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	<title>Aquafornia &#187; Water Banking</title>
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		<title>Prospect of dry weather has San Bernardino water officials thankful for banking for non-rainy days</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61393</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 15:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Southern California]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Bernardino Sun: &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t long ago when San Bernardino County water officials were thinking about making sure that the season&#8217;s rains get properly stored in area basins. Weather forecasters were talking about another wet winter in local mountains, on par with last year&#8217;s huge amounts. But those rains and snows just haven&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water is now banking water in the southern San Joaquin Valley</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61163</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Highland Community News: &#8220;San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water is expanding its water banking capabilities by storing 30,000 acre-feet of water in the southern San Joaquin Valley that can be delivered to the valley in times of drought. “This is to insulate us so we don’t have to pay exorbitant prices for water on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water barons will corner market in new &#8216;Chinatown&#8217;, says commentary</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59925</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Transfers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Sacramento Bee, this commentary by Patricia Schifferle, a former legislative director and consultant and principal/ director for Pacific Advocates: &#8220;There is more money in selling water in California than there is in farming. A one-sentence provision inserted in the 2012 budget bill by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein will allow a handful of powerful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madera water bank still isn&#8217;t officially operating</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58998</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water Banking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Fresno Bee News Blog: &#8220;It sounded like the water bank at Madera Ranch would be taking deposits immediately after the grand opening ceremonies in August. I called last week and discovered the bank still isn&#8217;t operating. The Madera Irrigation District is hoping to begin allowing excess river water to seep into the ground [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Run on the Water Bank: A determined investigator pursues a Los Angeles billionaire for allegedly seizing control of the state&#8217;s water supply. It&#8217;s Chinatown again, Jake.</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58789</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People in the News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Banking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From California Lawyer (hat tip to C-WIN): &#8220;Who is Adam Keats, and why is he so focused on Los Angeles billionaire Stewart Resnick? Attorneys representing Resnick&#8217;s vast agricultural holdings in the Central Valley wish the troublesome plaintiffs lawyer would just go away. Keats, 40, is senior counsel at the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delta Watch: The rest of the story: Banking water for the future</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57426</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water Banking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Coalition for a Sustainable Delta, the latest issue of Delta Watch: &#8220;A wet 2011 helped California rebound from the multi-year drought that has plagued much of the state, and early rains and snow this fall are a sign that 2012 may be another good water year. But what exactly did we do with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madera Ranch water project gets big start</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/53979</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[San Joaquin Valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Banking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Western Farm Press: &#8220;Madera Irrigation District’s new water supply enhancement project has been launched in happy and enthusiastic fashion. A crowd of about 300 gathered at the eastern entrance to the unique 13,646-acre Madera Ranch as a ceremonial ribbon was cut and a cooperative agreement was signed by MID directors and the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday&#8217;s top of the scroll: Madera County water bank set to take deposits</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/53280</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water Banking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Fresno Bee: &#8220;The San Joaquin Valley has a new place to put billions of gallons of precious water &#8212; you just can&#8217;t see it. Beneath the prairie southwest of Madera, an irrigation district will send enough water over the next several years to fill half of Millerton Lake. It&#8217;s an underground water bank, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reclamation issues a Record of Decision for the Madera Irrigation District Water Supply Enhancement Project</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/53168</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water Banking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Bureau of Reclamation, this press release: &#8220;The Bureau of Reclamations Mid-Pacific Regional Director, Don Glaser, has signed a Record of Decision for the Madera Irrigation District&#8217;s Water Supply Enhancement Project, which includes construction of a groundwater bank on property known as Madera Ranch, west of the city of Madera in Madera County, Calif. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lois Henry: McAllister Ranch deal all wet in city&#8217;s eyes</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/53027</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water Banking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Lois Henry&#8217;s column at the Bakersfield Californian (this one&#8217;s a little old &#8211; published July 26) &#8211; hat tip to Mark Grossi&#8217;s twitter feed: &#8220;If there&#8217;s water involved, lawyers won&#8217;t be far behind. So it came as no surprise (to me, anyway) when the City of Bakersfield had its attorney fire a warning shot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday&#8217;s top of the scroll: Storing water for a dry day leads to lawsuits</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/52564</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water Banking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times: &#8220;Peter Key knew something was strange when the water levels in his tropical fish tank began to go down last summer. Then the washing machine took 40 minutes to fill, and the toilets would not flush. But even as Mr. Key and neighbors spent $14,000 to deepen their community well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reclamation releases final environmental documents for Madera Irrigation District Water Supply Enhancement Project</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/50500</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/50500#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 13:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water Banking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Bureau of Reclamation, this press release: &#8220;The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Madera Irrigation District Water Supply Enhancement Project, which would include construction of a groundwater bank on property known as Madera Ranch, west of the City of Madera in Madera County, California. Proposed federal actions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madera Water Bank reaching milestone this year</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/50428</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/50428#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[San Joaquin Valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Banking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Fresno Bee News Blog: &#8220;It has been nearly six years since the Madera Irrigation District approved a popular but controversial groundwater banking project &#8212; a long-awaited