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Friday, February 3, 2006 Quote of the Week: "All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband some day." Franklin P. Jones Born on this Day: Horace Greeley, Sidney Lanier, Gertrude Stein, Norman Rockwell, James A. Michener, Joey Bishop, Fran Tarkenton, Blythe Danner, Morgan Fairchild, Nathan Lane, Keith Gordon, Michele Greene, Matraca Berg, and Maura Tierney. On this Day in 1913: The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. It authorized the power to impose and collect income tax. Sent to more than 20,000 readers nationwide... and thousands more via our lineup of online ads like the one above that appears on watertechonline.com Latest postings: San Diego County Water Authority: Rate and Debt Administrator Marina Coast Water District: Project Engineer Marina Coast Water District: Operations Engineer City of Garden Grove: Heavy Equipment Operator California Water Service Company: Electrical Mechanical Technicians Want more? See all postings. Today's News —  Colorado River Pact Wyoming joins new Colorado River plan (Star-Tribune, 2/2) "Wyoming’s water is safe for development as the state chooses under a new plan for managing Colorado River Basin water, State Engineer Patrick Tyrrell said." Key agreement in water wars (Denver Post, 2/3) EDITORIAL. "After 84 years of bickering, the seven states that share the waters of the Colorado River have agreed on ways to share the pain of future droughts." Western Water: A legend of over-allocation (New West Environment, 1/31) "The problem starts with statute, the archaic and flawed 'Law of the River,' the Colorado River Compact. It deserves to be called 'the fiction of the river,' for it is an oppressive disaster, the root cause of a considerable amount of inequity in the Southwest and a clog in the intake pipe to middle-class opportunity for those who seek to the American Dream." —  Other Water Supply California water wars (LA Times, 2/3) "The strange daily ritual started after Los Angeles water authorities slapped a chain and lock on a wheel controlling a diversion gate on Pine Creek -- the lifeblood of a mountain enclave known as 40 Acres." North County agencies prepare for 11-day pipeline closure (NC Times, 2/3) "The flow of treated water into North County water agencies will be interrupted for 11 days, beginning Sunday, for routine maintenance and construction on pipelines that carry it into San Diego County, officials said Thursday." Tanzania cuts power after drought (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, 2/2) "Tanzania has introduced daytime power cuts, after drought left hydroelectric plants short of water."   Environment Minister warns England of water shortages (Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, 2/2) "Environment and Climate Change Minister Elliot Morley is urging consumers, businesses and water companies to stop wasting the precious resource, as a serious shortage could soon wreak havoc to communities and businesses across the south-east of England."   —  Surface Water/Levees Water fee plan dropped (Stockton Record, 2/3) "Kiss goodbye that $3-per-month water fee Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger had proposed to help shore up state levees. The senator in charge of overseeing the multibillion-dollar waterworks proposal axed the fee proposal Thursday night." New life for Salton Sea Authority plan? (Imperial Valley Press, 2/3) "With the Salton Sea Authority inching toward a financial death, on Tuesday it had a victory in Sacramento that could breathe life into the organization." Greens say disasters worsened by wetland loss (Ely Times, 2/3) "The destruction of the world‘s wetlands is exacerbating global disasters such as floods and famines and is a potential source of conflict in volatile regions, environmentalists said on Thursday."   Plan tackles polluted Songhua River (Shanghai Daily, 2/3) "The central government will deal with water pollution in the Songhua River, Heilongjiang Province, in three strategic phases, said Zhou Shengxian, minister of the State Environmental Protection Administration."   —  Ocean News Australia's reefs face bleaching risk (ENN, 2/2) "Coral bleaching occurs when the microscopic plants, or zooxanthellae, which live in coral tissue stop working due to stress that often is caused by rising temperatures. The zooxanthellae provide corals with color and food." —  Runoff Regulators scrutinize runoff (Redding Record Searchlight, 2/3) "Farmers and ranchers subject to a state law requiring them to monitor for pollutants in irrigation runoff could soon get a call from water board regulators -- and eventually face fines -- if they don't comply. —  The Nukes Chairman calls for probes of radioactive leak (Associated Press, 2/3) "The chairman of the Will County Board is calling for federal and state investigations into why it took a nuclear power company and state agencies nearly eight years to report the leak of millions of gallons of radioactive wastewater from a central Illinois plant." Nuclear waste focus of talks (Las Vegas Review-Journal, 2/2) "Scientists trying to fine-tune estimates for when radioactive materials will escape containment at the planned Yucca Mountain repository said Wednesday corrosion will take its toll on waste packages between 40,000 years and 80,000 years after they are entombed in a maze of tunnels." Bush has new nuke plans in store (Las Vegas Sun, 01/30) "The Bush administration is reportedly planning to float a proposal to accept nuclear waste from other nations, and that could both re-energize the flagging effort to construct the proposed waste repository at Yucca Mountain and rally Yucca opponents." —  Local/Agency News El Centro clarifies water-hike date (IV Press, 2/3) "The El Centro City Council unanimously approved — again — an increase in water and wastewater rates originally scheduled to go into effect toward the end of 2005." IID Director won’t seek third term (IV Press, 2/3) "Imperial Irrigation District Director Rudy Maldonado announced Wednesday he will not seek a third term on the board, stating when his term ends in December he wants to spend more time with his family." County flood control manager tapped to head Pajaro Valley water agency (Santa Cruz Sentinel, 2/3) "Bruce Laclergue, the flood control program manager for Santa Cruz County, has been hired as the new general manager of the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency." —  Everything Else Global warming in the Golden State (Knight Ridder Newspapers, 2/3) "Scientists say California's iconic landscapes - from beaches to snow-capped mountains and fog-shrouded redwoods - are in for dramatic changes as the world gets warmer." 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