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Contempt of Corps		23 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Contempt of Corps A federal judge held the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in contempt of court yesterday for failing to lower water levels in the Missouri River to protect endangered species. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler ordered the Corps and the secretary of the Army to reduce water levels in the river as part of an injunction s ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, marine life, Missouri River, rivers and watersheds, United States, wildlife (all these topics)

Unable Was I Ere I Smelled Elbe		03 Jul 2003	Daily Grist
Unable Was I Ere I Smelled Elbe For residents of the town of Libis in the Czech Republic, last year's terrible floods are more than a bad memory: They are an on-going nightmare. Libis is located not far from the Spolana chemical plant in central Bohemia, which leaked more than 1,100 pounds of toxics into the Elbe River when floodwaters inundated the plant's facilities. Now, the state vete ...
Topics: Czech Republic, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, toxics (all these topics)

Pump and Circumstance		27 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Pump and Circumstance The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will hear a case about the Florida Everglades that tests the scope of the federal government's ability to fight pollution. At issue is how much power the feds have in controlling the amount of water pumped across the Everglades basin. State water managers say they should not be required to get federal permits for water pump facil ...
Topics: dams, energy, Florida, rivers and watersheds, wilderness (all these topics)

Our Gorge Is Rising		02 Jun 2003	Daily Grist
Our Gorge Is Rising China yesterday blocked the flow of the Yangtze River by closing gates at the massive Three Gorges Dam and began to fill up what will be the world's largest reservoir. It's a joyous occasion for government engineers and Communist Party faithful who have long touted the coming benefits of hydroelectric power and flood control, an ...
Topics: China, dams, energy, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, toxics, water pollution, Yangtze River (all these topics)

Paddle-tale		02 Jun 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: lakes, rivers and watersheds, Wisconsin (all these topics)

Down Under Water		12 May 2003	Daily Grist
Down Under Water The folks down under will have a lot to be down about if climate change proceeds as projected. Rising temperatures could trigger a 164 percent increase in heat-related deaths in Australia by 2050 and an increase of up to 240 percent in injuries and deaths caused by flooding by 2020, according to a study commissioned by the Australian government. Tropical diseases like malaria and dengue could also ...
Topics: Australia, health, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Dry Idea Rolls on		02 May 2003	Daily Grist
Dry Idea Rolls on The U.S. Interior Department has identified areas around the county that are likely to face conflicts over water shortages in the next 25 years, including the usual suspects (Los Angeles, Calif., Denver, Colo., and Phoenix, Ariz.) as well as some new hotspots: the Gulf Coast of Texas, North Dakota's Red River Valley, and Western cities from Bend, Ore. to Albuquerque, N ...
Topics: Department of Interior, rivers and watersheds, water pollution, West (all these topics)

Gone With the Flow		30 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Gone With the Flow The Khasi Hills of northeastern India are one of the wettest places on Earth, typically experiencing torrential rains throughout the monsoon season and laying claim to the world record of 1,000 inches of rainfall in just one year. Now, though, the Khasi Hills are drying up due to environmental changes wrought by pollution, deforestation, the development of in ...
Topics: air pollution, deforestation, India, land degradation, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

High and Dry		29 Apr 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: Colorado, Colorado River, rivers and watersheds (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)

Well Done		28 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Well Done With many makeshift wells in New Delhi, India, running dry, and many more in danger of following suit, citizens are turning to an old-fashioned solution: rainwater harvesting. Five pilot projects in the city have successfully tested out an inexpensive system for collecting monsoon rainwater and directing it underground to replenish over-tapped aquifers. New Delhi officials have become enthusiastic ch ...
Topics: India, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Out, Damn Dam!		21 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Out, Damn Dam! The Bush administration last week proposed the breaching of a hydroelectric dam near Missoula, Mont. -- yep, you read that right. It's not one of the four dams on the Snake River that enviros want to tear down in order to restore salmon runs, but it's in the same region. The Milltown Dam blocks migration of threatened bull trout and traps dangerous toxics from ...
Topics: dams, energy, Montana, politics, rivers and watersheds, Snake River, wildlife (all these topics)

Dam Shamer		17 Apr 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: dams, energy, European Union, food and agriculture, rivers and watersheds, Spain, wetlands (all these topics)