idea that seemed to finally be taking off. But there were years of hurdles ahead. Authorities had to go through a complicated federal environmental process to make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kern County: Housing collapse creates water banking windfall</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/49462</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/49462#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 14:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bakersfield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Banking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Bakersfield Californian: &#8220;McAllister Ranch, the iconic failed housing development of the foreclosure crisis, has found new life. It will become Kern County&#8217;s newest water bank, owned and managed jointly by the Rosedale Rio Bravo and Buena Vista water storage districts. The 2,070 acre development in extreme southwest Bakersfield was once expected to boast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting it in the water bank: Officials watch Kern River levels</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/48914</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 14:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bakersfield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Banking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Bakersfield Now: &#8220;Officials are watching how much more water gets sent down the Kern River and how fast. But, for now all the water is being used locally. The key will be whether cool temperatures allow a slow snow melt. Water&#8217;s been roaring down the river thanks to the very wet winter and spring. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Windsor could fill aquifer with Russian River water for ground water banking</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/47899</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/47899#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Groundwater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Banking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Press-Democrat: &#8220;Early indications are that Windsor could successfully siphon Russian River water and store it in the ground for later use. Consultants told the Town Council on Wednesday that extracting the river water during high winter flows and injecting it into an aquifer miles away would not harm fish and there would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madera Water Bank awaits one state permit</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/47513</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/47513#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water Banking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Fresno Bee: &#8220;The long-awaited Madera Water Bank, an underground water-storage project, is one step away from construction after getting a county permit this week. The Madera Irrigation District, which has been working on the project since 2005, now needs a permit from the California Department of Fish and Game. The permit, which outlines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Tube: Where Delta water meets the tumbleweeds</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/45735</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/45735#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 16:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water Banking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Contra Costa Times, posted on YouTube: &#8220;Along the California Aquaduct, near a dry Bakersfield river bed, delta water is stored underground at the Kern Water Bank for use during times of drought.&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Lois Henry: A lesson on carry-over water as Kern water districts scramble to catch every drop</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/42204</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/42204#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water Banking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Bakersfield Californian: &#8220;The skies opened up in December and dumped blessed snow in California&#8217;s mountains, flooded our streets and filled our rivers. That&#8217;s a good thing, right? Yes and no. OK, it&#8217;s better than having no precipitation, according to water district folks I spoke with recently. But the timing and sheer abundance of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fresno Bee News Blog: Oversight committees and ground-water banks</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/38569</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/38569#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water Banking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Fresno Bee&#8217;s News Blog: &#8220;In a story I wrote last week about underground water banking, I mentioned that neighbors usually worry about having their wells dried up. A water official e-mailed Friday assuring me that diligent oversight committees and negotiation have largely solved those problems for many banks. I think that&#8217;s true, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water bank makes waves among Valley farmers; Kingsburg-area growers say wells are going dry</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/38358</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water Banking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Fresno Bee: &#8220;Farmers near Kingsburg say a water bank meant to help with irrigation appears to be drying up their wells instead. But the Kings County Water District &#8212; owner and operator of the Apex Ranch Water Bank &#8212; says it does just the opposite, bringing extra water into the area. The three-year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three lawsuits challenging water bank</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/34343</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Capital Press: &#8220;Three lawsuits are challenging aspects of California&#8217;s largest underground water bank, arguing it serves private interests at the expense of surrounding water districts. The challenges come at a time when there is increased interest in private investment in water storage and conveyance infrastructure in the state. &#8220;There is a conversation that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lois Henry: Water banking fight spills out to the public</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/34190</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Water Banking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From columnist Lois Henry at the Bakersfield Californian: &#8220;Most of the time, us little people don&#8217;t seem to count for much. Except maybe when you count up how many of us there are. Together we look a little more intimidating, a little less, well little. That was what Rosedale-Rio Bravo Water Storage District had in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday&#8217;s top of the scroll: Saving it for later: Groundwater banking</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/32836</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the latest issue of Western Water, a publication of the Water Education Foundation: &#8220;In early June, environmentalists and Delta water agencies sued the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and the Kern County Water Agency (KCWA) over the validity of the transfer of the Kern Water Bank, a huge underground reservoir that supplies water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Farm Water Coalition responds to Kern Water Bank lawsuit stories</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/32606</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 16:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the California Farm Water Coalition, this response to the Fresno Bee&#8217;s story about the Kern Water Bank Lawsuits: &#8220;Criticism over the acquisition and operation of the Kern Water Bank defies logic and exposes the naysayers as little more than obstructionists with their own agendas. &#8211; The State transferred the water bank in exchange for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday&#8217;s top of the scroll: &#8216;Chinatown II&#8217;? Wells go dry, water bank faces suits; Kern Co. districts, others say key deals were illegal</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/32294</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Fresno Bee: &#8220;A story worthy of Hollywood will soon unfold in California courtrooms &#8212; allegations of government corruption and corporate greed to rival the infamous Los Angeles water grab that inspired the film &#8220;Chinatown.