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Napa Time How a town can live with a river and not get soaked	Gretchen C. Daily, Katherine Ellison	31 May 2002	Arts and Minds
By Gretchen C. Daily and Katherine Ellison 31 May 2002 This essay is excerpted from The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable. In a cattle pasture south of downtown Napa, Calif., a clarinet, flute, and bass guitar strike up a jazzy version of "Up a Lazy River." About sixty people, if you count the rubberneckers wandering over from a nearby retirement house, gather in the midsummer sun. Two youn ...
Topics: California, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

The Early Bird Gets the River A review of Water Wars	Michelle Nijhuis	23 May 2002	Arts and Minds
I can see the source of the world's water problems from my office window. It's called the Fire Mountain Canal, and it winds its way past peach and apple orchards, through green horse pastures, and around the edge of the dry, juniper-covered mesa where I live. This fat, smooth snake of water seems like a generous thing; after all, it supports the work of local Colorado farmers, who stuff us with cherries, chilies ...
Topics: rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Shiva Me Timbers		23 May 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, rivers and watersheds, United States (all these topics)

Barking Up the Right Tree		15 May 2002	Daily Grist
Barking Up the Right Tree Apparently spooked by a recent history of devastating floods and blinding sandstorms, China has unveiled a plan to plant trees on almost 200,000 square miles of land in an effort to reverse rampant deforestation. The plan, which Chinese officials call the largest conservation effort ever attempted, will cost an estimated $12 billion over 10 years and restore trees to an area larger than Ge ...
Topics: China, rivers and watersheds, wilderness (all these topics)

Salmon Chanted Evening		03 May 2002	Daily Grist
Salmon Chanted Evening The future of salmon in the Pacific Northwest is being jeopardized by foot-dragging on the part of the federal government, said Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber (D) in a speech Tuesday evening. In December 2000, the National Marine Fisheries Service decided against aiding salmon populations by breaching dams on the lower Snake River; instead, the agency called for restoring streams w ...
Topics: Columbia River, fishing, Oregon, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Holy Sinkhole!		01 May 2002	Daily Grist
Holy Sinkhole! Central Florida's main source of drinking water is being contaminated by a toxic leak from one of the nation's oldest Superfund sites, according to federal authorities. Ten years ago, the U.S. EPA ended the cleanup of a Tower Chemical plant that manufactured pesticides for the citrus industry; now, an unidentified pesticide-related chemical has seeped from a sinkhole below the plant's ...
Topics: Florida, rivers and watersheds, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Lies, Damn Lies, and Economic Analyses		01 May 2002	Daily Grist
Lies, Damn Lies, and Economic Analyses In an unprecedented act, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced yesterday that it would suspend work on about 150 congressionally approved water projects to review the economics used to justify them. The move follows last week's decision by the Corps to suspend its deepening of the Delaware River to review the economic analysis, one of many that had come un ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, politics, rivers and watersheds (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)

Hi, I'm Not in Delaware		24 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Hi, I'm Not in Delaware In the latest blow to its image, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has suspended a planned $311 million deepening of the Delaware River after learning that the General Accounting Office was preparing to question the project's economic justification. Sources said GAO investigators believed the Corps had overstated the potential economic benefits of the p ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Government Accountability Office, 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)

Basin Is No Sink		11 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Basin Is No Sink The network of waterways in the Amazon River Basin emits three times as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as previously thought, according to a study appearing in the current edition of Nature. The finding suggests that tropical forest regions are not carbon "sinks" that help cleanse the world of excess CO2 emissions. Rather, the Amazon region produces about 2 trillion pounds of carbon ...
Topics: Amazon, ozone, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Sea Ya!		09 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Sea Ya! Central Asia's Aral Sea, which used to be the world's fourth-largest lake, has shrunk so dramatically that it has split into two separate bodies of water. The two rivers that feed it were diverted in the 1960s to water cotton fields; now just a trickle reaches the sea, and much of that is contaminated by pesticides and fertilizers. As the sea has receded, villages and small cities ...
Topics: Aral Sea, desertification, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

The Misery River		02 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
The Misery River The Missouri River is the nation's most threatened river, according to a report released today by American Rivers. In its annual report of endangered waterways, the group blamed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the terrible conditions of Big Muddy. The river is dammed in six places; dredging for barge traffic has shortened it by 127 miles and reduced its ...
Topics: American Rivers, Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri River, rivers and watersheds (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)

