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	<title>Activist&#039;s Corner</title>
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	<description>Northern California River Watch Activist&#039;s Blog</description>
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		<title>New Book, “Watersheds, Groundwater, and Drinking Water: A Practical Guide”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FYI&#8230;From the perspective of &#8216;life-long-learning&#8217; this new book looks interesting, especially for those of us directly working on such related efforts?
I have ordered it, but not yet had it in hand&#8230;
Brock
Completion and publication of a layperson’s guide to watershed hydrology and groundwater hydrology.
The book, entitled “Watersheds, Groundwater, and Drinking Water: A Practical Guide” is geared [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ncriverwatch.org/wordpress/2010/03/12/new-book-%e2%80%9cwatersheds-groundwater-and-drinking-water-a-practical-guide%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>Toxic Waters: Rulings Restrict Clean Water Act, Foiling E.P.A.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CHARLES DUHIGG and JANET ROBERTS
February 28, 2010
Thousands of the nation’s largest water polluters are outside the  Clean Water Act’s reach because the Supreme Court has left uncertain  which waterways are protected by that law, according to interviews with  regulators.

As a result, some businesses are declaring that the law no longer  applies [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ncriverwatch.org/wordpress/2010/03/08/toxic-waters-rulings-restrict-clean-water-act-foiling-e-p-a/</link>
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		<title>Contaminants of Emerging Concern</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Board of Public Utilities (BPU) has requested Utilities staff to  present an annual update to the Board on contaminants of emerging concern &#8211; a topic that  has become an area of focus in the water/wastewater industry. Presentations were made  to the BPU in April 2007 and July 2008, and a third [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ncriverwatch.org/wordpress/2010/03/08/contaminants-of-emerging-concern/</link>
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		<title>THE COAST NEEDS YOUR HELP!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE COAST NEEDS YOUR HELP
The Coast is under attack and this time, if the proposal to require the Coastal Commission to pay for all legal services previously supplied by the Attorney General is approved, it will leave the Commission with very limited ability to defend itself in a lawsuit or enforce the Coastal Act. This is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ncriverwatch.org/wordpress/2010/03/08/the-coast-needs-your-help/</link>
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		<title>PSA: 28th Annual Salmonid Restoration Mar. 10-13</title>
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Hello,
Please help publicize the upcoming Salmonid Restoration Federation and American Fisheries Society Cal-Neva Conference with the attached press release and conference announcement.


 

Please email SRF if you can help distribute conference agenda packets and posters. Please indicate how many we should send and to what address.
Thank you,

PSA:
28th Annual Salmonid Restoration &#38; 44th Annual AFS Cal-Neva [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ncriverwatch.org/wordpress/2010/03/04/psa-28th-annual-salmonid-restoration-mar-10-13/</link>
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		<title>28th Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference March 10-13</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello,
The Salmonid Restoration Federation is excited to announce the upcoming 28th Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference. Please share the following information with your constituents. If you are unable to include all of the following information please review Public Service Announcement attached.
28th Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference March 10-13, 2010 in Redding, CA
In 2010 the Salmonid Restoration Federation and the California-Nevada [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ncriverwatch.org/wordpress/2010/03/02/28th-annual-salmonid-restoration-conference-march-10-13/</link>
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		<title>Watersheds, Groundwater, and Drinking Water: A Practical Guide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[FYI&#8230;From the perspective of &#8216;life-long-learning&#8217; this new book looks
interesting, especially for those of us directly working on such related
efforts?
I have ordered it, but not yet had it in hand&#8230;
Brock
Completion and publication of a layperson’s guide to watershed
hydrology and groundwater hydrology.
The book, entitled “Watersheds, Groundwater, and Drinking Water: A Practical
Guide” is geared towards a relatively broad [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ncriverwatch.org/wordpress/2010/02/25/watersheds-groundwater-and-drinking-water-a-practical-guide/</link>
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		<title>Four Anti-CEQA Initiatives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[URGENT: Anti-CEQA initiatives URGENT:
The ability of citizens to challenge EIRs is threatened by new
initiatives drive.  I&#8217;m not sure if you&#8217;ve heard about this, but it should be on your radar.
Four anti-CEQA initiatives have been submitted to the
Attorney General&#8217;s office and one or more of them will soon be
circulating for signatures.
The proponent is an Orange County developer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ncriverwatch.org/wordpress/2010/02/24/four-anti-ceqa-initiatives/</link>
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		<title>Low Impact Development</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
LID (low impact development) is an alternative method of land  development that seeks to maintain the natural hydrologic character of  the site or region. The natural hydrology, or movement of water through a  watershed, is shaped over centuries under location-specific conditions  to form a balanced and efficient system. When hardened surfaces [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ncriverwatch.org/wordpress/2010/02/23/low-impact-development/</link>
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		<title>Water Hits and Sticks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Findings Challenge a Century of Assumptions About Soil Hydrology
ScienceDaily (Jan. 23, 2010) &#8211; Researchers have discovered  that some of the most fundamental assumptions about how water moves  through soil in a seasonally dry climate such as the Pacific Northwest  are incorrect &#8212; and that a century of research based on those  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ncriverwatch.org/wordpress/2010/02/23/water-hits-and-sticks/</link>
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