The News Review:

- Residents demand daily water supply
- Beijing water price to hike upon completion of water diversion…
- Karachi to get additional water supply from 31st, Rangers to leave…
- Water price likely to be raised further
- Citizens face water bill hike

Residents demand daily water supply
Hindu – Mar 25, 2006
Since they were getting water once in a week, many residents were forced to purchase water by paying heavy cahrges. He also complained the drainages in the area were not cleaned properly. Many sewerages were stagnated due to encroachment upon them. He wanted the municipal authorities to clean the drainages and also evict the encroachments.

Beijing water price to hike upon completion of water diversion…
People's Daily Online – Mar 25, 2006
5 billion cubic meters of water from the Yangtze River, the country’s longest, to North China on an annual basis once it is completed. Beijing, one of the destinations on the central route — one of the three designed routes — of the project, will count on the diverted water to ease the expected water supply strain during the 2008 summer Olympic Games, said Wang. The minister said another option for guarantee water supply of the 2008 Games is to divert water from the Yellow River in North China through a project traversing the northern province of… Beijing, which currently charges local citizens 3. 7 yuan (46 cents) for every cubic meter of water they consume, leads the country in terms of the water price. According to the ministries of construction and water resources, water prices in the Chinese cities are below the cost, leaving much room for further price hikes.

Karachi to get additional water supply from 31st, Rangers to leave…
Free with registration – PPI – Pakistan Press International – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 25, 2006
Karachi, March 25(PPI): Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan Saturday said that Karachi would get supply of 100 million gallons of water per day from the K-3 project from March 31. Inaugurating the trials of K-3 project at Dhabeji pumping station, he said that President General Pervez Musharraf had been requested to inaugurate this project. He said that from this project 22 million gallons of water per day would be supplied to the industrial areas. He said that the industrial areas had already been supplied with 51… Karachi, March 25(PPI): Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan Saturday said that Karachi would get supply of 100 million gallons of water per day from the K-3 project from March 31. Inaugurating the trials of K-3 project at Dhabeji pumping station, he said that President General Pervez Musharraf had been requested to inaugurate this project. He said that from this project 22 million gallons of water per day would be supplied to the industrial areas. He said that the industrial areas had already been supplied with 51.

Water price likely to be raised further
chinadaily.com.cn – Mar 25, 2006
Quoting an official with the National Development and Reform Commission
(NDRC), the report said the hike will mainly relate to a price rise for waste
water treatment. The money collected will be used to sponsor sewage treatment facilities and
the management of the water supply network. Statistics from the NDRC showed by the end of 2005, the average water price of
China’s 36 major large and medium-sized cities was 2. 26 US dollars)
per ton, including 0… 0125 US dollars) per ton. China has a per capita water resources of 2,200 cubic meters, only 31 percent
of the world’s average. Currently, about 400 out of China’s 660 cities lack
water and 136 have reported severe water shortages. In order to save water, 17 provinces have begun to introduce quotas on water
use in the past five years, while the price of tap water has continued to
increase in more than 10 provinces.

Citizens face water bill hike
chinadaily.com.cn – Mar 25, 2006
Quoting an official with the National Development and Reform Commission, the
report said the hike will mainly finance waste water treatment. The money will be used to fund sewage treatment facilities and management of
the water supply network. Statistics from the NDRC showed by the end of 2005, the average water price
in China’s 36 major large and medium-sized cities was 2. 26) per
ton, including 0. 54 yuan per ton for treating waste water, an increase of 10
percent from 2004… In some cities, the fee paid by households for sewage treatment is as low
as 0. China has per capita water resources of 2,200 cubic meters, only 31 percent
of the world’s average.