Mitigating Drought

 News Articles Relating to Drought Mitigation

 March 2009

Lack of water leads to more land fallowing [California]
http://www.cfbf.com/agalert/AgAlertStory.cfm?ID=1247&ck=E6D8545DAA42D5CED125A4BF747B3688

Hays County declares drought-related disaster [Texas]
http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/green/entries/2009/03/02/hays_county_declares_droughtre.html

Wasps to attack river-choking reeds [Texas]
http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/news/reeds_95605___article.html/known_agua.html

How dry are we? Wells getting deeper [Texas]
http://www.reporternews.com/news/2009/mar/15/how-dry-are-we-the-wells-keep-getting-deeper/

Who owns Colorado’s rainwater?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-contested-rainwater18-2009mar18,0,5585599.story

L.A. water rates revised to penalize heavy users [California]
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/03/la-water-rates.html

State eases water cutback, but summer rationing likely [California]
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/mar/19/1m19water224750-state-eases-water-cutback-summer-r/?zIndex=69325

DENR shuts off water to some Angostura area users [South Dakota]
http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2009/03/21/news/top/doc49c3cd3ba5431063063063.txt

CALIFORNIA’S WATER: A VANISHING RESOURCE
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/mar/23/1n23gray215259-new-watering-source-surfacing/?uniontrib

Prepare for drought, emergencies, analyst tells Inland water vendors [California]
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_S_drought24.3b82f94.html

Tampa Wants To Give Away Reclaimed Water To Save Lawns [Florida]
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/mar/24/241647/city-wants-give-away-reclaimed-water-save-lawns/

Farmers in Drought Areas Advised to Leave Unplanted Fields in a ‘Roughed Up’ State [California]
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=PECA.story&STORY=/www/story/03-27-2009/0004996131&EDATE=Mar+27,+2009

Drought officially over in metro Atlanta [Georgia]
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2009/03/30/atlanta_drought_over.html

$26 million boost for Riverside-Corona Feeder water project [California]
http://www.pe.com/localnews/eastvale/stories/PE_News_Local_S_feeder01.46f8513.html