Water
2002

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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

• Perchlorate Runoff Flows To Water Supply of Millions: Fuel of Cold War Defenses Ignites Health Controversy  - Wall Street Journal 16dec02

• Before Home Spigots, Water Was Never Taken for Granted  - Wall Street Journal 11dec02

• Fish Farms Become Feedlots of the Sea  - LA Times 9dec02

• Court Upholds California's Right to Protect Coast from Offshore Drilling  -  Fishlink Sublegals v.6, n.23 6dec02

  • State of California v. Gale Norton Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Case No. 01-16637 2dec02

• Water a Hot Commodity: U.S. Waterworks Lure Overseas Investors  - SF Chronicle 1dec02

• Chinese Dam Looms but Villagers Stay Put  - SF Chronicle 1dec02

• Water for Profit -  Mother Jones Nov/Dec02

• Oil Tanker Collision Produces Spill in Bohai Sea  - People's Daily (Bejing) 25nov02

• Exxon Valdez Spill Offers Surprising Cleanup Lessons  - Wall Street Journal 22nov02

• Oil-Spill Disaster Triggers Finger Pointing in Europe  - Wall Street Journal 20nov02

• Oil Spills in Last 25 Years: Nine Notable - AP 19nov02

• Oil Tanker Prestige Carrying 800,000 gallons of Oil Breaks Apart off Spain  - UPI 19nov02

• China to Clean Up Yangtze River in Seven Years - People's Daily (Bejing) 18nov02

• Slow-Motion Disaster Below the Waves - Randy Olson / Editorial / LA Times 17nov02

• Whistle Blows Again at Corps: Economist Says Locks Project Still Based on Flawed Model  - Washington Post 15nov02

• 'Farmed Salmon is Crap': Chef Michael Cimarusti -  Fishlink Sublegals  8nov02

• Oil Contaminates Marsh 30 Years After Spill - ENS 11nov02

• Arkansas Rice Farmers Run Dry, and U.S. Remedy Sets Off Debate -  NY Times 11nov02

• Dow Chemical "Illegal" Sweetheart Deal Made Public: Large Watershed Sacrificed by Corrupt Environmental Agency - Press Release 8nov02

• Cost, Time of Three Gorges Project Tightly Limited People's Daily (China) 6nov02 

• How Safe Is Airline Water? Bring Your Own Bottle!  - Wall Street Journal 1nov02

• Estrogen Receptor Agonist Fate during Wastewater and Biosolids Treatment Processes - Environ. Sci. Technol. 1nov02

• Cod Stocks at Risk of Collapse -  International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. (Denmark) Press Release 28oct02

• Biologist Warns British Columbia Wild Salmon Near Collapse from Fish Farm Disease - Fishlink Sublegals 18oct02

• Organotin Pollution in Deep-Sea Fish from the Northwestern Mediterranean - Environ. Sci. Technol. 15oct02

• Yurok Tribe declares emergency over Klamath fish kill  - AP 11oct02

• Atlantis In Cuban Depths or Anomaly? - Washington Post 10oct02

• NATO exercise Neo Tapon 2002 Causes Mass Whale Beachings and Deaths - AP 10oct02

• Massive Salmon Die-Off on Klamath: Agricultural Diversions of Water -  SF Chronicle 3oct02

• Bush: "Fish Don't Need Water" -  Dissident Voice 2oct02

• Pharmaceuticals: Keeping Drugs Out of Drinking Water  - Environmental Science & Technology  1oct02

• California Scheming: The story of Los Angeles' insatiable thirst for water, draining the Owens Valley - Smithsonian Oct02

• EPA: Third of Rivers too Polluted for Swimming, Fishing  - AP 30sep02

• Reefs affected by Coral Disease White Syndrome  - AIMS Press Release 24sep02

• Bush Administration Water Cuts Result In Massive Fish Kill On Klamath River -  Dissident Voice 24sep02

• The Clean Water and Drinking Water Infrastructure Gap Analysis (Executive Summary & Conclusion) - EPA-816-R-02-020 Sep02

• Marine Biologists Dig Deep to Find Net Effect of 9/11 in NYC  - Washington Post 9sep02

• The New Dust Bowl: Worse Than the Great Depression  - Time 16sep02

• Generating Electric Power in the Pacific Northwest: Implications of Alternative Technologies - RAND 4sep02

