The News Review:
- Metito emphasizes the Economic Benefits of Public-Private Partnership
- Read the full interview
- Toowoomba may repeat water vote
- CITY: CDA prepares new PC-1 of Ghazi Brotha water supply project.
- Officials inspect damaged lake bund
Metito emphasizes the Economic Benefits of Public-Private Partnership
Al-Bawaba – Nov 22, 2006
Metito operates locally in 14 countries of the Arab and Islamic World, and supplies its plants internationally to locations as far apart as Argentina and Australia from its base in the United Arab Emirates. Some of the companys notable achievements in 2006 include high purity demineralised water supply for Jebel Ali and Umm Al Nar power projects in UAE, drinking water supply to Kandahar in Afghanistan and high quality water supply for North Rumaylah project in Iraq. About MetitoMetito is a leading international company in the provision of desalination, water supply and wastewater treatment projects and services. It serves a global client base in Europe, Asia and Africa with engineering, design, plant manufacturing and chemical production facilities in the UAE. Commitment to a Cleaner Environment.
Read the full interview
The Age – Nov 22, 2006
It offers greaterself-sufficiency for metropolitan Melbourne. And equally the dam offers four attributes. It offers watersupply. And I can tell you, those flooding rains, they do come,they were here last year and 30,000 megs went out the mouth of theMaribyrnong in two days. It’s better to be able to capture that. Sothere is a storage capacity there. There’s flood mitigationcapacity for downstream…
And I listened with amusement to JohnThwaites saying, “well, you can never capture water there, becausethe Maribyrnong is a trickle”. Well if it’s a trickle, why did theyjust endorse building a flood wall around Flemington? It’s becausethe water gets swept down there in a flood. In addition to that,there’s capacity to harvest storm water in the future if we gettreatment systems in place. And there’s also a capacity tocirculate water back up to the Roslyn to improve the flows inJackson’s Creek. Roslyn serves some pretty key areas in the northwest of Melbourne and some of those satellite towns. So there’scapacity there. So between the two, we think that will addconsiderable capacity to the system.
Toowoomba may repeat water vote
The Australian – Nov 22, 2006
article-tools –> November 22, 2006. module-subheader –> AUSTRALIA’S first city to reject recycled water at a ballot may be forced to vote again on the issue. The drought-ravaged city of Toowoomba, west of Brisbane, voted against using recycled sewage to supplement its drinking water supply at a ballot in July. But Premier Peter Beattie is working on the details of a new referendum, taking in more than a dozen cities and shires in the state’s south-east, to gauge support for recycled water. Mr Beattie said it was possible Toowoomba would be included in the new referendum, but had not come to a final view on it. "All I want to do is keep my options open here and I’m not going to rule out Toowoomba," Mr Beattie said today. "If they are going to end up drinking recycled water.
CITY: CDA prepares new PC-1 of Ghazi Brotha water supply project.
Free with registration – PPI – Pakistan Press International – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 22, 2006
CITY: CDA prepares new PC-1 of Ghazi Brotha water supply project. | PPI – Pakistan Press International (November, 2006).
Officials inspect damaged lake bund
Hindu – Nov 22, 2006
The lake has been completely drained, lament residents. Muralitharan TAMBARAM : Officials of the Department of Municipal Administration and Water Supply inspected the `Vannaanthaangal’ Lake in Tambaram on Tuesday morning following reports of sabotage of a bund the previous evening. The lake was nearly dry by the time the team visited the spot. Senior officials instructed their colleagues in Tambaram Municipality to take stern action against the offenders. Following this, a complaint was lodged at the Tambaram police station. Residents of West Tambaram are furious with the Municipality, its elected representatives and other arms of the State government for failing to take quick action.