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- Coles Bay uses tankers for tourism season water supply
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- Thieves steal water pumps
- China launches national center of rural water safety.
- Water saving devices to be mandatory

Coles Bay uses tankers for tourism season water supply
abc.net.au – Dec 16, 2006
Dry conditions throughout the year have depleted the Coles Bay water supply, which comes from former tin-mine dams. Glamorgan Spring Bay Council general manager Gordon Mallett says the town’s water use will increase by about 30,000 litres a day during the Christmas-New Year tourist season. He says water was being pumped from nearby small dams, but the pipes are having to be replaced. “Whilst we are doing that we’re also putting in some header tanks and we’ll be tankering water from the Apsley River to give us time to change over pipelines and the like,” he said. “Once we’ve secured that through better piping infrastructure and minimising the losses, we should be okay into the future.

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Press-Enterprise – Dec 16, 2006
At a special board meeting of the water and sewer agency on Thursday, newly elected board president Kenneth McLaughlin asked for a briefing on whether the district would have enough water next summer. "I don’t want to have another incident like we had in the summer of 2005," McLaughlin said Friday. During that summer, the district issued a voluntary conservation request and cut water supplies to developers after a series of mishaps left the district scrambling to find enough water for its customers. In summer 2006, the state ordered the district to stop using one of its most productive water wells because of high levels of a contaminant. But on Thursday night, district engineer Sam Gershon, of Albert A. Webb Associates civil engineers, had good news for McLaughlin and his four colleagues: Two wells with high nitrate levels are set to have a treatment system installed, and two other wells will be in operation by the summer season. The projects are set to be completed by mid-May, well before the hot summer months.

Thieves steal water pumps
Fiji Times – Dec 16, 2006
He said the water pumps were donated by the Chinese Embassy after the school management had requested for their help. “We did not have enough money to purchase water pumps and so we had requested for help and the Chinese Embassy had come to our aid,” Mr Vutevute said. “We had to install the water pumps for the school because of the constant water supply problems that we were faced with. Because the school is located on higher grounds, the pressure of water here is very low and we are not able to get water in taps at the school and so we had to install the water pumps. ” Vutevute said ever since the water pumps were installed the school had not faced any water supply problems and the students did not even had to carry their own water from home. “But now we will have to resort to requesting the Public Works Department to send water trucks to the school to fill the school water tank until we are able to get new water pumps. There are 300 students at the school and this theft just means that we will have a very bad school, year next year because there would be water supply problems,” he said.

China launches national center of rural water safety.
highbeam.com – Dec 16, 2006
This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) BEIJING, Dec 16, 2006 (Xinhua via COMTEX) — China has launched a national center to promote drinking water safety in rural areas, according to the Ministry of Water Resources. The center was formed on the base of a former organization engaged in developing the rural drainage and irrigation system. Apart from the previous work, one important task of the new center is to help carry out plans and projects on rural water resources. It is also responsible for developing and promoting new technologies in drinkable water supply for rural areas, the ministry’s website said…
The center was formed on the base of a former organization engaged in developing the rural drainage and irrigation system. Apart from the previous work, one important task of the new center is to help carry out plans and projects on rural water resources. It is also responsible for developing and promoting new technologies in drinkable water supply for rural areas, the ministry’s website said.

Water saving devices to be mandatory
NEWS.com.au – Dec 16, 2006
"Importantly there is a provision in parts of the state where these sorts of arrangements are not deemed necessarily practical, (for example) areas with very low rainfall,” Mr Fraser said. "Another flexibility in arrangements is that councils can certainly opt for higher targets than these. ” The water saving targets are part of the state government’s strategy to ensure long-term water supply. "Queensland is currently experiencing one of the worst droughts in our history,” he said. "That, combined with climate change and population growth, has placed our water resources under enormous pressure. ” Share this article.