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	Water dispute - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Water disputes are some of the world's oldest forms of disputes.
		Some people believe that the availability of water is what finally made the differences in the form of organization or government of a people.
		Where water was scarce, such as in a desert, it made sense to have small bodies of governance with strict rules for the subjects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Water_dispute (165 words)

	North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside County columnists
		Water Authority leaders have also said for several years that the Carlsbad plant may be too expensive to operate without the Metropolitan subsidy, which would cut the cost of the water the plant produces by $250 per acre-foot.
		An acre-foot is enough water to sustain two households for a single year, and the subsidy would cut the plant's water-cost from roughly $800 to $550 per acre-foot, close enough to the $418 to $499 per acre-foot cost of imported water to make the plant feasible.
		Water Authority leaders said it was wrong for any agency to force its members to give up their legal right to seek justice in the courts or Legislature in return for financial incentives and subsidies.
	nctimes.com /articles/2004/08/01/news/top_stories/15_44_377_31_04.txt (1137 words)

	Queen Noor's message: Water: Dispute Prevention & Development."
		Our per capita water supply, already one-third of its 1960 level, will be halved again by the year 2025 (to reach 650 cubic metres per person), due to high population growth rates.
		Water disputes may also promote international conflicts, for 40% of the world's population lives in international river basins, and more than 200 water bodies are shared by two or more countries.
		If water problems that cause distress in many parts of the South are left unresolved, they and their consequences will surely migrate to the North in due time.
	www.go.com.jo /QNoorjo/main/watermsg.htm (713 words)

	ARIJ - Core Issues of the Palestinian-Israeli Water Dispute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Water is a key area of dispute: nevertheless many claims concerning the water crisis are hyperbolic and misleading.
		Yes, water is a critical area of dispute in the Arab-Israeli conflict; but given the current climate of peacemaking, and given the general war-weariness among states and populations, such predictions are excitable pieces of subjectivism.
		The Water Commission for the Study of Water Conditions in the Third Round of Talks of the Multilateral Negotiations on the Water Issue (1993), "Report on the water conditions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories".
	www.arij.org /pub/corissues (7823 words)

	Foul called in water dispute
		A state representative from Macomb County has filed a judicial misconduct complaint seeking the disqualification of a federal judge from overseeing the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department.
		Feikens oversees the Detroit water system under a federal consent decree resulting from a 1970s lawsuit filed under the federal Clean Water Act.
		Drolet said Feikens decided to activate a 40-member consortium of city and suburban members to address water issues at Granholm's behest after she vetoed a bill in March to create a suburban-controlled, rate-setting authority to oversee the water system.
	www.freep.com /news/metro/water5_20030905.htm (250 words)

	Texans blame U.S. government in border-area water dispute - The Daily Texan - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Rio Grande Valley water officials are angry that the U.S. government has not done enough to retrieve the water they say is owed to Texas farmers.
		Mexico's water management plan in Chihuahua does not comply with the treaty's regulations, White said, and it is merely by chance instances of sufficient rainfall that the treaty has been met in the past.
		White said the lack of water available to farmers especially hurts the Rio Grande Valley's economy because it is one of the poorest and fastest growing areas in the United States.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /news/2002/05/06/News/Texans.Blame.U.Government.In.BorderArea.Water.Dispute-501959.shtml (582 words)

	VOA News - Water Rights Dispute Sparks Ethnic Clashes in Kenya's Rift Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A rubber hose connected to a tap on the well feeds clean water into a deep trough, prompting a stampede among the thirsty animals, eager for a drink.
		Tanin tells visitors that because of their pastoral lifestyle, it is vital for the Maasai to have access to as many water sources as possible, not only for themselves, but also for their livestock.
		Ntimama says the act was in retaliation for the Kikuyus diverting water from a nearby river, even though the farmers knew the move would deny water to the Maasai living downstream.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-03-21-voa28.cfm (1111 words)

	COLORADO RIVER CASE
		This was due to the high salinity of water used in the irrigation process and pumped drainage.
		The effect of these two conditions was to increase the average annual salinity of waters made available to Mexico from an annual average of 800 parts of salt per million to nearly 1,500 parts per million.
		Water from the river had continuously flowed into the Gulf of California until 1956, when U.S. agricultural use led to no water discharges to the gulf in some summer months.
	www.american.edu /TED/colorado.htm (1546 words)

	Stage set for water usage dispute
		OMYA wants to mix most of this water with ground-up calcium carbonate to make a slurry, used in paper-making, which is shipped all over North America in tanker trucks and rail cars.
		The slurry is about 25 per cent water, similar to ketchup but less dilute than, say, beer or liquid soap, says Olivier Chatillon, vice-president and general manager of OMYA (Canada) Inc., a company that has no president.
		Thus, most of the water OMYA wants to take will leave the area in shipments to other parts of Canada and the U.S. Biologists who testified last summer noted that when water leaves an ecosystem like this, it can't help having an impact.
	www.vtce.org /stageset.html (1707 words)

