The News Review:

- KARACHI: Contaminated water supply in Faisal Colony
- Recycling integral to future water solutions
- `Implement Hogenakkal water supply scheme’
- Turning water into money

KARACHI: Contaminated water supply in Faisal Colony
Pakistan Dawn – Aug 12, 2006
com ———- –>KARACHI: Contaminated water supply in Faisal ColonyKARACHI, Aug 11: The nazim of Shah Faisal Town, Mohammed Imran, has taken notice of the complaints regarding supply of contaminated water and water shortage in various areas of the town and directed the officials concerned to take immediate action to address the situation. He cautioned that no complaint about supply of contaminated water would be tolerated. Talking to people during his visit to various areas of the town, Mr Imran pointed out that supply of clean drinking water to each house was our foremost responsibility and steps were being taken for the replacement of obsolete pipelines and system improvement in all the union councils. He said that unserviceable and obsolete valves were being changed in all the union councils at a cost of Rs15 million. The town nazim directed the officials to conduct routine surveys for the identification of public grievances and a liaison must be maintained with people for the solution of their problems. Shabbir Usmani Road: The widening of Maulana Shabbir Ahmed Usmani Road up to 58 feet, being carried out in UC-9 of Gulshan-i-Iqbal at a cost Rs16 million, will be completed in six months.

Recycling integral to future water solutions
abc.net.au – Aug 12, 2006
A recent CSIRO study found that the acceptability of recycled water for drinking was only around 31 per cent. This presents a dilemma for policy makers and planners. The major costs of water supply are not the costs of treatment but the costs of distribution. The cost of building a new pipe network for dual reticulation makes most recycling schemes financially unviable. So there is widespread acceptance of the principle of recycling but there is not a corresponding willingness to pay. In other words, we would all like to have a recycling scheme, as long as it is for non-drinking purposes and someone else helps us pay for it. The National Water Commission supports the use of recycled water for drinking, but only when stringent health requirements can be met, and there is community acceptance.

`Implement Hogenakkal water supply scheme’
Hindu – Aug 12, 2006
Funds In a statement issued here on Friday, the district secretary of CPI, P. Ilamparithi, said the Government should hold talks with the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) to get funds for the project. Twin problems The scheme should be immediately implemented to solve the twin problems of water scarcity and fluorosis in Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri districts. Drinking water Due to lack of protected drinking water more than half the population had migrated to the neighbouring districts…
Ilamparithi, said the Government should hold talks with the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) to get funds for the project. Twin problems The scheme should be immediately implemented to solve the twin problems of water scarcity and fluorosis in Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri districts. Drinking water Due to lack of protected drinking water more than half the population had migrated to the neighbouring districts. Steps should be initiated to commence the project by this year, he said.

Turning water into money
Jamaica Observer – Aug 12, 2006
You can live for a surprisingly long time without food, but without water, it’s game over within a few days. Before the Second World War, very few Jamaicans had access to clean, drinkable public water supplies. Apart from Kingston and one or two other big towns, the water which did come out of the few pipes around wasn’t treated, and you had to boil it to kill the germs it contained before you drank it, cooked with it or even brushed your teeth. Many of us can still remember having to draw water from a tank, either a big one on a hillside with a wide concrete pad above it to catch the falling rain, or a couple of drums perched on a stand at the corner of a house, fed by gutters catching the rain from the roof.