Save Our River Estuaries (SORE)

Local groups

• Yahoo! Groups : A-GUA
• AlbionNation

California Water Laws

• State Water Resources Control Board: Water Rights
• North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board
• North Coast Watershed Assessment Program: Gualala Watershed Synthesis Report: Draft
• SWRCB: 1994 TSRA vs. CSPA
• California Department of Fish & Game
• CCC - Californai Coastal Commission
• California Water Code
• UCSD: Essential Fish Habitat FAQ - California
• Univ. of San Diego: California Water Law
• California Department of Fish & Game
• 1983 CA Supreme Court decision concerning water rights allocation & public trust

US Environmental Protection Agency

• EPA Water Page
• EPA Established TMDLs
• EPA: Gualala Final TMDL
• EPA Watershed Information -- Gualala-Salmon
• EPA Watershed Information -- Albion
• EPA - Fifteen Things You Can Do to Make a Difference in Your Watershed
• EPA Watershed Initiatives

Other US Agencies

• National Marine Fisheries Service
• United States Army Corps of Engineers
• United States Fish & Wildlife Service
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Pacific Salmon and the Endangered Species Act
• United States Geological Service on invasive species
• United States Geological Service: SF Bay Area & Zebra mussels
• United States Department of Agriculture & Invasive Species
• Cornell Law school: TITLE 16

Non-governmental organizations

• Sierra Club
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• Environmental Protection Information Center (northern California)
• Trout Unlimited
• Salmonid Restoration Federation
• Friends of the River
• Audubon Society
• Nature Conservancy
• Waterkeeper Alliance
• Greenpeace
• Blue Planet Project (Canadian
• Monterey Bay Aquarium

Water export & related issues

• Blue Gold: The Commodification of the World's Water Supplies
• Reuters article on Norwegian waterbag technology
• Earth Island Institute: Innovative Action for the Environment
• Earth Island Journal - Spring 2002: Water Incorporated
• Pacific Institute: The New Economy of Water
• Public Citizen - Help Block the Sale of Groundwater in the Name Of Corporate Profits!
• New Scientist: Towable storage bladders in Greece
• UN University: Managing Water for Peace in the Middle East
• U. of Wisconsin: Coastal engineering
• Forest Practice Rules and Salmonid Habitat Report (June 1999)

Great Lakes

• 6/29/00 Stupak, Ehlers, Stupak, Camp Offer New Water Moratorium Bill
• 7/18/01 Stupak letter to Bush

Invasive species

• Invasive Species and costs
• Invasive species in ships carrying water ballasts
• UN Biodiversity - alien species

Globalization

• The International Forum on Globalization
• The Alliance for Democracy

World Water & partners

• World Water SA
• Abdul Latif Jameel Group (World Water partner)
• Nordic Water Supply ASA (World Water partner)
• Nippon Yesen Kaisha (World Water partner)

Re: Ric Davidge

• Ric Davidge (1st Air Cavalry in Vietnam) directs a play about Nam
• Tulkisarmute Native Community Council & Tuluksak v. Heinze & Davidge (7/28/95)
• Wise Use movement to destroy the Environmental movement
• Davidge's paper on water exports (1994)

Other commercial water export companies

• WaterBank: marketplace for buying, selling, trading, and marketing water rights
• Medusa Water International Ltd
• Spragg Bags
• Azurix (Enron)

Press Articles

New York Times

• 2/24/02 Beyond a Drought, Water Worries Grow

Washington Post

• 2/28/02 Calif. Residents Protest River Plan

Los Angeles Times

• 3/02/02 Plan to Bag Rivers May Not Float

Alaska Daily News

• 2/17/02 Hot Waterbags

San Diego Union Tribune

• 2/02/02 Tugboats, huge bladders featured in water plan

Sacramento Bee

• 1/30/02 Firm's water wish: Ship it south
• 2/09/02 Market path has its perils, study warns
• 2/09/02 Enron water bank try came up dry
• 2/19/02 A bold endeavor -- or just all wet?

San Francisco Chronicle

• 8/06/99 Offbeat Idea to Deliver Water (Humboldt Bay to Monterey)
• 2/11/02 News in brief from California's North Coast

Santa Rosa Press Democrat

• 1/29/02 Firm wants North Coast water for San Diego
• 1/30/02 Editorial: A Sinking Feeling
• 1/31/02 Mendocino County unites against plan to ship water south
• 2/11/02 Alaskan defends proposal to ship Mendocino water south

Ukiah Daily Journal

• 1/31/02 Alaskan company wants to Albion, Gualala Rivers’ water to San Diego
• 2/17/02 Objections mount to Alaska water plan

Mendocino Beacon

• 1/31/02 Alaskan company wants to Albion, Gualala Rivers’ water to San Diego

Other

• 6/16/98 Christian Science Monitor: Canada's Dry on Exporting Water
• 2/08/00 Rochester News: Great Lakes water exports
• 2/00/01 Scientific American: Safeguarding Our Water (see part 2: Bagged and Dragged)
• 2/21/02 St. Charles County Post: Security at reservoirs, water plants has been increased
• 2/28/02 Public Citizen: Water Investment Bill Wrongly Promotes Privatization of Critical Public Resource

Independent Coast Observer

• 1/18/02 ICO p1 article "Alaskan firm targets water from Gualala, Albion Rivers"
• 1/25/02 ICO p3 article "Multinationals want Gualala River water"
• 1/25/02 ICO p4 editorial "Water to go"
• 2/01/02 ICO p1 article "Water bag plan provokes intense reaction"
• 2/01/02 ICO p4 editorial "Water hearings"
• 2/01/02 ICO p4 letter Jim Jordan - about Davidge
• 2/08/02 ICO p3 article "Water mogul responds to Albion community"
• 2/08/02 ICO p4 open space "The globalization of water" - Ursula Jones
• 2/08/02 ICO p4 letter Alan Levine
• 2/08/02 ICO p8 letter Dr. Hillary Adams - Navarro watershed protection association
• 2/08/02 ICO p13 letter Jennifer Presnell - watershed stewards project
• 2/15/02 ICO p1 article "Colfax fights water bag export proposals"
• 2/15/02 ICO p4 open space "The process of water permits" - Peter Baye
• 2/15/02 ICO p4 letter Debra Brower - Mendo Coast Democratic Club
• 2/15/02 ICO p4 letter Ursula Jones -
• 2/15/02 ICO p4 letter Debby Howard -
• 2/15/02 ICO p6 letter Dr. Hillary Adams -- CA Coastal Commission
• 2/22/02 ICO p1 article "Water bag export opposition ratchets up"
• 2/22/02 ICO p2 article "Opportunities abound to learn about rivers"
• 2/22/02 ICO p9 article "Sediment documents for Garcia & Gualala Rivers are available"
• 2/22/02 ICO p12 article "Logging since 1860 shaped the Gualala River watershed"
• 2/22/02 ICO p5 letter Bob Curran - supporting water bags (!?)
• 2/22/02 ICO p5 letter Chuck Henderson - fantasy about terrorists poisoning water bags
• 2/22/02 ICO p13 letter John & Judy Garratt - Albion River Watershed Council
• 3/01/02 ICO p1 article "Reilly carries water bag resolution"
• 3/01/02 ICO p4 open space "Students and adults improve river" - Mary-Dee Bowers
• 3/01/02 ICO p7 article "Community prepares to meet Davidge"

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