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		<title>Water conservation could limit suburban lawns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By SUSAN SWARD
Published: January 9, 2010
John Boyle, a 51-year-old venture capitalist in Menlo Park, built a new home on his property more than a decade ago largely to create a big lawn where his children could play football or baseball.
Read more at The New York Times
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		<title>Multibillion-dollar water project protects supply</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By: John Upton
Examiner Staff Writer
12/28/09 9:15 AM PST
SAN FRANCISCO  — Julie Labonte didn’t know what her high-achieving career as a water engineer held in store for her as she bounded down Mount Kilimanjaro in 2005, propelled by gravity, in the midst of a yearlong globetrot.
The Canadian-born, U.S.-trained engineer had walked away from an illustrious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Practical Ways to be Water Wise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[July 02, 2009, 12:00 AM By Nicole Sandkulla
Water is in short supply for many cities, farms and businesses across California and will remain so for the foreseeable future. In San Mateo County, water customers are being asked to continue efforts to voluntarily reduce their water use by 10 percent as we experience our third dry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bawsca.org/practical-ways-to-be-water-wise/</link>
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		<title>Potential Water Shortage in the Hetch Hetchy Service Area</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Statement from Arthur Jensen, General Manager
Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency (BAWSCA)
BAWSCA supports the SFPUC’s cautious management of the limited water supply and the timely and prudent call for customers’ continued conservation of water and further reductions in water use as we go into the hot summer season.
In summary, there is cause for concern.
 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bawsca.org/potential-water-shortage-in-the-hetch-hetchy-service-area/</link>
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		<title>Letter to the Editor: On Chloramine, SF Department of Health, June Weintraub</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Saturday, October 15, 2005
On chloramine
Editor &#8212; As a health professional, I would like to clarify three important points that Denise Johnson-Kula referred to in her October 9 Open Forum commentary.
First, there is no scientific evidence that chloramine causes the wide variety of symptoms mentioned in Johnson-Kula&#8217;s commentary. The county health departments cooperatively [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bawsca.org/letter-to-the-editor-on-chloramine-sf-department-of-health-june-weintraub/</link>
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		<title>Examining our H20 &#8211; Making great water better?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Denise Johnson-Kula
Sunday, October 9, 2005
On Feb. 2, 2004, with no public input and minimal notification, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission switched from chlorine to sanitize its water supplies to chloramine, a combination of chlorine and ammonia.
The introduction of chloramine has compromised our safety. Many residents, unaware of the changeover, suddenly began to experience health [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bawsca.org/examining-our-h20-making-great-water-better/</link>
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		<title>Personal Perspective &#8211; The Hetch Hetchy Pipe Dream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ken Garcia
Friday, August 5, 2005
I HATE TO throw a wet blanket on the hopes of all those who want to restore Yosemite&#8217;s Hetch Hetchy Valley by tearing down the dam that stores water for 2.4 million Bay Area residents, but reality suggests I must.
The state&#8217;s top water experts are currently going through stacks of research [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bawsca.org/personal-perspective-the-hetch-hetchy-pipe-dream/</link>
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		<title>What to Do About Hetch Hetchy &#8211; Restore the Valley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Garamendi
Friday, August 5, 2005
As Californians, we now have the opportunity to do something truly great for our state, our children and for generations to come. We can, and should, restore the magnificence of the  Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. Today, there is great momentum to support this effort. It is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bawsca.org/what-to-do-about-hetch-hetchy-restore-the-valley/</link>
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		<title>What to Do About Hetch Hetchy &#8211; More conservation, not capacity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jenna Olsen
Friday, August 5, 2005
This summer, waterfalls that normally trickle instead roar, rivers surge through their channels at higher flows than usual, and the fishing is outstanding. Vacationers are soaking in the glories of rivers like the spectacular Tuolumne, which flows through Yosemite National Park, the Stanislaus National Forest and the Central Valley.
Only in years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bawsca.org/what-to-do-about-hetch-hetchy-more-conservation-not-capacity/</link>
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		<title>Tribes weigh in on dam removal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Matt Weiser &#8212; Bee Staff Writer
Published 2:15 am PDT Friday, July 15, 2005
A new alliance of seven American Indian tribes on Thursday demanded a role in restoring Hetch Hetchy Valley, an idea under study by a team of state officials.
Calling themselves the Tribal Forum of Indigenous Peoples, the group formed in April in response [...]]]></description>
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