Water
2003

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Total Water on Earth = 1,400,000,000 km3 - Less than 1% is useable
Good Health Depends on Getting Enough Water
Ocean Full of Plastics - Index

• Florida Offshore Aquaculture: Agency Sinks Proposal for Gulf Fish Farm -  Tampa Bay Times 30dec03
  • NMFS-NOAA Disapproval of Permit for Aquaculture Feasibility Study in Federal Waters Off Florida Coast - Federal Register 23dec03
• Reverse Osmosis Treats Aquifer Water: It's a way to quench deep thirst of growing populace -  The Stuart News (Florida) 30dec03
• Dam Nation: When they went up, Western dams were heralded as modern miracles. Now they're starting to come down. -  Via magazine Jan04
• Iraq: Life Flows to Dying Wetlands: Postwar water aids Iraq's Marsh Arabs -  SF Chronicle 28dec03
• Fish Farms: Ranching The Open Sea  - The Oregonian 23dec03 IMPORTANT ISSUE
• In Hard Times, Salmon Farms Try to Repair Bad Reputation -  AP 15dec03
• Natural Salmon Naturally Better, says leading chef -  AP 15dec03
• Feedlot Waste Alters Fish Characteristics: Study Discovers Hormonal Changes -  LA Times 14dec03
• Antibiotic-Resistant Germs: In Soil, Water, Food, Air -  Star-Ledger (NJ) 8dec03
• Barbra Streisand’s Lawsuit to Silence Coastal Website Dismissed - Press Release / California Coastal Records Project 3dec03
• Feedlot Effluent: Endocrine Disrupting Effects of Cattle Feedlot Effluent on an Aquatic Sentinel Species, the Flathead Minnow - Environmental Health Perspectives 1dec03
• Privatising the Ocean, the Last Great Mahele? - Jeremy Brown  25nov03
• 1.36 Trillion Gallons of Acid Mine Water: Researchers See Problems, Possibilities in Mine Pools - Herald-Standard (Pennsylvania) 16nov03
• River Fish Accumulate Human Drugs -  Nature Science Update 5nov03
• Major Ocean Exploration Effort Would Reveal Secrets of the Deep - Press Release / National Academy of Sciences 4nov03
  • Exploration of the Seas: Voyage Into The Unknown - Committee on Exploration of the Seas Ocean Studies Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies 4nov03
• Researchers say Whaling Altered the Food Chain -  Seattle Post-Intelligencer 25oct03
• How America is Ravaging the Planet: Road to Ruin -  The Guardian Weekly (UK) 24oct03
• Nicaragua Hopes to Rival Panama Canal: Price of Central American Ambition: $ 25bn and 10 Years' Construction -  Guardian Weekly (UK) 23oct03
• Low Flows Led to 2002 Klamath Fish Kill - KATU 2 News (Oregon) 22oct03
• California Bans Salmon, Exotic and Transgenic Species Aquaculture in State Waters - Fishlink Sublegals 17oct03

• Halliburton Drilling Technique: Provisions Benefiting Energy Industry Are Folded into Bill - Washington Post 12oct03

• EPA Says States Can Restrict Discharge From Sewer Plants -  Baltimore Sun 7oct03

• Decline in Oceans' Phytoplankton Alarms Scientists: Possibly Linked to Warming Seas -  SF Chronicle 6oct03

• N.H. Sues 22 Oil Companies Over Gasoline Additive MTBE -  AP 6oct03

• A Dying Sea: Gulf Marine Life, Birds Fight Losing Battle Against Pollution, People - Naples Daily News (Florida) 3oct03

• Perchlorate Mystery Surfaces in Texas: 30,000 square miles in western Texas - Environmental Science and Technology 2oct03

• C-19: Huge Antarctic Iceberg Makes a BIG Splash on Sea Life -  Goddard Space Flight Center 1oct03

• Perchlorate Found in Texas Milk - Environmental Science & Technology 25sep03

• China Announces Abrupt Increase in Water at Dam -  Globe and Mail (Toronto) 1oct03

• Towns Trickle Away from Chlorine Use: Instead, Ozone is Bubbled Through the Water to Rid it of Bad Tastes and Bacteria - Philadelphia Inquirer 23sep03

• Salmon Packed with Pollutants: Decaying Fish Dump PCBs in Alaska's Lakes -  Nature 18sep03

• MTBE Exemption: Water Polluter May Get Free Pass From Congress - Scripps Howard News Service 17sep03

• 'Miscalculation' Could Mean the End of Caviar -  New Scientist 17sep03

• TCE Pollution from Anniston Army Depot Impacts Catfish Business -  Anniston Star (Alabama) 12sep03

• Frankenfish: Aqua Bounty Receives $1.68 Million NIST Award - Press Release 11sep03

• Bush's Path Through the Politics of Salmon -  The Christian Science Monitor 10sep03