• Who Owns Water? -  The Nation 2sep02

• Algalita Marine Research Foundation Attempts to Halt Escalera Nautica Beach Erosion & Killing of Marine Life  -  AP 1sep02

• Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Links to Health: Facts and Figures  - WHO 28aug02

• Report: Water Diseases On Rise: Pacific Institute  - AP 16aug02

• Chlorine Release as Floods Rise in Germany and the Czech Republic  - NY Times 15aug02

• Polychloronaphthalenes and Other Dioxin-like Compounds in Arctic and Antarctic Marine Food Webs - Environ. Sci. Technol. 15aug02

• Kerala - Coca-Cola and the Battle for Safe Water in Kerala - AgBioIndia 13aug02

• Columbia River Basin Fish Contaminant Survey 1996-1998 - (Exec. Summ.) EPA 910-R-02-006 12aug02

• Whales Die on a Cape Cod Beach: More than a Warning - Time v.160, n.7, 12aug02

• Whales Endangered by Navy Sonar as Bush Seeks Limits of Conservation Law -  NY Times 10aug02

• Washington Courts Uphold Instream Flows for Fish - Fishlink Subgills 2aug02

• Congress Passes "Fast Track" Trade Bill: Time For Fair Trade for Fishermen? - Fishlink Subgills 2aug02

• Household Products Disrupt Sex Genes in Fish Brains -  University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute 30jul02

• Estrogen effect on fish: Wild Fathead Minnows from a Lake Experimentally Treated with the Synthetic Estrogen, Ethynylestradiol - Water Qual. Res. J. Canada, Jul02

• Chicken Nuggets of the Sea -  The Monthly Jul02

• Freakish Northern Snakehead Fish Causes Fear in Maryland -  Washington Post 27jun02

• CBE & SF Baykeeper v. CA State Water Resources Control Board & California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region 19jul02

• Pharmaceuticals: Drug mixtures prove harmful -  Science News 7jun02

• Dow Chemical Contaminates Drinking Water for 6 Million People Water Technology 5jun02

• Restrictions on nickel and copper in San Francisco Bay - AP 23may02

• Radiocesium in North San Francisco Bay and Baja California coastal surface waters - Journal of Environmental Radioactivity 2002

• Water, Water Everywhere - Fortune 15may02

• Biologists rescue salmon as Klamath River water is diverted - AP 2may02

• EPA Chief Sounds Alarm on Water For US, World  - Chicago Tribune 28mar02

• Dead Salmon Give New Life to Rivers' Ecosystems: Fish carcasses return nutrients to food web  -  Los Angeles Times 24mar02

• Oil Drilling has Damaging Effect on Sea Fish Ability to Reproduce  - Independent (UK) 22mar02

• Free or foreign: the water battle in Bolivia - Jorge Cuba, Bolivian journalist 16mar02

• Stream Tests Show Traces of Array of Contaminants: drugs, disinfectants, hormones, chemicals  -  NY Times 13mar02

  • FDA Considers New Test for Environmental [Effects of Pharmaceuticals] -  NY Times 14mar02

  • Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams, 1999-2000 - Environ. Sci. Technol. Mar02

• Tracking Hexavalent Cr in Groundwater - Science 15mar02

• Cancer in Wildlife, a Case Study: Beluga from the St. Lawrence Estuary, Québec, Canada - Environmental Health Perspectives Mar02

• Chlorine: In a Glass of Water, Miscarriages Spark Lawsuits  -  Washington Post 10feb02

  • Not Entirely Clear In Virginia, Water Chlorination Is Blamed for Miscarriages - Washington Post 12mar02

• Pesticide Contamination of Waters and Solutions to Protect Pacific Salmon (Executive Summary) - NCAP 5feb02

• Bechtel Battles against dirt-poor Bolivia  -  SF Chronicle 2feb02

• Antibiotic Drug Use in U.S. Aquaculture - Dr. Charles Benbrook  / The Northwest Science and Environmental Policy Center Sandpoint, Idaho Feb02

• Drinking Water Contaminants and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: A Review - Environmental Health Perspectives  Feb02

• Effects of Exxon Valdez oil spill linger in Alaska - Reuters 24jan02

• Federal Court Rules on Fish Mandate  - AP 4jan01