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	<title>Aquafornia &#187; All-American Canal</title>
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		<title>All-American Canal test buoys placed</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21316</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Imperial Valley Press:
&#8220;Construction workers strung the first official buoy line across the All-American Canal at Drop 2 on Wednesday to prepare for March 18 in-water tests.  The U.S. Border Patrol Search, Trauma and Rescue team will perform the tests to ensure the buoys’ effectiveness.
“What we’re going to be doing is attaching some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All-American Canal lining nearly finished</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/18091</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Yuma Sun:
&#8220;Twenty-three miles may not seem like much.  
But for a project to line a section of the All American Canal that snakes through the sand dunes west of Yuma, it&#8217;s meant 20 years in the making, legal challenges and the expenditure of $285 million.
After nearly three years of construction by two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dangerous waters: Making canal look &#8217;safer&#8217; increases hazard, says editorial</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/16467</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the North County Times,
&#8220;Advocates for those who illegally cross the U.S. border with Mexico protested Wednesday at the San Diego County Water Authority headquarters, demanding that additional safety measures be installed along the 82-mile All-American Canal to help prevent accidental drowning of people attempting to cross into this country.
The protesters want &#8220;climb-outs,&#8221; ropes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All-American Canal needs safety features to prevent drownings, activists say; Canal often crossed by illegal immigrants</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/16403</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Diego Union Tribune:
&#8220;The long-anticipated task of lining 23 miles of the All-American Canal in Imperial Valley with concrete is nearly complete, but controversy over the fallout of the project continues to simmer.
Human rights organizations and activists gathered Wednesday in front of the San Diego County Water Authority office in Kearny Mesa to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BORSTAR to conduct All-American Canal buoy tests Dec. 9</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/15971</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Imperial Valley Press:
&#8220;A Border Patrol Search, Trauma and Rescue team will test buoy lines and other safety measures in the All-American Canal on Dec. 9.
Todd Shields, Imperial Irrigation District executive program manager for the All-American Canal Lining Project, said BORSTAR will analyze the best angles to string the buoys.
“The different angles are being [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swim the All-American Canal at your own risk, says editorial</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/15917</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:14:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Imperial Valley Press, this editorial:
&#8220;Some people who try to swim the All-American Canal drown. It is unfortunate, but it is true.
But we don’t think any safety measures put in place would ever satisfy John Hunter and others who want the canal to be safer for immigrants who have entered the country illegally and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican consulate to reveal new All-American Canal safety campaign</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/10882</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Imperial Valley Press:
&#8220;The Mexican consulate, along with the Imperial Irrigation District and San Diego County Water Authority will reveal a new educational campaign about the dangers of attempting to cross the All-American Canal.  IID board members got a preview at Tuesday’s meeting, where they expressed support for the campaign.
“To think we don’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imperial Irrigation District to test All-American Canal safety features</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/10040</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Imperial Valley Press:
The Imperial Irrigation District will be able to add safety features to the All-American Canal following recent approval from the Bureau of Reclamation.
IID water manager Mike King said the water department will immediately begin working with IID’s partners on the canal, including the San Diego County Water Authority, on a program [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More migrants drowning while crossing into U.S.</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/9529</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Imperial Valley Press:
It was the middle of the night when U.S. Border Patrol surveillance camera operators spotted Cesar Coriche Flores’ group heading north toward the All-American Canal.  When agents arrived on the scene, they picked up five people on land and found two more still in the water. They learned one member [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bureaucracy stalls All-American Canal safety measures</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/9240</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 14:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Imperial Valley Press:
Since 1943, 530 people have drowned in the All-American Canal, and husband and wife John and Laura Hunter have been pushing the Imperial Irrigation District to stop that number from climbing.
But IID water manager Mike King said that the decision to include safety features, such as ropes and buoys, along the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lined All-American Canal ends seepage, saving water; San Diego County to gain, Mexican farmers, wetlands to lose</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/8503</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 13:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Diego Union Tribune:
It seemed like such a simple idea at the time: Line a porous earthen canal with concrete and ship the saved water to San Diego and other thirsty coastal cities.  