	Chesapeake Bay Journal: Baltimore, SRBC settle dispute over water - October 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The agreement requires the city to meet certain water conservation requirements, establish drought period restrictions and participate in the development of a management plan for the reservoir behind the Conowingo Dam from which it draws water.
		Since the 1960s, the city has withdrawn water from the reservoir, known as the Conowingo Pool, intermittently during droughts when the its reservoirs were stressed.
		Less fresh water flowing down the river means that saltwater stretches farther north, threatening salt-intolerant species of important underwater grass beds in the upper Bay.
	www.bayjournal.com /article.cfm?article=1873 (688 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / N.H. / Water-bottling dispute turns out opponents at hearing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		At a hearing Tuesday, she said the bill is needed because the department ignored her constituents' concerns about the plant's effect on their own wells.
		Some supporters of the bill said they are concerned about water being contaminated by arsenic and MTBE shifting because of large groundwater withdrawals.
		Some said a tax on water might be the answer.
	www.boston.com /news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2005/01/12/water_bottling_dispute_turns_out_opponents_at_hearing (374 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Top Story: Pakistan, India to discuss Water Dispute for first time since 1998
		The Indian delegation, led by the secretary of the water resources minister, V.K. Duggal is to partake in the parleys.
		The water talks are part of the ongoing peace process started by the nuclear-armed South Asian rivals early this year.
		Khan said, the issue for distribution of waters between the two countries was amicably resolved in 1960 under the Indus Basin Treaty.
	pakistantimes.net /2004/07/29/top5.htm (631 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| US wades into Mid-East water dispute
		Jordan-based US water expert Jim Franckiewicz travelled to southern Lebanon on Monday, accompanied by US embassy and Lebanese officials, to watch workers laying pipes to pump water from the Wazzani river for use by nearby villages.
		Water is a sensitive issue in the Middle East, and the dispute comes at a particularly crucial period, as the US continues to threaten Iraqi President Saddam Hussein with the prospect of military action.
		"Water is a red line for Israel and there is a 50% chance this could escalate even if there is a US war on Iraq looming," Lebanese water expert Nabil Khalife told Reuters news agency.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/middle_east/2261060.stm (469 words)

	United Press International: Analysis: Florida water dispute in court (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Published 1/12/2004 3:56 PM MIAMI, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- An obscure S-9 water pumping station on the edge of the Everglades west of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is the subject of a dispute that could affect water law throughout the nation.
		The pumping station moves water collected in a canal from developed parts of Broward County across a levee into a canal in the Everglades.
		The district argues that the water is being moved around in the same area and does not fall under the Clean Water Act.
	www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20040112-032826-7411r (767 words)

	Mediator tapped for water dispute
		The current talks for settling the water war began on Feb. 28.
		Georgia and Alabama want enough water to fuel future growth and Florida wants enough to protect its oyster industry in Apalachicola Bay, where the Apalachicola River meets the Gulf of Mexico.
		A key issue is the anticipated growth in metro Atlanta's water use.
	southeastfarmpress.com /mag/farming_mediator_tapped_water/index.html (358 words)

	The Christian Science Monitor \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Abdullah explains that he intends to pump water from a nearby river through a steel pipe, six inches in diameter, to irrigate some 3 million square yards of farmland.
		The dispute over Shebaa Farms is widely regarded as the spark that could ignite a regional war.
		Water tensions are the last thing on Abdullah's mind, however.
	www.csmonitor.com /durable/2001/08/03/fp6s1-csm.shtml (1017 words)

	Hartland settles water dispute - 2/4/00
		The agreement continues the township's policy of asking residents to disconnect their water softeners to help eliminate pollutants such as sodium and chloride.
		The township's solution, supported by the state, has been to ask all of its residents to disconnect their water softener systems from the township sewer system, instead discharging them into a dry well or onto the ground.
		The water softeners are a main source of the sodium and chloride in the township's discharges, officials said.
	www.detnews.com /2000/livingston/0002/04/02040179.htm (461 words)

	Water dispute pits cost vs. charm
		Those who opt to hook into the water system would also pay onetime hookup and tap fees of $4,000, and be responsible for hiring a plumber to install a water meter.
		The question of where Franklin's water should come from has driven a wedge between relative newcomers, some of whom have built grand estates, and old-timers who have fewer square feet.
		Village Administrator Jon Stoppels said the idea of hooking into city water gained momentum two years ago, when a local engineering study found that Franklin's water quality is good but said the odor, color and taste leave something to be desired.
	www.freep.com /news/locoak/nfrank14_20031114.htm (725 words)

	Iran/Afghanistan: Still No Resolution For Century-Old Water Dispute
		The dispute between Iran and Afghanistan can be traced to the 1870s, writes Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh, chairman of the Urosevic Research Foundation of London and professor of geopolitics at Tehran University, in a study for the United Nations Environment Program (see report).
		A treaty on the river's water was signed in 1939 by the governments of Iran's Reza Shah Pahlavi and Mohammad Zahir Shah, his Afghan counterpart.
		A small amount of water from the Helmand River reached Iran on 25 October 2002, but Iranian officials complained that it was not enough for farming.
	www.payvand.com /news/05/sep/1061.html (971 words)

