The agency's water plan for 2012, which is set to be approved later this month, recommends 562 new projects developing new reservoirs, improving conservation, preventing erosion that would free millions of additional acre-feet.
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For a truly spectacular case of regional uproar, look at the national water plan unveiled in September, a huge scheme to transfer a cubic kilometre of water a year from (mainly) the Ebro, in the north, to the dry south-east.
It has put forward a clean water action plan to deal with runoff from city streets and farms.
It has a massive recycling effort, as well as a water conservation plan.
It encourages sales of merchandise like food, generators and water as customers plan for days without power or access to groceries.
In Griffith, a town near Narrandera, militant farmers burned piled-up copies of the water-use plan, which would affect an area of 2m people that provides about 40% of the output from Australia's farms.
Similar scenes at 28 meetings have fired up rural Australia since the water-use plan was unveiled in early October by the authority responsible for managing the basin formed by two of Australia's longest rivers, the Murray and the Darling.
Marin County cut urban water use from 170 to 143 gallons a head between 1987 and 1998 by a plan involving staggered water rates.
Southern Water has published its plan for 2015 to 2040 and has begun a consultation.
Thames Water's revised plan has been sent to Environment Secretary Hilary Benn for approval.
And she was still going back and forth with the state department of water resources for her drinking water sampling and testing plan.
Paul O'Neill, the recently ousted treasury secretary, has thrown cold water on the Bush plan, saying that the money going to tax cuts would be better spent shoring up Social Security.
Japanese broadcaster NHK said Tepco was now studying a plan to circulate water from the basement through a decontamination filter and back into the reactor.
In Part 1 , airing on Tuesday, Howard Berkes reports on a plan developed by water officials in southern Nevada to build a 300-mile pipeline to bring water from rural Nevada to Las Vegas.
The staples of the Volumetrics plan -- water-rich foods like brothy soups, fruits and vegetables, whole grains, low-fat dairy, lean meat, and fish -- not only help control hunger by filling you up, but they also do it on fewer calories.
"It's like treading water - you can't plan owt, " says Gary Wood, 25.
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In the plan, HIFRS said water used in fire fighting had been excluded because it was a basic requirement for service delivery.
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Elements of the approach are similar to that in Andhra Pradesh: farmers gather in water-users' associations to plan and operate irrigation services, for example.
By holding more water in upper-river reservoirs during the summer months, the split-season plan would boost recreational interests that require higher water levels for boat docks and other structures.
Seven years ago, a Canadian company announced a plan to ship Great Lakes water to Asia.
The students who came up with this plan estimate it will cut water usage by 10%.
Mr White acknowledged the organisation's emergency plan to deal with the water crisis had been "inadequate".
She says she's in the process of selling her water business and drawing up a business plan for Checkerboard.
Economists still do not adequately capture ecological and social values when they plan new infrastructure or design water-trading systems.
These changes are difficult to plan for, as past water patterns can no longer be used to predict the future.
While his fellow Democrats in Congress say that Brown's election means that Obama's plan to nationalize one-sixth of the US economy through his health care plan is dead in the water, Obama claims the time to move forward is now.
More recently, the Municipal Council rejected the mayor's plan for a city-owned water management corporation.
He wants to know where our backpacks are, and how we plan to carry two litres of water apiece.
In February 300 peasants stormed a township government building in Hengshishui in Guangdong Province over a plan by local officials to divert water to another area.
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