&#8221; Call it &#8220;Chinatown II,&#8221; a tale beginning 15 years ago &#8212; when, according to lawsuits filed in the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Column: Something&#8217;s not right about this California water deal</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/29666</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From columnist Michael Hiltzik at the Los Angeles Times: &#8220;Students of California&#8217;s history of gold and oil rushes know it&#8217;s filled with examples of profiteering, conspiracy, influence-peddling and other chicanery. So there&#8217;s no reason the story should be any different with that liquid gold of the 21st century, water. That&#8217;s the theme of a lawsuit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suit to get Kern Water Bank returned to state</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/28119</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Francisco Chronicle: &#8220;Control of California&#8217;s largest underground water bank was illegally bestowed on a handful of private, wealthy agriculture and real estate companies in the 1990s, according to a group of environmentalists, sport fishermen and delta farmers. Now, as the Golden State grapples with an aging water network, declining fish species and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmentalists sue to stop water banking</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/27700</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Bakersfield Californian: &#8220;Another lawsuit focusing on Kern County&#8217;s groundwater was filed Friday. It joins three others recently filed in Sacramento and Kern County that jointly call into question ownership of the massive Kern Water Bank and how that bank and one other operates. This latest suit, against the Kern County Water Agency, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Press Release: Groups file suit, seeking return of Kern Water Bank to public control</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/27698</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Center for Biological Diversity, this press release: &#8220;BAKERSFIELD, Calif.— A coalition of farmers, sportfishing interests and environmentalists filed suit today seeking to have the Kern Water Bank returned to state control. The water bank, a massive underground reservoir in Kern County built by the state’s Department of Water Resources, was illegally gifted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irvine Ranch spends millions on &#8216;water bank&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/27210</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/27210#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the O. C. Register&#8217;s Watchdog: &#8220;The Watchdog is having trouble deciding whether a $19.2 million water bank being built by the Irvine Ranch Water District will be a boon or a boondoggle. You decide. IRWD has purchased 520 acres of the Strand Ranch in Kern County — property known for its porous nature and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Farm Water Coaltion: C-WIN lawsuit “misguided”, paints “inaccurate picture of development of Kern Water Bank”</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/26335</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the California Farm Water Coalition, this response to the C-WIN lawsuit: &#8220;Coalition viewpoint&#8230;This misguided lawsuit contains numerous false claims that are misleading to the public and paint an inaccurate picture of the development of the Kern Water Bank. 1. No State funds were used in the land purchase and development of the Kern Water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Central Valley’s drought water bank expansion OK’d</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/11548</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:29:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Central Valley Business Times: &#8220;The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says it has approved a request that could make an additional 30,000 acre-feet of water available to the San Luis Delta-Mendota Water Authority this month through the 2009 Drought Water Bank. Approval means that the Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority, which is in the Sacramento [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Francisco Public Utilities Commission pursues underground water-storage plan</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/10028</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/10028#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Contra Costa Times: The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is pursuing a plan to store water underground that can be pumped out in time to supply customers in a drought, given the uncertainty of California&#8217;s water future. Officials say the natural groundwater aquifer that sits under north San Mateo County will someday be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water-energy dependency may put a damper on water banking in California</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/9491</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From AlterNet: We&#8217;ve been following some of the issues related to the drought in California. In response to water shortages, a &#8220;water bank&#8221; has been implemented to allow users who do not use all of their water to sell it to other users. In theory, such a system allows water to be used in an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water officials mull state&#8217;s drought bank; Inefficiencies, expense keep farmers from using system</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/9188</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Capital Press: Water managers are working toward a more efficient version of the state&#8217;s drought water bank for next year, California&#8217;s drought coordinator told the State Board of Food and Agriculture. The state created a water bank this year for the first time since the early 1990s. Wendy Martin, statewide drought coordinator with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monday&#8217;s top story: Gaming the water system</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/8947</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 15:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Contra Costa Times, a recap story of the recent Media News Investigation: Just before Interstate 5 climbs the Grapevine out of the San Joaquin Valley is a massive underground reservoir that its owners say is the largest water banking project of its kind in the world. Here among the tumbleweeds, sand and scrub, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday&#8217;s Top Story: A Media News Investigation: Pumping water and cash from Delta</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/8937</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 18:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Silicon Valley Mercury News: As the West Coast&#8217;s largest estuary plunged to the brink of collapse from 2000 to 2007, state water officials pumped unprecedented amounts of water out of the Delta only to effectively buy some of it back at taxpayer expense for a failed environmental protection plan, a MediaNews investigation has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California officials approve first water transfers</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/8839</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 13:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Sacramento Bee: California officials are moving ahead with a plan to ship water from farms north of Sacramento to growers in the drought-stricken San Joaquin Valley. The California Department of Water Resources is buying the water from two irrigation districts in the Sacramento Valley. It will be sent to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sutter County makes friends with water; Entities in county selling supplies to state bank</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/8837</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 13:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Marysville Appeal Democrat: Sutter County supervisors voiced confidence Tuesday night that farmers and water districts will continue to be good groundwater stewards. The Department of Water Resources&#8217; Drought Water Bank is buying water for $275 per acre-foot from willing water rights holders upstream of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The water would then be [...]]]></description>
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