• Plan to Bury CO2 Under North Sea -  The Guardian (UK) 5sep03

• Kazakhstan's Glaciers 'Melting Fast' -  BBC 4sep03

• Lake Chapala, Mexico's largest body of freshwater: Shrinking Lake in Mexico Threatens Future of Region -  Wall Street Journal 3sep03

• Exxon Mobile Convinced Wall Street that the 1989 Exxon Valdez Oil Spill was Just a Drop in the Bucket - Reuters 31aug03

• Methylmercury Chloride in Fish: Researchers Say They've Identified the Kind of Mercury in Fish -  NY Times 29aug03

• New York City: Sewage Spill Exposed a Lingering City Problem -  NY Times 28aug03

• Bush Credits Policy with Salmon Increase -  Boston Globe 23aug03

• Cruise Line Pollution Prompts Legislation  - LA Times 18aug03

• Bangkok's Canals: Not Just Dirty but Potentially Deadly - The China Post / AP 17aug03

• Lockheed Shipyard Cleanup: Piling by Oily Piling, the Cleanup Proceeds - Seattle Post-Intelligencer 16aug03

• Crippling Colas -  The Tribune (Chandigarh, India) 16aug03

• Maine Fish Farms: Can't Make it if they Can't Externalize Pollution Costs? - Fishlink Sublegals 15aug03

• Loose Language - Chinook Observer (Long Beach, WA) 13aug03

• Salmon Farm Operators Question Ability to Survive if They Must Obey Laws -  Bangor Daily News 12aug03

• New Jersey Saved! Blob That Wouldn't Die, Does -  NY Times 12aug03

• Fish Farms: Ecology Body Warns of Dangers from Fish Farms - Reuters 12aug03

• Urban Runoff: New EPA Regulations Require Municipalities Address Dirty Water in Neighborhood - The Post-Standard (Syracuse) 10aug03

• Chesapeake Bay: Suffocating the Bay -  Washington Post 10aug03

• Arsenic: Scrubbing Drinking Water to Meet New Federal Requirements - Programs & People Summer03

• 16-Year-Old Landfill Toxins Spark Concern -  King County Journal (Washington State) 10aug03

• India: Tests Confirm Toxicity in Sludge from Coke Plant  - The Hindu (India) 6aug03

• Arsenic's Fatal Legacy Grows Worldwide  - New Scientist 6aug03

• EPA Mislead Public on Water Quality: Agency Audits Suggest Overstated Utilities' Record  - Washington Post 6aug03

• Cod Is Dead  - Grist Magazine 30jul03

• Klamath Salmon Killer: Oregon Water Saga Illuminates Rove's Methods With Agencies  - Wall Street Journal 30jul03

• High Levels of PCBs in Farmed Salmon, Study Finds  - SF Chronicle 30jul03

• Pirates put Antarctic Sea Life in Peril  - New Scientist 23jul03

• World Bank Wonders About Utility Privatizations -  Wall Street Journal 21jul03

• Salmon-Pesticide Buffer Set  - AP 18jul03

• 'Rainforests of the Sea' Ravaged: Overfishing and Pollution Kill 80% of Coral on Caribbean Reefs -  The Independent (UK) 18jul03

• Nonylphenol: Gender-Bender Threat to Marine Life  - BBC News 17jul03

• Deep Injection Wells - GAO-03-761 Report to the Honorable Lynn C. Woolsey, House of Representatives 13jul03

• Coastal Louisiana Drowning in Gulf  - Washington Post 13jul03

• Orcas: X-ray reveals 'smoking gun'? - The Journal of The San Juan Islands 2jul03

• According to the World Meteorological Organization, Extreme Weather Events Might Increase - Press Release / WMO 2jul03

• Human Pollutants Over-Enrich Egyptian Coastal Fishery  - ENS 1jul03

• Beyond Sustainable, What’s the Next Scrutiny for Fisheries? JEREMY BROWN / Fishermen’s News Jul03

• Defense Department Withholding Data on Perchlorate from Rocket Fuel  - AP 25jun03

• Sacramento USDA Ministerial: Wild Salmon Fisheries Threatened by Genetically Engineered Fish - Dan Bacher 15jun03

• Fish Farm Ordered to Kill Salmon -  Bangor Daily News 14jun03

• Maryland Governor Ehrlich Eases Liability For Big Chicken Firms: Drops Policy on Manure Runoff in Bay  - Washington Post 14jun03

• Farmed Salmon Threaten Survival of Atlantic Salmon - Sublegals 13June03 

• Aquaculture Industry a Failure - Vancouver Sun 11jun03

• Water has Memory  - New Scientist 11jun03

• Study Finds Fish Farms a Threat to the Oceans - Bangor Daily News 6jun03

• Estrogen May Hamper Trout Reproduction -  AP 6jun03

  • Short-term Exposure to Estrogen Cuts Fish Fertility Press Release / PNNL 3jun03

