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		<title>Eel River diversion, frost water challenged</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21731</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Ukiah Daily Journal:
&#8220;An environmental group is hoping to stop the diversion of water through the Potter Valley tunnel from the Eel River and pending frost water regulations. This was the latest from a Thursday night meeting of the Inland Water and Power Commission.
Friends of the Eel River has filed with the State Water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fish restoration could be a catch for Rio Vista</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21729</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Delta Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Vacaville Reporter:
&#8220;Rio Vista, long a hub for levee building and dredging in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, could find its next fortune in fish restoration.
Solano County&#8217;s smallest city is being courted by a who&#8217;s who of state and federal agencies that see a former U.S. Army property on the waterfront as an ideal home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dredging at Mare Island might get nod this year</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21727</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Vallejo Times-Herald:
&#8220;Some 14 years worth of accumulated silt in front of two Mare Island dry docks has about a 50-50 chance of qualifying for removal this year, a regional dredging official estimates.
&#8220;It can happen quickly, if everything&#8217;s in place,&#8221; said Rob Lawrence, staff member with the Dredged Material Management Office in San Francisco. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Land war heating up over Cargill salt ponds</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21725</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Francisco Examiner:
&#8220;One of the most heated Bay Area land-use battles of the century is shaping up as different interests take sides in a plan to partly develop and partly restore a 1,436-acre salt harvesting site in Redwood City.
Diversified international company Cargill sold most of its Peninsula salt ponds in 2003 for $100 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Water leaks here costly, notes commentary</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21723</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Monterey County Herald, this commentary by Craig E. Anthony, general manager of California American Water:
&#8220;The Environmental Protection Agency has named March 15 &#8211; 21 &#8220;Fix a Leak Week&#8221; to encourage everyone to examine their plumbing for unknown leaks.
It&#8217;s an important message for people across the country, but having a water leak on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Valley&#8217;s economy is endangered, says commentary</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21721</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[San Joaquin Valley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Fresno Bee, this commentary by Case Lawrence, a venture capitalist and longtime Fresno resident:
&#8220;Like the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, our Valley economy is an especially fragile ecosystem and investment capital has long been our most endangered species. Although we have aspired to economic diversity, the truth is that most of our Valley&#8217;s capital is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Diego allowed to continue ocean disposal of sewage</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21719</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Silicon Valley Mercury News:
&#8220;The California Coastal Commission agreed to alter the terms of San Diego&#8217;s sewage treatment permit, allowing the city to continue to pump 50 billion gallons of partly treated sewage deep into the Pacific Ocean each year.
The panel voted Friday that the city can avoid the recommendations made by a $2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ag needs political voice, says Charles Hoppin, chairman of the California State Water Resources Control Board at conference</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21717</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Yuma Sun:
&#8220;The keynote speaker for the annual Southwest Ag Summit had a few words of wisdom for those attending: Regulators really don&#8217;t care what impact they have on the industry.
The regulatory community, including much of his staff, doesn&#8217;t know or understand the issues facing agriculture and &#8220;doesn&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s &#8230;,&#8221; said Charles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Column:  Deceptive arguments are being made in California&#8217;s water wars</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21714</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 22:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General Water Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times, this column by Michael Hiltzik:
&#8220;Who needs absinthe, vodka or even a six-pack of beer? Judging from the quality of our debate on natural resource policy, all it takes to addle the political mind in California is water.
We&#8217;re talking about the water that flows to us from the mountains and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saturday&#8217;s top of the scroll: Nevada Irrigation District board members question ACWA head on pending water bond: Do coequal values necessarily mean coequal benefits?</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21711</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Water Legislation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From YubaNet.com:
&#8220;Making a rare appearance on March 10 before Nevada Irrigation District&#8217;s board, Tim Quinn, executive director of the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA), offered a broad overview of California&#8217;s recently approved water legislation and the state&#8217;s controversial $11.4 billion bond up for voter consideration in November.
&#8220;We represent a large number of diverse public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laura King Moon commentary: Changes needed to rules governing Delta smelt</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21709</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Silicon Valley Mercury News, this commentary by Laura King Moon of the State Water Contractors:
&#8220;This winter, on certain days, it would take only two small fish known as delta smelt to show up at California&#8217;s two largest water projects to trigger pumping restrictions causing the loss of hundreds of millions of gallons of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: The human cost of the salmon crisis</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21699</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Salmon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the California Progress Report, this commentary by Dick Pool, business owner and a strong advocate of fisheries restoration:
&#8220;It’s not exaggerating to say that salmon are my life. As an engineer, I hold numerous patents for salmon tackle. My company, Pro-Troll Products in Concord, specializes in equipment designed especially for salmon angling. I’ve spent the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congressman Nunes: Unnatural greenies: The two faces of radical environmentalism</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21706</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the blog of Congressman Devin Nunes:
&#8220;The Natural Resources Defense Council, Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club and others tell us that the reason the San Joaquin Valley needs to be transformed into a desert is because the Delta pumps are destroying the salmon population and the water is desperately needed to save the Delta ecosystem.
