The News Review:

- Supply water thrice a week, corporation told
- Pooled power sought to save water supply
- Stephen Golding’s conference speech

Supply water thrice a week, corporation told
Hindu – Nov 26, 2006
Darshanapur was chairing a review meeting of the drinking water crisis in Gulbarga. He took a serious view of the shortage of drinking water supply in many parts of the city. He spoke to Managing Director of GESCOM Bharatlal Meena and said there should not be any disruption in power for the drinking water supply schemes. Senior officials, including Deputy Commissioner Pankajkumar Pande, who is the administrator of the City Corporation, Corporation Commissioner Tippesh, Gescom officials and Chandrasekhar Patil Revoor, MLA, attended the meeting.

Pooled power sought to save water supply
Northwest Herald – Nov 26, 2006
If approved, anyone wanting to drill a well serving four or more homes would need a permit, as will wells for most commercial and industrial use. Permits will not be required for existing wells unless the owner wants to increase capacity. Last year, the McHenry County Groundwater Resources Management Plan concluded that the county would need twice as much groundwater in 2030 as it did in 2000. The plan estimated that the 34. 6 million gallons a day pumped in 2000 would become 67. 5 million gallons a day by 2030. The plan also projected that Algonquin and Grafton townships could see serious shortages by 2020, when countywide use could reach 51 million gallons a day…
Kennedy said the authority would give rural residents a voice that they do not have now. “[Cities] have all of that power – I don’t like to use that word – but all of the legal power necessary to handle their water situated within their boundaries,” Kennedy said. “Including them in this water authority doesn’t make sense. ”One possibility laid out in the county’s groundwater management plan was to drill wells in the rural western half of the county and pump the water east. Neither alliance nor county officials were willing to speculate on how the water authority would influence that scenario. If approved, the authority would levy about 3 cents per $100 of assessed valuation, or $25 a year for the owner of a $250,000 home, Perbohner said. Although present city boundaries will be exempt, property that cities try to annex would remain under authority control.

Stephen Golding’s conference speech
Jamaica Observer – Nov 26, 2006
The soles of my feet were too tender for the hard granite stones which were liberally spread on the pathways called roads. Waking up at five in the mornings to accompany those who were moving goats or travelling to a ‘grung’ to dig for yams and then to eat in the field off quailed banana fronds were the closest thing to heaven for me. At the time, there was no tank and the normal water supply came via rain water from the roof and channeled into 55 gallon drums which were tarred inside. The water at Riverhead was the source of the famed Moneague Lake, a place I was always afraid of. In a typical day, we would make about four trips, riding the donkey to Riverhead then walking alongside on the return trip. I left Clapham sometime around 1959 and returned for a visit as a grown man in 1976…
If she performed, they loved her. If she did absolutely nothing, as she did most time, they loved her. What was no secret was the silent treatment given her by her colleagues in the years when Stone polls were showing her as the most popular and most loved person in the country. In all of those years, there was hardly any criticism of her. Indeed (in hindsight), if she was real honest with herself and as bright as some of us thought she was, she would have questioned the reason for the public adoration and move to provide the electorate with ‘real’ reasons for the constant endorsement. Come March 30, she had her shot. Here was the chance she was waiting on for all of these years.