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	<title>Aquafornia &#187; Colorado River &amp; the Southwest</title>
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		<title>How to “fix” the Colorado River?</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61616</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Jennifer Pitt of the Environmental Defense Fund, posted at National Geographic&#8217;s News Watch: &#8220;Much ado has been made in recent headlines about growing scarcity on the Colorado River. Water supply, as reflected by what’s left in storage in the basin’s big reservoirs, has dropped from full just over a decade ago to 64% today, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Westward H2O!  A plan to siphon off the Mississippi and send it west &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61474</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61474#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Discover Magazine: &#8220;The Southwest is struggling with drought. The Midwest is soaking under floodwaters. And there may be one solution to both problems: Shift the floodwaters of the Mississippi 1,000 miles west to the Navajo River, a tributary of the Colorado River. The engineering firm Black &#038; Veatch has developed a plan that would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preserve legacy of the Colorado River, says commentary</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61363</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun, this commentary by Carlos Ezeta, an appointed member of the federal National Museum of the American Latino Commission: &#8220;Nevada’s Sen. Harry Reid is working to give a home to the National Museum of the American Latino. Bipartisan legislation was introduced in Congress that would allow the new museum to take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chance of Rain blog: High good, low bad: Lake Mead in January 2012, plus comments from the Cadiz meeting in Joshua Tree</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61305</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61305#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southern California]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Chance of Rain blog: &#8220;As promised, some Friday notes on Lake Mead, Colorado River snowpack and two public comment meetings on the groundwater mining project proposed for Cadiz Valley in the eastern California Mojave. First, according to the federal Bureau of Reclamation, Lake Mead closed January 2012 at 1,134.18 feet. The good news [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study releases updated technical reports</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61303</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61303#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Bureau of Reclamation: &#8220;The Bureau of Reclamation today updated two technical reports titled “Technical Report B &#8211; Water Supply Assessment” and “Technical Report D &#8211; System Reliability Metrics”. Initially published in June 2011 as part of Interim Report No. 1, they were updated to reflect comments on Interim Report No. 1, technical developments, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water demands outstrip supply in Colorado River Basin</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61227</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61227#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Public News Service: &#8220;A coalition of businesses along the Colorado River took its concerns about water supply-and-demand issues to Washington this week. Members of the group &#8220;Protect the Flows&#8221; shared potential solutions with the Interior Department and members of Congress. Recreation and tourism are the lifeblood of the West, says Steve Harris, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental Defense Fund submits proposal to protect Colorado River flow, ecosystems, western economy</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61159</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61159#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Environmental Defense Fund, this press release: &#8220;The Bureau of Reclamation today received a proposed set of common-sense solutions to solve the imbalance between supply and demand for water in the Colorado River Basin, where the Bureau projects river flow will decrease by an average of about nine percent over the next 50 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inkstain blog: Colorado River models: wrong but useful</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61038</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate change & water supply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Inkstain blog: &#8220;Climate scientist Tamsin Edwards triggered a fascinating discussion when she chose the famous George Box quote – “all models are wrong, but some are useful” – as the name for her new blog. In a delightful exchange on Twitter (which I followed in real time and which Edwards quotes extensively in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southwest turns anxious eye to shrinking Lake Mead</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61004</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61004#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From OPB News: &#8220;In a dramatic reversal of fortune compared to last year, an unusually dry winter is causing the level of Lake Mead, Nevada, to decline, making water managers increasingly anxious about supplying water to the thirsty Southwest. The latest U.S. Drought Outlook shows continued dry conditions in the Southwest are likely for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Western Weather Blog: Reversal of fortunes for Lake Mead</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60988</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60988#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drought, Weather & Snowpack]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Accu-Weather&#8217;s Western Weather Blog: &#8220;I have documented many times in this blog in the last month the lack of rain and snow across the Southwest U.S. watershed this Winter and its seriousness. I have had one person question why am I being so pessimistic especially since there was a change in the weather coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado River risks are debated by state</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60960</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Pueblo Chieftain: &#8220;Colorado is struggling with determining the risks of further development of the state’s entitlement to Colorado River water under a seven-state compact signed in 1922. “I think the question is: ‘What is the result of overdevelopment of Colorado River water, and who suffers the consequences?’ ” said John McClow, an attorney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prompted by scarcity, Colorado River basin states examine their lifeline</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60919</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60919#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Circle of Blue Water News (hat tip to the Water Sisweb): &#8220;The worst drought in the 105-year historical record of the Colorado River has opened a new era of water scarcity that is prompting state and federal water managers to evaluate never before considered options for increasing water supply and reducing demand. The new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: Keeping poison out of our water</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60629</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60629#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Las Vegas Sun, this commentary by Larry Brown, member of the Clark County Commission: &#8220;Las Vegas is rightfully proud to be the doorway to thousands of tourists who travel to Grand Canyon National Park and the Colorado River. As our economy matures, we are becoming a destination for those seeking unique outdoor experiences. