Infrastructure
July 23, 2009--San Francisco Baykeeper wins sewage spill prevention settlements (Environmental News Service)
Sewage spills that have contributed to water pollution in San Francisco Bay will be reduced under two settlements reached last week between the nonprofit San Francisco Baykeeper and the Town of Hillsboroug
July 17, 2009--Bottled water makers in the hot seat (NY Times)
Bottled water makers, it seems, are under seige.
July 15, 2009--$27 million will flow to Colorado water projects (Denver Post)
The work ranges from from replacing leaky transmission pipes to rehabilitating water-treatment plants to comply with state and federal laws, McLaughlin said.
July 6, 2009--Dry California sucks up federal water recycling dollars (Environmental News Service)
Drought-stricken California is receiving 98 percent of the Recovery Act funding announced nationally for water recycling projects, according to federal and state water officials.
- Agriculture
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
- California
- California Department of Water Resources
- California State Water Project
- Central Valley Project
- Delta Smelt
- Drought
- Endangered Species
- Groundwater
- Infrastructure
- Irrigation
- Press Clippings
- Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
- U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
- Wastewater
- Water Conservation
- Water Crisis
- Water Recycling
- Water Supply
June 27, 2009--Activists hot over senator's stance on oyster farm (Denver Post)
A powerful Senate Democrat is backing an oyster farmer over the National Park Service in a northern California controversy that has environmentalists seething.
June 17, 2009--Beetle-kill could imperil Rocky Mountain water supply (Denver Post)
Water supplies for 33 million people could be endangered if millions of acres of beetle-ravaged forests in the Rocky Mountains were to catch fire, a U.S. Forest Service official said Tuesday.
June 11, 2009--Water projectr funding flows to town (Norwood Post)
Norwood’s Town Administrator Patti Grafmyer is ecstatic.
June 10, 2009--Kremmling awarded $2 million in stimulus to update water system (Grand County Sky-Hi Daily News)
The Town of Kremmling has been approved — with conditions — to receive $2 million in federal stimulus money, according to Town Manager Ted Soltis.
June 3, 2009--Degraded lower Colorado River needs federal help to recover (Environmental News Service)
Protection of Lower Colorado River water quality needs comprehensive legislation and adequate funding for a major effort like programs underway in the Chesapeake Bay and the Great Lakes, local officials to
- Agriculture
- American Reinvestment and Recovery Act
- Arizona
- Bureau of Reclamation
- California
- Clean Water Act
- Clean Water State Revolving Fund
- Colorado River
- Colorado River Regional Sewer Coalition
- Drinking Water
- Enviornmental Protection Agency
- Estuary
- Flood
- Groundwater
- Infrastructure
- Invasive Species
- Irrigation
- Lake Havasu
- Lake Mead
- Lake Mohave
- Lower Colorado Multi-Species Conservation Program
- Mining
- Nevada
- New Mexico
- Pharmaceuticals
- Press Clippings
- Quagga Mussel
- Sewer
- Utah
- Wastewater System
- Water Contamination
- Water Pollution
- Water Quality
- Watershed
May 1, 2009--Army Corps of Engineers gets $25 mln for NM, Colo. (Denver Post)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it has received nearly $25 million in federal stimulus money for the Albuquerque District, which covers New Mexico and southern Colorado. Lt. Col.
