The News Review:
- Water, water, everywhere.
- Desalination Roadmap Seeks Technological Solutions To Increase Water…
- County administrator pushes for halt to fluoride in water.
- World Bank props water supply, sanitation in Lusaka
- Nation to secure safe drinking water
Water, water, everywhere.
Free with registration – Spectator – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 10, 2006
Britain in many ways is an unrecognisable country from the Britain of 30 years ago, when scraggy figures in flared trousers queued up at the standpipes. But one thing hasn’t changed. In spite of privatisation, the public water supply remains a creaking service using the same old Victorian mains pipes and the same system of demand management as it did 30 years ago: one where stuffy bureaucrats are dispatched to jolly us into public-spirited acts like bathing only every other day and leaving our geraniums unwatered. A report by the House of Lords select committee on science and technology last week painted a dismal picture of the water industry. A quarter of supplies, it reports, are still leaking.
Desalination Roadmap Seeks Technological Solutions To Increase Water…
Science Daily – Science Daily (press release) – Jun 10, 2006
Pete Domenici, R-N. , chairman of the Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee, Congress and eventually the water user and research communities. The task force consists of the Bureau of Reclamation, the WaterReuse Foundation, the American Water Works Association Research Foundation and Sandia. The roadmap will recommend specific areas of potential water desalination research and development that may lead to technological solutions to water shortage problems. "Population growth in the U…
It is also commonplace in other parts of the world. Except for the Middle East, most desalination is done through reverse osmosis. Brady says 43 research areas have been tentatively identified and some projects are already under way, jump started with $2 million made available for the preliminary research through a matching grant from the California Department of Water Resources. California provided $1 million and members of the Joint Water Reuse and Desalination Task Force each contributed $250,000. Another $4 million in fiscal years 2004, 2005 and 2006 through federal Energy and Water Development Appropriations bills secured by Domenici has also funded desalination research at Sandia. "The task force will decide which of the 43 projects get to the top of the research pile," Brady says. "As more money is made available, universities, research groups, national laboratories and private companies will bid on projects.
County administrator pushes for halt to fluoride in water.
Free with registration – South Florida Sun-Sentinel – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 10, 2006
(10-JUN-06) South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL). 10–County Administrator Bob Weisman recommended Friday that Palm Beach County end fluoridation of the water supply for 480,000 residents. In a memo to the County Commissio.
World Bank props water supply, sanitation in Lusaka
Panapress – Panapress (subscription) – Jun 10, 2006
The Bank said in a statement Friday that water supplyin the city was irregular with significant leakages,while only about 33% consumers were metered andsewerage coverage at just 12%. With the World Bank credit, the Zambian government isexpected to consolidate ongoing reforms in the sectorfor a more coordinated approach for water and sanitationinvestments countrywide. The heart of the project, according to the Bank, is aperformance enhancement agreement with the governmentthat sets out specific improvement targets to be metover a three-year period. Improvements linked to funding under the credit includean increase in the number of kiosks and installation ofnew meters and connections. “These efforts will generate resources for LWSC (LusakaWater and Sewerage Company) to increase access to peri-urbansettlements and new development areas, to facilitate Zambia’sefforts towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals,”the Bank said…
The heart of the project, according to the Bank, is aperformance enhancement agreement with the governmentthat sets out specific improvement targets to be metover a three-year period. Improvements linked to funding under the credit includean increase in the number of kiosks and installation ofnew meters and connections. “These efforts will generate resources for LWSC (LusakaWater and Sewerage Company) to increase access to peri-urbansettlements and new development areas, to facilitate Zambia’sefforts towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals,”the Bank said. The statement also said the Bank would provide funding foremergency works to increase bulk water production and improvesewage treatment capacity. Directed to the Ministry of Local Government and Housing,the funding would help the Government plan for a coordinatedapproach in the water supply and sanitation sector for policyand investment, the statement added.
Nation to secure safe drinking water
chinadaily.com.cn – Jun 10, 2006
The declaration called for the world to halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and sanitation. “In the coming 10 years or so, China will accelerate efforts to secure access to clean water supplies for everyone, a hard challenge for us,” a leading water official said. Addressing a high-level roundtable meeting sponsored by the Global Water Partnership (GWP), Wang Shucheng, minister of water resources, made it clear that the government would do its best to achieve the goal. Under his plan, up to 100 million rural people will have access to clean drinking water within the next five years. “During that period, work will be carried out to improve water quality for drinking water with a high content of fluoride, arsenic, salt and other environmental pollutants,” he said. “And by 2012, up to 267 million rural residents, whose lives have been hit by sub-standard drinking water, will have clean water, which will also help with waterborne diseases. The number includes 67 million rural people that were provided with clean drinking water between 2000-05, when thousands of new water processing facilities went into operation…
8 million people die every year from diarrhoea-related diseases. Around 88 per cent of diarrhoea is attributed to unsafe water supplies, and inadequate sanitation and hygiene, he said.