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April 4- The U.S. government on Thursday recommended the removal of four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River in Oregon and California to aid native salmon runs and help resolve a decades-long struggle over allocation of scarce water resources.
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SALT LAKE CITY-- After four years of negotiations, Utah Gov. Gary Herbert on Wednesday rejected an agreement with Nevada that would allow Las Vegas to pump massive amounts of groundwater from the states' shared border.
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OLMOS, Peru, April 4- Peru's Olmos Valley might be a desert now, with rare rains and rivers that trickle to life for just a few months a year, but a radical engineering solution for water scarcity could soon create an agricultural bonanza here.
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The Coast Guard last month quietly sent to the White House's Office of Management and Budget a proposal to allow the barging of fracking wastewater.
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DUBAI/ KHOBAR, April 3- Saudi Arabia is unlikely to produce much shale gas this decade, hampered by scarce water and prices fixed far below production costs, but it has the reserves, the desire and the potential to become a shale giant one day.
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Gary Herbert said Thursday he was struggling over whether to let Las Vegas pump massive amounts of groundwater from the Nevada- Utah border. The water comes from an ice-age aquifer under 120- mile-long Snake Valley, which supports ranching and farming on both sides of the Utah- Nevada border.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif.-- There's more bad news for California water users: the snow pack is just half the amount of normal and has already begun to melt. Snowmelt provides about a third of the water used in households and on farms across California.
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DENVER-- Colorado's largest water utility is poised to declare a Stage 2 drought, meaning mandatory watering restrictions would kick in Monday. Denver Water's board intends to make the declaration Wednesday.
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FRANKFURT, March 27- BASF, the world's largest chemicals company by sales, said it would combine its water solutions, oilfield and mining solutions businesses to cut costs. As part of the overhaul, which will result in 215 job cuts worldwide, BASF will sell its industrial water management business in France, it said in a statement on Wednesday.
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NEW DELHI-- Bollywood's biggest star, Amitabh Bachchan, wants his fans to enjoy a dry Holi and save water during the Hindu festival of colors because of a drought in western India. Bachchan said on his Facebook page Tuesday that "I have expressed that we play a dry Holi without water."
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*Spot price for Thursday eases to 46.3 euros/ MWh. OSLO, March 27- Nordic power prices for delivery in the second quarter inched up on Wednesday to the highest levels since last December as dry weather kept the water supply low for hydropower generation. was trading at 41.60 euros per megawatt-hour by 1100 GMT, 5 cents higher than the previous day.
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*More than a day after industrial waste water leaked from a Suncor Energy Inc site into the Athabasca River, the oil-sands giant and the province were still trying to determine which, if any, toxic materials were carried into the major Alberta waterway.
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CALGARY, Alberta, March 26- Contaminated water may have spilled into the Athabasca River from a broken pipe at Suncor Energy Inc's oil sands project in northern Alberta, sparking new fears about pollution of the river from the huge oil sands developments on its banks. Suncor said it does not anticipate any impact to the Athabasca River.
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March 26- The U.S. environmental regulator said Goodrich Corp, a unit of United Technologies Corp, has agreed to investigate and clean up contaminated groundwater and soil at a site in Rialto, California.
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WASHINGTON, March 26- Fifty-five percent of U.S. river and stream lengths were in poor condition for aquatic life, largely under threat from runoff contaminated by fertilizers, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday.
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CALGARY, Alberta, March 26- Contaminated water may have spilled into the Athabasca River from a broken pipe at Suncor Energy Inc's oil sands project in northern Alberta, sparking new fears about pollution of the river from the massive oil sands developments along its banks.
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CALGARY, Alberta, March 26- Suncor Energy Inc. said on Tuesday a pipe that broke after freezing was responsible for a spill of contaminated water at its main oil sands project site north of Fort McMurray, Alberta.
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CALGARY, Alberta, March 26- Suncor Energy Inc said on Tuesday a pipe that broke after freezing was responsible for a spill of contaminated water at its main oil sands project site north of Fort McMurray, Alberta.
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CALGARY, Alberta, March 26- Suncor Energy Inc, Canada's No. 1 oil producer, released water from a holding pond at its oil sands project into the Athabasca River, Alberta's environment department said on Tuesday. Wayne Wood, a spokesman for provincial Environment Minister Diana McQueen, said the volume of water sent into the river has not yet been determined.
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CALGARY, Alberta, March 26- Suncor Energy Inc, Canada's No. 1 oil producer, released water from a holding pond at its oil sands project into the Athabasca River, Alberta's environment department said on Tuesday. Alberta Environment said it does not yet know whether the water that was sent by pipe into the river contained toxic materials.