Home Builders, Habitat Wreckers		13 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
Home Builders, Habitat Wreckers In what appears to be yet another triumph of industry over everything else, the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service announced this week that it would temporarily revoke habitat protection for salmon and steelhead in 150 watersheds, river areas, bays, and estuaries in four western states. The changes, which are part of a series of recent moves that could weaken habitat and ...
Topics: fishing, rivers and watersheds, West, wilderness (all these topics)

A River Doesn't Run Through It		04 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
A River Doesn't Run Through It The Yellow River is China's second-longest river and the cradle of a 4,000-year-old civilization; now, though, it's drying up and life along its banks is changing forever. Much of the water in the Yellow River is diverted to arid inner provinces for agricultural purposes, leaving areas downstream without a stream at all. For example, in Shandong, the last province before the river meets the Yellow ...
Topics: China, rivers and watersheds (all these topics)

Bay Watch		22 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Bay Watch If three environmental groups have their way, California's mammoth agriculture industry will be subject to state water-pollution laws for the first time in history. The three groups (San Francisco BayKeeper, DeltaKeeper, and the California Public Interest Research Group) filed suit yesterday against the Central Valley Regional Water Cont ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, marine life, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

Hatching a New Plan		20 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Hatching a New Plan In the first systematic attempt to reform Washington State's fish-hatchery system -- the world's largest -- the Hatchery Scientific Review Group issued a report yesterday recommending the closure of one Puget Sound-area hatchery and alterations for 22 others. The salmon born in Washington State's 100-plus hatcheries are thought to pose a threat to wild salmon because t ...
Topics: fishing, marine life, politics, rivers and watersheds, Washington (all these topics)

Kenya Believe It?		20 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Kenya Believe It? If Kenya gets its way, water distribution in east Africa could change dramatically: The nation's energy minister, Raila Odinga, has called for a review of the 1929 British colonial treaty that grants Egypt the right to veto projects involving use of the headwaters of the Nile. Od ...
Topics: Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, globalization, international government agencies, Kenya, Middle East, Nile River, rivers and watersheds, Sudan, water conflicts (all these topics)

Chesa-piqued		11 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Chesa-piqued Saying that chemical contamination in the city's water supply led to miscarriages and infant deaths, 25 women have sued Chesapeake, Va., and almost 170 more plan to do so. According to a growing number of studies, the chlorine commonly used to purify drinking water can cause birth defects and miscarriages when it mixes with organic matter, su ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, politics, rivers and watersheds, toxics, Virginia, water pollution (all these topics)

Cano Worms		07 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Cano Worms The Bush administration has asked for $98 million to help protect Colombia's Cano Limon oil pipeline from attacks by leftist guerrillas. The pipeline, which is owned by Occidental Petroleum, supplies crude oil to the U.S. and has the capacity to pump 240,000 barrels a day. But con ...
Topics: Colombia, commercial and industry organizations, energy, globalization, health, politics, pollution and waste, ranching, rivers and watersheds, water pollution (all these topics)

All Wet		04 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
All Wet For almost a decade, developers have been required by federal law to create 1.78 acres of wetlands for every acre they destroy. Sounds great, but a new study by Washington State's Department of Ecology found that only about 13 percent of 24 replacement wetlands in the state are successful. Wetlands-protection rules were established to protect watershed health, provide critical habitat, and reduce danger ...
Topics: rivers and watersheds, Washington, wetlands (all these topics)

Danube Blues		31 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Danube Blues The Danube River in Europe may be blue, but it's not very green -- and its environmental problems are slated to get even worse, the World Wildlife Fund warns in a report being released today. More than 80 percent of the river's wetlands and flood plains have already been destroyed in the name of flood protection, agriculture, p ...
Topics: European Union, food and agriculture, Germany, placemaking, rivers and watersheds, wetlands, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Weeping and Railing		31 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Weeping and Railing Convinced that "potentially significant" environmental problems could be avoided, federal regulators yesterday approved the largest railroad construction project in recent history. The project, a $1.4 billion, 900-mile line linking Wyoming coal fields to the Mississippi River, was okayed after the Surface Transporta ...
Topics: air pollution, energy, national parks, placemaking, rivers and watersheds, South Dakota, wildlife, Wyoming (all these topics)

Basin and Strange		29 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Basin and Strange The Bush administration gave the first indication yesterday of how it would work to resolve the water wars in the Klamath Basin on the Oregon-California border -- and enviros immediately warned that the administration was kowtowing to farmers while giving short sh ...
Topics: California, climate, fishing, food and agriculture, marine life, National Marine Fisheries Service, Oregon, politics, rivers and watersheds, US Fish and Wildlife Service (all these topics)

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