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	<title>Aquafornia &#187; Storage and supply</title>
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		<title>Rules, money blocking dam projects, officials say</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61591</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Stockton Record: &#8220;Congressman Tom McClintock, R-Granite Bay, is calling for relaxation of &#8220;1970s-era&#8221; environmental laws that he says are blocking construction of much-needed dams in California and throughout the western United States. McClintock represents the 4th Congressional District that was redrawn last year to include Amador, Calaveras and Tuolumne counties. He noted that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday&#8217;s top of the scroll: Report backs $1 billion plan to raise dam; Some relocation is necessary, but agriculture, wildlife benefit</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61485</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:14:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Northern California]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Record Searchlight: &#8216;A draft report released Monday by federal officials says a $1.07 billion plan to raise Shasta Dam by 18½ feet is feasible and economically justifiable. Raising the dam would increase the lake&#8217;s storage about 14 percent, benefitting agricultural and municipal water users in the state, according to the Shasta Lake Water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Natural Resources Committee: Water storage vital to rural communities, job creation, economic growth</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/61467</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the House Natural Resources Committee, this press release: &#8220;The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power held an oversight hearing today on “Water for Our Future and Job Creation: Examining Regulatory and Bureaucratic Barriers to New Surface Storage Infrastructure.”; The hearing highlighted the regulatory burdens that hinder vital water storage improvement projects that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: Water shortage &#8212;- here we go again, maybe</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60744</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:16:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the North County Times, this commentary by Gary Arant, General Manager of the Valley Center Municipal Water District: &#8220;We are starting to see the articles: &#8220;Record Dry December,&#8221; &#8220;Water Officials Worried About Dry Year,&#8221; &#8220;Ski Resorts Hope for Snowy January,&#8221; etc. Even though last year was plentiful and record setting in terms of snow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doug Craig&#8217;s blog: The dam truth: build more</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60742</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60742#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Doug Craig&#8217;s blog at the Record Searchlight: &#8220;&#8221;Climate change is real. Global warming is real. We need to manage the reality of a changed climate. We need to adapt to changes in the pipeline.&#8221; Lester Snow, director of the California Department of Water Resources Today&#8217;s Record Searchlight editorial tackles an issue that has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Research paper: Forests and water in the Sierra Nevada: The Sierra Nevada Watershed Ecosystem Enhancement Project</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60613</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/60613#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Storage and supply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Quality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From UC Merced: &#8220;In this white paper on the Sierra Nevada Watershed Ecosystem Enhancement Project (SWEEP), we make the case that upstream management of Sierra Nevada forests can significantly increase the value of downstream water resources by shifting water towards higher value uses and optimizing the timing of runoff. The focus of this paper is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Diego: Dam cams show dam construction work</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59855</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59855#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Government Technology: &#8220;Watching the construction of San Diego’s San Vicente dam raise in its entirety would take roughly four years. But with the help of webcams, viewers can literally watch the dam grow in a matter of minutes through a time-lapse video of still shots. The San Vicente dam — a main source of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Star-News Editorial: California dream: another Yosemite</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59734</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59734#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Pasadena Star-News, this editorial: &#8220;A second Yosemite for California? What Golden Stater wouldn&#8217;t like another spectacular Sierra Nevada valley to show off to the world &#8211; and to hike and camp in? Many Californians know that there was indeed such a place, Hetch Hetchy, and that the founder of the Sierra Club himself, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Philp: 2011: For water, a replenishing year</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59427</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/59427#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Tom Philp at the City Brights blog: &#8220;In water, many statistics dwell on averages– average rainfall, average outflow to the ocean, average diversions/deliveries. In most years, however, there is little that is “average” about California water. True to form, 2011 will go down as go down as yet another perfectly abnormal California year. