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Black and Blue Canyon		03 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Black and Blue Canyon In a move that environmentalists and others fear could set a dangerous precedent, the U.S. Department of the Interior has ceded control over the waters in Colorado's Gunnison National Park, allowing the state to sell it to cities. Interior Secretary Gale Norton said the decision to hand over control of the river (which was awarded to the federal government when the Black Canyon ...
Topics: Department of Interior, national parks, water conflicts (all these topics)

Watery Grave		05 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Watery Grave The environment, public health, and global political stability all stand to suffer from shrinking freshwater supplies around the world, according to a report released yesterday by the United Nations. In the most complete appraisal of global water resources to date, the U.N. found that the average per-person water supply will decline by one-third in 20 years, and as many as 7 billion people could face ...
Topics: politics, United Nations, water conflicts (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)

Whistle While You Work		29 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Whistle While You Work In a new twist to the Klamath River controversy, Michael Kelly, a biologist with the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, is blowing the whistle on the Bush administration for drafting and approving a water plan that he says provides inadequate protections for endangered salmon. The accusations come after the U.S. Bureau of Rec ...
Topics: fishing, National Marine Fisheries Service, Oregon, politics, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts (all these topics)

Hitting the Bottle Michigan residents fight for control of the state's water	Keith Schneider	23 Oct 2002	Main Dish
Until two years ago, the 40,550 generally well-behaved Midwesterners of Mecosta County, Mich., regularly attended church, sent their children off to school on yellow buses, and never for a moment worried that their clean, freshwater supply would ever run dry. Mecosta County, after all, sits near the center of Michigan's lower peninsula, which itself sits at the center of the largest supply ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, Great Lakes, Michigan, mining and drilling, politics, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

Wet Behind the Ears		14 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Wet Behind the Ears In what it is calling a remedy to the excesses of the Clinton years, the Bush administration is paving the way for Western states to gain control over huge volumes of water previously claimed by the federal government. One prominent example of this new policy involves the Black Canyon National Park in Colorado; in 1978, a court ruled that the feds had the right to ...
Topics: national parks, politics, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, West (all these topics)

Sleep With the Fishes		03 Oct 2002	Daily Grist
Sleep With the Fishes At least 20,000 chinook salmon and other fish have died in Northern California's Klamath River in the last two weeks, but federal officials are unwilling to attribute the deaths to the Bush administration's decision to divert water away from the river this year and into an irrigation project in southern Oregon. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Steve Wil ...
Topics: agriculture, California, marine life, Oregon, politics, water conflicts (all these topics)

Klam Bake		26 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
Klam Bake In the latest turn of events in the Water Crisis That Won't Die, state officials in California are considering releasing water into the Klamath River to rescue thousands of salmon dying from unusually high water temperatures in the river. Scientists have counted more than 9,500 dead Chinook salmon near the river's mouth since Friday, and thousands more have proba ...
Topics: California, fishing, food and agriculture, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts (all these topics)

The Minnow Would Be Lost		10 Sep 2002	Daily Grist
The Minnow Would Be Lost The fate of the silvery minnow remains up in the air after a federal judge postponed a decision yesterday in a controversial water-rights case, saying he wanted to review information about the endangered species' habitat. For those of you who haven't been following the story, a coalition of environmental groups has asked the judge to order the city of Albuquerque to allow water t ...
Topics: marine life, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts (all these topics)

Quite a Pear		29 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Quite a Pear There have been wars fought over oil and opium, spices and sugarcane -- and now it seems there is a war brewing in Washington state over pears. The battle was touched off when the Seattle-based Washington Environmental Council sent a letter to an irrigation district in the eastern part of the state threatening legal actions if the district didn't stop diverting so much water to or ...
Topics: food and agriculture, marine life, Northwest, water conflicts (all these topics)

Fish Out of Water		27 Aug 2002	Daily Grist
Fish Out of Water The White House has declined to appeal a U.S. federal court ruling that would provide water to the agriculture industry in California's Central Valley potentially at the expense of Northern California's fish and wildlife -- a move that has provoked anger among environmentalists. In the earlier court case, the Westlands Water District, a 600,000-acre irrigation district in the western Sa ...
Topics: California, marine life, politics, water conflicts (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)

