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  • Will the Met wring the desert dry?

    The Metropolitan Water District's plan to tap aquifers at Cadiz, Calif., for Los Angeles could harm the fragile groundwater system that sustains the desert, including the Mojave National Preserve.

    by Kirsten Bovee, May 21, 2001

  • Grand Canyon oases face faraway threats

    Small desert springs in the Grand Canyon area are indispensable oases for many plants and animals, but they may be endangered by development many miles away as the groundwater is depleted.

    by Anne Minard, Nov 11, 2002

  • A Western water parable

    In Water Follies: Groundwater Pumping and the Fate of America's Fresh Waters, author Robert Jerome Glennon gives an absorbing account of the ways we use - and misuse - groundwater in the United States

    by Matt Jenkins, Nov 25, 2002

  • Draining the budget to desalt the Colorado

    Yuma Desalting Plant is boondoggle of the decade.

    by Martin Van Der Werf, Feb 21, 1994

  • Coal firm may pull its straw out of aquifer

    Hopi Tribe pushes for Peabody Western Coal Co. to build a pipeline and stop pumping groundwater.

    by Karin Schill, Apr 18, 1994

  • Rural area beats back water diversion plan

    American Water Development Inc. loses battle for San Luis, Colo., water.

    by Barry Noreen, May 30, 1994

  • Pesticides linger in Northwest

    Report finds groundwater contamination by pesticides in the Northwest.

    by Staff, Aug 08, 1994

  • Sole source

    EPA may grant special protection to an aquifer in eastern Washington and Western Idaho as "sole source" of drinking water for the area.

    by Staff, Oct 03, 1994

  • Albuquerque learns it really is a desert town

    Uncontrolled growth and the relocation of Intel Corporation to Albuquerque force the city to re-elvaluate its water policy.

    by Bruce Selcraig, Dec 26, 1994

  • No more ignoring the obvious: Idaho sucks itself dry

    Overpumping has drained Idaho's Snake River acquifer until rivers like the Big Lost run dry.

    by Steve Stuebner, Feb 20, 1995
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