But to pull off the Imperial Valley project, it took an urgent act of Congress, court rulings settling cross-border [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Officials celebrate project to cut water loss on All-American Canal</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/8495</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 14:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times:
At a patch of desert 35 miles east of El Centro and barely 50 yards north of the metal fence that separates the United States and Mexico, officials of several sometimes warring water agencies came together to celebrate the nearly completed project to line 23 miles with concrete to prevent seepage. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s official: All-American Canal lining completed</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/8480</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 15:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Imperial Valley Press:
It was in the 1980s that Congress first authorized the lining of the All-American Canal.
It was 1994 when IID water manager Mike King first was assigned to the project.  Construction didn’t start on the lining of the nearly century-old canal until June 2007, after a lawsuit that froze the process [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All-American Canal lining finished</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/8179</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Imperial Valley Press:
The All-American Canal lining is essentially finished, bringing to a close a project 20 years in the making.  “It’s a very exciting time for us,” said Halla Razak, the San Diego County Water Authority’s director of Colorado River programs.
The water saved from the lining of the canal will be transferred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All American Canal set to open April 30</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/8048</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 13:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Yuma Sun:
After almost two years of work lining the All American Canal with concrete, the canal will be opened on April 30. The 23-mile canal will be put in operation that day, but the project itself will not be completed until next year, said Kevin Kelly, spokesperson for the Imperial Irrigation District, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Gold: Have the next resource wars begun?  Article covers transboundary water issues, including the All-American Canal</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/7844</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an article written by AlterNet&#8217;s Tara Lohan, posted over at The Nation, which covers some transboundary water issues.  This is an excerpt on the section regarding the U. S. and Mexico, specifically the Colorado River and the All-American Canal:
Most people in the United States have the luxury of not worrying about the right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All-American Canal lining project on schedule, panel told</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/6770</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Yuma Sun:
The concrete lining of the All American Canal remains on schedule to be completed in March 2010, members of an advisory panel to the International Boundary and Water Commission were told this week.
The first eight miles of newly lined canal bed should be ready for use in about a month and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court rejects POWER appeal of All-American Canal case</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/5746</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 15:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Imperial Valley Press:
One of the groups suing the Imperial Irrigation District has suffered a setback.
POWER, which stands for Protect Our Water and Environmental Rights, initially sued the IID claiming environmental reviews on the All-American Canal were not adequate. It had two appeals to its case denied Friday.
“This means POWER lost again. What a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Profligate water use in the U.S. is fueling the flight of Mexicans across the border</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/5468</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From AlterNet:
On October 21, 2008, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne inaugurated the ground breaking of the new Imperial Valley water reservoir near the U.S.-Mexico border. The 500-acre $172.2-million reservoir, to be completed in August 2010, will store surplus Colorado River water for use by coastal Southern California, southern Nevada, and central Arizona; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Diego to pay emissions fines from All American Canal lining project</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/5127</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Imperial Valley Press:
The Imperial Irrigation District reached a settlement with the county’s Air Pollution Control District over alleged permit and emission violations in the All-American Canal lining project.  As part of the agreement, reached Monday with the pollution district’s hearing board, the IID will compensate the county for dust and vehicle emissions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IID agrees to added safety measures for All-American canal lining project</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/4178</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Imperial Valley Press:
To John Hunter the fight to add safety measures along the lining of the All-American Canal is a 15-round bout.  
In his words, he just won Round 5 on Tuesday as the Imperial Irrigation District Board of Directors unanimously approved writing a letter to the San Diego County Water Authority [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buoys considered for deadly border canal</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/4169</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Francisco Chronicle:
When crews finish lining part of the All-American Canal with concrete, the waterway will be deeper, faster — and possibly more of a death trap for migrants crossing the border illegally from Mexico.
