The News Review:

- PMB council smells rat in maggot saga
- Compesa launches US$20mn water supply tender – Brazil.
- Goulburn dam dry for first time
- Tyler Environmental Prize winners announced

PMB council smells rat in maggot saga
Independent Online – Apr 21, 2006
He slammed “irresponsible” companies that were placing flyers into people’s postboxes that claimed the water contained poisons and very dangerous metals. Mashoko said that Umgeni Water and independent laboratories had confirmed that the water was safe. Hlatswayo said she felt that the issue of maggots in water supplies was a gimmick to make more money by the suppliers of “purified” water. Shane Terigadu of Tylak Marketing, which distributed the flyers, said they had offered free tests which removed chlorine from water and revealed solids in it. He added that the company had not found any maggots in the water it had tested.

Compesa launches US$20mn water supply tender – Brazil.
Free with registration – America's Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Apr 21, 2006
(21-APR-06) The America’s Intelligence Wire. com) – Brazilian state Pernambuco’s water utility Compesa has published bidding rules for a water supply works contract as part of.

Goulburn dam dry for first time
NEWS.com.au – Apr 21, 2006
After six consecutive years of below average rainfall, the Pejar Dam, which when full has a capacity of 9,000 megalitres, is now down to just 3 megalitres, the Goulburn Mulwaree Council said. It is the first time the NSW southern tablelands dam has run dry since it was built in 1980. Water supply for Goulburn is now only at 30. 5 per cent of total capacity. 5 per cent of this water is of usable quality. A council spokeswoman said the news wasn’t great but things had been worse.

Tyler Environmental Prize winners announced
EurekAlert – EurekAlert (press release) – Apr 21, 2006
While Schindler studied global pressures on small ecosystems, Shiklomanov researched small pressures on global water supplies. He is best known for describing the connection between millions of local water withdrawals and the worlds water budget. In his highly regarded 1974 paper, Global water balance and water resources of the Earth, Shiklomanov published the first global estimate of renewable freshwater withdrawals. Around the same time, he estimated total freshwater consumption from 1900 to 1970, discovering a sharp increase beginning after World War II. Further research over the next 20 years led to the study, World Water Resources at the Beginning of the 21st Century, in which Shiklomanov predicted disastrous results in some parts of the world if the trend of massive dam projects and large-scale irrigation continued. Instead, Shiklomanov presented an alternative model of water use that would stabilize water consumption and eliminate shortages in many regions. A more fully developed version of his sustainable development scenario has recently been worked out and is being used by various [United Nations] agencies as a guide for future developmental projects, wrote Z.