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	<title>Preserve Our Water</title>
	<link>http://www.preserveourwater.org</link>
	<description>Preserve Our Water is a non profit organization dedicated to groundwater conservation in the Blanco-Pedernales Water Conservation District.</description>
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		<title>Predators: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Todd Swift (Blanco County  AgriLife Extension Agent) has arranged to have Jim Gallagher of the Texas  AgriLife Extension Service in Uvalde speak at our Sixth Annual Pedernales Wildlife Management Coop meeting, to be held at 4:00 pm Saturday, October 24th,  in the PEC Auditorium in Johnson  City. 
Dr. Gallagher will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.preserveourwater.org/groundwater-conservation/predators-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly</link>
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		<title>Groundwater Management Area 9 Meeting Set  February 19th</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Representatives from each of the Groundwater Conservation Districts in  GMA 9 will meet next week, Thursday the 19th at 10:00 AM to review  and discuss the results of the most recent groundwater modeling effort. 

Last  fall, Trinity Aquifer modeling requests were submitted to the Texas Water  Development Board with pumping targets [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.preserveourwater.org/groundwater-conservation/groundwater-management-area-9-meeting-set-february-19th</link>
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		<title>Texas: The State of Flowing Water</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The newly released documentary, Texas: The State of Flowing Water airs Thursday, February 12th on PBS. Check local listings for the time in your area.
Part 4 of the Texas Parks  and Wildlife series on water resources in Texas airs this week. In this installment, the  impact of population growth and climate change are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.preserveourwater.org/groundwater-conservation/texas-the-state-of-flowing-water</link>
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		<title>Blanco County Master Gardeners to Host Dr. Baron Rector</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The water in our aquifers, creeks and rivers is heavily influenced by land use practices. One of the most important ways we can protect the quality and supply of water is through prudent management of our grasslands. Preserve Our Water is please to help promote this important educational event being held by the Blanco County [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.preserveourwater.org/groundwater-conservation/blanco-county-master-gardeners-to-host-dr-baron-rector</link>
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		<title>Texas Legislative Preview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, January 15, the Greater  Edwards Aquifer Alliance (GEAA) held its “legislative kickoff” at the State  Capitol. This meeting with legislative staff representing 11 Senators or  Representatives as well as the Natural Resources Committee, sought to accomplish  two goals. 


One goal was to brief the staff members on GEAA legislative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.preserveourwater.org/groundwater-conservation/texas-legislative-preview</link>
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		<title>Drought Conditions in the News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The continuing and worsening drought  conditions being experienced in Central Texas  have  been much in the news during  the final days of 2008 and the first weeks of the new year. In December, the US  Drought Monitor reported that the conditions in several Central Texas counties,  including Blanco  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.preserveourwater.org/groundwater-conservation/drought-conditions-in-the-news</link>
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		<title>Blanco County Drought Conditions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Blanco County drought condition as of January 13th – D4  Exceptional

 
(The US Drought Monitor ranges from D0 &#8211;  Abnormally Dry to D4 &#8211; Exceptional)
 
http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/DM_state.htm?TX,S

 
NOTE: Blanco County has been in Severe to Extreme  drought conditions since February, 2008 and under Exceptional conditions since  December, 2008 according to the US [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.preserveourwater.org/groundwater-conservation/blanco-county-drought-conditions</link>
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		<title>Help Decide The Future of Your Groundwater</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Board of Preserve Our Water strongly supports the following message from David K. Langford, Advisory Board member of the Hill Country Alliance. 
The POW Board has adopted a resolution on this matter &#8211; the willful ignoring of the effects of severe drought in area groundwater planning by Groundwater Management Area 9. That resolution is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.preserveourwater.org/groundwater-conservation/help-decide-the-future-of-your-groundwater</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Allow This Opportunity To Go To Waste</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This summer, Central Texas is experiencing an &#8220;exceptional&#8221; drought, the highest intensity of drought as categorized by the U.S. Drought Monitor.  Drought means less rainfall to recharge to our underground aquifers and it can also result in higher groundwater pumping demand.  As a result, water levels in Hill Country wells are declining and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.preserveourwater.org/groundwater-conservation/dont-allow-this-opportunity-to-go-to-waste</link>
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		<title>BPGCD Meeting Notice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Blanco-Pedernales Groundwater Conservation District holds its regular July meeting:
Thursday, July17th
7:00 PM
901 West Main
Johnson City
Members of the Preserve Our Water board urge all interested citizens to attend this meeting. As the drought deepens, citizens have raised concerns about the effectiveness of the District&#8217;s drought management provisions.

We join in that concern.
During the routine &#8220;Public Comment&#8221; period [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.preserveourwater.org/groundwater-conservation/bpgcd-meeting-notice</link>
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