The United States and Mexico have agreed on a water pact that could give relief to farmers in the drought-stricken Rio Grande Valley and end Mexico's debt of around 1.5 million acre-feet of water that has accumulated since 1992.
Amtrol Inc., in partnership with the American Ground Water Trust, has awarded its annual scholarship to Helen Dole, an Amherst College sophomore who is majoring in geology.
Atlas Copco CMT USA Inc. announces that Quarry and Contractor Equipment & Supply has joined the company as its newest rock drilling equipment distributor.
The U.S. House of Representatives Resources Committee has endorsed a bill that directs the Interior Department to conduct a study of an aquifer in northern Idaho and eastern Washington.
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici, N.M., recently introduced the National Drought Preparedness Act of 2002 to implement a cohesive policy to lessen serious economic and environmental losses that often accompany droughts.
A plan being endorsed by the EPA's National Drinking Water Advisory Council will permit small water systems carrying up to 20 parts per billion (ppb) of arsenic to put off complying with EPA standards for 14 years and allow larger systems with water containing up to 35 ppb until 2009 to comply.
Rep. John Linder, Ga., recently introduced legislation to create a presidential appointed commission to recommend how to better capture and store fresh water, fund public works projects, improve water shortage technologies and ease the federal bureaucracy surrounding water management.
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