The News Review:

- Project restores vital water supply resource.(EDITORIAL FEATURE)
- Water scarcity acute in 99 Raichur villages
- A headache for water treatment.(Pharmaceuticals)
- Polluted Water Brings Disease to Rural Zimbabwe

Project restores vital water supply resource.(EDITORIAL FEATURE)
Free with registration – Water World – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 1, 2006
By the 1990s, the aquifer’s lowest point of decline was centered in Union County, Ark. , a relatively large population center in the south-central region of the state, just north of the Louisiana line. The problem was brought to light in 1996 when the Arkansas Soil & Water Conservation Commission (now the Arkansas Natural Resources Commission) gave Union County and four other adjoining counties a “critical ground water designation” after monitoring the regional water level sink rates. That finding was mirrored by the United.

Water scarcity acute in 99 Raichur villages
Hindu – May 1, 2006
90-lakh plan being implemented Raichur: The district administration is geared to augment drinking water supply in all villages facing severe water scarcity this summer. Based on reports of taluk task-force committees, the district administration has identified 99 villages — 14 in Raichur taluk, 17 in Manvi taluk, 10 in Deodurga taluk, 33 in Lingsugur taluk and 23 in Sindhanur taluk — as scarcity hit. Among all the five taluks, Sindhanur is said to be the worst hit. Plans are afoot to transport potable water to 14 villages in the district. The district administration has identified three villages in Raichur taluk, four in Manvi taluk, six in Lingsugur taluk and one in Deodurg taluk where it planned to transport water.

A headache for water treatment.(Pharmaceuticals)
Free with registration – Environmental Health Perspectives – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 1, 2006
(Pharmaceuticals) –> COPYRIGHT 2006 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Acetaminophen is turned into at least two toxic compounds by chlorination treatment, researchers report in the 15 January 2006 issue of Environmental Science & Technology, raising concerns about the fate of this and other pharmaceuticals that end up in water supplies. Acetaminophen is one of the most widely used over-the-counter painkillers in the world–in the United States alone, some 37,000 metric tons are produced each year, says.

Polluted Water Brings Disease to Rural Zimbabwe
Environment News Service – May 1, 2006
refugeesinternational. Most farms no longer have fresh water supplies because pipes are in disrepair and pumps have stopped working for lack of spares. The new settlers cannot afford water purification chemicals, and the main water sources are now streams and dams. “The situation is terrible. We know the risks of waterborne diseases such as bilharzia, cholera and dysentery that we could catch, but there is really no choice,” said Savious Muromba, a veteran of Zimbabwe’s 1970s liberation war resettled at a farm in Odzi, about 32 kilometers outside Mutare in Zimbabwe’s Eastern Highlands. He said most settlers had hoped the government would quickly move to provide basic sanitary facilities on the farms when the land confiscation process was deemed to be complete.