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David Slawson doubts his water district can guarantee a 20-year supply for a Skechers USA shoe warehouse. He wonders whether other districts have reviewed their own future suppplies. IRFAN KHAM/Los Angeles Times  
Times  

No guarantees

Water laws, dwindling supply may throttle growth

In a sign of growing water anxieties, a warehouse and six other large projects in western Riverside County are on hold until March or later because the local water agency could not promise to deliver water to serve them. (Los Angeles Times)

A 60,000-gallon water tank recently installed at the Skyland neighborhood, a location served by the Tahoe Park Water Company. Owner Rick Dewante also operates Lake Forest Water Company, which he may lose to the Tahoe City Public Utility District. SIERRA SUN  
Sun  

Going public

Tahoe City utility may buy water supplier

The Tahoe City Public Utility District may take a large step Friday to absorb a troubled water company that serves the Lake Forest area. The appraisal should be completed within the next two weeks. (Sierra Sun)

Pick up truck surfaces in dried area of Oroville lake. KOVR  
KOVR  

Muddy relics

Low lake levels reveal abandoned, stolen vehicles

Rivers and lakes are running low in the Sacramento Valley, and they've been unveiling some unattractive secrets. As the Oroville lake waters receded, they revealed abandoned and stolen cars that have been sitting below the surface for more than a decade. (KOVR Sacramento)  MORE PHOTOS

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“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
— Helen Keller

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MIKE SOVICH
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Capital idea
Three Valleys Municipal Water District’s Miramar Water Treatment Plant (25 mgd) in Claremont is undergoing a $4 million capital improvement project, which involves the construction of a filter belt press facility (middle foreground) to process backwash residual solids from settling ponds (foreground). In the background is Mt. San Antonio (Old Baldy), with snow from recent storms.
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Margaret O'Brien, 71; Captain Beefheart, 67; Andrea Martin, 61; Mario Van Peebles, 51; James Nesbitt, 43; Lisa Lisa, 41; Chad Lowe, 40; Regina King, 37.

On this Day in 1967
The first Super Bowl was played as the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League, 35-10.

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