Leah M. Caudle and Beverly Fortune, The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Jun. 16--bfortune@herald-leader.com [mailto:bfortune@herald-leader.com]   The Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet has issued a water shortage watch for 61 counties across the state.
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By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 17--FOUNTAIN -- A group trying to develop a vision for Fountain Creek was asked to move from stating positions to expressing interests Friday, exposing both areas of disagreement and common ground.
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By PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM\\ Staff Writer  County planners have received dozens of requests, mostly from environmental groups, urging more time to add their comments before this week's final hearing on the first phase of the huge Newhall Ranch project.
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By Copyright  2007 Albuquerque Journal BY JOHN FLECK Journal Staff Writer  GALLUP -- Gallup is running out of water.   Nearby parts of the eastern Navajo Nation never had much water to begin with.
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Group demonstrates possible solutions, but lawmakers also need to act.
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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 Dominic Adams, The Lima News, Ohio  Sep. 24--OTTAWA -- A comment by an engineer about possibly using water from the Blanchard River to fill an under-construction Leipsic reservoir has Ottawa officials feeling defensive.  John T.
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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 The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Sep. 24--LOWER ARKANSAS Valley Water Conservancy District officials are on the right track, demonstrating leadership and independence in their quest to protect the region's rural water supplies from being lost to the urban Front Range.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald  Feb. 3--Two years after a mysterious chemical contamination shut down two-thirds of the pumps tapping Miami-Dade's largest source of drinking water, county engineers are preparing to put them back on line.