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2010
June	Is Water the New Oil? [Multi-Housing News]
April	Regency Centers: Greening the Bottom Line [Stores]
March	Internet-Enabled Irrigation System Saving School District Big Bucks [Landscape Management]
March	Campbell Union School District Celebrates World Water Day with Award [Silicon Valley Water Conservation Awards]
March	West Coast City Implements Major Smart Water Management System [Multi-Housing News]
February	Can a Smart Water Grid Save States from Looming Water Shortage? [Government Technology]
February	Water Management and Conservation – New Technologies [Green Hotelier]
February	Spotlight on Innovators in Green Technology [North Bay Business Journal]
January	Riding the Wave [Retail Facility Business]
January	It's Not a Water Crisis. It's a Water Management Crisis. [Lux Research]
2009
December	Making Every Drop Count [water-technology.net]
November	Farmers Try Smart Tech To Save Water [InformationWeek]
November	The Green Building Sector Is Ripe for Water-Saving Innovation, Report Says [earth2tech]
July	Technology: Key Water Saving Solution for California Farms [Greentech Media]
July	Smart Tech Could Save Billions of Liters of Water [Reuters]
July	Water Use Must Change Whether Fish Live or Die [SFGate/San Francisco Chronicle]
June	Water Management Technology Will Save Water, Energy, Money [Colorado Real Estate Journal]
May	E=H2O [Sustainable Industries]
May	Satellite-Guided Watering Can Save Time, Money (video) [CBS TV]
April	The Business of Water [FORTUNE]
April	Bay Area Firms Recognized For Green Innovations [SFGate/San Francisco Chronicle]
April	2009 Innovations Review (PDF) [Environmental Defense Fund, Innovation Exchange]
April	Smarter Irrigation [Environmental Defense Fund, Innovation Exchange]
April	Interview with Chris Spain [Environmental Defense Fund, Innovation Exchange]
April	Low-Carbon Meals, Employee Raises and Energy Incentives Highlighted in Innovations Report [GreenBiz.com]
March	Companies Cite Growing Interest, Need a Value for Environmental Smarts: Survey GreenBiz Staff [Greener Buildings]
March	Regency Centers Conserve Water and Dollars [STORES Magazine]
February	California Declares Water Crisis; Has Time Come for Water Grid? [GreenTechMedia.com]
February	It Pays to Be Green [The Press Democrat]
February	A Smart Grid for Water [GreenTechMedia.com]
January	HydroPoint Flows into Shopping Centers [Sustainable Industries]
January	Boosting the Triple Bottom Line Using Water Management Strategies Mr. Christopher Spain Chairman / Chief Strategy Officer HydroPoint Data Systems [Environnmental Leader]
January	Regency Aims to Conserve 42M Gallons of Water [ChainStoreAge.com]
January	Some High Tech Ways to Conserve Water [KGO-TV San Francisco, CA]
January	COVER STORY: The Green 15 [OCMetro.com]

2008

November	Blue is the New Green [Inc. Magazine]
October	Web-based WeatherTRAK irrigation solution gets enhancements [Athletic Turf News]
October	Coke's Dilemma [Fortune Magazine]
July	It's gonna be a bright, bright sunshiny day [Santa Clarita Valley Signal]
July	HydroPoint Hires New CEO for Growth [North Bay Business Journal]
July	Petaluma's HydroPoint Hires CEO [Press Democrat]
July	Irrigation Technology: Smart water solutions for state's farmers [California Farm Bureau Federation]
July	Un Jardín Donde Cada Gota Cuenta [Univision Online]
July	Letting the Weather Control the Water [San Francisco Chronicle]
June	Plenty of Water to Use, None to Waste. Mall: Showpiece for Water Conservation. [Daily Republic]
June	Tracking Weather to Save Water: Petaluma Company Cuts Usage, Costs [Mercury News]
June	Web-based System Keeps Businesses Green by Watering Less [Stores Magazine]
May	Make Your Garden Environmentally Friendly [Orange County Register]
May	Building the Way to Water Efficiency [GreenerBuildings.com]
May	Water Sense: 10 Smart Products that Save Water [Western Interiors and Design]
May	Smart Irrigation Controllers Save 25-50% on Landscape Irrigation and Damage from Overwatering [California Green Solutions]
May	eBay Opens Building with Largest Solar Roof in San Jose [The Mercury News]
May	Smart Water Management: a Low-risk Green Initiative with a Fast Payback [GreenerBuildings.com]
May	Petaluma Schools to Use WeatherTRAK [North Bay Business Journal]
April	High-tech Watering System Eliminates the Guess Work [Times Colonist]
April	Companies Tap Water Management System to Lower Bills [San Diego Business Journal]
April	Water's Back On, But It'll Cost More Than Before [Huntersville Herald]
April	Sprinkler Smarts [Recreation Management]
March	Jack in the Box Saving Water with Satellite Irrigation [San Diego Union-Tribune]
March	Jack in the Box Saving Water with Satellite Irrigation [San Francisco Chronicle]
January	Using Water Management Strategies to Boost the Triple Bottom Line [GreenerBuildings.com]
January	Get Gadgets to Do the Hard Work for You [IT World Canada]
January	Management Gets Smart about Water [Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal]
January	Green Tech: Save the Planet the Easy Way [Computerworld Malaysia]
January	10 Tech Ways to Go Green and Save Money [PC Advisor]