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Draft DWR Report: Description and Screening of Potential Tools and Methods to Quantify Public Benefits of Water Storage Projects</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/58692</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was poking around the internet this morning, updating the calendar, I came across this draft report at the California Water Commission website. It is loaded up under meeting materials for the January meeting, but no agenda for the meeting has been posted as of yet. So if you&#8217;d like to take a look, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tahoe/Truckee water levels hit sweet spot ahead of winter</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57900</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 13:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Sierra Sun: &#8220;Following a near-record-breaking winter, water supplies in Northern California and Nevada have struck a balance between not enough and too much, according to regional water managers. “We&#8217;re looking pretty good for both supply and having some room going into winter,” said Chad Blanchard, chief deputy water master for the U.S. District [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: How ruling affects New Melones</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57888</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57888#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[San Joaquin Valley]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Modesto Bee, this commentary by Jeff Shieldsm general manager of the South San Joaquin Irrigation District, and Steve Knell, general manager of the Oakdale Irrigation District: &#8220;In a Sept. 2 ruling, U.S. District Federal Judge Oliver Wanger found against the US Fish and Wildlife Service&#8217;s request to locate what is known as X2, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Day top of the scroll: Feds face water trial in Stockton East district</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57851</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57851#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[San Joaquin Valley]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, Aquafornia is here every day &#8211; even the holidays, posting all the latest water news for you, starting with this from the Fresno Bee: &#8220;The federal government could be on the hook for millions of dollars in a Sacramento trial next year, nearly two decades after aggrieved San Joaquin Valley water districts first took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Diego County Water Authority now placing concrete to raise main San Vicente Dam; Tallest dam raise in United States will more than double reservoir’s capacity</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57780</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Diego County Water Authority: &#8220;Major construction on the San Diego County Water Authority’s San Vicente Dam Raise project has reached its biggest phase. Concrete placement to raise the main dam at the San Vicente Reservoir by 117 feet is now under way. Upon completion, the raised dam will create room for an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State projects ample water supply</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57764</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[State Water Project (DWR)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From KFSN: &#8220;The State Department of Water Resources provides water for 25 million Californians, and irrigates about one million acres of farmland. The agency is projecting everybody will get at least 60 per cent of the maximum possible supply right now. Sarge Green, of the Center for Irrigation Technology at Fresno State say&#8217;s it&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Steinstra&#8217;s Outdoors: Lakes in unbelievable shape</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57728</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57728#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Tom Steinstra&#8217;s Outdoors column at the San Francisco Chronicle: &#8220;It seems just yesterday when the giant San Luis Reservoir along Highway 152 was so empty on the Thanksgiving holiday week that it looked like a giant dust bowl. Shasta Lake was 27 percent full, Lake Oroville less than 25 percent and giant Folsom and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aging dams threatened by climate change</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57623</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57623#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Downey Patriot: &#8220;Record heavy rains in the Pacific Northwest last winter unleashed floods and landslides and overtopped some of the region’s giant concrete dams. Heavy winter snows in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains and in the central Rockies left Western officials fearing warm spring weather, rapid snowmelt, and more floods. Such worries are increasing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Army Corps updates Success Dam status</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57416</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[San Joaquin Valley]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Porterville Recorder, this update by Col. William J. Leady, district engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: &#8220;During the past few months, we’ve had two big developments with our project to fix Success Dam. So I’d like to explain the status of the project, and what its future looks like to us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dams &#8212; What goes up must come down, and then what? Scientist monitors how ecosystem regroups after dam removal</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/57182</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From YubaNet.com: &#8220;Time can take its toll on a dam. As dams age, they are more costly to repair and the risk of a catastrophic dam break increases &#8212; putting property and lives at risk. But, removing them can mean big changes to the community, and the environment. &#8220;A lot of communities now are trying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USACE on YouTube: Success Dam Nov. 2011 update</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/56952</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 13:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, posted at YouTube: &#8220;Success Dam is more than 50 years old and in need of major repairs. The Corps has been authorized to purchase at-risk property below Success Dam while a plan to fix the dam is being prepared. For more info: http://www.spk.usace.army.mil/projects/civil/successdam/&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>California Water Blog: