The News Review:
- Water supply disrupted
- Drinking water scarcity in Anthiyur
- Water crisis looms in India
- No safe water for one billion poor
- South area water deal blasted.
- Faecal pollution threatens SA aquifers
Water supply disrupted
Hindu – Mar 20, 2006
Mahinsha
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:
The supply of drinking water to areas on either side of MC road – from Palayam to Pulimoodu – was partially affected on Sunday following a leak in a sealed pipeline branching off from a main line passing through Palayam. Problem with `dummy’ line
Officials of the KWA said the capping on the 100 mm cast iron `dummy’ line (a line that was once active but was later cut off and plugged) came off a couple of days ago. This caused water to leak and a sudden dip in water pressure was noticed in the main line… Mahinsha
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:
The supply of drinking water to areas on either side of MC road – from Palayam to Pulimoodu – was partially affected on Sunday following a leak in a sealed pipeline branching off from a main line passing through Palayam. Problem with `dummy’ line
Officials of the KWA said the capping on the 100 mm cast iron `dummy’ line (a line that was once active but was later cut off and plugged) came off a couple of days ago. This caused water to leak and a sudden dip in water pressure was noticed in the main line. On Sunday morning, KWA workers dug up the road near the Martyrs’ Column to identify the exact nature of the problem. It was then that the dummy line’s cap was found dislodged.
Drinking water scarcity in Anthiyur
Hindu – Mar 20, 2006
GOVARTHAN
ERODE:
The Anthiyur town, a powerloom-weaving centre, is suffering from acute water scarcity. The town is depending on Cauvery River for their water supply and due to poor flow in the river, the pumping has been made to a minimum level. The town is getting drinking water supply only once in five days. But the residents complained that they were getting water only once in six or seven days and that too for only one-hour. The people were forced to buy water by paying huge money. The borewells here were witnessing long queue always. Some people were using water collected from the leaking main pipeline… GOVARTHAN
ERODE:
The Anthiyur town, a powerloom-weaving centre, is suffering from acute water scarcity. The town is depending on Cauvery River for their water supply and due to poor flow in the river, the pumping has been made to a minimum level. The town is getting drinking water supply only once in five days. But the residents complained that they were getting water only once in six or seven days and that too for only one-hour. The people were forced to buy water by paying huge money. The borewells here were witnessing long queue always. Some people were using water collected from the leaking main pipeline.
Water crisis looms in India
Pakistan Dawn – Mar 20, 2006
But the success also bred abuse as high-speed drilling technology, spurred by free power to farmers given by vote-hungry politicians, was used for irrigation for crops needed to feed India’s ever-growing population and a focus on water-thirsty cash crops. “The emphasis on mass irrigation set India on the path of unsustainable water resources management,” says Black. Now some 70 per cent of India’s irrigation water and 80 per cent of its domestic water supplies come from groundwater rather than from surface water, according to the World Bank. In a report late last year, the Bank said that India has no proper water management system, its groundwater is disappearing and river bodies are turning into sewers. “Estimates reveal that by 2020, India’s demand for water will exceed supply,” it said. The Centre for Science and Environment said in parts of New Delhi the groundwater level was dropping by 10 meters each year. “The monsoon not only fills rivers and streams but as rainfall seeps into the soil it recharges the underground aquifers,” says Black.
No safe water for one billion poor
Namibian – Mar 20, 2006
After pumping about US$25 billion (about N$155 billion) into water supply and sanitation in developing countries in the 1990s, many companies have retreated or reduced their presence in places ranging from Bolivia to Indonesia. Delegates at the World Water Forum that started in Mexico City on Thursday said new investments and ideas are needed to meet a UN goal of halving by 2015 the number of people without safe drinking water. Relying on private business to reach that target, one of the UN Millennium Development Goals, or MDGs, is increasingly difficult, said Daniel Zimmer, a senior member of the body organising the meeting. "The hope that we had in the 1990s that the private money would really substantially help the achievements of the MDGs has obviously been seen now as something unrealistic because of the opposition to private participation," he said. "We have to invent new partnerships, he said.
South area water deal blasted.
Free with registration – Sacramento Bee – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 20, 2006
(20-MAR-06) Sacramento Bee (Sacramento, CA). 20–A troubled south Sacramento water company plans to use $8. 4 million in state money to solve an acute supply shortage that has stalled new housing developments p.
Faecal pollution threatens SA aquifers
Independent Online – Mar 20, 2006
In a matter of 10 years, from being a private resource in law, it (ground water) has become the resource that feeds 65 percent of our communities, especially in rural areas. “It obviously is a highly strategic resource, and that is why, suddenly, ministers who have to meet these Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) realise the importance of groundwater,” he said. The MDGs were about bringing domestic water supply and sanitation to the whole population of and for that groundwater was critically important. However, pollution of groundwater in South Africa was a growing problem. “We have not yet reached the stage of over-exploitation, such as occurred in India.