The News Review:

- To the point: Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink
- Palestinians hoard food and supplies, fearing lengthy Israeli siege…
- KARACHI: Water supply affected
- Mettur-Attur water supply scheme to be extended
- No glowing news about water

To the point: Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink
Telegraph.co.uk – Jun 28, 2006
We’re replacing London’s Victorian water system to safeguard your future water supply. Well, it’s nice to know that Thames Water is working to ensure that drought orders will be a thing of the past in good time for the Olympics, but such sloganeering may not be sufficient to prevent the company’s management being speared on irate Londoners’ sprinkler heads. Quite where the buck should stop for the crumbling state of the capital’s drains, or indeed those across many parts of the country, is unclear, however. The Victorians themselves can hardly be blamed for failing to ensure their revolution in sanitation lasted a century. After all, it hardly smacked of cowboy builders.

Palestinians hoard food and supplies, fearing lengthy Israeli siege…
San Diego Union Tribune – Jun 28, 2006
“The situation is critical and requires quick fixes,” he said. The company is working to provide power generators to its most needy clients, “but there are limits to providing alternative solutions,” he said. The electricity cut has also affected water supplies, since electricity is needed to run water pumps. Tawfik al-Mbaid, a Gaza City official, said the power outage cut water supply to the city by 30 percent, forcing the local government to ration water. The city is using scarce diesel fuel to run the pumping stations and is operating them for only four hours a day instead of the usual 12. What little water is being pumped is untreated, because the power cut also forced the water treatment station to shut, said Hassan al-Saradi, an official with the Palestinian water authority. Israeli airstrikes also damaged a pipe running along one of three destroyed bridges, he said, cutting water to some communities in the eastern Gaza Strip…
Tawfik al-Mbaid, a Gaza City official, said the power outage cut water supply to the city by 30 percent, forcing the local government to ration water. The city is using scarce diesel fuel to run the pumping stations and is operating them for only four hours a day instead of the usual 12. What little water is being pumped is untreated, because the power cut also forced the water treatment station to shut, said Hassan al-Saradi, an official with the Palestinian water authority. Israeli airstrikes also damaged a pipe running along one of three destroyed bridges, he said, cutting water to some communities in the eastern Gaza Strip. The Ministry of Information said in a statement that the damage to the water pipes “threatened the lives of citizens and raised the specter of epidemics and health disasters. ”David Shearer, head of the U.

KARACHI: Water supply affected
Pakistan Dawn – Jun 28, 2006
com ———- –>KARACHI: Water supply affectedKARACHI, June 27: Water supply to the city was badly affected on Tuesday following intermittent suspension of electricity supply to pumping stations due to the ongoing power crisis. A spokesman for the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board said all KWSB pumping stations were affected by frequent interruptions in electricity supply. As a result, the supply of water to citizens was affected. He said power outages hit K-11 and K-111Pumping Stations of NEK Old Filter Plant on Monday from 11…
com ———- –>KARACHI: Water supply affectedKARACHI, June 27: Water supply to the city was badly affected on Tuesday following intermittent suspension of electricity supply to pumping stations due to the ongoing power crisis. A spokesman for the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board said all KWSB pumping stations were affected by frequent interruptions in electricity supply. As a result, the supply of water to citizens was affected. He said power outages hit K-11 and K-111Pumping Stations of NEK Old Filter Plant on Monday from 11.

Mettur-Attur water supply scheme to be extended
Hindu – Jun 28, 2006
Arumugam said that the extended scheme would include hundreds of wayside habitations in Ayodhiapattinam, Vazhapadi, Pedanaickenpalayam, Attur, Talavasal and Gengavalli unions. “The proposal is being readied,” he further added. The Minister said Salem city would have a dedicated water supply scheme from Mettur at the cost of Rs. 120 crores in view of its burgeoning population and its future needs. He said that works such as repair of valves and replacement of old pipelines would be taken up to ensure an equal distribution of water to all the areas in the city. “The engineers of Salem Corporation, Tamil Nadu Water and Drainage (TWAD) Board would coordinate their efforts to ensure protected and equal distribution of water to the city’s citizens,” he said. The administration would also undertake the `toning up” of the Rs.

No glowing news about water
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Jun 28, 2006
Soft lighting would always be available. It would give a whole new meaning to the phrase “healthy glow. But the news just gets worse for area water supplies. Now arsenic has been found in about one of every 20 private wells in southeastern Wisconsin. I was OK about the radium in my water. But arsenic? I’m sure it has its advantages, too, but I couldn’t get past the symptoms mentioned in a graphic accompanying a Journal Sentinel article June 5: “Thick, rough skin and numbness on hands and feet, unusual skin pigmentation, tremors, stomach pain and nausea. It’s enough to make anyone sick, I tell you…
But arsenic? I’m sure it has its advantages, too, but I couldn’t get past the symptoms mentioned in a graphic accompanying a Journal Sentinel article June 5: “Thick, rough skin and numbness on hands and feet, unusual skin pigmentation, tremors, stomach pain and nausea. It’s enough to make anyone sick, I tell you. And according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, although certain approved water softeners can decrease the amount of radium in water, they don’t have much effect on arsenic levels. Hot on the heels of the arsenic in the water announcement came the finding that human-borne viruses have been found in wells that tap the deep aquifer 800 feet below Madison. Fortunately, the June 17 article and the DNR Web site say that proper chlorination of water can take care of this problem. No word yet on how all of this is affecting sales of bottled water. But my guess is that it will be the next boom market.