The News Review:

- Daily Telegraph letters – Telegraph
- Call this a drought?
- Water Shortages In Northeast Linked To Human Activity.
- KARACHI: 36-hour water suspension

Daily Telegraph letters – Telegraph
Telegraph.co.uk – May 17, 2006
In this area, we have had hosepipe and sprinkler restrictions for more than a year, but what is being done to improve the situation? Where are the plans for new reservoirs, desalination plants and links to other water companies to create a national grid of water supplies? If gas can be pumped from Russia, surely water can be pumped from Wales or Scotland, where it is in plentiful supply. It would appear that the water company is just praying for more rain, instead of investing in new supplies. Bill Ridley, Caterham, Surrey. How have the water companies managed to manoeuvre themselves into a position whereby they can provide profits to their shareholders, but appear unable to maintain a supply of water to their customers at the time of year when it is most needed? Summer has not started, but already panic buttons are being pushed.

Call this a drought?
Times Online – May 17, 2006
Just flush less often, he trills encouragingly: “If it’s yellow, let it mellow. ” But will that help? At the bottom of every one of the welter of news stories, there’s always that tiny giveaway paragraph with the real story. Thames Water supplies 2,700 million litres of water a day to London – but loses 900 million of them a day in leaks from the dodgy old pipes it can’t be bothered to mend (even the one under its own headquarters which went unplugged for 8 months). That’s a third of the city’s daily water supply. We’d have to sacrifice an awful lot of loo flushes and wilting begonias to make up for the company’s wastefulness. No wonder water companies, which also put our water bills up by twice the rate of inflation, made record profits last year. As I mutter my Meldrewish way through the drought scare stories, I hear a furtive “psst” from over the fence.

Water Shortages In Northeast Linked To Human Activity.
Free with registration – Space Daily – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 17, 2006
Instead, researchers from The Earth Institute at Columbia University found droughts had more direct, human causes. The result is a condition known as demand-driven drought that may catch more water managers and residents off-guard in coming years. The study, which appeared in a recent issue of Journal of the American.

KARACHI: 36-hour water suspension
Pakistan Dawn – May 17, 2006
com ———- –>KARACHI: 36-hour water suspensionKARACHI, May 16: Water supply to Liaquatabad and its adjoining areas will remain suspended for the next 36 hours due to development work in progress for the construction of Liaquatabad Underpass. A spokesman of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board on Tuesday said that the tap water supply would be suspended for shifting of water pipelines and installation of valves at the under construction Liaquatabad Underpass. The water supply, which would be suspended from Wednesday at 6am to Thursday 4pm, would affect different areas including Liaquatabad, Sharfabad, F. Area, Nazimabad, Baldia, Shershah, Golimar, Old Golimar, Grace Lab, Rexer Village, PAF Masroor, Mauripur and the Kanupp…
com ———- –>KARACHI: 36-hour water suspensionKARACHI, May 16: Water supply to Liaquatabad and its adjoining areas will remain suspended for the next 36 hours due to development work in progress for the construction of Liaquatabad Underpass. A spokesman of the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board on Tuesday said that the tap water supply would be suspended for shifting of water pipelines and installation of valves at the under construction Liaquatabad Underpass. The water supply, which would be suspended from Wednesday at 6am to Thursday 4pm, would affect different areas including Liaquatabad, Sharfabad, F. Area, Nazimabad, Baldia, Shershah, Golimar, Old Golimar, Grace Lab, Rexer Village, PAF Masroor, Mauripur and the Kanupp. The spokesman has advised the people living in above areas to store water and use it with care.