Water
2004

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Total Water on Earth = 1,400,000,000 km3 - Less than 1% is useable
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• Handling of Fisheries Report Criticized: Audit Says the Agency Violated Rules in Making Revisions - Sacramento Bee 14jul2005

• Plankton Vanishing: Usual seasonal influx of cold water isn't happening -  San Francisco Chronicle 12jul2005

• Lake Washington's Ecosystem in Trouble: Rise in Water Temperature Having Profound Effects -  Seattle Post-Intelligencer 11jul2005

• Few Sockeye Returning to the Ballard Locks - Seattle Post-Intelligencer 8jul2005

• Continued Freshening of the North Atlantic Could Slow the Conveyor in the 21st Century - Press Release / WHOI 16jun2005

• Coca-Cola in India: Indian Village Refuses US Cola Giant Licence to Exploit Ground Water - Agence France-Presse 14jun2005

• Hunters Point Shipyard: Don't Drink the Water - Dennis Kyne / San Francisco Bay View 30mar2005

• India: Is Privatisation and Water Pricing a Sensible Policy? Community Rights are Vital for Ecology and Democracy - Vandana Shiva / Financial Times (India) 22mar2005

• India: Soft Drinks, Hard Cases - Vandana Shiva / Le Monde diplomatique March 2005 14mar2005

• India: Parched Village Sues to Shut Tap at Coke: Drought-hit Indians say Plant Draining Groundwater - SF Chronicle 6mar2005

• $7 Million Panamax Cranes Clear Bay Bridge by 5 Feet on Trip to Oakland -  SF Chronicle 6mar2005

• Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) Low Frequency Active (LFA) sonar: Defending the Silence of the Seas -  Berkeley Daily Planet 4mar2005

• Great Lakes: Resource at Risk: 21% of the Earth’s and about 84% of United States’ surface freshwater  -  Environmental Health Perspectives v.113, n.3, 1mar2005

• Tsunami-Spawning Quake Leaves Geophysical Changes -  Scientific American 1mar2005

• EPA's Ruling On Perchlorate Draws Criticism  - Wall Street Journal 22feb2005

• Tsunami: Knowledge of Natural World Saves Primitive Tribes of Andaman and Nicobar Islands From Tsunami - The Hindu (India) 5jan200505

• Methane Burps: Ticking Time Bomb: Arctic Clathrates Contain 3,000 Times More Methane Than in Atmosphere - Baltimore Sun 16dec04

• Coral Reef Damage Rising - AP 6dec04

• Mercury Warning on Eating Reservoir Fish  - SF Chronicle 15oct04

• Three Gorges Dam on Alert, China Floods Kill 120 - Reuters 7sep04

• Toxic Salmon Just Another Tainted Food  - Jeremy Brown / Seattle Post-Intelligencer 13aug04

• Dolphin Protection: Bush Administration’s Effort to Weaken Dolphin Protection Stopped by Federal Court  - Sacramento Bee 11augu04

  • Conclusion of the Summary Judgement / Judge Thelton E Henderson / US District Court for the Northern District of California 9aug04

