Infrastructure
June 27, 2009--Activists hot over senator's stance on oyster farm (Denver Post)
A powerful Senate Democrat is backing an oyster farmer over the National Park Service in a northern California controversy that has environmentalists seething.
June 17, 2009--Beetle-kill could imperil Rocky Mountain water supply (Denver Post)
Water supplies for 33 million people could be endangered if millions of acres of beetle-ravaged forests in the Rocky Mountains were to catch fire, a U.S. Forest Service official said Tuesday.
June 11, 2009--Water projectr funding flows to town (Norwood Post)
Norwood’s Town Administrator Patti Grafmyer is ecstatic.
June 10, 2009--Kremmling awarded $2 million in stimulus to update water system (Grand County Sky-Hi Daily News)
The Town of Kremmling has been approved — with conditions — to receive $2 million in federal stimulus money, according to Town Manager Ted Soltis.
June 3, 2009--Degraded lower Colorado River needs federal help to recover (Environmental News Service)
Protection of Lower Colorado River water quality needs comprehensive legislation and adequate funding for a major effort like programs underway in the Chesapeake Bay and the Great Lakes, local officials to
- Agriculture
- American Reinvestment and Recovery Act
- Arizona
- Bureau of Reclamation
- California
- Clean Water Act
- Clean Water State Revolving Fund
- Colorado River
- Colorado River Regional Sewer Coalition
- Drinking Water
- Enviornmental Protection Agency
- Estuary
- Flood
- Groundwater
- Infrastructure
- Invasive Species
- Irrigation
- Lake Havasu
- Lake Mead
- Lake Mohave
- Lower Colorado Multi-Species Conservation Program
- Mining
- Nevada
- New Mexico
- Pharmaceuticals
- Press Clippings
- Quagga Mussel
- Sewer
- Utah
- Wastewater System
- Water Contamination
- Water Pollution
- Water Quality
- Watershed
May 1, 2009--Army Corps of Engineers gets $25 mln for NM, Colo. (Denver Post)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it has received nearly $25 million in federal stimulus money for the Albuquerque District, which covers New Mexico and southern Colorado. Lt. Col.
April 18, 2009--New Mexico farmers file to transfer water rights (U.S. Water News)
Five eastern New Mexico farmers have filed applications to transfer their rights for about 2 billion gallons of water a year to Santa Fe and other cities.
April 16, 2009--Interior chief says Calif. water system outdated (Denver Post)
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar urged California on Wednesday to modernize its antiquated water system while pledging $260 million in federal stimulus money to help fund a variety of water projects.
- Agriculture
- Alternative Energy
- California
- Drought
- Infrastructure
- Interior Department
- Irrigation
- Offshore Oil Drilling
- Press Clippings
- Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
- Sierra Club
- U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
- U.S. Geological Survey
- Water Conservation
- Water Pollution
- Water Pumping
- Water Quality
- Water Supply
April 16, 2009--Drought aid offered to California (L.A. Times)
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar pledged $260 million in federal stimulus money today to help California address its water shortages and aging infrastructure.
April 1, 2009--Water debate takes on new ripple: energy (Pueblo Chieftain)
Colorado is struggling to balance its needs between agricultural, municipal, industrial and recreation uses, and org- anizations such as basin roundtables are creating more collaboration and addressin