To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infospigot blog: California Water: Facts just roll right off</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21701</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[General Water Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Infospigot: The Chronicles:
&#8220;Even when we don&#8217;t have all the water we want in California, we never suffer a shortage of detailed, interesting information about our water. If you need an example, go and check the California Data Exchange Center, an encyclopedia of constantly updated water statistics maintained by the state Department of Water Resources. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Realist Idealist: Trying to undress my ‘water footprint’</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21703</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Conservation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times:
&#8220;I used to look at my closet and see clothes. These days, whenever I cast my eyes upon the stacks of shoes and hangers of shirts, sweaters and jackets, I see water. Specifically, I see the &#8220;virtual water&#8221; used to make it all.
It takes 569 gallons to manufacture a T-shirt, from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weather update: Nice warm-up coming</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21697</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Drought, Weather & Snowpack]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Accu-Weather Western Weather Blog:
&#8220;Looking ahead to next week the weather event that sticks out will be the big warm-up in California and other places in the Southwest. A big ridge building up aloft will help bring about the warming and it will really feel like Spring is about here. Depending on where you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schwarzenegger’s MLPA initiative officials can’t ever get it right</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21695</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Dan Bacher at IndyBay.org:
&#8220;Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) process is an absurd parody of marine &#8220;protection&#8221; that provides journalists like myself with bizarre stories that almost write themselves.
Over the past year, a contract boat mapping zones for the MLPA killed a blue whale off Fort Bragg, the Governor appointed an oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$1.5M sewer-fix demand rescinded</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21693</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Lake Tahoe & the Sierra's]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Union Democrat:
&#8220;A series of state citations that nearly forced Angels Camp to pay for a $1.5 million upgrade to its water treatment plan was formally rescinded in a letter received Tuesday by the city.
The three-page note largely brings to a close an issue that deadlocked the council for months — due to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SacBee editorial: Editorial: Plain sense vital in the Natomas floodplain</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21691</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Sacramento]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Sacramento Bee, this editorial:
&#8220;It hasn&#8217;t flooded since 1911. So, in some quarters, a certain complacency has set in about the 53,000-acre Natomas Basin.
The reality, however, is that the 43 miles of levees currently only meet a 30-year flood protection standard, the lowest level of flood protection for any major metropolitan area in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New treatment facility for San Jose will purify water</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21689</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:31:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bay Area]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Mercury News:
&#8220;Santa Clara Valley Water District will begin using new treatment methods and build an entirely new facility to bring South Bay residents, businesses and agencies recycled water with less salinity.
The district&#8217;s Board of Directors last month approved two agreements with the City of San Jose to build a new advanced water treatment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monterey County seeks water balance with dams, recycling</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21687</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Central Coast]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Salinas Californian:
&#8220;Imagine flooding a football field with 9 inches of water.
That&#8217;s an acre-foot of water, or 325,851 gallons. It&#8217;s enough to take 8,000 baths and to meet the household needs of three typical Salinas Valley families for a year.
In 2008, Monterey County drew approximately 527,000 acre-feet of water from the ground. More than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Diego&#8217;s storm water program proposal is shallow, says commentary</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21685</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Diego News Network, this commentary by Jim Peugh, Conservation Chair of the San Diego Audubon Society:
&#8220;The city of San Diego has proposed the Master Storm Water System Maintenance Program (MSWSMP), which is meant to reduce flooding and improve storm water runoff through drainage channels by clearing them of soil and vegetation.
The project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coastal panel sewage ruling hailed as ‘victory’</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21679</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Diego Union Tribune:
&#8220;Point Loma — San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders won a drawn-out battle yesterday when the California Coastal Commission agreed to alter the terms of the city’s permit for running its main sewage processing plant.
