The News Review:
- DWR State Fair Exhibit Honors Water Superstars and Superheroes.
- Pipelines for north
- Aussies take water for granted: study
- Tackling pair of big jobs
DWR State Fair Exhibit Honors Water Superstars and Superheroes.
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 17, 2006
A complete list of the water heroes follows. California Water Heroes Display at California State Fair, 2006 Senator Peter Behr An active protector of California’s natural resources, including our water supplies. Behr led passage of the landmark Wild and Scenic Rivers Act in 1972 as a State Senator. The bill protected some of Northern California’s rivers from damming, keeping their waters and wildlife in a more natural state. His work also focused on protecting wildlife including mountain.
Pipelines for north
NEWS.com.au – Aug 17, 2006
article-tools –> Rosemary Odgers August 17, 2006 12:00am WATER pipelines would be built between some of Queensland’s major regional centres in the first stage of an ambitious plan to transfer water from the rain-drenched north to the rain-starved southeast corner, under a re-elected Beattie Government. On the first official day of campaigning, Premier Peter Beattie made lightning visits to the marginal seats of Hervey Bay and Whitsunday as he attempted to combat criticism his Government had failed to adequately plan water infrastructure. In what he described as his most significant water policy of the campaign, he pledged $496 million towards a $1. 3 billion plan to ensure the water supplies of regional areas and said that if he were re-elected the water rebate scheme would be extended statewide. As part of the five-year regional water infrastructure plan, a pipeline would be built linking Proserpine and the Whitsunday region – which is facing water restrictions – to the state’s largest dam in the Burdekin. The $67 million project, which would link to the proposed pipeline between Bowen and the Burdekin, would allow 60,000 million litres of water to be transferred each year through 130km of pipes. Just over $50 million has also been promised to green-light the long-awaited Connors River Dam south of Mackay, which would link to the Nebo and Belyando shires, while design work would begin on the Nullinga Dam near Mareeba, to boost Cairns’s water supply.
Aussies take water for granted: study
The Age – Aug 17, 2006
But the federal government has played down the worryingfindings, saying community attitudes to water conservation areshifting away from complacency. The Adelaide-based Cooperative Research Centre for Water Qualityand Treatment (CRC) surveyed 3,500 people – 500 each in Sydney,Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and Darwin – finding water shortageswere at the bottom of the heap in a list of concerns about citylife. Asked what concerned them most, respondents rated crime,transport, living costs, terrorism and pollution as their top fiveissues, with water shortages coming equal last withovercrowding. When prompted with a list of issues which included watershortages, the situation changed and 26 per cent of respondentsnominated water supply as their premier concern…
But the federal government has played down the worryingfindings, saying community attitudes to water conservation areshifting away from complacency. The Adelaide-based Cooperative Research Centre for Water Qualityand Treatment (CRC) surveyed 3,500 people – 500 each in Sydney,Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and Darwin – finding water shortageswere at the bottom of the heap in a list of concerns about citylife. Asked what concerned them most, respondents rated crime,transport, living costs, terrorism and pollution as their top fiveissues, with water shortages coming equal last withovercrowding. When prompted with a list of issues which included watershortages, the situation changed and 26 per cent of respondentsnominated water supply as their premier concern. “It’s not there as a top of mind issue, but comes to the forewhen prompted,” report author Naomi Roseth said. “It does remind us as water resource managers that we have tokeep the thing on the agenda.
Tackling pair of big jobs
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription… – Aug 17, 2006
There was a third component to the job that has made Duchniak a household name among the long list of engineers, hydrologists, environmentalists, college professors, land use planners and developers who make a living on predicting the directional flow of surface and below-ground water sources. Duchniak and his crew of consultants and staff believe Waukesha must end its dependency on water from a troubled underground aquifer and hook up to a new source, either Lake Michigan or a more dependable supply of underground water in western Waukesha County. “I came in knowing Waukesha had an issue with its water supply and the radium (cleanup) order,” Duchniak said. “I didn’t realize we’d need to develop a new water supply and all the politics involved with that. It’s definitely been learn as you go. As if he didn’t have enough to worry about, Duchniak now faces another planning dilemma, that of being a first-year coach for a pee wee tackle football team. More of a basketball guyHis 9-year-old son, Joshua, has decided to put on the pads and give his old man a chance at coaching…
Duchniak and his crew of consultants and staff believe Waukesha must end its dependency on water from a troubled underground aquifer and hook up to a new source, either Lake Michigan or a more dependable supply of underground water in western Waukesha County. “I came in knowing Waukesha had an issue with its water supply and the radium (cleanup) order,” Duchniak said. “I didn’t realize we’d need to develop a new water supply and all the politics involved with that. It’s definitely been learn as you go. As if he didn’t have enough to worry about, Duchniak now faces another planning dilemma, that of being a first-year coach for a pee wee tackle football team. More of a basketball guyHis 9-year-old son, Joshua, has decided to put on the pads and give his old man a chance at coaching. Five-year-old Justin will likely follow in big brother’s footsteps, Duchniak said.