The UnDammed</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/56878</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Jeff Mount at the California Water Blog: &#8220;I had the great pleasure of being up in the Olympic Peninsula for the Elwha Dam removal ceremonies a few weeks ago. With the Native American tribes singing songs to welcome the salmon back, and innumerable dignitaries pontificating and bloviating, it was a great celebration that culminated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State’s water storage examined at Water Commission workshop</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/56539</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From ACWA&#8217;s Water News: &#8220;The future of water storage in California and the potential impacts of specific storage projects were discussed during a California Water Commission workshop held Oct. 25 in Sacramento. The second of two Commission workshops on the topic, the day-long session featured 26 speakers, including ACWA Executive Director Timothy Quinn, state and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water wars don&#8217;t have to happen, says the Chico Enterprise-Record: &#8220;Greater storage capacity is also essential &#8230; &#8220;</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/55714</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maven</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Chico Enterprise-Record, this editorial: &#8220;[Chico E-R] view: The abundance of water this year has eased the squabbling over it. There&#8217;s a lesson in it that we ought to learn. We&#8217;ve heard fewer arguments that environmental protection regulations are depleting water supplies needed by agricultural and urban users. There hasn&#8217;t been much chatter that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congressman Jeff Denham commentary: Addressing water storage and conveyance problems in the Valley</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/55540</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Received via email, this commentary by Congressman Jeff Denham: &#8220;While immediate concerns about our budget, health care and the country’s economic crisis dominate the news coverage, we cannot overlook how important a reliable water supply is in creating jobs in California. There is a direct correlation between water and jobs here in the Valley, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contra Costa Times editorial: California must boost water storage</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/55530</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Contra Costa Times, this editorial: &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing like a couple of wet years to dampen arguments that environmental protection regulations are depleting water supplies needed by agricultural and urban users. A record 6.5 million acre-feet has been pumped from the Delta this year, mostly to Central Valley farms and Southern California. That is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons learned from the earthquake performance of concrete dams</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/55108</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/55108#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From International Water Power &#038; Dam Construction: &#8220;In an update to a 1979 paper on the response of concrete dams to earthquakes, Kenneth D Hansen and Larry K Nuss present details on the earthquake performance of six dams, and discuss their significance for the dam engineering profession An important paper was published in the April [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water storage workshop looks at state’s options</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/54807</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the California Farm Bureau Federation&#8217;s Ag Alert: &#8220;Opportunities remain to capture more water for use by California&#8217;s cities, environment and farms, but speakers at a water-storage workshop in Sacramento last week said the state must rethink its water system to support reliable future supplies. &#8220;We have to change our way of thinking,&#8221; said Timothy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congressman Denham&#8217;s bill may cost Mariposa $25 million in the next decade</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/54575</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/54575#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[San Joaquin Valley]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Sierra Sun Times, this commentary: &#8220;Increasing numbers of groups and individuals in Mariposa and elsewhere in California oppose legislation proposed by Congressman Jeff Denham because it would, if passed, have serious adverse implications for Mariposa’s economy as well as remove protection of a portion of a Wild and Scenic River for the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calaveras Dam replacement to begin amid retrofit</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/54550</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bay Area]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Francisco Chronicle: &#8220;The days are numbered for the old tower and decorative arches at Calaveras Dam, which holds back the reservoir that is San Francisco&#8217;s largest local source of drinking water. Workers for the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission will begin shoveling dirt today as part of a $416 million project to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Water Commission workshop speakers stress creativity in water storage approach</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/54527</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From ACWA&#8217;s Water News: &#8220;Speaker after speaker at a California Water Commission workshop today in Sacramento reiterated for commissioners the importance of thinking creatively in solving the state’s water storage issues. Today’s task for speakers was to provide commissioners with a historical perspective on water storage projects, an overview of past, present and future projects, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Quinn: Water commission begins important dialog on storage</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/54525</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 15:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Storage