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  • The Obama administration is investing over $400 million through the president's economic recovery plan to help modernize California's water infrastructure, including over $40 million in emergency assistance to help water-short Central Valley farmers.

    Central Valley Water: Nor Any Drop for Plants to Drink 2009

  • What the Anasazi experienced -- scarcity, the need to leave homes, and a struggle for whatever remained -- is getting easier to imagine in a water-short West.

    Chip Ward: Red Snow Warning: The End of Welfare Water and the Drying of the West 2009

  • Ms. Nunes noted that water management is a big element of a €70 million ($90 million) project IBM announced last month to install smart meters and control water usage for Ennemalta Corp. and Water Services Corp., the utilities on the water-short island of Malta.

    IBM Dives Into Water Venture 2009

  • Those we pay to look ahead are now jockeying like mad for position in a future water-short West.

    Chip Ward: Red Snow Warning: The End of Welfare Water and the Drying of the West 2009

  • Rather than forcing local factories to clean up after themselves, Changzhou decided to outsource the job of managing its water supply to a French company named Veolia — one of a handful of corporate giants now scrambling to take over city water systems around the planet, especially in the often polluted and water-short developing world.

    The Rise of Big Water Mann, Charles C. 2007

  • Among the ideas: a new binational aqueduct from the Colorado River, co-financed by water-short San Diego County; desalination plants; a series of wells.

    Tell me about Rosarita Beach 2000

  • Among the ideas: a new binational aqueduct from the Colorado River, co-financed by water-short San Diego County; desalination plants; a series of wells.

    Tell me about Rosarita Beach 2000

  • Project, initiated in 1986 to provide water to Gauteng, the water-short economic heartland of South Africa.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • But the water-short, water-wise gardener can still supply the kitchen with onions or onion substitutes year-round.

    Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway Steve Solomon

  • Leek is the only allium I know of that may grow steadily but slowly through severe drought; the water-short gardener can depend on leeks for a fall/winter onion supply.

    Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway Steve Solomon

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