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Reservoir Hogs Norton won't reduce water releases from Lake Powell		03 May 2005	Daily Grist
Reservoir Hogs Norton won't reduce water releases from Lake Powell Following a year's worth of unsuccessful negotiations between governors of seven parched Western states, Interior Secretary Gale Norton stepped in yesterday to make a decision on how to divvy up the much-coveted water of the Colorado River. A winter of heavy precipitation and subsequent spring thaws have made the debate over how much water to d ...
Topics: Colorado River, lakes, news, politics, West (all these topics)

Announcing: Business as Usual Plan for Colorado River to aid wildlife, preserve intensive water use		06 Apr 2005	Daily Grist
Announcing: Business as Usual Plan for Colorado River to aid wildlife, preserve intensive water use Federal water managers this week joined the states of California, Arizona, and Nevada in trumpeting a new 50-year plan to aid native wildlife along parts of a 400-mile stretch of the Colorado River from Lake Mead to the Mexican border. Prompted by a 1997 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser ...
Topics: Colorado River, dams, energy, news, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wildlife (all these topics)

High and Dry Colorado's proposed water projects could sink the environment	Joshua Zaffos, Writers on the Range	29 Apr 2003	Main Dish
This March, the Denver Broncos football team agreed to spend $40 million on a seven-year contract with its new quarterback, Jake Plummer. Since winning two Super Bowls at the end of the 1990s, the Broncos have struggled just to make the playoffs. At his introductory press conference, Plummer predicted, "Winning a Super Bowl is what I believe we are going to do here.& ...
Topics: business, Colorado, Colorado River, food and agriculture, politics, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

High and Dry		29 Apr 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Colorado, Colorado River, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Lettuce Study This More		28 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Lettuce Study This More A toxic chemical used in rocket fuel was found in four of 22 winter lettuce samples purchased at Northern California grocery stores, according to a report by the Environmental Working Group. The lettuce contaminated with perchlorate, a hormone disrupter, was traced to farms in Southern California and Arizona tha ...
Topics: Arizona, Barbara Boxer, California, Colorado River, Environmental Working Group, Harry Reid, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

Up the River		06 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Up the River New Year's Day marked a historic moment in the history of Western water wars -- the first time the federal government exercised its right to decline California's request for more than its allotted shared of water from the Colorado River. Thanks to the U.S. Interior Department, cities and agricultural areas ...
Topics: California, Colorado River, Department of Interior, food and agriculture, green living, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, West (all these topics)

Imperious		10 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Imperious Ignoring threats of dire consequences by state and federal officials, California's Imperial Irrigation District refused yesterday to approve a huge water sale to San Diego County. Members of the Imperial Valley irrigation district's governing board said they resented the threats, which ranged from intimations that the board would be disbanded to suggestions that the valley's own water supply ...
Topics: California, Colorado River, politics, water conflicts (all these topics)

A Big Pay Off?		21 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
A Big Pay Off? Led by climate change skeptic ExxonMobil, a collection of oil, gas, and other energy companies has pledged at least $175 million over 10 years to Stanford University to create a Global Climate and Energy Project. One goal of the project will be to help develop renewable energy technologies. Critics say the gi ...
Topics: climate, Colorado River, commercial and industry organizations, Department of Energy, energy, Pacific Northwest, renewable energy (all these topics)

High-tailing it out of there		14 Jun 2002	Daily Grist
High-tailing it out of there The Colorado River -- the water source for 25 million Americans -- is almost certainly on a collision course with a massive pile of uranium slag, according to a report released yesterday by the Department of Energy's National Research Council. The 12 million tons of tailings, located near Moab, Utah, are left over from a uranium mill that provide ...
Topics: Colorado, Colorado River, politics, pollution and waste, Utah, water pollution (all these topics)

Trout Killing in America		26 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Trout Killing in America Dam operators could flood part of the Colorado River next year in an effort to save an endangered fish species, rebuild beaches, and kill part of an excessively large trout population. The flood plans were approved yesterday 17 to 1 by a federally appointed panel composed of every major group with an interest in the river. Wildlife officials, archaeologists, and raft ...
Topics: Colorado River, environmental restoration, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Rio Pequeno		19 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Rio Pequeno The Rio Grande no longer reaches the sea. In fact, it falls almost a hundred yards short, a telling illustration of the water crisis that threatens the river and the cross-border region that depends on it for survival. Years of drought and a population explosion on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border have stra ...
Topics: Colorado River, food and agriculture, Mexico, population, Rio Grande River, rivers and watersheds, United States, water conflicts (all these topics)

The Salton of the Earth		02 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
The Salton of the Earth The Salton Sea is California's largest lake -- and one of the most endangered habitats in North America. The sea is extremely salty and getting more so every day. And outbreaks of botulism and lack of oxygen have killed thousands of the birds and fish that call the lake home. Now the lake faces another threat: California is under federal man ...
Topics: California, Colorado River, rivers and watersheds, Salton Sea, water conflicts, wildlife (all these topics)

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