• Amount Of Ethanol In Gas May Double Despite Unresolved Environmental Problems  - AP 3jun03

• Synthetic Estrogen: Short-Term Exposure to 17α-Ethynylestrodiol Decreases the Fertility of Sexually Maturing Male Rainbow Trout - Env.Tox. & Chem.  Jun03

• Arctic Sea-Ice Cover Reaches Record Low - World Climate News Jun03

• Water Tap Often Shut to South Africa Poor  - NY Times 29may03
• Tributyltin: Imposex in the indigenous Nassarius kraussianus (Mollusca: Neogastropoda) from South African harbours - Marine Pollution Bulletin 28may03
• Issues of Purity and Pollution Leave Farmed Salmon Looking Less Rosy -  NY Times 28may03
• US Suit to Force GE Crops on Europe Threatens Future Salmon Trade & Fisheries Conservation - Sublegals 16May03
• Rapid worldwide depletion of predatory fish communities - Nature 15may03
• Orcas: Sonar Blasts Panic "Whales" -  The Islands' Sounder (San Juan Islands, WA) 14may03
• It Came from the Gene Lab: Faster growing salmon? Aquarium fish that glow in the dark? - LA Times 14may03

• Why Ecocide Is 'Good News' for the GOP  - E Magazine 5may03

• Common Household Chemicals Affect Algae  - Environmental Science & Technology 1may03

• Lack of Water and Wages has this Farming Center on Ropes  -  SF Chronicle 30apr03

• Oyster Growers to Phase Out a Pesticide: Carbaryl - Press Release 28apr03
• Pakistan: A River Diverted, the Sea Rushes In  - NY Times 22apr03
• Murky Waters In Belarus  - Institute for War and Peace Reporting / BRS No. 13, 17apr03

• Privatizing Water: What the European Commission Doesn’t Want You to Know  - Center for Public Integrity 11apr03

• A Dolphin Disses War  - AlterNet 11apr03

• Ships Dumping Sludge at Sea  - Seattle Times 7apr03

• Japan: The nationwide investigation of endocrine disruptors in sediment of harbours - Marine Pollution Bulletin In Press 5apr03

• FDA Changes Course on Mercury Policy  - Mobile Register (AL) 4apr03

• Status of Development of Transgenic Aquatic Animals - ISB News Report Apr03

• Saudi Water Desalination Output Exceeded One Billion Cubic Meters in 2002 - Mena Report 30mar03

• Chlorination by-Products in Drinking Water and Menstrual Cycle Function  - Environmental Health Perspectives 25mar03

• Scotland: Disease Fear may Force Salmon Farmers to Abandon Estuaries  - The Independent (UK) 25mar03

• Fish Die as Folsom's Flow is Cut: Thousands of Young Salmon, Steelhead Killed to Save Water  - Sacramento Bee (CA) 5mar03

• New Jersey Water Contains Traces of Daily Life  - North Jersey News 5mar03

• A New Frontier in Water Wars Emerges in East  - NY Times 3mar03

• Intersex Swordfish: Evidence of a high percentage of intersex in the Mediterranean swordfish (Xiphias gladius L.) - Marine Pollution Bulletin Mar03

• Alarm Rising in Denmark over Plastic Water Piping  - Environment Daily 28feb03

• Frankenfish. Genetically Engineered Superfish are Just Around the Corner - Jeremy Brown / The Whatcom Watch 12feb03

• Wetlands Protection Fades  - NY Times 11feb03

• Urban Runoff Killing Salmon in Washington  - ENS 7feb03

• Mad Cow Disease: Now Fish Too Can Suffer Version of Mad Cow Disease - ANI 2feb03

• Overfishing: China Imposes Full Fishing Ban on Yangtze for 6 Months - People's Daily (Beijing) 2feb03

• Mercury in Fish: California Lawsuit Warns of Methylmercury in Fish - ENS 27jan03

  • Mercury in Fish: California Sues Safeway, Kroger Co., Albertson's, Trader Joe's and Whole Foods over Mercury in Fish  -  SF Chronicle 18jan03

• US PIRG: Group Uses U.S. Zip Codes To Map Industrial Pollutants  - Wall Street Journal 23jan03

• Private Labs Fake Environmental Tests  - AP 22jan03

• North Atlantic Shark Populations in Decline  - NY Times 16jan02

• Stormwater Runoff: U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Runoff Rule  - (with excerpts of court ruling)  ENS 15jan03

• Glacier Water False Advertising  - East Bay Express 15jan03

• One Generation to Save World, Worldwatch Report Warns  - Guardian (UK) 9jan03

• Perchlorate Rocket Fuel Pollution Strains Water Supplies, Prompts Health Fears -  AP 5jan03