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Recent Posts

• The great drain robbery: Starbucks pours millions of litres of precious water down the drain at its coffee shops
• Proper disposal of old drugs is changing; but just what is best way to dispose of them?
• Chinese beetles enlisted to fight harmful tree in West
• Water & Investing: Swim among the water stocks
• Northward, ho! Look out, Oregon, for a global warming land rush
• More players surface in the shallow pond of California water
• Tahoe mussel worries on rise
• The new corporate threat to our water supplies: Neglect of public infrastructure has private companies swooping in to buy public systems, like water, with grave consequences
• Everybody into the ocean: The race is on to turn waves, tides and currents into electrical energy
• Another inconvenient truth: Making a dent in the world’s energy problems with biofuels will require much more water than the world can afford to give up, says commentary
• Average rain year won’t cut it; still, Sacramento area will fare better than most
• Editorial: A bitter pill - Lake Red Bluff lost
• A water warning from an ancient people
• Salton Sea’s leases might end
• Another View: Thinning of junipers helps the ecosystem

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Web Resources

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  • Inkstain - jfleck
  • Misu Blog
  • Spouting Off - Mark Gold of Heal the Bay
  • Water Cooler Blog
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• Water Information

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