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Dr. Chu will be taking on one of the most challenging jobs in government at the Department of Energy. NEW YORK TIMES  
Times  

Advisers in place

Lawrence lab director named Obama's new Energy chief

President-elect Barack Obama has selected his top energy and environmental advisers, including a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and the former head of the EPA, presidential transition officials said Wednesday. (New York Times)
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• Klamath Riverkeeper endorses Mike Thompson for Interior
• Sun, water and wind cited as top energy options
• Environmental recommendations for Obama [2 MB PDF]
• A national agenda for drinking water [2 MB PDF]
• History of environmental movement full of twists, turns
The pilot desalination facility built by MMWD. DESALINATION & WATER REUSE  
D&WR  

Tough decision

San Quentin desalter an option for Marin MWD

A 1 MGD desalination plant to supply San Quentin prison is one of a number of options being considered by the Marin Municipal Water District, which is facing an annual current supply deficit of 3,300 acre-feet. (Desalination & Water Reuse)

The Ostara pilot facility began operating in Nov 2008 at the Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant in San Francisco. WATER AND WASTEWATER  
W&WW  

Crystal green

SFPUC uses technology to recycle sewage into fertilizer

A pilot project at the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant is the first plant in California to demonstrate a new technology that removes phosphorus and other nutrients from wastewater and recycles them into environmentally-safe commercial fertilizer. (Water and Wastewater)  OSTARA INTERVIEW

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“An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.”
— Nicholas Chamfort

Photo of the Week
Chinook salmon in the Russian River.
BRAD SHERWOOD
Sonoma County Water Agency

Chinook run
The 2008-09 spawning season has begun.  Thanks to two underwater video cameras in fish ladders adjacent to the agency's rubber dam on the Russian River, officials are able to count the amount of Chinook, coho and steelhead migrating.
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