2007

December	Charleston Going Greener [The Post and Courier]
December	Solano Water Program Helps Businesses Save Resources, Money [East Bay Business Times]
December	County Agency Helps Consumers Conserve Water [Vallejo Times-Herald]
December	Big Water Users Get Incentive to Save [Contra Costa Times]
November	Green-gardening Gift Ideas for the Man in Red [Daily Pilot]
November	Sprinklers and a New IT Era [Wall Street Journal]
November	Smart Irrigation (PDF, 770K) [Chain Store Age]
November	High-tech WeatherTRAK System Tells Us When to Water and for How Long [The Community Voice]
October	Stemming the Runoff Tide [American City & County]
October	Mall Gets Green [Daily Republic]
October	Automated Builder: New Products [Automated Builder]
September	Water Watcher: Tech Uses Weather to Meter Irrigation More Wisely [GreenTech Pastures]
September	HydroPoint Wins Series C from Citi [North Bay Business Journal]
September	HydroPoint Gets Cash [Greentech Media]
September	Product of the Month (PDF, 137K) [Today's Facility Manager]
August	What to Do in Your Garden in August [Sunset Magazine]
August	Green Scene [Northbay biz]
July	North Bay Venture Capital on Rise [The Press Democrat]
July	Summer Gardening [ABC KGO TV - "A View from the Bay"]
July	Desperate Sprinklers Watch the Video [The Wall Street Journal]
July	We're Running Out of Water [San Francisco Chronicle]
July	Business' Building Products are Simply Green [Miami Herald]
June	Water Conservation (video) [NBC-11 News]
June	Petaluma Prepares to Reduce Water Use [Petaluma Argus-Courier]
June	Smart Irrigation: Measuring Water Savings in Kilowatts [Home Energy]
June	Sooner or Later, It's Going to Pay You to Get Water Wise [The Press Democrat]
May	Intelligent Irrigation Technologies for Greener Landscaping with HydroPoint [Green Living Ideas audio podcast]
May	Savings, Savings Everywhere [Rocky Mountain News]
May	"Green" Technology Booms in North Bay [North Bay Business Journal]
April	Going Green [Central Oregonian]
April	Orange County is Dry. Think Drought-tolerant Landscapes. [The Orange County Register]
April	Smart Irrigation: The Harlan Ranch system uses real-time weather, soil-analysis data to direct water. [Fresno Bee]
March	Developer installs satellite-based irrigation to flush out water savings [San Diego Business Journal]
March	Roger's re-landscaping plan stems runoff [Daily Pilot]
February	Water Is Life [Building Owners and Managers Association Newsline]
February	Company profile: HydroPoint [San Francisco Business Times]
January	Report predicts global disaster [Red Herring]
January	New products say it loud: They're green and they're proud [Los Angeles Times]
January	With 40 million houses coming, green products take the stage [Herald Tribune]
January	It's Cool to Be Green (video) [ABC-TV "Good Morning America"]
January	As water concerns rise, so does HydroPoint [North Bay Business Journal]
January	HydroPoint sells 'smart irrigation' systems to city [North Bay Business Journal]

