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The conservancy wants a new and independent governing agency formed first, to ensure that the canal is operated both to enhance the environment and protect water supplies.  
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Thorny issues

Environmental group backs Delta canal, with conditions

The Nature Conservancy, one of the nation's largest environmental groups has decided to support building a controversial new water canal around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, becoming the first major environmental group to publicly support the project. (Sacramento Bee)
Purified sewage flows down a spillway into a tributary of the Occoquan Reservoir in Northern Virginia. The concept is being considered to boost drinking water supplies in arid San Diego. ROB DAVIS/Voice of San Diego  
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Tried and true

Where water reuse isn't a dirty word

Tucked behind evergreens, down a long lane in an otherwise anonymous stretch of this Washington, D.C. suburb south of Dulles International Airport, sits a facility that provides San Diego with the best evidence that it's safe to fill drinking water reservoirs with purified sewage. (Voice of San Diego)

Federal wildlife officials are investigating why hundreds of ailing and endangered brown pelicans have been appearing along the California coastline. ASSOCIATED PRESS  
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Pelican die-off

Neurotoxin not likely the cause this time

Wildlife experts are trying to figure out why sick, disoriented and bruised California brown pelicans are being found in record numbers along more than 1,000 miles of coastline. The birds, some of them dead, have been spotted from San Francisco to Baja California, Mexico. (Associated Press)

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Photos of the Week
JAMES DARBIN
Marina Coast Water District

A good 50 years
MCWD recently tore down this 250,000-gallon elevated welded steel tank, built in 1958 on the former Fort Ord Army Base. This tank has been replaced by  a hydro-pneumatic station, part of an $8.5 million project that includes removal of a 1 MG concrete reservoir and replacement with a 2 MG welded steel tank.
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