The News Review:

- Water supply suspended to 100 Tajpura houses
- Water supply to be augmented
- Avoiding a lake mistake: Some urging study to assess water usage.
- Fed govt ‘committed’ to water recycling

Water supply suspended to 100 Tajpura houses
Pakistan Dawn – Jul 30, 2006
com ———- –>Water supply suspended to 100 Tajpura housesBy Zulqernain TahirLAHORE, July 29: Fearing epidemic outbreak in Tajpura potable water supply has been suspended in parts of the area where recent rains caused serious damage to life and property. According to city district government sources, water supply to about 100 houses in the area has been suspended following heavy rains a couple of days ago. As an alternative measure, the CDGL is supplying water to the affected area residents through tankers. People, including elderly women and children, are seen standing in long queues to get potable water. I have to cover long distance to get a pot full of water from a tanker that is not enough to meet the daily requirements. It is very difficult for me to come again and again to collect water as my husband has to go to work, and he cant assist me in this regard, Ruqia Bibi of Tajpura said…
EDO (health) Dr Inamul Azam, however, claimed that some eight tankers were being sent to Tajpura daily in different hours to ensure supply of clean water to the residents of the affected areas. He said: Water supply to such areas has been suspended to avoid mixing of sewage with drinking water, and any possible outbreak of epidemics. He said the CDGL and the Rangers had set up medical camps in the area where vaccination and other treatment facilities were being provided to more than 2,000 people. Dr Haq claimed that no case of gastroenteritis or related diseases had been reported in the area. The area also lacks proper arrangements for disposal of solid waste and people have to dump garbage in open plots and on green-belts. When it rains heavily, the garbage gets mixed with the rainwater giving a foul smell. Heavy rains have also exposed the quality of roadwork in the area as huge craters have appeared in most of the street and main roads, hindering smooth flow of traffic, besides causing problems for pedestrians.

Water supply to be augmented
Hindu – Jul 30, 2006
It is also envisaged that all municipal corporations will get underground drainage schemes over the next three years at a total cost of Rs. 1,065 crores These plans were discussed threadbare at a review meeting that Chief Minister Y.

Avoiding a lake mistake: Some urging study to assess water usage.
Free with registration – Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA) – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 30, 2006
30–Lake Coeur d’Alene isn’t about to go dry. Yet nobody really knows how much water is sucked out of the picturesque icon that covers 50 square miles, an oasis for boate.

Fed govt ‘committed’ to water recycling
The Age – Jul 30, 2006
Federal parliamentary secretary on water, Malcolm Turnbull said despite the “scare campaign” on the issue he respected the outcome of the Toowoomba referendum. But he said a number of inland communities will have to face the contentious issue of drinking recycled water in the near future. “The fact remains that recycled water is important in Australia because demand is projected to exceed supply from existing water sources in nearly all major Australian cities within 20 years and in most cities there are limited opportunities for new dams,” Mr Turnbull said. He called for a greater debate of the issue and warned communities who rejected recycled drinking water could face higher water costs in the future. “Different communities faced with different pressures and with different options will make different decisions,” he said. “In some cities there is enormous opportunity to use recycled water for agriculture and industry and thereby free up fresh water supplies to increase the drinking water system. “Queensland Premier Peter Beattie said a referendum in the state’s south-east corner would be scheduled in 2008 to coincide with the local government elections in March of that year.