Water
2001

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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

• Probe finds Navy Sonar linked to whale, dolphin strandings -  SF Chronicle 24dec01

• Impact of Belize dam in dispute  - New Scientist 19dec01

• A World Without Fish? World's fish catches misreported by 1,500 million tonnes too high -  Joshua Reichert /  San Francisco Chronicle 12dec01

• Systematic distortions in world Fisheries catch trends - Nature v.414, 29nov01

• Drilling under Great Lakes Banned by Congress -  AP 1nov01

• Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria in Fish from the Concepción Bay, Chile (abstract) - Marine Pollution Bulletin Nov01

• Minnesota Researchers Track Hormone-Disrupted Fish  - AP 7oct01

• Worsening Water Shortages Threaten China's Food Supplies  - Earth Policy Institute 4oct01

• EPA Cannot be Sued  - AP 3oct01

• Bill makes Builders Prove Water Supply  - SF Chronicle 3sep01

• Pesticides In UK Water Exceed European Limits - Dow Jones Newswires 30aug01

• MTBE Fuel Additive Contamination Turning Up Across US - AP 30aug01

• MTBE Contaminates Public Water for Hundreds of Thousands of People in California  -  SF Chronicle 26aug01

• UN Report Predicts Thirstier World  - LA Times 14aug01

• Near Vast Bodies of Water, Land Lies Parched  -  New York Times 12aug01

• Environmental Hormones Strike Offshore  -  Asahi Shimbun 10jul01

• Effects of Dam Removal on River form and process - (abstract) ESA10aug01

• Overdrawn in the Klamath Basin  - Steve Pedery / SF Chronicle 10aug01

• Exporting Fresh Water: Entrepreneurs press a reluctant Canada  -  Time Magazine 5aug01

• Don't pass rule legalizing water contamination  - Rae Schnapp Ph.D./ Indianapolis Star 23jul01

• Drought could be our next crisis Population growth threatens water supply  - SF Chronicle 22jul01

• Drought of biblical scale worsens modern conflict among Jews and Arabs  - AP 7jul01

• Klamath Oregon Farmers Cut Take Water Issue into Their Own Hands -  AP 6jul01

• Brazilian Deaths Traced to Common Marine Toxins  - Environmental Health Perspectives Jul01

• Marine Pollution Makes Swimmers Sick  - Environmental Health Perspectives Jul01

• Finger In The Dike, Head In The Sand: Riverkeeper Report about New York's Crumbling Water Supply Infrastructure 1jul2001

• Wal-Mart to Pay $1 Million Fine and Establish $4.5 Million Environmental Plan  - EPA Press Release 7jun01

• Global Warming to Affect California Water Supply  -  SF Chronicle 15jun01 (Exec Summ. of Pacific Institute study)

• Salmon Hatcheries can Deplete Wild Stocks  - Science News 2jun01

• Ban lake drilling, Stabenow urges Senator unveils plan for federal protection of the Great Lakes  - Detroit News 1jun01

• EPA may Weaken a Regulation Limiting Arsenic in Water  -  Scientific American Jun01

• My Decision On the Arsenic Rule - EPA's Christine Todd Whitman / Washington Post 2apr01

• What's on Tap Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink  -  Delicious Living Mar01

• Fish Farms Consuming More Fish than they Produce  - New Scientist 20feb01

• Aquaculture business booming, but at what cost?  -  ENN 23feb01

• Oakland wants permit to Dump Highly Toxic Dredge spoils in Montezuma Slough, calling it "Restoration"  -  SFC 9feb01

• 'COUNTERPOINT: Water: right or commodity? -  National Post 8feb01

• Important food source for fish disappearing from Great Lakes  -  AP 5feb01

• Inland Thinning of Pine Island Glacier, West Antarctica  -  Science 2feb01

• Water Evaporators Remove Salt from Salton Sea  - Photo AP 1feb01

• Safeguarding Our Water  - Scientific American Feb01

• Central Valley irrigation district fights to save arid farmland, despite cost to taxpayers -  SFC 29jan01

• Hexavalent Chromium Taking Center Stage in California Amid probes, state orders 4,800 systems tested  -  SFC 21jan01

• Valley Irrigation District Sues Over Trinity River Water Loss  -  SFC 10jan01

• Supreme Court limits Clean Water Act  - AP 9jan01

• Macho Waters: Hormonal River Pollution  -  Science News 6jan01

• Study Finds Pollution in Coast Rivers Hot spots have fecal bacteria -  SFC 5jan01

• Sex Reversal of Chinook Salmon in the Wild -  NYT 2jan01

• Sea change Ice in the heart of Antarctica is melting, causing sea level rise -  New Scientist 2jan01

• Anthropogenic & natural organohalogen compounds in dolphin blubber: NE Australia  - Arch. Environ. Contam. Toxicol. 2001

• Marine Pollution in the United States: Chapter III The Challenge of Toxic Contaminants - Pew Oceans Commission 2001

• Selenium Toxicity in Fish and Wildlife and Bay Delta Estuary -  Felix Smith  undated early 2001