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		<title>Thursday&#8217;s top of the scroll: Environmentalists stunned by failures of key measures in Legislature</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31839</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Water Legislation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Los Angeles Times:
&#8220;Environmentalists were counting on big gains in Sacramento this summer, with a governor eager to burnish his green credentials in his final months in office. But by the time the legislative session ended at midnight Tuesday, those hopes had fizzled.
Activists had worked for passage of such pioneering measures as a ban [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to restore the Colorado River: An interview with Brad Udall and Osvel Hinojosa</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31835</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River Basin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From The Grist:
&#8220;The Colorado River hasn&#8217;t reached the sea in ages. Is there hope left for this storied but manhandled river? Jonathan Waterman, author of Running Dry: A Journey from Source to Sea Down the Colorado River, brought together two experts from either end of the river to talk about what&#8217;s happened to the river [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pacific Legal Foundation commentary: Clean water, Yes; Federal micro-management, No.</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31833</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Water Quality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Pacific Legal Foundation:
&#8220;Keeping our rivers, lakes, and streams clean is vitally important.  So is preserving the legal protections that safeguard our liberties.
Unfortunately, the cause of clean water is being used as an excuse for two federal power grabs that imperil liberty by undermining property rights and accountability in government.
The assault on accountability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Public Record blog: More on the LHC report, and thoughts on the day&#8217;s news</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31830</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[DWR & State Water Project]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the ever-popular On the Public Record blog, more thoughts on the Little Hoover Commission report, including this:
&#8221; &#8230; if DWM is going to take on water rights authority, it should have water quality authority as well.  Water rights and water quality are inextricably linked.  The volume of water determines pollutant loads, both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Farm Water Coalition: Irrigation decisions often influenced by outside factors</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31828</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the California Farm Water Coalition:
&#8220;A survey of San Joaquin Valley farmers about their irrigation practices reveals that irrigation decisions &#8211; when and how much water to apply to a crop &#8211; are largely influenced by factors outside of the control of the farmer.
The Agricultural Water Management Council with the cooperation of the California Farm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chronciles of the Hydraulic Brotherhood blog: More doubts about the drought</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31826</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Drought, Weather & Snowpack]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Patrick Porgans at the Chronicles of the Hydraulic Brotherhood blog:
&#8220;Figures obtained from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday, August 31, 2010, show the Golden State’s agricultural earnings have reached historic highs during the so-called three-year drought.
According to U.S. Department of Agriculture, (USDA), California’s cash receipts from crop and livestock sales, in billions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Southern California Water Committee: The many stresses on the Delta</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31823</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Delta Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Southern California Water Committee:
&#8220;The fragile state of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta (Delta) has taken center stage among scientists from across the nation. The region – a watery web of rivers, sloughs and diverse landscapes – is home to an array of plants and wildlife, and is a critical pathway for moving water [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Event: The 2010 Water Quality &amp; Regulatory Conference</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31820</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Events]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Water Education Foundation:
The 2010 Water Quality Conference: Early Bird Registration Ends September 15! 
Learn the latest on water quality, technology and emerging contaminants from 50 leading experts at this two-day, three-track conference on November 3-4 at the Doubletree Hotel and Conference Center in Ontario, CA. 
The 2010 Water Quality &#038; Regulatory Conference: With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asian carp the new bullies of America&#8217;s waterways</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31816</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Invasive Species]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National water news]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Luis Obispo Tribune:
&#8220;Cold-blooded. Spawning faster than rabbits. Leaping boats in a single swish.  Leaving in their wake, dozens of slack-jawed (and several cases of tooth-loosened) fishermen, kayakers, water skiers and anyone else who dares to trespass through their watery world.
Asian silver carp are becoming the new bullies in America&#8217;s waterways, said [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Abu Dhabi: Multiplying the yield of an oasis</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31813</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[International Water Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates and it&#8217;s second largest city, has invested heavily in desalination plants along the Persian Gulf to meet the water demands of its 1.2 million residents, which puts them in a rather precarious position, according to this article in the New York Times:
&#8221; &#8230; Abu Dhabi may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YouTube: Russian River biological opinions</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31809</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted on YouTube by the Sonoma County Water Agency:
The Sonoma County Water Agency teamed up with NBC Bay Area and several other water agencies from around the Bay Area to produce a public education television program called &#8220;Water Matters.&#8221; The television program features the Russian River Biological Opinion.

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		<title>Small leak on Morris Dam poses no danger to stability</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31807</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Northern California]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Willits News:
&#8220;Operators discovered a small leak on Morris Dam, the main water supply reservoir for the City of Willits. It was discovered during a routine inspection in mid-August.