The agency responsible for lining 23 miles of the canal to conserve water for Southern Californians is having second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All American Canal lining is added threat</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/4142</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:23:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Imperial Valley Press:
The roar of the water rushing through the gates is only muted by the gravel crunched beneath the tires of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection vehicle navigating the banks along the rushing canal.  In the murky green waters below, abandoned rafts and tire tubes bob in the water, caught [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crews excavating tons of sand for All American Canal lining</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/3927</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Yuma Sun:
Shape-shifters in the form of huge, lumbering earth movers have been busily at work on the dunes west of Yuma a year into a massive project on the All American Canal.  The project includes construction of a 23-mile concrete-lined segment of the All American Canal to run parallel to the existing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge rejects delay to All-American Canal work</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Imperial Valley Press Online:
A request from opponents to the All-American Canal lining project to prevent the flow of water into the new channel was denied by a state appellate judge last week.
Jim Abatti, a member of Protect Our Water and Energy Rights, said the lawsuit did not attempt to stall the project.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looming water issues on both sides of our borders foreshadow big problems</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/2540</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 20:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Earthnews:
Adaptation, or the matter of adjusting to climate change, is sometimes called a cheaper, easier way to deal with some of the consequences of a warming world. But consider the battle between the United States, Mexico and Canada that was triggered here amid the vegetable farms near the California border.
For more than 60 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baja California governor protests the lining of the All-American Canal while in Washington D.C.</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/2405</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Imperial Valley Press:
Baja California’s governor protested the cement lining of the All-American Canal while in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, according to Mexican news media.
During the Winter National Governor’s Association meeting here this weekend Gov. Jose Guadalupe Osuna Millán reportedly complained that the encasement is negatively impacting agricultural and economic activity in the Mexicali [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imperial County files complaint against All-American canal contractor</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/1112</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Imperial Valley Press Online:
Imperial County has filed an official complaint through the state Superior Court against a construction company for what the county claims are equipment and air violations in the construction of the All-American Canal lining project.
On Tuesday, the county confirmed that a complaint had been filed against Phoenix-based Ames Construction. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imperial Valley Press: don&#8217;t stall the All American canal project</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/742</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Imperial Valley Press Online, yesterday&#8217;s paper ran a story on how authorities were looking into air quality violations around the construction site:
The county and Imperial Irrigation District claim they want to get this problem cleared up quickly so it won’t affect the project. The IID said it does, of course, want the law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All-American Canal lining project could be facing a new challenge: air pollution</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/735</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Imperial Valley Press Online:
While lawsuits may no longer be holding up the project to build a cement-lined All-American Canal, a new controversy is emerging that could slow the $300 million project.  The issue is over the alleged pollution one contractor — actually two companies working in partnership, Ames Construction of Phoenix and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All-American Canal safety issues still debated</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/327</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 14:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Safety issues take center stage in the continuing debate over the All-American canal lining project in this story from the Imperial Valley Press Online:
Already the safety issue has been a subject of legal battles at the state and federal court levels even as the work to build the canal has started this summer.  Congressman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA Times Editorial on All-American Canal safety:  crossing border should not be a death sentence</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/265</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:47:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the LA Times Opinion Pages, regarding the All-American Canal lining project:
A study by state and federal public health officials concluded that steps should be built into the canal sides to avoid drownings of humans and large mammals, but the federal Bureau of Reclamation refuses to include them, saying they would cause structural instability and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third lawsuit against All-American canal lining project is dismissed</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/240</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Imperial Valley Press Online:
As work has begun on building a cement-lined All-American Canal, the courts have issued a third defeat to a group opposed to the project.  The ruling has left the group called Protect Our Water and Environmental Rights wondering where its case can be heard as both the state and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All-American Canal Lining prompts many safety concerns</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/224</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lining of the All-American Canal in the Imperial Valley is now underway, and there are new concerns about safety:
From the Los Angeles Times:
About 23 miles of the canal are being lined with concrete to conserve water by preventing it from seeping into the ground. When the lining is complete, water will flow faster and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work begins on All-American canal lining project</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/165</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a year&#8217;s delay while several legal challenges were resolved, work has begun on lining a 23-mile section of the All-American canal.  The All-American canal delivers Colorado River water to irrigate farmland and for municipal use in Imperial County.  
From the Yuma Sun:
When completed, the two-year project is expected to save 67,700 acre-feet [...]]]></description>
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