41.   However, tamarisk out-competes these trees by devouring their water sources and poisoning the soil with salt.

42.   I am drinking them and so is almost everyone else who gets water from a surface water source, that is, a river or a lake.

43.   If so, salt water from the ocean might stream into the lowlands of central California, tainting the water source for cities as distant as Los Angeles.

44.   In most of the state, settlers laid claim to small acreages around water sources, then leased federal land around them.

45.   In communities like Manuel, the water sources have either slowed or disappeared altogether.

46.   In some cases, notably Turkey, the steaming brine is so noxious that it would pollute nearby water sources to an unacceptable degree.

47.   In turn, water sources are now spouting like natural springs in other parts of the bedroom, next to makeup tables and dressing closets.

48.   Instead, find a water source other than snow.

49.   It also can crimp the output of mines by flooding access roads, washing out ports or drying out water sources used for hydraulic excavations.

50.   It is just too far from the water source, officials say.