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- Water supplies to 28,000 Chinese suspended
- Water overhaul to cost millions: Miami-Dade’s cash-strapped water…
- Water conservation workshop in Tehran

Water supplies to 28,000 Chinese suspended
USA Today – Feb 19, 2006
He said a power plant in nearby Xinqiao county had discharged untreated wastewater directly into the Yuexi. The man asked that his name not be printed because he said town regulations prevent officials from talking to the media. Fire trucks were bringing clean water to residents but supplies were short, he said. There were no reports so far of people sickened by the pollution, he said. A man who answered the phone at the Xinqiao Power Plant said poor quality coal may have been partially to blame for the pollution and that an investigation was underway. The plant had temporarily halted power generation, said the man, who would only give his surname, Yang. An employee with a local water supply company noticed the river water had turned yellow last Tuesday, the China Daily said… A man who answered the phone at the Xinqiao Power Plant said poor quality coal may have been partially to blame for the pollution and that an investigation was underway. The plant had temporarily halted power generation, said the man, who would only give his surname, Yang. An employee with a local water supply company noticed the river water had turned yellow last Tuesday, the China Daily said. Tests showed it was polluted with high levels of fluoride, nitrogen and phenol, also known as carbolic acid, it said. The incident follows a spate of spills in recent months, the most serious being an explosion at chemical plant in November that dumped chemicals into the Songhua River, the source of drinking water for tens of millions of people living in northeastern China and Russia. Local authorities were criticized for reacting too slowly to the chemical plant explosion and delaying disclosure to the public. Under new regulations enacted earlier this month, serious accidents must be reported directly to the Environmental Protection Agency, known as SEPA, or to the State Council, China’s cabinet, within an hour.

Water overhaul to cost millions: Miami-Dade’s cash-strapped water…
Free with registration – Miami Herald – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 19, 2006
If the county fails to comply, it could face state-imposed restrictions on future development. Preliminary estimates suggest the cost of modernizing the county’s waterworks could be “anywhere between $400 million and $800 million,” said county budget director Jennifer Glazer-Moon, who stressed that “those numbers are very hazy. ” The county has hired private consultants to look at its future water supply. Its options include increasing the amount of water it treats and reuses. Miami-Dade’s reusage rate, at 5 percent, is one of the.
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Water conservation workshop in Tehran
IranMania News – Feb 19, 2006
The workshop, co-organized by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), the Regional Centre on Urban Water Resources Management-Tehran, and the Tehran Province Water and Wastewater Company (TPWWCo), will be held at the TPWWCo Conference Hall, a press release issued by the UN Information Center (UNIC) in Tehran said on Sunday. Approximately 50 participants from 14 countries are expected to attend. Delegates will include policy makers, water resources experts, water supply providers, UNESCAP and UNESCO experts, and representatives of the public and private sectors. In a message to be delivered to the Workshop, Kim Hak-Su, UN Under-Secretary-General and UNESCAP Executive Secretary, notes that more efficient use of dwindling water supplies is widely recognized as a crucial strategy for stopping the unsustainable exploitation of water resources and de-linking economic growth from degradation of the aquatic environment. “Improved water-use efficiency meeting the demand for water by using less of the resource” is a crucial factor for achieving economic growth without compromising environmental sustainability, primarily water resources sustainability, or in other words, for securing ‘Green Growth’, he says. The Workshop aims to identify, analyze, and facilitate dissemination of good practices in the formulation and implementation of policies and programs, campaigns, and activities targeted at improving water conservation and the efficiency in water use. Tehran, which is a member of the Kitakyushu Initiative Network, is the host city for the first pilot project on water-use efficiency ever implemented under the auspices of the initiative.