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuestro Rio: Latino campaign to save Colorado River opens new front</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60392</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60392#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Fox News Latino: &#8220;It formed last year to raise awareness of the drought-stricken Colorado River, which snakes its way across seven states and parts of Mexico and is flanked by the soaring walls of the Grand Canyon. Now Nuestro Rio, a network of Latinos working to raise awareness about the endangered Colorado River Basin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lower Colorado River Tour, March 14-16 – Register today!</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60308</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60308#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Water Education Foundation: &#8220;The Colorado River is a lifeline to 35 million people in the Southwest, but in the Lower Basin, virtually every drop of the river is allocated. Yet demand is growing. As the drought moves into another year, California, Arizona and Nevada continue to work together to find ways to conserve, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inkstain Blog&#8217;s River Beat: A forecast for decline on the Colorado again this year</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60272</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60272#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 14:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Inkstain Blog: &#8220;It’s all fun and games until you actually have to measure snow. The US Bureau of Reclamation’s first 2012 Colorado Basin reservoir forecast (the “24-month study”, pdf) projects a decline in total storage in lakes Mead and Powell, the Colorado River’s largest storage reservoirs, of 844,000 acre feet, or 2.76 percent. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adding up the water deficit: Even Lake Mead, the biggest reservoir in the U.S., will eventually run dry if its outgo consistently exceeds income, says commentary</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60253</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60253#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times, this commentary by William deBuys, author of the newly released &#8220;A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest&#8221;: &#8220;Southern Californians are used to turning on the tap, or the sprinklers, and getting the water they want. Their ability to do so depends, in large part, on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inkstain blog: Dust and North American megadrought</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60068</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60068#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drought, Weather & Snowpack]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Inkstain Blog: &#8220;The Lamont-Doherty group that has done so much to help our understanding of the factors that drive multi-decadal droughts has added a nice piece to our understanding of the issues. In a paper in review (for which they’ve done a nice accessible writeup), Ben Cook and colleagues looked at a number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Secretary Salazar announces decision to withdraw public lands near Grand Canyon from new mining claims</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59968</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59968#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the U.S. Department of the Interior: &#8220;Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced his decision to protect the iconic Grand Canyon and its vital watershed from the potential adverse effects of additional uranium and other hardrock mining on over 1 million acres of federal land for the next 20 years. Secretary Salazar’s decision [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snow drought forces Colorado to face frightening new climate-change reality</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59965</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59965#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Colorado Independent: &#8220;Just a year after record snowfall throughout much of the Rocky Mountain West, the region is locked in a snow drought not seen since Jimmy Carter surrendered the White House to Ronald Reagan in the early 1980s. “We have had some very unusual weather so far this season,” Vail Resorts CEO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US to limit mining near Grand Canyon</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59940</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Fresno Bee: &#8220;Fending off pressure from the mining industry and congressional Republicans, the Obama administration is moving forward with a plan to ban new uranium mining claims on 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is expected to finalize a 20-year ban on new mining claims on public land [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inkstain blog: 2012: back to draining the Colorado River’s reservoirs?</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59904</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 15:37:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Inkstain blog: &#8220;Well that was fun while it lasted, eh? Looks like it’s back to draining reservoirs on the Colorado! 2011, a big sloppy wet kiss of a water year, pumped up total storage in the reservoirs behind Glen Canyon and Hoover dams by some 5 million acre feet. But the first forecast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. to block new uranium mines near Grand Canyon</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59845</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times: &#8220;The Obama administration is set to announce on Monday that it will block new uranium mining on one million acres in northern Arizona near the Grand Canyon, lobbyists and Interior Department employees who had been informed about the decision said on Friday. The department, which in 2009 imposed an interim [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado River Basin water supply forecast: Drier by the month</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59843</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Waterblogged: &#8220;Early snowpack surveys in the Rocky Mountains had hinted strongly at the dry conditions across the Colorado River basin and the season&#8217;s first official water forecast confirmed it on Friday: Unless the weather changes abruptly, water managers won&#8217;t get their wished-for back-to-back wet winters. The Colorado Basin River Forecast Center is projecting that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What seven states can agree to do: Deal-making on the Colorado River</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59763</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Stanford University&#8217;s Rural West Initiative: &#8220;As western water leaders converged on Las Vegas in December 2001, Southern California’s inability to contain its voracious appetite seemed finally to be bumping up against reality &#8211; there is only so much water in the Colorado River. Shared among seven states and Mexico via a shifting, uncertain set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chance of Rain blog: High good, low bad: Mead in 2011</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59590</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Chance of Rain blog: &#8220;When the federal Bureau of Reclamation recorded the closing elevation of Lake Mead to be almost 1,133 feet at midnight, December 31, the 2011 rise in the largest storage reservoir on the Colorado River was more than 46 feet, the first annual gain since 2005 and the largest since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tribes could turn the tables on water control</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59479</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indian Water Rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From The Range blog at High Country News: &#8220;It seems like every week there’s another article about the future of western water—how