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	<title>Political Blotter &#187; water</title>
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		<title>Boxer&#8217;s water resources bill gets bipartisan push</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/05/15/boxers-water-resources-bill-gets-bipartisan-push/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 18:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barbara Boxer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Army Corps of Engineers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Senate today overwhelmingly voted to pass a water resources bill that Sen. Barbara Boxer had recently described as vital to the economic health of the Bay Area and all of California. S.601, The Water Resources Development Act, reauthorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to deal with water issues ranging from harbor restoration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study: California can kiss its vineyards goodbye</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/04/08/study-california-can-kiss-its-vineyards-goodbye/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/04/08/study-california-can-kiss-its-vineyards-goodbye/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservation International]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmental Defense Fund]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freshwater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irrigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[study]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[temperature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[viticulture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wine-producing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=22676</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Awful as some of the climate-change predictions are, this one might hit a lot of Northern California residents where it hurts (assuming their homes aren’t gobbled up by the sea first): Global warming will dramatically impact many of the world’s most famous wine-producing regions, according to a new study. The first-ever worldwide analysis of climate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ricky Gill wins Farm Bureau endorsement</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/09/12/ricky-gill-wins-farm-bureau-endorsement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/09/12/ricky-gill-wins-farm-bureau-endorsement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Congressional Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry McNerney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CA-9]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CA9]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[California Farm Bureau Federation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Valley]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[endrorsement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lodi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ricky gill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ricky Gill, the Lodi Republican challenging Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Stockton, in the newly drawn 9th Congressional District, announced today that he’s been endorsed by the California Farm Bureau Federation. “Ricky Gill has grown up in the Central Valley and has firsthand experience in small business, dealing with regulations and encouraging the expansion of trade to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Joaquin Delta water war documentary to debut with Ed Begley Jr.</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/08/06/san-joaquin-delta-water-war-documentary-to-debut-with-ed-begley-jr/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/08/06/san-joaquin-delta-water-war-documentary-to-debut-with-ed-begley-jr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ed Begley Jr.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Over Troubled Waters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. George Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. John Garamendi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restore the delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[water war]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may not be an Oscar contender but folks who like to drink water may want to catch the Aug. 8 premiere of &#8220;Over Troubled Waters,&#8221; a documentary about efforts to divert water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta into the Central Valley and Southern California. Veteran water warriors and congressional reps. George Miller and John [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Westlands farmers bank on Delta House aspirants</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/07/31/westlands-farmers-bank-on-delta-house-aspirants/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/07/31/westlands-farmers-bank-on-delta-house-aspirants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Congressional Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry McNerney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Garamendi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bay Delta Conservation Plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CA-3]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CA-9]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CA3]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[California Westside Farmers PAC]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[contribution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Feinstein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Salazar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kim Vann]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peripheral Canal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peripheral tunnel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ricky gill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Westlands Water District]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=20537</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two Republican House candidates from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta area took campaign cash from downstate farmers whom would benefit from a new water plan at the Delta’s expense, the area’s current lawmakers say. Kim Vann, a Colusa County Supervisor challenging Rep. John Garamendi, D-Fairfield, in the newly drawn 3rd Congressional District received $5,000 from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contra Costa reacts swiftly to revised Delta peripheral canal plan</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/07/25/contra-costa-reacts-swiftly-to-revised-delta-peripheral-canal-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/07/25/contra-costa-reacts-swiftly-to-revised-delta-peripheral-canal-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2012 19:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Delta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contra costa water district]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gov. jerry brown; interior secretary ken salazar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[karen mitchoff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peripheral Canal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. George Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Jerry McNerney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. John Garamendi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rep. Mike Thompson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[supervisor karen mitchoff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supervisor Mary Nejedly Piepho]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=20488</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Contra Costa County, whose leaders have been fending off a peripheral canal for more than three decades, reacted swiftly and negatively to a joint federal-state announcement today of a new Delta water diversion proposal. “We need science before size,&#8221; said Contra Costa County Supervisor Mary Nejedly Piepho, who also sits on the Delta Protection Commission, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Failed Contra Costa water fee flopped in 18 of 19 cities</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/05/23/failed-contra-costa-water-fee-flopped-in-18-of-19-cities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/05/23/failed-contra-costa-water-fee-flopped-in-18-of-19-cities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 19:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antioch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brentwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clayton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clean water fee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Concord]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contra costa clean water program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danville]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[El Cerrito]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hercules]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lafayette]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martinez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moraga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oakley]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pleasant Hill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[San Pablo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Walnut Creek]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=19940</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The failed Contra Costa clean water fee sank in every city in the county except El Cerrito, according to a vote breakdown. As you may recall, the county and its 19 cities attempted earlier this year to persuade property owners to pass an annual fee to pay for programs associated with tightening state and federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consultant prematurely mails stormwater election flyers</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/02/09/consultant-prematurely-mails-stormwater-election-flyers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/02/09/consultant-prematurely-mails-stormwater-election-flyers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conrtra costa community clean water initiative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa Board of Supervisors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[contra costa clean water program]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stormwater fee]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The nearly 30 people who testified Tuesday before the Contra Costa Board of  Supervisors against a proposed new stormwater fee  arrived home later in the day to find an unpleasant surprise: A fold-out mailer promoting the countywide fee election that had been approved just a few hours earlier. Critics immediately called the public hearing on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Democrats want water deal rescinded</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/10/24/house-democrats-want-water-deal-rescinded/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/10/24/house-democrats-want-water-deal-rescinded/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[George Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jerry McNerney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Garamendi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. House]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Five Northern California House Democrats demanded answers Monday from the Interior Department on the Bay-Delta planning process, urging the department to rescind a “flawed” deal developed behind closed doors. That memorandum of agreement, they say, gives water export agencies south of the Delta and in Southern California unprecedented influence over a public process affecting California’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California has a lot of water &#8211; for now</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/03/30/california-has-a-lot-of-water-for-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/03/30/california-has-a-lot-of-water-for-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jerry Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bond measure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bureau of Reclamation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Farm Bureau Federation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Central Valley Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Department of Water Resources]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drought]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[governor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proclamation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rainfall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reservoir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snowpack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Water Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wenger]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[California may be dangerously low on money, but at least it has water – for now. As was expected, Gov. Jerry Brown today proclaimed an end to the state’s drought after big increases in statewide rainfall and mountain snowpack. He urged Californians, however, to keep conserving water. “While this season’s storms have lifted us out [...]]]></description>
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