Bangladesh Slowly		11 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Bangladesh Slowly Life could get even worse in already disaster-prone Bangladesh if global warming continues unchecked, scientists say. Flooding, which already affects about one-fifth of the country, could increase by 40 percent as heavier rainfall triggered by climate change swamps riverbanks, according to a report in the current issue of New Scientist. Low-lying Bangladesh sits at the delta of three rivers, and ...
Topics: Bangladesh, climate, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Something Smells Fishy		04 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Something Smells Fishy The Bush administration is proposing changes to its salmon-protection strategy that critics say would endanger salmon while boosting logging in the Pacific Northwest. As it now stands, federal rules prohibit timber sales and other activities on public lands unless officials can demonstrate that fish would not be harmed. Under revisions pr ...
Topics: fishing, logging, Northwest, politics, rivers and watersheds, US Forest Service, wilderness (all these topics)

Brazilian Whacks		04 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Brazilian Whacks In what may be the worst industrial accident in Brazil's history, a massive chemical spill into two rivers has cut off the supply of clean water to some 600,000 people in three states near Rio de Janeiro. A reservoir at a pulp and paper factory leaked 320 million gallons of caustic soda and chlorine into the Paraiba do Sul River last weekend before being contained on Mon ...
Topics: Brazil, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Flexing Their Mussels		28 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Flexing Their Mussels Roughly 1,000 miles of rivers and streams in Alabama could be protected as critical habitat for endangered species, under a new proposal by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The proposal, which is designed to protect eight endangered and three threatened species of mussels, was great news for environmentalists and bad news ...
Topics: Alabama, marine life, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, US Fish and Wildlife Service, wilderness (all these topics)

N.C. Pee Dee Blues		03 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
N.C. Pee Dee Blues Water wars have long simmered in the arid Western U.S., but now they're bubbling up in Eastern states as well. Dry spells in 1999 and 2002 brought many of the East's rivers to worrisome lows; increased water demand spurred by new development is only adding to the problem. A contentious quarrel between Maryland and Virginia over the Potomac River has worked its way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, ...
Topics: climate, East Coast, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Gorging Themselves		20 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Gorging Themselves China's controversial Three Gorges dam looks like small potatoes next to the country's latest proposed water project, a gargantuan network of dams and canals designed to divert water from the south to thirsty northern cities such as Beijing. The project would cost $60 billion over 50 years (twice as muc ...
Topics: Asia, China, dams, energy, international government agencies, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, wetlands, Yangtze River (all these topics)

Stone Cold Killer		20 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Stone Cold Killer The massive storm that dumped feet of snow on the Northeast over the weekend was lovely to look at, fun to play in -- and bad news for some river species. In an effort to unbury themselves, many cities in the region dumped plowed snow directly into nearby rivers, a practice some scientists warn could harm stone flies, a de ...
Topics: marine life, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Northeast, Pennsylvania, rivers and watersheds, West Virginia, wildlife (all these topics)

One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi		12 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi Six states whose waters feed the lower Mississippi River agreed this week to work together to reduce the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Fertilizers, sewage, and other nutrient-rich pollutio ...
Topics: Arkansas, food and agriculture, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, marine life, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Missouri, oceans, rivers and watersheds, solid waste treatment and disposal, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Af-gone		07 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Af-gone Afghanistan's most significant wetland area is now almost as dry as a bone, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. Satellite imagery shows that 99 percent of the Sistan wetlands, which stretch into Iran, have dried out since 1998. The main source of water to the wetlands, the Helmand River, has been flowing at far below normal levels. Ahmad Yusuf ...
Topics: Afghanistan, Iran, rivers and watersheds, United Nations, water pollution, wetlands (all these topics)

When You Dish Upon a Star		07 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
When You Dish Upon a Star Minnesota would become the first state in the U.S. to effectively ban phosphorus in automatic-dishwashing detergent if a bill working its way through the state legislature gets the eventual thumbs-up. Phosphorus, which helps to remove those oh-so-unsightly spots from glasses and dishware, ultimately g ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, lakes, Minnesota, politics, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Invasion of the Habitat Snatchers		06 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Invasion of the Habitat Snatchers Invasive species are wreaking havoc on African wetlands to the tune of billions of dollars per year, according to a new study by the World Conservation Union (IUCN). For example, the water hyacinth, introduced from the Amazon Basin as an ornamental plant, has spread to most of Africa's lakes and rivers, choking out ...
Topics: Africa, lakes, marine life, rivers and watersheds, Texas, wetlands, wildlife, World Conservation Union (all these topics)

Mongoose Step		05 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Mongoose Step Invasive species are a problem throughout the world -- but in Japan, with its fragile island ecosystems, the problem is particularly severe. The most prominent Japanese battle to protect native species is raging in Lake Biwa, the nation's largest freshwater lake and a cultural icon frequently referenced in literature, theater, and film. There, voracious Ameri ...
Topics: Asia, globalization, Japan, lakes, marine life, rivers and watersheds, wildlife (all these topics)

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