en-us Copyright Sightline Daily - all rights reserved newsfeeds@sightline.org newsfeeds@sightline.org Most recent Water headlines from Sightline Daily, the Northwest news that matters http://daily.sightline.org Plone http://daily.sightline.org/logo.gif 427 69 "With a little bit of work," the government might be able to get approval for the plan to operate the federal hydroelectric system that provides most of the power for the Pacific Northwest, provides barge transportation of goods, and influences flows of water throughout a watershed that is larger than France. http://www.idahostatesman.com/newsupdates/story/984569.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IdahostatesmancomNewsUpdates+%28IdahoStatesman.com+News+Updates%29&utm_content=Google+Reader Salmon Water Wildlife Idaho US Northwest 11/24/2009 Boise Idaho Statesman As climate change, environmental constraints and growth continue to tighten the valve on California's water supplies, the rest of the state is going to feel the pinch too. Not just during droughts but all the time. The reason is simple. Compared to building new reservoirs, recycling or seawater desalination, conservation is one of the cheapest, quickest and least environmentally damaging ways for the state to get more water. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-conserve24-2009nov24,0,1178521.story Climate Environment Food & Farms Water California 11/24/2009 Los Angeles Times Census of Marine Life scientists have inventoried thousands of deep sea species that have never known sunlight -- creatures that somehow manage a living in a frigid black world down to 3 miles below the ocean waves. http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/11/deep-sea_census_finds_17650_cr.html Water Wildlife Oregon Washington 11/24/2009 Oregonian Many hoped more than 10 years of lawsuits over protecting Northwest salmon and running Columbia Basin dams would finally come to a close in a Portland courtroom Monday. They didn’t, but the end could be in sight. http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2009/11/post_8.html Energy Salmon Water Wildlife Idaho Oregon US Northwest Washington 11/24/2009 Oregonian Earlier this month, the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge celebrated the restoration of the Nisqually River estuary. The cold salt water of Puget Sound poured onto the old diked pasture of the refuge at the beginning of October, undoing the late-19th-century "improvement" of the land, and beginning what refuge manager Jean Takekawa calls the largest estuary restoration in the Northwest. http://crosscut.com/2009/11/24/science-environment/19398/ Environment Water Washington 11/24/2009 Crosscut Ocean acidification could cause fish to become "fatally attracted" to their predators, according to scientists. A team studying the effects of acidification - caused by dissolved carbon dioxide - on ocean reefs found that it leaves fish unable to smell danger. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8369453.stm Climate Environment Pollution & Toxics Water Wildlife Canada United States 11/22/2009 BBC News More than 9,400 of the nation's 25,000 sewage systems have reported dumping untreated or partly treated human waste, chemicals and other hazardous materials into rivers and lakes and elsewhere. As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/us/23sewer.html?_r=1 Environment Pollution & Toxics Sprawl & Transportation Water United States 11/23/2009 New York Times For three years now, families and churches - including many in Portland - have given more than 300 communities clean drinking water in an attempt to take back Christmas by worshiping fully, spending less, giving more and loving all. http://www.oregonlive.com/hovde/index.ssf/2009/11/try_spending_less_giving_more.html Economy Environment Pollution & Toxics Solutions Sustainable Living Water Oregon United States 11/22/2009 Oregonian Ranchers along the Idaho's Pahsimeroir River area have long pointed fingers at the mind-numbing red tape federal agencies required to eliminate barriers that blocked spawning streams and to provide more water for fish. But today, 10 miles of cold, spring-fed creek habitat that had been lost for up to a century are home to salmon http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/983340.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IdahostatesmancomLocalNews+%28IdahoStatesman.com+Local+News%29&utm_content=Google+Reader Environment Salmon Solutions Water Idaho 11/23/2009 Boise Idaho Statesman