The News Review:

- Cooperation on water begins â’” years after it should have
- Antelope Valley prime site for water
- Remembering the holocaust in Iraq

Cooperation on water begins â’” years after it should have
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Feb 12, 2006
Paving and building interferes with these natural processes. Bauer, former executive director of SEWRPC and chairman of its water supply advisory committee, said that it is premature to support a lake diversion or any other solution to Waukesha’s water problems before the SEWRPC study is finished. The greater irony of all is that much of the water problem arising west of Milwaukee might have been eased, if not avoided, by carrying out SEWRPC’s regional land use and transportation plan when it was published 40 years ago. That plan called for channeling much regional population, commercial and industrial growth to areas contiguous to established cities such as Racine, Kenosha and Milwaukee and her suburbs, mainly to avoid the kind of urban sprawl that has spread throughout Waukesha County. These are places that already are served by Lake Michigan water. In addition, the plan called for preserving important agricultural areas, such as Pabst Farms in western Waukesha County, and protecting primary environmental corridors such as the Kettle Moraine.
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Antelope Valley prime site for water
San Diego Union Tribune – Feb 12, 2006
6 billion public works spending plan he announced in January. It is part of what he calls his “strategic growth plan” to upgrade highways, levees, prisons, government buildings and other public works projects. The Sites and Temperance Flat reservoirs are the “most promising” of the five proposals, said Mark Cowin, head of the Division of Planning and Local Assistance for the state Department of Water Resources. “The Sites and Temperance Flat projects could provide the most diverse set of benefits – water supply, water quality, ecosystem restoration and flood management – from a state and regional perspective compared to the other three,” he said. But environmentalists see serious problems with both and say the state could find more cost-effective ways to meet its water needs, particularly through more aggressive conservation. They're concerned that Schwarzenegger's including the bond funds in his broader public works plan brings the projects closer to reality. “We've gone from these ongoing studies that no one has paid attention to, to a bunch of people in fairly important positions in the administration and Legislature pounding the table and saying, 'We need to build storage now and here's money to do it,' ” said Steve Evans, conservation director for Friends of the River, a Sacramento-based environmental group.
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Remembering the holocaust in Iraq
Pakistan Dawn – Feb 12, 2006
Cluster bombs, each spreading 247 bomblets over an acre, spewing almost 500,000 high-velocity shrapnel fragments were freely used by Anglo- American forces to decimate convoys of mostly foreign workers fleeing from Kuwait turning the road to Basra into a “Highway of Death”. There were also the two hastily-made 5,000 pound GBU-28 super-bombs picked up by US pilots from a base in Saudi Arabia, hours before the cease-fire on February 27, and dropped one after the other on a hardened bunker at al-Taji airbase, in a last-minute bid to assassinate the Iraqi president. But it was the poisoning of Iraq’s public water supply that proved to be the deadliest weapon. Its deliberate use as a long-term biological time bomb of mass-killing, is evident from a seven-page US Defence Intelligence report entitled “Iraq’s Water Treatment Vulnerabilities” revealed by The Sunday Herald of Glasgow Sept 17, 2000. The report issued and circulated to all major allied commands the day after the war started, observes at the outset that Iraq depends on importing specialized equipment and certain chemicals to purify its water supply which is heavily mineralized and frequently brackish to saline. A deluge of American and coalition fire in the early hours of January 17, 1991 smashed in a trice the entire water and power supply system. As recorded by Ramsey Clark, Iraq’s eight multi-purpose dams were repeatedly hit and heavily damaged.