The News Review:

- Water supply project to take off in Dec
- TLBC may get excess water from Bhadra reservoir
- Sheriff’s station gets new leader
- Masses get only 30 pc of water resources: Vyas
- Job of preparing DPR of water supply, sewerage and drainage entrusted…

Water supply project to take off in Dec
Times of India – Nov 25, 2006
It was initiallyplanned to be operative bySeptember-end. However, it hashit a roadblock in four of the selected wards in Dharwad due to opposition fromcertain groups coupled with lack of awareness about the scheme and poor payingcapacity ofbeneficiaries. Funded by AsianDevelopment Bank, the project is being implemented by Karnataka UrbanInfrastructure Development Finance Corporation (KUIDFC). This demonstrationproject has been taken up in Hubli-Dharwad, Belgaum andGulbarga…
However, the project is facing some resistance in Gulbargaalso. Project officialsattribute apprehensions about acceptance of this novel scheme in the state tothe inability of NGOs entrusted with the task of creating awareness about itamong the potentialbeneficiaries. They say thathouseholds covered under it feel that water supply was being privatised and thatthey may have to pay much more once it wasimplemented. In fact, thebuilder will operate the project for two years before handing it over to therespective civicbodies. Dismissingapprehensions about the project, a representative of the builder-operator toldTOI that probably there has been less than desired coordination between KUIDFC,Water Board and the civicbodies. However, he said theresidents covered so far under the project in Belgaum were happy that they weregetting round-the-clock water supply up to third floors, “which was justunthinkable in the past. Theyalso save on the power required to pump water to upperfloors.

TLBC may get excess water from Bhadra reservoir
Hindu – Nov 25, 2006
This has been decided at a meeting of the Tungabhadra Irrigation Consultative Committee (ICC) convened at Bangalore on Thursday. The meeting was chaired by Home Minister M.

Sheriff’s station gets new leader
San Diego Union Tribune – Nov 25, 2006
Oceanside has its own water supply, but also takes water from the MetropolitcanMetropolitan Water District pipeline. Officials here want to help out their neighbors neighboring in communities that receive depend on getting water by pipeline from Lake Skinner in Riverside County. The pipeline will be affected by a planned shutdown to accommodate expansion of the Skinner treatment plant. If necessary, Oceanside could provide water to the affected cities. Lonnie Thibodeaux, interim water utilities director, asks residents to use water outside between 8 p.

Masses get only 30 pc of water resources: Vyas
Ahmedabad Newsline – Nov 25, 2006
Asking the State to press the panic button on possible shortage of water supply, Saket Group along with Gujarat Institute of Development Research (GIDR) and Indian Water Resources Society (IWRS) will be organising a two-day seminar on Gujarat-Water Resource Management on January 12-13, 2007. Announcing the seminar at a press conference, Jay Narayan Vyas, chairman of Saket Group drew out the irony of the States water woes: While just 30 per cent of Gujarat has 70 per cent of water resources, the remaining 70 per cent sadly has to manage from 30 per cent. Similarly, while just one-third of the country survives on rivers like Ganga, Yamuna and Brahmaputra which make up to two-third of the water resources in the country, the remaining two-third including Gujarat have to consume from one-third of the water available in the country.

Job of preparing DPR of water supply, sewerage and drainage entrusted…
Ahmedabad Newsline – Nov 25, 2006
Threatening to launch a campaign against the government, office bearers of UPEA claimed that the governments move would be counter productive for the department employees. Our department is already reeling under heavy financial losses and this move by the government will drive our employees to penury, alleged Rajesh Awasthi, secretary UPEA. Terming the governments move as unconstitutional, agitated employees demanded that the government should reconsider its demand to handover the DPR preparation project to RCUES.