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The quagga already has infested the 242-mile-long California Aqueduct, five San Diego County reservoirs and two of the three largest reservoirs in Riverside County operated by the Metropolitan Water District, which supplies Los Angeles with most of its water. ANNE CUSACK/Los Angeles Times  
Times  

Mussel pain

No easy remedy for prolific quagga invasion

An invasive mussel first detected in California less than a year ago has surged across the state's southern counties, stirring concern that its spread will inflict costly damage to public water systems and fisheries. (Los Angeles Times)

Storm water is not treated and flows directly into waterways like creeks and streams. SPECIAL TO THE AUBURN JOURNAL  
Journal  

Caring campaign

Auburn puts focus on protecting waterways

The City of Auburn is making a New Year's resolution of its own — improve its waterways with your help. Last week, the city kicked off its Healthy Auburn Waters campaign — a public education program aimed at informing residents how to care for local streams and rivers. (Auburn Journal)

The Orange County Water District is ready to convert 70 million gallons of treated wastewater per day into drinking water, once state health officials certify the water quality. LOS ANGELES TIMES  
Chronicle  

Wastewater to tap

Orange County sewage will soon be drinking water

As a hedge against water shortages and population growth, Orange County has begun operating the world's largest, most modern reclamation plant — a facility that can turn 70 million gallons of treated sewage into drinking water every day. (Los Angeles Times)

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in the world that has to keep a government for four years, no matter what it does.”
— Will Rogers

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DRISHA LEGGITT
Fair Oaks Water District

Digging her work
Shortly after dawn on the morning of Dec. 12, CBS13 and CW31 reporter Taryn Winter-Brill stood inside a 5-foot-deep hole beside Fair Oaks Water District Operations Field Supervisor John Spinella, receiving a quick lesson on how to install a water meter off a main water line, before demonstrating the process on live television. Brill did more than simply report the news that morning: donning a FOWD hard-hat, work jacket and rubber boots, the “Good Day, Sacramento” reporter also helped to pull copper wire, move the back-hoe, and even use the jack-hammer with the FOWD crew.
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Born on this Day
Wendy Phillips, 56; Todd Haynes, 47; Tia Carrere, 41; Cuba Gooding Jr., 40; Christy Turlington, 39; Taye Diggs, 37; Scott Underwood, 37; Doug Robb, 33; Kate Bosworth, 25.

On this Day in 1965
The New York Jets signed University of Alabama quarterback Joe Namath for a reported $400,000.

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