• Yellow Fin Tuna Sea Farm: Tuna Trial Approved - Midwest Times (Australia) 11aug04
• Kolkata (Calcutta): Wonders of the Waste Land -  Guardian Weekly (UK) 6aug04
• Wave Power Plan Gets a Test in Trinidad California -  SF Chronicle 4aug04
• Weird Worms Munch On Dead Whales -  Australian Broadcast Corporation 30jul04
• Climate Warning From The Deep -  BBC News 12jul04
• When Sun's Too Strong, Plankton Make Clouds -  NASA 2jul04
• Is Our Water Drugged?   30-70% of the medicine goes down the toilet  - Toronto Star 29may04
• NYC: Water Flowing Underground: Plan to store drinking water deep beneath New York City -  NY Times 16may04
• Private Desalination Plants Worry Environmentalists: Officials favor public agencies -  Monterey County Herald (California) 8may04
• Coastal Waters: Dead Zones on the Rise -  Environmental Science & Technology 5may04
• Water Crisis as Mexico City Sinks Faster than Venice -  The Independent (UK) 30apr04
• Orange County to Boost Fresh Water Aquifer by injecting 40 million gallons per day of treated sewage into the aquifer  -  LA Times 30apr04
• Hatchery Salmon to Count as Wildlife -  Washington Post 29apr04
• India: Glaciers Feeding Indian Rivers May be Wiped Out - Indo-Asian News Service 28apr04
• Polluted Lakes Turning Turtles into Turtlettes  -  Globe and Mail (Canada) 28apr04
• U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy: Panel Presses New Ocean Safeguards -  LA Times & WSJ 21apr04
  • Preliminary Report of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy (Executive Summary) - Governors' Draft 20apr04
• Urban Runoff: Germ-laden Discharge Makes Orange Co. Waters Worse than Santa Cruz's - LA Times 6apr04
• Flame Retardants in Lochnagar Fish - Glasgow Herald (Scotland) 6apr04
• Sparta, NJ: Uranium in the Water -  Bergen County Record (New Jersey) 24mar04
• Coke Recalls Bottled Water Newly Introduced to Britain Coca-Cola Company ordered a recall of some 500,000 bottles Dasani bottled water in Britain - NY Times 20mar04
• Dry, Dry West: Stubborn drought is choking the western U.S., stressing plants and humans alike. Ironically, the same weather systems are soaking the East -  Philadelphia Inquirer 8mar04
• Las Vegas Thirsts for More Water - AP 7mar04
• PG&E's Toxic Plume Creeps Toward L.A. Water Supply -  LA Times 6mar04
• New Jersey: Tests Show 8% of Private Wells Contaminated -  Star-Ledger (New Jersey) 5mar04
• Coca-Cola Admits Dasani is Tap Water -  Reuters 4mar04
• Perchlorate: Second Thoughts on a Chemical: In Water, How Much Is Too Much? -  NY Times 2mar04
• Second World War Wrecks Surface as Threat to Pacific Environment -  The Guardian (UK) 7feb04
• California Lists Coho Salmon Under State Endangered Species Act (ESA), Adopts Recovery Plan - Sublegals 6feb04
• Oil Refinery Groundwater Pollution: A Half-Billion Six-Packs -  Casper Star-Tribune (Wyoming) 22feb04
• Cargo Ships: Where There's Smoke, There's Pollution -  NY Times 21feb04
• Trojan Gene in Fish: Transgenic male mating advantage provides opportunity for Trojan gene effect in a fish - Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci 19feb04
• Must I Have Another Glass of Water? Maybe Not, a New Report Says -  NY Times 17feb04
• The Pines, Indiana: Arsenic, Boron, Lead, Manganese in Ground Water -  Post-Tribune (Indiana) 15feb04
• Farmed Fish: Improving Fish Food -  Environmental Science & Technology 12feb04
• Dietary Intake Levels for Water, Salt, and Potassium To Maintain Health and Reduce Chronic Disease Risk - Press Release / National Academies of Science 11feb04
  • Dietary Reference Intakes for Water, Potassium, Sodium, Chloride, and Sulfate - Institute of Medicine of the National Academies 11feb04
• Open Ocean Aquaculture - IATP 10feb04
• Chlorinated Benzenes: Answers Sought on Metachem Pollution: Contamination's Extent Not Known -  The News Journal (Delaware) 8feb04
• Whale Study Reveals Spread of Ocean Contaminants -  Greenwich Time (Connecticut) 26jan04
• U.S. Billed for Lost Water: Judge rules that irrigators whose supplies were decreased to save endangered fish are owed $14 million -  LA Times 26jan04
• Fish Farming is a Net-Loss Proposition . . .  Ecologically, Socially and Economically -  Seattle Post-Intelligencer 25jan04
• Salmon streams: Pesticide Ban may Prompt some Golf Courses to Remodel -  Seattle Times 24jan04
• Urgent Statewide Action Needed to Address Serious Depletion of Atlantic Salmon in Maine -  The National Academies 20jan04
• Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Chemicals often Linger in Water After Treatment -  Poughkeepsie Journal (New York) 18jan04
• Farm-Raised Salmon Linked to Contaminants -  NY Times 8jan04
  • Global Assessment of Organic Contaminants in Farmed Salmon - Science 9jan04
• Synthetic Musk Fragrances in Lake Michigan - Environ. Sci. Technol. 1jan04
• Iceland: Karahnjukar hydroelectric dam: Damned Nation: Costing over $1 billion, the Karahnjukar hydroelectric dam in Iceland is a hugely controversial project - The Ecologist (UK) 1jan04
• Global Map of Oxygen-Starved Coastal Zones - GEO Year Book 2003
• Catch of Living Marine Resources (million tonnes) by Region and Global, 1970–2002 - GEO Year Book 2003
• Dam Nation: When they went up, Western dams were heralded as modern miracles. Now they're starting to come down - Via magazine Jan04
• Will Aquaculture Fulfill the Promise of the Blue Revolution? (excerpts) -  SeaWeb Aquaculture Clearinghouse Jan04