	Senior Indian and Pakistani officials begin talks on water dispute
		India's minister for water resources, Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi, after a meeting with the Pakistani team late Monday, said he hoped for a "positive and good" outcome for the talks.
		According to Pakistan, India is violating the provisions of the treaty with its construction of the Bagliar dam on the Jhelum river and the proposed Kirshna Ganga dam on the Chenab in the Indian-controlled side of Kashmir.
		The water talks are part of a slew of meetings in the past week between officials of the two countries on subjects such as drug trafficking and reducing the risk of nuclear confrontation in the South Asia region.
	www.terradaily.com /2004/040622081527.jm1vpyy7.html (509 words)

	No easy solution in sight for border water dispute - The Daily Texan - News
		If the country can't comply because of water shortage, the treaty allows the water debt to be repaid in the following five-year cycle.
		Gene Hall, spokesman for the Texas Farm Bureau, said water withheld from Texas is being used to produce Chihuahuan crops that compete with Texan agriculture.
		Mexico is expected to owe 1.5 million acre-feet of water by Oct. 2.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /news/2002/08/27/News/No.Easy.Solution.In.Sight.For.Border.Water.Dispute-500169.shtml (448 words)

	Animosity flowing in Washington water dispute
		PESHASTIN, Wash. -- A water war is boiling in "the pear capital of the world" in what may be a taste of battles to come in farm country as environmentalists continue to assume a growing role in enforcing the Endangered Species Act in the Northwest.
		Family pear farmers in this high valley just east of the Bavarian-themed, tourist-mobbed Leavenworth were bracing for harvest season when pears need a lot of water to live up to their billing as the tastiest pears on earth.
		On one side of the dam is the beginning of a 14-mile irrigation canal, which provides a portion of the water used by 800 customers, a mix of pear and apple orchards as well as residences in the Upper Wenatchee Valley.
	www.citizenreviewonline.org /august_2002/animosity.htm (1244 words)

	Lawsuit In Water Dispute Dismissed (washingtonpost.com) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The dispute began in February 2003 when the county decided to supply water to the growing town center in Lusby and a nearby office park instead of using Chesapeake.
		The water company said that it could provide service to the area at a lower cost and more effectively than the county could.
		In its suit, Chesapeake said the county's water service plans for Lusby are a waste of taxpayer money and a threat to the existence of the company.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A28068-2005Feb16.html (578 words)

	israelinsider: Views: Dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian water dispute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The main problem we face is that we live in a water scarce land and there is a need to supply as much water to all Israelis and Palestinians as they demand for all uses.
		The price of water would be set on the basis of the uses of the water and the quality of the water.
		Israeli and Palestinian and international water experts would then be able to devote their time, energy, knowledge, expertise and ingenuity and demonstrating that we can create the world's very best water market where scarcity does not exist and where water creates partnerships and peace instead of conflicts and feelings of discrimination.
	web.israelinsider.com /Views/4252.htm (1115 words)

	Beirut Seeks U.N. Mediation In Water Dispute
		Lebanon called on the United Nations yesterday to mediate a dispute with Israel over a Lebanese project to pump water from rivers in the two countries' common border region.
		The United Nations is "the natural place for discussing any dispute with Israel over Lebanon's use of parts of the Wazzani and Hasbani rivers to irrigate its agricultural land and thirsty villages in south Lebanon," said Lebanese President Emile Lahoud.
		A Lebanese water official says the project will take less than 10 million cubic meters of water per year from the area.
	www.unwire.org /unwire/20020917/28991_story.asp (338 words)

	JS Online: Water project dispute could delay improvements
		If the two sides do not resolve their differences by early April, the proposed elimination of dead-end water pipes and other system upgrades intended to provide a steady flow of fresh water to Fair Park facilities likely will be delayed until the end of the year, county Engineer Scott Schmidt said.
		About 14,000 gallons of water each day from Jackson are poured onto the ground at a cost of $500 a month.
		The ongoing dispute also is delaying decisions on where to extend water from Fair Park to a hospital being built on the west side of U.S. Highway 45 in Polk.
	www.jsonline.com /news/ozwash/mar04/213665.asp (626 words)

	Wazzani Water Rights Dispute
		Even with the additional water that will be pumped with the inauguration of the pump today, Lebanon would only be benefiting from 9 million cubic meters of water per year, which is a tiny part of what is rightfully ours under any and all international water rights agreements.
		Yet with the additional water that we are pumping as of today, we will only be getting 9 million cubic meters per year.
		Under any and all water rights agreements, including the most recent one that was proposed by the United Nations in 1997 and which is yet to be ratified, we are well within our rights.
	www.deanlebaron.com /realmedia/y2002/farha.html (664 words)

	NPR : Analysis : Worsening Dispute Over Water Between Lebanese And Israeli Governments
		Lebanon is planning to pump water from the Wazzani Springs near the Israeli border to help parched villages in the region.
		The clear waters of the Wazzani rush innocently from an underground spring in southeastern Lebanon.
		Israel claims the Wazzani project threatens to lower the water level of the Sea of Galilee at a time when Israel is facing a water crisis.
	www.npr.org /programs/atc/transcripts/2002/oct/021015.seelye.html (954 words)

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