The News Review:

- Ch. Karnchang tap-water affiliate preparing to list.
- Discharge Turns China’s Yellow River ‘Red and Smelly’
- Ozello Water: County putting residents at risk
- THE LAST DROP.

Ch. Karnchang tap-water affiliate preparing to list.
Free with registration – Bangkok Post – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 23, 2006
Karnchang tap-water affiliate preparing to list. 23–Thai Tap Water Supply Plc (TTW) is preparing an initial public offering to raise funds to expand its Nakhon Pathom plant and build new facilities to accommodate.

Discharge Turns China’s Yellow River ‘Red and Smelly’
FOXNews – Oct 23, 2006
Environmental protection has taken on new urgency for Chinese leaders following a November 2005 chemical spill in the Songhua River in northeastern China which forced the city of Harbin to shut down its water supply for days and sent toxins flowing into Russia. China’s cities are among the world’s smoggiest, and the government says its major rivers, canals and lakes are badly polluted by industrial, agricultural and household pollution. Hundreds of millions of people live without adequate supplies of clean drinking water. Throughout the country, protests have erupted over complaints by farmers that uncontrolled discharges by factories are ruining crops and poisoning water supplies. “The Yellow River is the mother river of our country,” said one bulletin board posting Monday on Sina. com, a major Chinese news Web site. “See how it has been ruined!” Said another: “Let the mayor of Lanzhou drink the water and then they will immediately have measures in place to deal with the environmental pollution.

Ozello Water: County putting residents at risk
St. Petersburg Times – Oct 23, 2006
SHOICHETPublished October 23, 2006 ADVERTISEMENT OZELLO – For months, representatives of the water utility in this coastal community have pressured the county to resolve "critical" water pressure problems here. County officials say they're doing everything they can. But something is stopping an adequate water supply from flowing through Ozello Water Association's pipes, according to Linda Elliott-Volmar, the system's general manager. Now, she says, the nonprofit private utility and the county are at an impasse. This week, she said the utility will send a letter to the county, announcing its intent to sue for breach of contract. "I think I've gone as far as I can go as far as trying to work everything out with them," she said. "I've gotten nowhere…
"We've sat and explained the situation. "He said it will likely take a year to complete necessary infrastructure improvements, like expanding a pipeline on County Road 486. The amount of water the county supplies to Ozello Water as part of its bulk water agreement is "ample to deliver potable water" to the system, McCracken said. Elliott-Volmar said the county isn't acting quickly enough. The system's failings put her customers at risk, she said. That's why the association's board voted to hire an attorney to sue the county, Elliott-Volmar said. The Ozello Water Association has purchased bulk water from Citrus County since 1991.

THE LAST DROP.
Free with registration – New Yorker – AccessMyLibrary.com – Oct 23, 2006
Even in the most prosperous neighborhoods of cities like Delhi and Mumbai, water is available for just a few hours each day–and often only as a brown and sludgy trickle–forcing millions of middle-class Indians to stumble out of bed at three or four in the morning to turn on their taps. Then, with the help of electric pumps, they push the water to storage tanks on their rooftops. Battles over the water supply have become so common that Priya Ranjan Dasmunshi, the Minister of Water Resources, sometimes describes himself as the Minister of Water Conflicts. The fight for water intensifies every day: between rich residents of overcrowded cities and their poorest neighbors, and between cities and the rural territory that surrounds them. Forty million Indians live in slums–there are more than a thousand in Delhi alone–and almost all are caught in the peculiar logic of Indian bureaucracy: because slums are not considered official settlements, they are not entitled to pipes that would connect them to the municipal water system. In the end, people can do nothing but wait. Around noon, when a tanker finally arrived in Kesum Purbahari, sounds of shrieking women temporarily drowned out the noise of the jets taking off from the nearby runways of Indira Gandhi International Airport.