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Tue Jan 28, 2011: Running towards empty: the Colorado River

Mon Jan 3, 2011: Pennsylvania lax on regulation of discharges from fracking wells

Fri Dec 24, 2010: LA sees the need for stormwater capture and beneficial use

Tue Dec 14, 2010: Obama administration, through Gen. DeLuca, supports fracking study but no moratorium on drilling while study continues

Sun Dec 12, 2010: Why we might fight: national security, water and other natural resources

Sat Dec 11, 2010: NY Governor vetoes fracking bill, puts a moratorium in place

Wed Dec 8, 2010: EPA issues endangerment order to Texas gas fracking driller for well contamination

Tue, Dec 7, 2010: Florida to litigate with EPA over instream nutrient standards

Tue Nov 30, 2010: N.Y. legislature approves fracking moratorium

Mon Nov 29, 2010: Where things stand with the Falls Lake rules

Fri Nov 26, 2010: Background on the Guilford Mills well contamination problem in Fuquay Varina

Thu Nov 25, 2010: Europe bans baby bottles with BPA

Tue Nov 23, 2010: Contaminated well water and controversy around Fuquay-Varina's Guilford Mills plant

Tue Nov 23, 2010: Rural West Virginia residents say fracking has ruined their water supply

Tue Nov 23, 2010: Marcellus shale drilling outpaces regulation of radioactive drilling waste

Fri Nov 19, 2010: NYC to spend $1.2 billion to fix leaky Delaware Aqueduct

Thu Nov 18, 2010: Fracking a threat to water supplies in 28 states

Thu Nov 18, 2010: Chatham County withholding approval of western Wake regional wastewater right of way

Wed Nov 17, 2010: Pittsburgh bans natural gas well drilling - fracking

Thu Nov 11, 2010: Settlement may be near in SC v NC water dispute

Sat Nov 6, 2010: Durham backs off on expansion of riparian buffers

Fri Nov 5, 2010: Water infrastructure needs just as important as transportation

Thu Nov 4, 2010: Discussion opened on monitoring plan for Falls Lake

Tue Nov 2, 2010: Holly Springs starts reuse of water

Sat Oct 30, 2010: Raleigh starts tiered water rates

Fri Oct 29, 2010: Repair and fish bypass work underway on Cape Fear's Lock and Dam #1

Thu Oct 28, 2010: BPA exposure can cause sperm problems

Wed Oct 27, 2010: When the water ends: water and conflict in Africa

Tue Oct 26, 2010: Water the big issue in new Texas energy debates

Tue Oct 26, 2010: Illinois town pumps and distributes contaminated water for decades

Tue Oct 26, 2010: Pennsylvania bans fracking on state lands

Mon Oct 25, 2010: Fracking mobilizes uranium in Marcellus shale

Thu Oct 21, 2010: NOAA predicts dryer, warmer winter for southern US

Thu Oct 21, 2010: National Center for Atmospheric Research predicts 'severe and prolonged drought across the US' within the next 30 years

Wed Oct 20, 2010: Study warns of bond risk from water shortages

Tue Oct 19, 2010: Coal ash in Charlotte water worries officials - arsenic concerns

Thu Oct 14, 2010: Two champions helped make Randleman Reservoir a reality

Thu Oct 7, 2010: N.C. Museum of Art turns stormwater basin into beautiful amenity

Wed Oct 3, 2010: Gas wells in Texas have benzene/VOC issues

Fri Oct 1, 2010: Record rains claim 4 lives in NC

Wed Sep 29, 2010: Letter from local government commission prompting action on sanitary district water/sewer system

Tue Sep 28, 2010: Deluge in Wilmington takes toll on coal-ash pond, sewers, roads

Mon Sep 27, 2010: Water use in southwest US heads for day of reckoning

Sun Sep 26, 2010: Deep divisions over gas drilling in Pennsylvania--zoning board resigns rather than allow water withdrawal

Fri Sep 24, 2010: State urges water conservation in Asheville

Wed Sep 22, 2010: North Raleigh residents' wells are drying up

Wed Sep 22, 2010: Drinking water to flow at last from Randleman Reservoir

Wed Sep 22, 2010: Fracking water use in drought in question

Mon Sep 20, 2010: Manganese in drinking water hurts kids' IQ

Mon Sep 20, 2010: Controversy over candidates for EPA's fracking panel

Mon Sep 20, 2010: Human exposure to BPA may be much higher than previously thought and above regulatory thresholds

Thu Sep 16, 2010: More details in the scandal over Pennsylvania's investigations of fracking opponents

Thu Sep 9, 2010: EPA letters request info on hydrofracturing additives

Wed Sep 8, 2010: ProPublica's portal on natural gas drilling and its environmental implications

Tues Sep 7, 2010: DOE blocks disclosure of research on energy-water chokepoints

Mon Sep 6, 2010: Despite reams of research, safety of BPA still unclear

Wed Aug 25, 2010: Canada to list BPA as toxic substance

Tue Aug 24, 2010: Drought and climate change in western NC

Mon Aug 23, 2010: The debate on nuclear power and water use

Mon Aug 23, 2010: Hot river forces energy cutbacks for TVA

Thurs Aug 19, 2010: WUNC-TV reporter who covered the Alcoa dispute leaves the WUNC

Wed. Aug 18, 2010: More back story on WUNC-TV's segments about Alcoa and the Yadkin River

Mon Aug 16, 2010: Teens carry highest body burden of BPA, though it's present in most adults

Sat Aug 14, 2010: Anti-Alcoa side paid expenses of WUNC-TV researcher for Yadkin-Alcoa video segments

Sat Aug 14, 2010: EPA considers expanding hydrofracturing study beyond water, to include air impacts

Fri Aug 13, 2020: Lake Mead water levels continue to plunge, raising existential fears about life in the southwestern US

Thurs Aug 12, 2010: The realities behind the failure of the huge Everglades land deal

Tues Aug 10, 2010: EPA delays hearing on fracking when 8,000 people appear poised to show up

Mon Aug 9, 2010: Record fish kill at Lake Norman

Fri Aug 6, 2010: Calls for water conservation in Pigeon River basin

Tues Aug 3, 2010: Former Pennsylvania Governor and staffers moving to lucrative positions in natural gas drilling industry

Mon Aug 2, 2010: Air emission issues at natural gas wells in Fort Worth, Texas (Barnett Shale)

Tues July 27, 2010: Natural gas drilling coming to NC?

Sun July 25, 2010: Huntersville company's water bottler: the next big thing in bottled water?

Fri July 23, 2010: EPA hearings on fracking regulations

Fri July 23, 2010: State, Duke Energy monitoring striped bass kill in Lake Norman

Wed July 21, 2010: Analysis of U.S. counties facing water risk includes several in NC

Tues July 20, 2010: India/Pakistan and other troubling water disputes

Mon July 12, 2010: Meeting held to start work on Tar-Pamlico hydrologic model

Thu July 8, 2010: Mt. Island Lake Commission backs off plan for regulation of boating on water supply reservoir

Thu July 8, 2010: EPA declares LA River to be traditional navigable waters

Sat July 3, 2010: Milburnie Dam to remain, for now

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