much we’ll have, where it will come from, and who will get it. Since it’s key to our sustainability and growth, it’s something we ought to be talking about. But there’s a key [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yuma farmland powered by billions of gallons of water</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59437</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Yuma Sun: &#8220;More than 50,000 acres of farmland span across the Yuma Valley and require somewhere in the neighborhood of 370,000 acre-feet of Colorado River water per year to be delivered by the Yuma County Water Users&#8217; Association (YCWUA). Manager Tom Davis noted that one acre-foot of water converts to be about 326,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rocky Mountain region water districts investing in cloud-seeding</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59289</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Denver Post: &#8220;With the Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District facing steep revenue declines, district manager Frank Kugel realized the season&#8217;s cloud-seeding budget could fade. So in his recent pitch to continue the district&#8217;s $26,500 contribution to the region&#8217;s $92,000 cloud-seeding program, Kugel told his board to trim a consultant&#8217;s expectations for snow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: Help us preserve and enhance the Colorado River</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59287</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Denver Post, this commentary by Eric Kuhn, general manager of the Colorado River Water Conservation District, David Modeer, general manager of the Central Arizona Water Conservation District​, and Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense Fund: &#8220;The skier at Vail, the programmer in Phoenix, the doctor in Las Vegas, the student in San Diego, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imperial Irrigation District officials wary of Salton Sea agreement: Board seeking ‘Plan B&#8217; in case state allowed to get out of water deal</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59184</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imperial Valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Salton Sea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From MyDesert.com (Desert Sun): &#8220;As Bruce Kuhn helped negotiate one of the most significant water deals in the history of the American west, his colleague on the board of the Imperial Irrigation District, Don Cox, had one overriding concern. “Don said, ‘Whatever happens, you cannot have the valley or the IID responsible for that Salton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inkstain blog: Coveting thy neighbor’s water</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59182</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Inkstain blog: &#8220;It’s not clear to me whether the US Bureau of Reclamation’s Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study is a tool for developing solutions to the long term supply-demand imbalance on the river, or a process for the states and other interests to stake out their turf. Probably some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inkstain blog: Colorado River Water Users Association Meeting: odds and ends</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59071</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:07:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Inkstain blog: &#8220;Some more odds and ends from last week’s Colorado River Water Users Association meeting: Yuma Desalting Plant The trial run of the Yuma Desalting Plant “went well,” according to Terry Fulp, head of the USBR Lower Colorado office. YPD was built in the early 1990s to clean up icky agricultural drain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inkstain blog: A drought of the Lower Colorado River Basin’s own making</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59039</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Inkstain blog: &#8220;For better or worse, my decision to not pay the $15 a day for an internet connection at Caeser’s Palace has left me with a bow wave of things to write about after a week spent in an around the Colorado River Water Users Association’s annual meeting in Las Vegas, NV. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Press release: Partnerships in the Colorado River Basin demonstrate national promise of Interior’s WaterSMART program</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59037</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Department of the Interior, this press release: &#8220;During the annual Colorado River Water Users Association Conference today, Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Water and Science Anne Castle announced the release of a report on the effectiveness of the Department of the Interior’s national WaterSMART Program as demonstrated by its work within the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Court ruling provides surety for water supply, says the Desert Sun</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58964</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coachella Valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From MyDesert.com (The Desert Sun), this editorial: &#8220;Coachella and Imperial valley water officials are breathing sighs of relief after a higher court overturned a lower court&#8217;s ruling that blocked the largest water transfer in U.S. history. A Sacramento Superior Court judge ruled in 2009 that the Quantification Settlement Agreement (QSA) that supposedly ended a decades-long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving assurances: Agency officials discuss cleanup of Topock PG&amp;E compressor station</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58795</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Mohave Daily News: &#8220;A standing-room-only crowd of approximately 175 people packed the Golden Shores community center Monday to hear assurances from state and federal officials that hexavalent chromium from the Topock Pacific Gas &#038; Electric compression plant has not made its way into the Colorado River or into the Arizona side of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Mohave 2&#8242; had its heyday on Colorado River</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58713</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Yuma Sun: &#8220;During the latter half of the 19th century, the isolated residents along the Colorado River relied heavily on grand steamboats to deliver goods and supplies. Beginning in about 1852, the freight was transferred from seafaring vessels to flat-bottomed steamships at Robinson&#8217;s Landing, which was located in Baja California on the banks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Barry Nelson: Redford Center film to examine the future of the Colorado River</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58615</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 15:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Barry Nelson at the NRDC Switchboard blog: &#8220;Early next year, the Redford Center will release a documentary on the Colorado River called The River Red, directed by Mark Decena. (Take a moment to follow the film on Facebook) The film couldn’t come at a better time. The Colorado, and the seven Western states that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A big win in the war for water, says the San Diego Union-Tribune</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58600</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River & the Southwest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Imperial Valley]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Diego Union-Tribune: &#8220;As it has been for decades, the military is critical to San Diego’s economic future. So is tourism. So are agriculture and the science and technology industries that have helped make San Diego a player in the global economy. But ahead of all those critical economic engines is water. Without [...]]]></description>
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