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- Panel: Too much fluoride in nation’s water supply
- No water, no votes warns Turnbull
- Water release from Bhadra reservoir sought
- Dispatch Online – Your premier Eastern Cape news site
- Daily Times – Site Edition
- Water supply is responsibility of gov’t: forum
- Water Supply Assessment Ok’d: Marina: Desalination deal still…
Panel: Too much fluoride in nation’s water supply
St. Petersburg Times – Mar 23, 2006
The Environmental Protection Agency requested that the National Academies’ National Research Council re-examine its standard, which allows a maximum of 4 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water. Some communities add fluoride to drinking water to protect against tooth decay, although in concentrations much lower than the EPA’s standard. About 200,000 Americans have drinking water with fluoride at concentrations at or above the EPA’s standard. The report is the first to conclude that there are legitimate health concerns about the existing standard… The Environmental Protection Agency requested that the National Academies’ National Research Council re-examine its standard, which allows a maximum of 4 milligrams of fluoride per liter of water. Some communities add fluoride to drinking water to protect against tooth decay, although in concentrations much lower than the EPA’s standard. About 200,000 Americans have drinking water with fluoride at concentrations at or above the EPA’s standard. The report is the first to conclude that there are legitimate health concerns about the existing standard. charges Colombians in cocaine conspiracy The federal government charged 50 leaders of Colombia’s largest guerrilla group with sending more than $25-billion worth of cocaine around the world to finance their fight at home, a federal indictment that depicts the rebels as major narco-terrorists.
No water, no votes warns Turnbull
The Australian – Mar 23, 2006
South Australia’s Murray River Minister Karlene Maywald said she welcomed the “strong leadership” that would force other states to act. Victorian Water Minister John Thwaites said Melbourne used 22 per cent less water than in the 1990s, while Queensland Water Minister Henry Palaszczuk invited interstate governments to use his regional water supply strategy as a model. Mr Turnbull said NSW received the “wooden spoon” for its efforts to date, but Premier Morris Iemma said yesterday Sydney’s water supply was secure. The federal Government appears to favour recycling over desalination, but Australia’s peak water suppliers yesterday warned that recycling was not a universal cure-all. “Recycled water is not the panacea – a range of options including conservation, new sources and desalination, are what will be needed to ensure challenges are met,” Water Services Association of Australia executive director Ross Young said. Opposition water spokesman Anthony Albanese said the Government did not back its recycling talk with action. In December, John Howard received a recommendation from the National Water Commission to support a Toowoomba plan to drink recycled sewage, but there has been no announcement.
Water release from Bhadra reservoir sought
Hindu – Mar 23, 2006
Kumaraswamy in Bangalore on March 28
Raichur:
The district administration on Wednesday submitted a report to the Government apprising it of the need to release about five tmcft of water from the Bhadra reservoir into the Tungabhadra dam to save standing crops in command areas of the Tungabhadra Left Bank Canal (TLBC) in Raichur district. Delegation
Deputy Commissioner Tushar Girinath has submitted a report to the Government after a delegation from the Raichur District Niravari Hita Rakshana Samithi met him. Water supply to the canal should be continued till April 15, instead of suspending it by March end as was decided by the Tungabhadra Irrigation Consultative Committee (ICC), it said. The delegation led by Ramachandra Prabhu, president of the Raichur Chamber of Commerce and Chamarasa Malipatil, general secretary of the State unit of the Karnataka Rajya Raitha Sangha discussed the problems faced by ayacutdars with the Deputy Commissioner. `Supply water till April 15′
In his report, the Deputy Commissioner said that the paddy has been raised on about 3. 10 lakh acres in the command areas of Sindhanur, Manvi and Raichur taluks and it needs water supply till April 15. Standing crops on about one lakh acres are likely to be affected if the water supply into the canal was stopped by March end.
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Dispatch Online – Mar 23, 2006
But he disputed claims that it caused stomach upsets, saying it was fully treated, analysed regularly and meets national standards. Cowley said a plan was in place to upgrade the water supply system in the area. “The Needs Camp treatment works is too small to be cost-effective,” said Cowley. Plans have been laid for a bulk water supply pipe from Potsdam to Needs Camp. Cowley expects this to be in place by the end of 2007, when the treatment works will be mothballed. In the meantime, said Cowley, the current supply was better than the brackish, hard water from boreholes in the area. Residents of Seavale, further north, still rely on borehole water, which they say is brackish, dirty and upsets their stomachs.
Daily Times – Site Edition
Daily Times – Mar 23, 2006
The overall water supply had reduced by 35 percent and severe water shortage has hit residents of the G-6, G-7, G-8, G-9 and G-10 sectors. The Capital Development Authority (CDA) directorate, handling customer complaints, had been receiving complaints from the residents of these sectors. A CDA official said that water rationing had already begun for water conservation for the approaching summer season. “We are providing 65 million gallons daily (mgd) to the federal capital. The main source of water is Simli Dam from where we are taking 18 million gallons daily,” Jamilur Rehman, the CDA director for water supply, told Daily Times.
Water supply is responsibility of gov’t: forum
CTV.ca – Mar 23, 2006
The seven-day forum focused much of its attention on the developing world’s growing reliance on bottled water bought from private companies. Worldwide, the industry is now worth about $100 billion US a year. Anti-corporate forces and other critics said governments should instead be improving tap water supplies. The forum’s declaration does not specifically mention privatization but states: “Governments have the primary role in promoting improved access to safe drinking water. ” The declaration also described dams and hydroelectric projects – opposed by environmentalists for decades – as important and innovative. “(We) acknowledge the implementation and importance in some regions of innovative practices such as.
Water Supply Assessment Ok’d: Marina: Desalination deal still…
Free with registration – Monterey County Herald – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 23, 2006
(23-MAR-06) Monterey County Herald (Monterey, CA). 23–A water supply assessment that would allow a major senior residential development at Fort Ord to go forward was approved 3-2 Wednesday by the Marina Coast Water District.