and supply]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Tim Quinn at ACWA&#8217;s Voices on Water blog: &#8220;The California Water Commission convened a workshop today on one of the most important topics facing this generation of water managers: the future of water storage in California. Students of history know that water storage and delivery systems built by previous generations of Californians fueled the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jay Lund: Water storage in California</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/54472</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/54472#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Jay Lund at the California Water Blog: &#8220;“With a larger reservoir, there is some increasing gain with further size, but in a diminishing ratio.” – Alan Hazen (1914) Water storage capacity is an important tool in California’s water system for capturing lower-value water for higher-value uses later. Such storage aids water supply, flood protection, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCWC Blog: Storage &#8211; A critical part of water supplies</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/54212</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Richard Atwater at the Southern California Water Committee&#8217;s blog: &#8220;Serious concerns about the Delta Stewardship Council’s Delta Plan are mounting quickly these days. Over the last few weeks, water leaders and stakeholders across the state have been lodging criticism about the fifth staff draft of the Delta Plan on a number of critical fronts. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water Commission Hearing to examine storage set for Sept. 14</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/53989</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/53989#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From ACWA&#8217;s Water News: &#8220;The California Water Commission will hold the first of two water storage workshops on Wednesday, Sept. 14, in Sacramento. Attendees are asked to RSVP by Sept. 9. &#8230; &#8220; Continue reading from ACWA&#8217;s Water News by clicking here.]]></description>
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		<title>Green Roots blog: Metropolitan Water District report delivers interesting findings on future of California water</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/53643</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/53643#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 15:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Southern California]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Planning &#038; Conservation League&#8217;s Green Roots blog: &#8220;A few months ago a prestigious Blue Ribbon Committee (BRC) delivered its report outlining challenges and opportunities for Metropolitan Water District (MWD) to the year 2060. MWD is the largest supplier of drinking water in theUS, supplying water to 14 cities and 12 municipal water districts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday&#8217;s top of the scroll: State water board funds Sites Reservoir study</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/53508</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Northern California]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Colusa Sun Herald: &#8220;For more than three decades, Colusa County’s valley residents have called for a foothills reservoir west of Maxwell. Those decades have included more than a half dozen flood years, and an even greater number of drought years for which proponents of the Sites Reservoir argued could have provided some relief. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Utilities and climate scientists team up to prepare for bleak water future</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/53474</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:53:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Climate change & water supply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Water Issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Solve Climate News: &#8220;Ten of the nation&#8217;s largest water utilities have teamed up to connect climate scientists and water providers so utilities will have the information they need to prepare for the harmful effects of global warming. Climate change will create a host of challenges that affect water supply, water quality, stormwater drainage and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big snowpack, cooler spring and summer ideal for water users</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/53456</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Drought, Weather & Snowpack]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Modesto Bee: &#8220;This year has brought the best that water managers could imagine — an abundant snowpack and a manageable melt. Rivers mostly have stayed within their banks as they carried the runoff from the Sierra Nevada to farms and cities in the Central Valley and beyond. &#8220;Things could have gone wrong, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Water Resources Control Board to vote on funding Sites Reservoir study</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/53243</link>
		<comments>http://aquafornia.com/archives/53243#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sites Reservoir]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Willows Journal: &#8220;When Mary Wells’ great-great-grandfather founded a western foothill community that eventually became known as Sites, he probably never envisioned his homestead and those of his neighbors ever being underwater. But a decision Tuesday by the California Water Resources Control Board could lead to an actual beginning of a reservoir that has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water level behind Oroville Dam dips, just a little</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/53206</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Northern California]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Chico Enterprise-Record: &#8220;After months of being at or near the very top of the dam, Lake Oroville is beginning to drop, just a little. At its fullest, the surface of Lake Oroville is 900 feet above sea level. For months, the lake level has sat at or just inches below that peak. &#8230; [...]]]></description>
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