The News Review:

- Families must wait months for water meters
- Water supply project in Lyari.
- Shanghai Daily News

Families must wait months for water meters
Telegraph.co.uk – May 20, 2006
If every property had one, water usage would be cut by more than a million litres a day, according to figures supplied by Ofwat, the industry regulator. Meters reduce consumption because householders are charged only for the water they use, rather than a flat fee, making them more aware of waste. Thames Water, which supplies water in London and the South East, where reservoirs are dangerously low for the time of year, has seen requests for meters double. The company has resisted calls to impose a drought order. It is routinely telling its customers, however, that they will have to wait “at least three months” before their properties can even be assessed for a meter. Thames loses 915,000 litres a day – almost a third of all the water in its network of crumbling pipes – through leaks. The loss is enough to supply 2…
Essex and Suffolk Water said it is completing installations in an average of 49 days. A spokesman for the Consumer Council for Water said: “In the current climate, the right message for water companies to send out to customers is that installing meters is quick and easy. “If households can’t measure their water supply, they can’t manage it. ” A spokesman from the Environment Agency said: “We would like to see up to 75 per cent of households across England and Wales metered by 2025, with the majority of meters in place within the next 10 years. “We’ve told water companies in the South East that they need to make rapid progress with metering. Householders needed incentives to save water, and compulsory metering in areas where there were water shortages would help do this. “Metering saves between five and 15 per cent on total water use.

Water supply project in Lyari.
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Water supply project in Lyari. (20-MAY-06) PPI – Pakistan Press International.

Shanghai Daily News
EastDay.com – May 20, 2006
After earlier setting a 2007 deadline for its completion, the Fengxian Water Authority recently announced that the project will be finished four months earlier than expected. Fengxian Water Authority Director Jin Xing said the district was undertaking the plan with the hope of bringing clean water to residents once again. “In the last few years, the poor quality of drinking water has been a source of constant complaints among local residents,” he said. “The district is currently capable of supplying 380,000 cubic meters of tap water each day, which is sufficient for local residents.