The News Review:

- Cities, counties look up, down for water.
- 24-hour water supply in parts of Belgaum
- Threat to state economy as water drains to 21-year low

Cities, counties look up, down for water.
Free with registration – South Florida Sun-Sentinel – AccessMyLibrary.com – Dec 20, 2006
| South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) (December, 2006). 20–FORT LAUDERDALE — The search for a new drinking water supply for many of Broward County’s largest cities moves to northern Palm Beach County under…
–> COPYRIGHT 2006 South Florida Sun-Sentinal Byline: Brittany Wallman and David Flesh Dec. 20–FORT LAUDERDALE — The search for a new drinking water supply for many of Broward County’s largest cities moves to northern Palm Beach County under a half-million-dollar study approved Tuesday. Fort Lauderdale will lead an effort to boost the regional water supply, under terms of a deal that brings together Hollywood, Plantation, Sunrise, Pompano Beach, and Broward and Palm Beach counties. Together the governments will pay engineering firm Hazen and Sawyer $445,000 to determine whether it is possible and practical to divert rainwater in northern Palm into a rock-pit reservoir called L-8.

24-hour water supply in parts of Belgaum
Hindu – Dec 20, 2006
According to official sources here on Tuesday, the scheme would become operational in corporation ward nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 44, 45, 46 and 48. Those who have no water and sanitary connection should get a new connection under the scheme while those who had unauthorised connection should it regularised. But the users would be required to pay a deposit of Rs…
area need not pay the deposit money. The board warned that water supply would be automatically disconnected to those houses that did not have authorised water connection. No fresh applications would be entertained once the roadwork was complete. For connections and regularisations, residents living in ward nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 should contact the board’s office.

Threat to state economy as water drains to 21-year low
The Age – Dec 20, 2006
At the weekend the city’s nine main dams dropped to just under40 per cent of capacity, below the previous record low set duringthe devastating 2002-03 drought. By yesterday the dams had fallen even further, down to 39. 7 percent of capacity, or 704,117 million litres. In a speech written by the re-elected Labor Government to markthe first day of the new Parliament, Victorian Governor David deKretser said the state faced “major challenges”, including thedrought, which was likely to affect Government spending…
Doubts have also emerged about the Bracks Government’s plan toincrease the use of recycled water, with treated water from theWerribee Sewerage Plant blamed for damage to greens at a nearbygolf club. This comes a day after The Age revealed that SouthernRural Water had launched an investigation into the recycled water,after vegetable crops in Werribbee began to turn yellow. The last time Melbourne’s water supplies were this low wasOctober 1985, when the newly built Thomson Dam — which wassupposed to drought-proof Melbourne — was still filling. And if dams that provide water to rural Victorians continue todrop at the current rate, they will be at their lowest level inmore than a decade by mid-January. By the end of November,Victoria’s rural water storages were at their lowest point sinceJune 2003 — just after the end of the 2002-03 drought —according to Department of Sustainability and Environment figuresgiven to The Age. With the Bureau of Meteorology forecasting hot weather andslightly lower than average rain over summer, water supplies areexpected to keep dwindling. Meteorologist Harvey Stern said there would have to be a greatdeal of rain in autumn to lift the state out of drought.