Privates Exposed		18 Apr 2002	Daily Grist
Privates Exposed The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, is coming under fire from environmentalists after the London Guardian published information from apparently secret E.C. documents describing efforts to liberalize trade by privatizing state-run services in ...
Topics: European Union, Friends of the Earth, globalization, international government agencies, solid waste treatment and disposal, water conflicts, World Trade Organization (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)

On the Water Front		22 Mar 2002	Daily Grist
On the Water Front More than 2.7 billion people will experience severe water shortages by 2025 if the world continues to consume water at the current rate, according to a U.N. report released today, which happens to be World Water Day. The report goes on to say that another 2.5 billion may be living in areas where it will be difficult or near impossible to meet their water needs. (Yep, two out of three peopl ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, water conflicts, water pollution (all these topics)

Blood and Water, Part Two Without fair water distribution, the Middle East peace process is all dried up	Jessica McCallin	05 Mar 2002	Main Dish
A variety of explanations have been offered as to why Israel is reluctant to redistribute water resources. The most obvious reason is that doing so would require a change in Israeli lifestyles: no more private swimming pools and green lawns. But the motives go deeper than that, according to Robin Twite, director of the Environment Program for the Jerusalem-base ...
Topics: Israel, water conflicts (all these topics)

Holy Water		05 Mar 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Middle East, water conflicts (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)

Blood Is Thicker Than Water		10 Jan 2002	Daily Grist
Blood Is Thicker Than Water It was a family affair, but the significance was national: President Bush and his brother Jeb, the governor of Florida, signed an agreement yesterday to guarantee that water captured by a $7.8 billion Florida Everglades restoration effort ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, environmental restoration, Florida, food and agriculture, green living, national parks, politics, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, wetlands (all these topics)

Zuni Day, Sweeping the Clods Away		03 Dec 2001	Daily Grist
Zuni Day, Sweeping the Clods Away The Zuni Pueblo tribe is joining forces with the Sierra Club, the Center for Biological Diversity, and other enviro groups to fight a utility's plans to strip-mine coal from 18,000 acres of state, federal, and private land in western New Mexico. The coalition says the mining would draw water from the Zuni Salt Lake, where the tribe extracts salt for religious purp ...
Topics: energy, mining and drilling, Sierra Club, water conflicts (all these topics)

The Skipper Too?		30 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
The Skipper Too? The niftily named Carson wandering skipper -- a butterfly that is no bigger than a thumbnail -- has been given emergency protection under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The feds took the step yesterday to help preserve the butterfly's habitat in two counties along the northern border of Nevada and California. Bob Williams of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...
Topics: California, Nevada, US Fish and Wildlife Service, water conflicts, wildlife (all these topics)

Mulholland Drive, Bye		19 Nov 2001	Daily Grist
Mulholland Drive, Bye Almost 90 years too late, Los Angeles is finally making partial amends for one of the most infamous acts of water theft in history: the diversion of the Owens River to supply water to the then-infant city. The diversion caused the 110-square-mile Owens Lake to dry up, leading to dramatic and sometimes deadly dust storms and some of the worst air quality in the n ...
Topics: air pollution, California, lakes, pollution and waste, water conflicts (all these topics)

All Falls Down		22 Aug 2001	Daily Grist
All Falls Down Chanting "let the water flow," about 4,000 residents joined a convoy of trucks from around the country yesterday in Klamath Falls, Ore., to protest the federal government and demand more irrigation water for their farms. This spring, the feds shut off the water to protect endangered fish, and the small amount of water released earlier this month is expected to run out later this week. The farmers and their s ...
Topics: Oregon, water conflicts (all these topics)

It's Miller Time in Cali	Ben White	10 Dec 1999	Muckraker
Bill Bradley has not been particularly competitive with Vice Pres. Gore in the world of endorsements and establishment support within the Democratic Party. In fact, he's been roundly trounced. Gore boasts scores of supporters in Congress and among various and sundry party potentates scattered across the country. Gore also leads in endorsements from labor unions and other traditional Democratic interest groups. (Readers know that greenie groups bu ...
Topics: California, Greenpeace, Muckraker, politics, United States, water conflicts (all these topics)

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