Mitigating Drought

 News Articles Relating to Drought Mitigation

 June 2008

Federal agency OKs reducing reservoir releases [Georgia]
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/printedition/2008/06/03/drought.html

Mandatory water cutbacks put off by conservation Upcountry [Hawaii]
http://www.mauinews.com/page/content.detail/id/504420.html?nav=10

Schwarzenegger declares statewide drought in California
http://www.newspress.com/Top/Article/article.jsp?Section=LOCAL&ID=565309819176092083

Cal Water Activates Stage I of Its Drought Management Plan; Asks Customers to Reduce Water Usage by 10% [California]
http://news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=BW&date=20080605&id=8741128

Drought prompts call for building moratorium [California]
http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_9496862?source=rss

Metropolitan Board Declares Water Supply Alert Throughout Southern California to Help Sustain Reserves
http://www.pwmag.com/industry-news.asp?sectionID=760&articleID=719832

Corn yields will be limited without irrigation [southeastern United States]
http://southeastfarmpress.com/topstory/corn-irrigation-0610/

Group Recommends Grazing on Conservation Grassland [North Dakota]
http://www.kfyrtv.com/News_Stories.asp?news=19348

Florida Lawmakers Seek Delay In Reduced Water Flow
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1419934/florida_lawmakers_seek_delay_in_reduced_water_flow/index.html

Residents urged to conserve water [Hawaii]
http://kauaiworld.com/articles/2008/06/09/news/news01.txt

Counties bordering Apalachicola River say water reduction puts entire region at risk [Florida]
http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/CD/20080613/CAPITOLNEWS/806130329/-1/capitolnews

Goleta Water Board Talks Moratorium on New Connections, Annexations [California]
http://www.independent.com/news/2008/jun/12/goleta-water-board-talks-moratorium-new-connection/

L.A. County hopes to fend off drought with cloud-seeding program [California]
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/la-me-seeding16-2008jun16,0,3742588,full.story

Valley Farmers Drill Water Wells [California]
http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/local&id=6209570

Agency must buy alternate power [southeastern United States]
http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/061908/met_462680.shtml

Edwards Aquifer Authority implements water restrictions [Texas]
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA062408.1A.waterrestrictions.3f1177e.html

Governing board extends water restrictions through Sept. [Florida]
http://www.mysuncoast.com/Global/story.asp?S=8546678

Bill contains farmworkers drought aid [California]
http://www.fresnobee.com/business/story/679564.html

Drought Declaration Hasn’t Spurred Water Conservation [California]
http://www.news10.net/news/story.aspx?storyid=43525&catid=2

Drought in California Forces Farmers to Spend on ‘Fire Water’
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aQHnfaaeWKCs&refer=exclusive

Blowing Rock gets emergency loan for water system [North Carolina]
http://www.mcdowellnews.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=MMN%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173355776525&path=%21news%21statenews

SAWS to pump from Carrizo Aquifer reserve [Texas]
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/environment/stories/MYSA062608.SAWSreserve.EN.2a75567.html