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Clock runs out

Partisan apprehensions sink water reform package

Eleventh-hour discord over a huge bond proposal sank an ambitious legislative water package that would have brought some resolution to one of California's most contentious issues. (Los Angeles Times)
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Ryan Massey, 7, shows his caps. Dentists near Charleston, W.Va., say pollutants in drinking water have damaged residents’ teeth. Nationwide, polluters have violated the Clean Water Act more than 500,000 times. DAMON WINTER/New York Times  
Times  

Toxic waters

Clean water laws are neglected, at a cost in suffering

Almost four decades ago, Congress passed the Clean Water Act to force polluters to disclose the toxins they dump into waterways and to give regulators the power to fine or jail offenders. But in recent years, violations of the Clean Water Act have risen steadily across the nation, an extensive review of water pollution records by The New York Times found. (New York Times)
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The new Lomita water reservoir will hold 5 million gallons of water. BRAD GRAVERSON/Torrance Daily Breeze  
Daily Breeze  

Pumped up

Lomita's new massive water reservoir has city gushing

Lomita officials were already pumped about the city's massive new concrete reservoir rising on a hill above most of the South Bay, given it would reduce the city's reliance on increasingly expensive state water. Now they're even more pumped — literally. (Torrance Daily Breeze)
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