Does sewer rule stink? Ninety percent of homes in Golden Valley are failing video inspections of their sewer pipes in the Twin Cities’ most aggressive effort to stop pollution from leaky old sewers. Many other communities have focused on diverting sump pump outflow and storm water from sanitary sewers. Minneapolis Star Tribune, Minnesota.
http://www.startribune.com/local/west/63356477.html
Water canal sparks skepticism, lawsuits in California. Many landowners in California’s fertile delta region have refused to allow state engineers access to their properties to survey possible routes for a new canal they believe could disrupt the water supply. Associated Press
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/west/view/20091004water_canal_sparks_skepticism_lawsuits_in_california
Sacramento Nestle waters bottling plant draws fire.Sacramento banned bottled water from its City Council meetings last year, but over the summer it welcomed a Nestle Waters plant that would churn out millions of those bottles every week. Sacramento Bee, California.
http://www.sacbee.com/378/story/2230936.html
Farmers brace for water-monitoring requirement.Farmers with more than $1,000 in gross crop sales eventually will be required to finance all or part of the costs to monitor agricultural pollutants in nearby surface water, according to a recent letter from regional water monitors. San Diego North County Times, California.
http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/fallbrook/article_301f7c27-048d-5169-8bb6-ccfa70d8819e.html
Of algae and dead zones.Massive blooms of algae periodically appear in bodies of water ranging in size from small prairie potholes to the Gulf of Mexico, causing serious economic and ecological damage. Now, some members of Congress want to create a federal program to control their occurrence and size. Chemical & Engineering News
http://pubs.acs.org/isubscribe/journals/cen/87/i40/html/8740gov2.html
Mie fish farm admits using hormone disrupter.A fishery cooperative in Owase, Mie Prefecture, halted virtually all shipments of its farmed fish after learning that a farm in the region used a banned hormone disrupter as a parasite repellent, the cooperative said Saturday. Kyodo News, Japan.
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20091004a3.html
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