2006

December	From your lawn to the ocean [KCET-LA "Life and Times"]
December	Newport Rolls Out Robot Sprinklers [The Orange County Register]
November	2006 Top-10 Green Building Products [BuildingGreen.com]
November	Weather-sensitive Sprinklers for City [Petaluma Argus-Courier]
November	HydroPoint Helps Habitat [Petaluma Argus-Courier]
October	Smart Irrigation Will Be Required in California in 2012 [Engineering News-Record]
October	Efficient Landscape Watering [California Builder]
August	AB1881: Impact to the Landscape Industry [Landscape Contractor National]
August	HydroPoint's CEO Chris Spain interviewed about legislation AB1881 [The Press Democrat]
August	Fluid Results [Constructech]
July 7	SMART IRRIGATION SECTION Case Study #2: Savings in Santa Barbara [Lawn & Landscape]
July 7	SMART IRRIGATION SECTION Case Study #1: Irrigating in Irvine Ranch [Lawn & Landscape]
July 1	Intelligent Irrigation [UNITS Magazine]
July 1	Irrigation Innovation [Lawn & Landscape]
June 1	Dry city sets strict irrigation standards [U.S. Water News]
June 1	Save Water at Home [Smart HomeOwner]
June 1	Toro’s TIS-240 controller [Landscape & Irrigation]
June 1	What Every Builder Experiences - and Doesn't Have to [Builder/Architect]
May 30	Business Briefs [Clean Water Report]
May 1	Manage Runoff Remotely [TecHome Builder]
May 1	Solid Value: The Answer to a Softening Market [Builder/Architect]
April 12	[Irrigation] Selling Convenience [Lawn & Landscape]
April 1	Smart ET Controller [Irrigation & Green Industry]
April 1	Irrigation [AWWA Journal]
March 30	NWP Services Corp. To Provide WeatherTRAK Irrigation Management to the Multi-Housing Industry [Multi-Housing News]
March 1	WeatherTRAK Approved for Calif. Green Builder Program [TecHome Builder]
March 1	Strictly business [Press Democrat]
March 1	HydroPoint WeatherTRAK Controllers [National Urban Agriculture Council]
March 1	More features, more water savings [Landscape Management]
March 1	SWAT Results, Proposed Protocol Change Posted [Irrigation & Green Industry]
Feb. 14	WeatherTRAK Smart Irrigation Controller Selected for CA Green Builder Program [Building Online]
Feb. 8	HydroPoint selected for Green Builder program [Argus Courier]
Feb. 2	WeatherTRAK Controllers Score 100 Percent in SWAT Performance Tests [Lawn & Landscape]
Feb. 1	Automation Tops the List in 2006 [Construtech]
Jan. 26	A+ for WeatherTRAK [Landscape Management]
Jan. 24	Venture investments level in '05 [Press Democrat]
Jan. 1	2006 New Product Review [Landscape Design/Build]
Jan. 1	Smart Tools To Help You Get The Job Done [Landscape Design/Build]

2005

Feb. 17	HydroPoint Launches WeatherTRAK ET Pro and WeatherTRAK.net [Lawn & Landscape]
Dec. 21	Giving back [Argus Courier]
Dec. 1	Landscape Over-watering Leads to Expensive Unplanned Risk [Builder/Architect]
Nov. 26	Startup gets watering down to a science [Press Democrat]
Nov. 16	HydroPoint raises $5 million [Argus Courier]
Nov. 4	Free Training Site [Southwest Trees & Turf]
Nov. 1	Taking Conservation Into Consideration [Turf]
Nov. 1	24 - Station Controller [Irrigation & Green Industry]
Nov. 1	Industry Updates/Green Pages [California Landscaping]
Oct. 16	Government Cash Rebates Spur Home Water Conservation [Long Beach Press-Telegram]
Oct. 1	HydroPoint and TORO Launch Free Online Training for WeatherTRAK-enabled Irrigation Controllers [Offshoot]
Sep. 20	HydroPoint, Toro Launch Web Training for WeatherTRAK Controllers [Lawn & Landscape]
Sep. 9	LM Week in Review [Landscape Management]
Sep. 1	IRRIGATION: No Wasted Opportunity [Lawn & Landscape]
Sep. 1	Free Online Training for Toro, HydroPoint & Irritrol Controllers [The Landscaper]
Sep. 1	No Wasted opportunity [Lawn & Landscape]
Sep. 1	Change in the weather? [Landscape Management]
Sep. 1	Components For Building A Smarter Home [Builder News]
Aug. 1	Weather-based irrigation pays dividends for water agencies, customers [U.S. Water News]
Aug. 1	Extend Green Building to the Outdoors to Avoid Expensive Risk [Builder/Architect]
July 19	The Next Generation of Design Software [Environmental Design & Construction]
July 11	Shea Homes Chooses WeatherTRAK [Grounds Maintenance]
July 1	Weather Watcher [Custom Home Outdoors]
June 13	High-tech water refining [Austion American-Statesman]
June 9	Water goes high-tech [Portsmouth Herald]
June 8	WeatherTRAK curbing runoff [Argus Courier]
June 7	Builders Learn How To Save Water And Eliminate Runoff Pollution At PCBC 2005 [Pollution Online]
June 1	Hot Product of the Month [Multifamily Executive]
June 1	Smart Products: Irrigation and water feature products [Landscape Design/Build]
June 1	WATER SMART [Construtech]
May 30	Turning to tech for cleaner water [Mercury News]
May 18	IRRIGATION: Drown Low-Ball Competitors [Lawn & Landscape]
May 1	HydroPoint WeatherTRAK ET Plus Controller [Lawn & Landscape]
March 4	Finally, Water Management Technology that Delivers on its Promise [ALCA Influence]
March 1	Online Service manages commercial irrigation. [Managing Automation]
March 1	HydroPoint WeatherTRAK Irrigation Management [Lawn & Landscape]
March 1	HydroPoint WeatherTRAK ET Pro Irrigation Management Solution [Green Media]
March 1	Irrigation Track [Green Media]
March 1	HydroPoint [Green Media]
Feb. 1	Product News [AWWA]
Jan. 10	Why All the Fuss about Smart ET Controllers? [Green Media]

