Showing posts with label water wars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label water wars. Show all posts
August 30, 2015

How a 1930s water war between California and Arizona delayed Parker Dam

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Parker Dam and Lake Havasu on the Colorado River in 1939. In 1922, six of seven states signed the Colorado River Compact. Upset with its all...
November 25, 2014

SMWD establishes agency to oversee Cadiz groundwater project

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By TOMOYA SHIMURA Orange County Register A project that will pump drinking water from a Mojave Desert aquifer and pipe it to south Oran...
June 20, 2014

Water war bubbling up between California and Arizona

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Low water levels are plainly visible on Lake Mead, which is fed by the Colorado River. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times) Mic...
May 29, 2013

Judge dismisses lawsuit challenging Cadiz water project

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Seven suits from three groups still pending over plan to pump Mojave Desert groundwater. By BROOKE EDWARDS STAGGS ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER ...
November 1, 2012

Environmentalists sue over Cadiz water project

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Karen Tracy of Joshua Tree protests a groundwater management plan for the Cadiz project outside a San Bernardino County Supervisors meetin...
October 22, 2012

Mojave National Preserve Proposal Threatens Wildlife

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ALERT : Under the guise of a comprehensive water management plan, the National Park Service is proposing the removal of critical water sourc...
October 5, 2012

Board Endorses LA & Orange Counties Draining Desert Aquifer

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San Bernardino County Sentinel Seth Shteir, of the National Parks Conservation Association, speaks during a protest of the groundwater man...
October 1, 2012

County supervisors approve Cadiz desert water pumping plan

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Ruth Musser-Lopez, a former council member from Needles, speaks during a protest of the groundwater management plan for the Cadiz project, b...
August 31, 2012

Environmental groups sue over Cadiz water project

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Cadiz Inc. has proposed pumping 16 billion gallons of water per year from beneath land it owns and beyond in the Mojave Desert. BY JANET Z...
August 6, 2012

Is this Mojave water project worth the risk?

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A private company's plan to tap a desert aquifer needs more study before going forward. Editorial Los Angeles Times T he search for...
August 2, 2012

O.C. water board approves Cadiz's desert-pumping plans

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The Santa Margarita Water District signs off on the Cadiz groundwater pumping project's environmental impact report, despite expected le...
July 21, 2012

Carcinogen in Mojave ground water could require costly treatment

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High levels of hexavalent chromium, a toxic heavy metal, add to the hurdles Cadiz Inc. faces in its plan to ship water to the Southland. Wa...
July 18, 2012

Cadiz water project progresses

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By Janet Zimmerman Press-Enterprise A final environmental report has been issued for a long-running and controversial project that propo...
July 17, 2012

Former Mayor Says There's "Nothing" Out in the Desert

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Commentary by Steve Brown The Sun Runner "You've all been out there, there's nothing out there in that desert anyway." ...
July 16, 2012

Environmental report released for Cadiz water project

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Needles Desert Star MISSION VIEJO — The Santa Margarita Water District released a final environmental impact report for the proposed Cadiz...
July 13, 2012

Firm is spearheading opposition to Mojave Desert groundwater pumping

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A Texas-based oil and gas services company files two lawsuits to combat an effort to withdraw Mojave groundwater and sell it to urban Southe...
June 8, 2012

SB County History Full Of Outside Efforts To Commandeer Desert’s Water

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By Mark Gutglueck San Bernardino Sentinel T he Cadiz Water Project is not the first effort by outside business entities to lay claim to S...