The leak was inspected by engineers who rappelled down the face of the dam in climbing harnesses August 19. The leak is estimated to be about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United &#8212; but not without cost: Marine Protected Area proposal finds consensus in North Coast group</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31805</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:28:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Other Oceans & Beaches Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Eureka Times-Standard:
&#8220;Representatives of North Coast fishing, environmental and tribal interests on Tuesday did what no other group has done: Come up with a single proposal to put certain areas along the coast off limits to fishing and gathering as part of the 1999 Marine Life Protection Act.
The regional stakeholders group hashed out the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra droughts: Tahoe&#8217;s drowned forest</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31803</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Lake Tahoe & the Sierra's]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Sierra Sun:
&#8220;Lake Tahoe is a reservoir controlled by the dam at Tahoe City with water storage equal to six feet and one inch. There is a federal limit on the maximum level of the lake so that it may not exceed 6,229.1 feet in elevation, but when the lake drops to 6,223 feet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recycled wastewater boosts Redwood City supply</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31801</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bay Area]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Francisco Examiner:
&#8220;The greenery encircling Electronic Arts’ corporate offices in Redwood Shores was kept alive with pristine drinking water from the Hetch Hetchy system until about a year and a half ago.
That’s when the gaming giant decided to start using recycled sewage water to keep its grass green, one of the dozens of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fish passageways will help steelhead trout</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31799</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Southern California]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From The Acorn:
&#8220;The endangered Southern California steelhead trout will receive a fighting chance at repopulating the region’s waterways if several environmental agencies can convince the city of Malibu that their plan to reestablish the fish’s migration routes is viable.
The Solstice Creek Culvert Crossing fish passage project has been the pet project of Caltrans, the Conservation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA proposes $69.2 million plan to contain 4.2-mile-long contaminated underground water plume from Whittier to Norwalk</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31811</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Pasadena Star News:
&#8220;The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a $69.2 million plan to contain a 4.2-mile-long contaminated underground water plume that stretches from Whittier to Norwalk.
The water is contaminated with solvents from the former Omega Chemical Co. Superfund site, 12504 and 12512 Whittier Blvd., a hazardous waste recycling business that was open from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$600K will help revive San Diego wetland habitat</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31797</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the San Diego Union Tribune:
&#8220;New state funding will help restore receded wetlands in south San Diego Bay, an ambitious effort to help fish and wildlife displaced by farming and development.
Conservationists want to return the barren area to what it once was: a coastal habitat for native wildlife. Among the animals that could benefit from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Superyacht-ready facility still waits for Water Board approval; Meetings continue to be canceled due to lack of quorom</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31790</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[San Diego]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From The Log:
&#8220;It took a fleet of tugboats to bring a massive drydock through San Diego Bay to its new home at Knight &#038; Carver YachtCenter. But the new facility designed to lift vessels weighing up 4,000 tons &#8212; allowing full service and maintenance repairs on superyachts larger than 100 feet in length &#8212; now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State lawmakers create sea council</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31794</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Salton Sea]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From MyDesert.com:
&#8220;No project&#8217;s been approved by the state legislature to restore the dying Salton Sea.  And the billions of dollars such a project will take are nowhere in sight.
But lawmakers on Tuesday night took one step toward a fix of problems at California&#8217;s largest lake, approving creation of a governing council to manage any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IID to receive state funding for drain, silt-related maintenance</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31792</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Imperial Irrigation District & Imperial Valley]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Imperial Valley Press:
&#8220;The state will give Imperial Irrigation District $900,000 over three years to cover the costs of silt reduction, which the federal government mandates and the state government enforces.
“If you want to be an irrigation district in California, you have to do it,” said David Bradshaw, IID assistant water manager for agriculture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reclamation: Desalting plant trial running smoothly</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31785</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Yuma Sun:
&#8220;Everyone likes to hear the words “ahead of schedule and under budget” — and that&#8217;s just what&#8217;s happening at the largest desalting plant in the nation, located in Yuma, Ariz.  The plant is on a one-year trial run that began May 3, and so far things are running smoothly said Jennifer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado: Keeping &#8220;our water&#8221; not that easy, says commentary</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31782</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Colorado River Basin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Political candidates can say the darndest things, can&#8217;t they &#8230; !  From Ed Quillen at the Denver Post:
&#8220;In certain Colorado circles — call them Water Buffs as opposed to Water Buffaloes — Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes has been criticized for sounding ignorant when he addressed the Colorado Water Congress in Vail last week.
