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Miami-Dade students’ winning water conservation posters chosen
More than 1,000 entries were received for a water conservation poster contest with a single winner chose from each district.
SPECIAL TO THE MIAMI HERALD
The Miami-Dade Water-Use Efficiency Program recently sponsored a poster contest aimed at engaging children as ambassadors of water conservation. The ”Every Drop Counts” Poster Contest, which [...]

Reduced water supply for the Denver area is one of the possible side effects of global warming. Denver Water is focusing on how to adapt to projected changes in the water supply for an already semi-arid region. In addition to considering other sources of water, by doing things like enlarging Gross Resevoir south of Boulder, [...]

Florida Recognizes Week of May 10-16 as Water Reuse Week
-DEP aggressively pushing ‘reuse’ as essential to Florida’s water future-
TALLAHASSEE - Highlighting the fact that water reuse is essential to ensuring safe, clean and sustainable water resources, Florida Governor Charlie Crist and Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Secretary Michael W. Sole recognize May 10-16, 2009, [...]

As the dry summer approaches, 79 percent of Californians plan to conserve water, motivated more by helping the environment and their pocketbooks than any government mandate, according to a survey released Monday by San Jose State University.
As the state heads into summer, the findings can help water districts decide how to best urge people to [...]

More than Half of the environmental concerns are water related issues.
Chart and figures provided by USA Today 2009.

One billion people on the planet don’t have access to clean drinking water.
charity: water is a non-profit bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations.
Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80% of all sickness and disease, and kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. [...]

FRESNO, Calif.—Comedian Paul Rodriguez will be at the front of the line as farmers and workers join in a four-day march to draw attention to the loss of valley jobs caused, in part, by federal water restrictions.
Rodriguez says he will walk from Mendota to the San Luis Reservoir next week to help publicize economic suffering [...]

Dennis Jobin used to cringe when he flushed the toilet in his Phoenix home.
To Jobin, it sounded like dollars going down the drain when the old toilet flushed three times with a single pull of the handle.
“I run maintenance at a school, so I’m very aware of the cost of water,” Jobin says. “Around the [...]

By APRIL REESE, Greenwire
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — For about a mile, a steady stream of water flows down Bear Canyon before finally petering out in the sand near a golf course. The arroyo is not supposed to be wet this time of year; the spring snowmelt does not usually occur until later in the season. But under [...]

New York City Comptroller William Thompson on Monday proposed using federal stimulus money and other solutions to spare city water ratepayers from another rate hike.
The city’s Water Board is scheduled to meet on Friday to consider raising rates. The board approved a 14.5 percent increase in 2008 and forecast another double-digit rate increase for this [...]