2004

Dec.	WeatherTRAK Named Lawn and Landscape Hot Product Pick [Lawn & Landscape] (PDF, 140k)
Nov.	HydroPoint Secures $11.9 Million in Venture Funding [Lawn & Landscape] (PDF, 30k)
Nov.	HydroPoint Gets $11.9 Million Funding [North Bay Business Journel] (PDF, 20k)
Nov.	HydroPoint Secures $11.9 in Venture Funding [vFinance.com] (PDF, 25k)
Nov.	HydroPoint Secures $11.9 in Venture Funding [Thomson Venture Economics Private Equity Week] (PDF, 23k)
Oct.	Reducing Urban Runoff with Smart ET Controllers: Report Review [AWWA Journal] (PDF, 147k)
Oct.	Sprinkle, Sprinkle Little Star [The Orange County Register] (PDF, 105k)
Sept.	HydroPoint Goes Primetime [Petaluma Argus-Courier] (PDF, 16k)
Sept.	HydroPoint Featured on TV [North Bay Business Journal] (PDF, 17k)
Sept.	Landscape Irrigation Goes Hi-Tech [Petaluma Argus-Courier] (PDF, 24k)
July	A Win-Win Solution [Water and Wastes Digest] (PDF, 924k)
June	California Utility Uses WeatherTRAK Irrigation System to Cut Water Use [AWWA Journal] (PDF, 99k)
May	Lake Arrowhead Implements Solution to Conserve Water [Grounds Maintenance] (PDF, 25k)
April	Budget Water Wisely [Lawn & Landscape] (PDF, 25k)
March	Smart Watering Puts Gardeners in the Green [Fort Collins Coloradoan] (PDF, 37k)
March	Landscape Water Efficiency: New Profit Center for Green Industry Professionals [Lands Magazine] (PDF, 124k)
March	Control Freaks [Lawn & Landscape] (PDF, 35k)
Feb.	Conserve Water Usage in Garden this Winter [The Orange County Register] (PDF, 27k)
Jan.	Toro Partners with WeatherTRAK to Deliver Weather-Based Irrigation [Athletic Turf News]
Jan.	Tracking the Weather: WeatherTRAK-Enabled Toro and Irritrol Product Ratings [Green Media Online] (PDF, 200k)
Jan.	It's A Virtual Weather Station: HydroPoint WeatherTRAK Product Ratings [Green Media Online] (PDF, 143k)

2003

Dec.	Toro Teams with HydroPoint [Commercial Dealer] (PDF, 108k)
Dec.	Toro Teams with HydroPoint for Irrigation Technology [Lawn & Landscape] (PDF, 22k)
June	Toro and Motorola to Incorporate WeatherTRAK Technology into Irrigation Products [Landscape Management] (PDF, 99k)
March	Smart Sprinklers Sense Landscape Water Needs [Los Angeles Times] (PDF, 22k)

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