&#8220;If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wednesday&#8217;s top of the scroll: Good news in annual Lake Tahoe health report</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31706</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Lake Tahoe & the Sierra's]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From YubaNet.com:
&#8220;UC Davis researchers noted several bright spots in their annual Lake Tahoe health report, issued today: The 2007 Angora Fire had no significant impact on lake clarity; a small test of a method to kill invasive clams worked; the pollutant phosphorus was at its lowest level in 29 years; and free-floating algae in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California&#8217;s plastic bag ban defeated; plus a legislative update</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31701</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Sacramento Bee:
&#8220;A measure to ban plastic carryout bags in supermarkets, drug and convenience stores was defeated late Tuesday in the state Senate, where key lawmakers said it could prove too costly for consumers.
The proposal to make California the first state to institute such a ban was designed to go into effect in large [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commentary: The answer to water shortages: ship it here</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31698</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:45:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Silicon Valley Mercury News, this commentary by Don Walsh, PhD, president of International Maritime, Inc., and John Barbieri, president of the Natural Resources Corp. in Los Angeles:
&#8221; &#8230; Water covers 75 percent of Earth&#8217;s surface. Little is added or lost; it is recycled. The oceans contain 97 percent of this water. The rest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zeke Grader: September is salmon month, come join us!</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31696</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Zeke Grader at the City Brights blog:
&#8220;I know a good thing when I see it, and FarmAid was a good thing. It raised awareness about the plight of family farmers and ranchers, provided some desperately needed financial relief to the small-scale agriculture sector and helped connect average Americans to their food sources. I supported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Public Record blog on the LHC study: System re-operation, and an inadvertant admission.</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31694</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The On the Public Record blog continues it&#8217;s series of posts on the Little Hoover Commission&#8217;s report on water governance, this time responding to t
&#8221;    The state can increase the amount of water available for use and better perform its environmental protection role by managing California’s state and federal reservoirs as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sacramento Bee&#8217;s Head to Head: Should California split up into two (or more) states?</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31692</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Water & Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Sacramento Bee:
&#8220;THE ISSUE: Californians have toyed with dividing the state – north-south or east-west. Last year, former Assemblyman Bill Maze, R-Visalia, revived the idea of an east-west split and is leading a drive to put the matter on the ballot.&#8221;
Pia Lopez says no, Ben Boychuk says, why not?  Read their arguments in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slow it. Spread it. Sink it! A Homeowner&#8217;s and Landowner&#8217;s Guide to Beneficial Stormwater Management</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31688</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Stormwater & Urban Runoff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Southern Sonoma County Resource Conservation District website:
&#8220;This exciting new guidebook will help landowners and homeowners make the most of the many potential benefits of innovative stormwater management. Once thought of as a nuisance, stormwater is now universally recognized as one our most important natural resources and proper management (simple to complex) is more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Farm Bureau calls for careful study of Klamath dams</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31686</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the California Farm Bureau Federation:
&#8220;Noting that the proposal will affect farmers and ranchers in a wide area of northeastern California, the California Farm Bureau Federation has urged state and federal agencies to conduct a thorough review and consider all potential impacts of a plan to remove four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Karen Garrison/NRDC: Marine Protected Areas hold promise for better fishing and economic boost</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31682</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Other Oceans & Beaches Stories]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From Karen Garrison&#8217;s blog at the NRDC Switchboard:
&#8220;Among the spate of recent setbacks for America’s seas and the fishermen who make a living on them, at least one ongoing effort provides a glimmer of hope: California’s implementation of the Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA), a law calling for establishment of a statewide network of marine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dan Bacher: The questions that Arnold&#8217;s MLPA proponents don’t want to answer</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31680</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Dan Bacher at IndyBay.org:
&#8220;Faced with massive opposition by Indian Tribes, fishermen and environmentalists, officials from Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s fast-track Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative keep repeating the mantra that the process is &#8220;open, transparent and inclusive&#8221; and &#8220;science-based.&#8221;
The proponents of the process refuse to address the many criticisms that advocates of true ocean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orland water fight continues</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31678</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:08:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Orland Press Register:
&#8220;The battle over a proposed sparkling mineral water bottling plant in Orland is moving forward.
Attorneys for Orland, Crystal Geyser Water Co., Save Our Water Resource and Friends of Orland will meet in telephone conference at 2:30 p.m. Friday.
The case was originally assigned to be heard Sept. 3 by Glenn County Superior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alameda Creek Dam holds frogs&#8217; future</title>
		<link>http://aquafornia.com/archives/31676</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bay Area]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Bay-Citizen:
&#8220;Alameda Creek has a few claims to fame. It drains the second-largest watershed feeding San Francisco Bay. It covers a surprising variety of habitats from Sunol Wilderness through Niles Canyon all the way to the urban wilds of Fremont. And every year, determined activists try to help a few migrating steelhead trout find [...]]]></description>
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