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		<title>SoCal agencies rally for new kind of peripheral canal bill</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61589</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Pasadena Star News: &#8220;Local water agencies, chambers of commerce and construction unions are supporting a bill that would speed up the planning and set a date for construction of a new kind of peripheral canal to bring water from Northern California south. Senate Bill 250 by Bakersfield Democrat Michael J. Rubio would require [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: Putting Water to Beneficial Use: A technical response to criticism of the Cadiz Project</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61108</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61108#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Received via email, this commentary on the Cadiz project, written By Terry Foreman, PG, C.Hg., and Dennis Williams, Ph.D, PG., C.Hg., , two of the scientists that led the technical analysis of the Project: The innovative Cadiz Valley Water Conservation, Recovery and Storage Project would enable water to be beneficially used in California by capturing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wasting the wastewater</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60819</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times Green blog: &#8220;Each day, American municipalities discharge enough treated wastewater into natural sources to fill Lake Champlain within six months. Growing pressure on water supplies and calls for updating the ancient subterranean piping infrastructure have brought new scrutiny to this step in the treatment process, which is labeled wasteful and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weather update: Hope you enjoyed the rain and snow &#8211; Changes coming</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60749</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Accu-Weather Western Weather Blog: &#8220;It was nice to see good rain and snow through California this weekend into Monday. The previous 6 to 7 weeks had been so dry. But I warned you that the Winter pattern was not going to be conducive for a prolonged period of stormy weather in the Southwest. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holiday weekend wrap-up: Feinstein on water transfers, Dan Walters on Brown and the peripheral canal, and the LA Times on Hetch Hetchy, plus a look at the calendar and more!</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60318</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60318#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome back! Here&#8217;s your holiday weekend wrap-up: Top stories over the weekend: Dianne Feinstein responds to last week&#8217;s commentary regarding water transfers (Sacramento Bee), Dan Walters wrote about Jerry Brown and the peripheral canal (Sacramento Bee), and the Los Angeles Times editorialized about San Francisco&#8217;s water use and Hetch Hetchy. In other weekend news, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Davis: Pimentel &#8216;optimistic&#8217; on water issues</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59279</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Daily Democrat: &#8220;Could Davis have its cake and eat it too? The city&#8217;s choice to put the Woodland-Davis Clean Water Agency Regional Water Supply Project on a June ballot has been met with criticism from Woodland officials. They&#8217;ve called on their northern neighbor to continue work on a $325 million project the two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Gleick on the coming mega drought:  The Southwestern U.S. looks a lot like Australia before its nine-year dry spell</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59236</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59236#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Peter Gleick and Matthew Heberger at Scientific American: &#8220;Australia experienced the worst and most consistent dry period in its recorded history over much of the past decade. The Murray River failed to reach the sea for the first time ever in 2002. Fires swept much of the country, and dust storms blanketed major cities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inyo Water Commission appointments</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58944</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Sierra Wave: &#8220;As expected, the Inyo Supervisors played it safe with their appointments to the Inyo Water Commission. They re-appointed Mike Prather and added former Bishop Police Chief and former City Councilman Bruce Dishion to the list. &#8230; &#8220; Continue reading from Sierra Wave by clicking here.]]></description>
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		<title>Foresthill water district considers closing up shop</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58927</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Sacramento Bee: &#8220;The water district serving the Placer County community of Foresthill is considering closing up shop is the face of a growing gulf between what residents are willing to pay and what it takes to keep providing clean water. &#8220;There is no money,&#8221; new general manager Leo D. Havener said when asked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Webcast links for today&#8217;s Delta Stewardship Council meeting</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58861</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58861#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Delta Stewardship Council will be meeting today at the State Capitol from 10:00 AM to 4:30 PM.  Click here to read the agenda.  The Council will be holding a public hearing starting at 1:30 to take public comment on the EIR. (Comments on the EIR are due by February 2.)  Click here for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco called out for alleged water waste</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58856</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Francisco Examiner: &#8220;A conservative Central Valley congressman has a bracing message for environmentally conscious San Franciscans. We waste more water than Southern California. Former California attorney general and current Gold River Rep. Dan Lungren, a longtime proponent of emptying the Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite National Park, is calling for a federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NatGeo&#8217;s News Watch: Going without clean water</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58684</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From National Geographic&#8217;s News Watch: &#8220;When temperatures dropped to one degree Fahrenheit and my pipes froze this week, I was reminded of how lucky we are, under most circumstances, to be able to turn a valve and watch copious amounts of clean water flow into our sinks, showers, toilets, and washing machines. In the U.S., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Column: Water cures all of Bay-Delta&#8217;s ills</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58440</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58440#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Outdoors columnist Pete Otteson at the Stockton Record: &#8220;If there ever was conclusive evidence that the health of the Delta and the fish that dwell there respond to good quality water and runoff that cleanses the entire estuary, look what&#8217;s happening. What we&#8217;re seeing is a result of the heavy winter of 2010, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Webcast link for today&#8217;s Natural Resources Committee hearing on Endangered Species Act litigation</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58332</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58332#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing this morning on Endangered Species Act litigation. It is scheduled to start at 10AM EST (7AM PST). You can read the agenda here. The witness list was never published but includes Brandon Middleton of the Pacific Legal Foundation. You can find a written copy of his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delta National Park blog on Wanger: &#8220;Providing drainage services&#8221; to where?