The new document makes it clear the city doesn’t have to follow through on any of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: Achieving water security by becoming water self-sufficient</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21677</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Diego News Room, this guest commentary by Jim Bell, an &#8220;internationally-recognized expert on life support sustaining development&#8221;:
&#8220;Many experts are projecting gloomy scenarios of decreasing water supplies and increasing costs, yet the San Diego/Tijuana Region can easily become renewable water self-sufficient and even develop into a net water exporter.
Even if we assume the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aqua Blog Maven on last day of tour</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21631</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s the control panel at Metropolitan Water District&#8217;s Whitsett Pumping Plant, the start of the Colorado River Aqueduct. Yesterday was a busy, busy day, and I&#8217;ve seen a lot and heard from a lot of different people.  I&#8217;ve taken a lot of great pictures, including some from the inside of the Yuma Desalting Plant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday&#8217;s top of scroll: Water issue bridges divide for California lawmakers: Lawmakers call for faster action.</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21667</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Fresno Bee:
&#8220;Three California lawmakers who often disagree sharply on environmental protection priorities found one thing Thursday on which they could agree: Federal irrigation officials in Sacramento aren&#8217;t moving fast enough to resolve the state&#8217;s water woes.
The lawmakers from across the political spectrum voiced continued frustration with the Obama administration&#8217;s handling of the state&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some salmon fishing likely permitted this year, but fishermen skeptical about 2010 season</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21665</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey check this out.  Same story, three different ways of reporting it:
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
&#8220;Salmon fishermen can dust off their poles, sponge off their boats and get ready to hook some chinook for the first time in three years.  There will be at least limited ocean salmon fishing this year, according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA Times editorial: An upstream battle over chinook salmon</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21663</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Salmon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times, this editorial:
&#8220;Even among those who seek to protect wildlife above all, there are moments of great conflict. One of those moments is playing out near Portland, Ore., as sea lions gorge on endangered chinook salmon that gather at the base of the Bonneville Dam, preparing to make their way up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zeke Grader: Fair play for California&#8217;s salmon and fishermen</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21661</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Zeke Grader, Executive Director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen&#8217;s Associations, at the City Brights blog:
&#8220;I grew up in Ft. Bragg, a small fishing town on California&#8217;s North Coast. More accurately, Ft. Bragg was a salmon fishing town &#8212; the fishermen would bring in Dungeness crab, albacore and rock cod as the seasons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salmon, orphans without a home: A historical perspective of the water and landscape modifications to salmon habitat</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21658</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From UC Berkeley&#8217;s California Colloquium on Water:


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		<title>Congressman Costa responds to critics of Valley&#8217;s economy: &#8220;Bringing more water to our Valley is a matter of survival. It is unfortunate that some individuals remain blind to all of California&#8217;s water challenges and are incapable of the thoughtful consideration this issue deserves.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21655</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Fresno Bee, this commentary by Congressman Jim Costa:
&#8220;A lot of people who live outside our Valley are attacking our local economy and our way of life. Their arguments ignore the facts, distort reality, and oversimplify the water-supply crisis that is devastating our farms, businesses and communities.
On editorial pages and across the airwaves, these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Water Front blog: Putting the Cart Before the Horse: The Legislature calls out the Administration on rushing water decisions</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21653</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Environmental Defense Fund&#8217;s On the Water Front blog:
&#8220;If nothing else, Tuesday’s joint oversight hearing before the Assembly Water Parks and Wildlife and the Senate Resources and Water Committees made clear that while the Delta package was enacted last year, the Legislature remains keenly focused on how that package will be implemented.
Assemblymember Jared Huffman [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ESA lacks key ingredient, says Capital Press editorial</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21651</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Capital Press, this editorial:
&#8220;The most frustrating thing about the Endangered Species Act is that it precludes bureaucrats and judges from taking into account hardships that efforts to protect species can impose on humans.
But don&#8217;t take our word for it.
U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger probably knows as much or more than anyone about the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Public Record blogs on the Delta Stewardship Council: Yet another boring explanation.</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21647</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the On the Public Record blog:
&#8220;Was reading through this story on the oversight hearings for the new Delta Stewardship Council.  Sounds like it was fairly exciting, as committee hearings go.  Reading it, I am prepared to agree on some things up front:
1.  I am perfectly happy to believe that Gov. Schwarzenegger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weather update: Springtime temperatures next week</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/21645</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Drought, Weather & Snowpack]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Accu-Weather Western Weather Blog:
&#8220;Many times it is not hard finding something interesting to talk about in the Western weather. My coverage area is large and usually something big is happening even in March. Today I am faced with the unusual. Yes, there will be some rain and snow in the West over the [...]]]></description>
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