The News Review:

- My grandfather’s bones
- China’s water pricing urged to hold water
- Hackley speaks on Kilgore’s water supply

My grandfather’s bones
Jamaica Observer – Nov 19, 2006
This waste has been disposed of, for over 30 years since the plants were constructed, in unsealed mined-out pits within the karstic limestone. The karstic limestone is the principal aquifer in the island and supplies 80% of the island’s water supply. The waste is more than 85% water, is highly caustic and rapidly infiltrates to the groundwater table. Groundwater contaminated by red mud shows increased sodium, pH and alkalinity concentrations. Monitoring of groundwater around the four (4) processing plants in the island has indicated contamination of water resources. Approximately 200 million cubic metres (MCM) of groundwater have been contaminated and another 200 MCM is at risk of contamination.

China’s water pricing urged to hold water
People's Daily Online – Nov 19, 2006
The current prices of water consumed in China’s urban area are tinted with a strong touch of welfare and public good, and have seriously deviated from its real value, said An Fenglong, president of Beijing-based Haoda Anbo Water Resources Exploitation Co. “The unreasonably low price of water means losses for water supply and sewage treatment companies and contributes to the public’s low awareness level of the need to save water,” he said. In the past 15 years, Beijing municipal government has raised water rates nine times. The current price is 3.

Hackley speaks on Kilgore’s water supply
Kilgore News Herald – Nov 19, 2006
Kilgore’s reservoir, when full, will hold 105 million gallons. “If we were to stop the wells and pumps, the full reservoir would sustain Kilgore for at least 30 days,” Hackley said. The city’s surface water treatment plant was built in May of 1995 and chemically treats 3. 5 million gallons per day. “The plant is typically pumping about 12 hours a day; however, in the summer there are many days when the plant is operating 24 hours a day to keep up with the demand during drought conditions,” Hackley said. Treated water goes to ground storage tanks at Laird Hill and in Smith County, then moves to towers by gravity. “Our tanks are set at a high enough level that water does not need to be pumped to the towers,” Hackley said.