</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58271</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58271#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Delta National Park blog: &#8220;Why all the hand wringing over news that Judge Wanger, in his new career as attorney Wanger, will be representing Westlands Water District? First, so what? Second, is it really a surprise, especially after his final, September ruling/rant? The case he is involved in is an important one, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alex Breitler&#8217;s blog: Help wanted</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58100</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58100#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re qualified to build the peripheral canal/tunnel/thingie, Alex Brietler knows where you can find a job.]]></description>
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		<title>Green Roots blog: Using military expertise to help take down the San Clemente Dam?</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58098</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58098#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Planning &#038; Conservation League&#8217;s Green Roots blog: &#8220;Recently, John Woodly, the former Assistant Secretary of the Army of Civil Works, wrote an article citing previous Administrations’ efforts to utilize unique government expertise in public and private sector projects. Specifically, he highlighted a dam removal project in North Carolina as an example of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: Can’t live by scenery alone: California’s environmental lobby wages war on rural property owners</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58086</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58086#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Stephen Greenhut, posted at the City Journal: &#8220;“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike,” wrote John Muir, in one of his many celebrations of the majesty of the Yosemite Valley. The Scottish-born founder of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lodi-area politicians blast Bay Delta Conservation Plan MOA</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58054</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58054#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Original headline: &#8220;Local politicians blast Delta plan&#8221;. The media seems to be shortening their headlines to read &#8220;Delta Plan&#8221; instead of specifying the BDCP MOA. I am changing headlines to reflect this, but I wonder what this is doing in the minds of the general public that may not understand the difference.) From the Lodi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Errata file posted for Section 18 of DSC&#8217;s draft EIR</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57896</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57896#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Delta Stewardship Council: &#8220;An errata file has been posted on the draft EIR page on the DSC website. The file affects Section 18 of the draft EIR. It is labeled: “DEIR Errata (dated November 22, 2011) – Replacing pages 18-5, 18-6, 18-8, 18-14, 18-18, 18-19.” The entire draft EIR can be reviewed here. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo gallery: Interesting shots of marine life and tide pools along the San Diego coast</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57913</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this photo gallery of tidepool pictures taken by San Diego Union-Tribune readers by clicking here. (Hat tip to Matt Weiser&#8217;s / Mike Lee&#8217;s twitter feed!)]]></description>
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		<title>Weekend wrap up: DWR announces initial SWP allocation, the QSA heads to court, Miller and Matsui blast the BDCP, MWD defends its rates for San Diego, plus more &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57710</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57710#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Monday! Here&#8217;s your weekend update: On Friday afternoon, the Department of Water Resources announced an initial allocation of 60 percent of requested deliveries to State Water Project contractors for 2012. Today, the appeals court in Sacramento is set to take up the QSA issue; On Saturday, both the San Diego Union-Tribune and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Webcast link for today&#8217;s Delta Stewardship Council meeting</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57285</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the calendar for today: The Delta Stewardship Council will be meeting today from 09:00am to 3:30pm. You can find the meeting notice here. The meeting will be webcast here: http://cal-span.org/Broadcast/DSC.asx or you can watch the webcast on your smartphone by clicking here.) One of the highlights of today&#8217;s meeting is a panel discussion of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekend wrap-up: Klamath Dams removal bill introduced, La Niña is back and Birmingham defends the BDCP &#8230; plus a busy week ahead on the calendar!</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57359</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not a terribly busy weekend around here, but it&#8217;s certainly an action packed week ahead for water meetings on the last full week before the upcoming holiday: WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS:  In Friday&#8217;s news, a bill was introduced in Congress to implement removal of the Klamath Dams,  one of the partners in the Baja desalination deal is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Veterans Day</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57319</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, we pause to honor America’s Veterans and celebrate their enormous contributions to our way of life. Few have given more to this nation than those who have served in the armed forces. Please take a moment today to give thanks to and for our veterans who have served our country admirably and honorably. Have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Column: Endangered Species Act not right tool for water problems</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57196</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an column written by John Fleck (of the Inkstain blog) about the Endangered Species Act, years and millions of dollars spent, and distrust between stakeholders &#8230; and it&#8217;s not about the Delta! (Even though it&#8217;s not about California, I post it here because there could be some parallels here.) From the Albuquerque Journal: &#8220;It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Numbers of fish returning are up in Battle Creek</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57206</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Tehama Daily News: &#8220;Larger numbers of threatened Chinook salmon have returned to spawn upstream in newly restored habitat on North Fork Battle Creek, the Bureau of Reclamation and its partners in the Battle Creek Salmon and Steelhead Restoration Project announced Wednesday. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been performing fish monitoring for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday&#8217;s top of the scroll: Salmon vs. stripers policy stirs emotions</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57126</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Chico Enterprise-Record: &#8220;Interest is so high in proposed changes to striped bass fishing rules that the state Department of Fish and Game has had to find a larger room for a meeting on the subject Tuesday night. The meeting will be in the town of Rio Vista, which is near the Sacramento-San Joaquin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekend wrap-up: Delta Plan draft EIR, Nunes and Hetch Hetchy, update on DFG&#8217;s striped bass workshop, and more</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57011</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Monday!  It was a busy weekend around here. To get the full update, you&#8217;ll need to scroll down to read it all, but here are some highlights plus a few important calendar notes: DELTA STEWARDSHIP COUNCIL DRAFT EIR UPDATE: On Friday, the Delta Stewardship Council released its long awaited draft EIR on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: Valley drowns in water politics</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/56783</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Fresno Bee, this commentary by Terry Phillips: &#8220;There is no single resource more important to our quality of life than water. The Kern County Water Agency recently commemorated its 50th anniversary with a day-long conference at Bakersfield College. Participants were interested in working together to plan for the Central Valley&#8217;s future water needs. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California water plight gets lifeline from technology</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/56779</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Western Farm Press: &#8220;How California can use the latest technology to solve its water supply crisis is the focus of a new Public Broadcast System program co-sponsored by the California Farm Water Coalition. &#8220;This is really a celebration of the creativity and leadership that everyone from family farmers in the Central Valley to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USGS on YouTube: A study in stream ecology</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/56768</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the USGS, posted on YouTube: &#8220;In this episode we explore how scientists for the USGS National Water Quality Assessment Program investigate the ecological health of rivers and streams across the United States. Focusing on a recent sampling effort along the Minam River in northeast Oregon, this video highlights USGS sampling methods for fish, macroinvertebrates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Webcast: State Water Board meets today; Update from the Delta watermaster on the agenda</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/56740</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 14:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The State Water Board will be meeting today from 9am to 3pm.  You can read the agenda here.  The last item on the agenda is the update from the Delta watermaster and the presentation of a report to the board, Statements of Water Diversions and Use: Providing a Better Picture of Water Use in the Delta. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Press release: High Court declines smelt case, but Pacific Legal Foundation&#8217;s &#8220;save our water&#8221; fight continues</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/56742</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pacific Legal Foundation has issued this response: &#8220;&#8221;It is disappointing that the Supreme Court chose not to review the federal government&#8217;s intrusive and destructive Delta smelt regulations,&#8221; said PLF staff attorney Brandon M. Middleton. &#8220;But while we&#8217;re disappointed, we&#8217;re also determined. The legal fight against those regulations goes on, as PLF is active in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spectacular time-lapse video of Condit Dam removal</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/56708</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From National Geographic (hat tip to the Water Sisweb!): &#8220;For 98 years, the 125-foot high Condit Dam in southeastern Washington State held back the White Salmon River, creating a serene lake, but choking off the waterway to salmon. Wednesday, in an historic effort, the dam was dramatically breached, and ecologists hope the increased flow of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Gleick: Bad science leads to bad policy, no matter your political beliefs</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/56639</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Peter Gleick at the Huffington Post: &#8220;Anti-science mania is sweeping parts of the United States. This isn&#8217;t new &#8212; there is a long history of irrational, pseudoscientific, or downright anti-scientific thinking and political culture here &#8212; ironic, given how much our founding fathers like Benjamin Franklin valued science. Examples include creationism, moon-landing denialism, claims [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Murky Waters: Helix Water District limits input of directors and public in hiring general manager</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/56600</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the East County Magazine: &#8220;Without calling for a vote, Helix Water District Board Director DeAna Verbeke announced during the October 19 board meeting that a subcommittee of two board and two staff members, not the full board, will handle screening applications to replace retiring General Manager Mark Weston. Verbeke then appointed herself and board [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water Culture blog: Ethics of agricultural water transfers</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/56476</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Water Culture blog (hat tip to John Fleck&#8217;s twitter feed): &#8220;California farmers are being paid not to plant so Los Angeles and nearby cities can use the water that would otherwise go to (mostly low value) crops, says an article in the New York Times yesterday. The water is worth a lot when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reps, residents and ranchers worry about water exporters control over Delta plan</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/56405</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Dan Aiello at the Examiner: &#8220;At an oversight hearing in Sacramento last week, Assemblymember Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael),chairman of the Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife Committee voiced concern that water exporters will have unprecedented control over the content and focus of a plan that would steer the state’s water policies for the Sacramento-San Joaquin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First icy star-disc hints at source of Earth&#8217;s water</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/56324</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Science Daily: &#8220;For the first time, astronomers have found a planet-forming disc around a star that is awash with frozen water. The discovery adds credence to the idea that Earth got its water from comets – especially as the disc seems to contain enough water to fill Earth&#8217;s oceans thousands of times over. Hot [...]]]></description>
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