The News Review:

- Plan would give county own water supply
- Water Monopoly Criticised
- DADU: TMA accused of neglecting Dadu city
- Rs.68-cr. drinking water scheme inaugurated

Plan would give county own water supply
Charlotte Sun-Herald – Dec 25, 2006
Dirt to cover the county landfill on Knights Trail in Laurel would be provided by the project. It would come from an existing borrow pit that would be expanded and redesigned into a reservoir. The Carlton treatment plant would be added to at the same time, Jones said. An independent public water supply has been a county objective since 2001, when a study by the.

Water Monopoly Criticised
Minivan News – Dec 25, 2006
Farooq remains in the post of Deputy Director General but says he has been sidelined the company, which has ceased to consult him since he became a Shadow Minister. I am determined not to quit because if the ministers and deputy ministers can work in DRP I have an equal right to work in MDP, he says. A number of known MDP members who also work in government organisations have been subject to problems, ranging from general harassment to being fired for their involvement with the opposition. Farooq is one of them, and is now calling for the company to honour its obligations under a joint venture agreement made when the company was founded…
A number of known MDP members who also work in government organisations have been subject to problems, ranging from general harassment to being fired for their involvement with the opposition. Farooq is one of them, and is now calling for the company to honour its obligations under a joint venture agreement made when the company was founded. Under the plans, the company should have provided water supply and a meter for every Maldivian household, rather than every house. In Male, two or three families often live in one house due to the enormously high population density. But often, each household, defined as those who cook for themselves, does not have its own water supply. Farooq is arguing that every household should now have a water supply and a meter, in order to take the onus off the government to provide public water taps where people can get water. He has also complained about the companys policy of charging Rf.

DADU: TMA accused of neglecting Dadu city
Pakistan Dawn – Dec 25, 2006
com ———- –>DADU: TMA accused of neglecting Dadu cityBy Qurban Ali KhushikDADU, Dec 24: Drainage, sanitation and water supply system of different parts of Dadu has almost collapsed due to apathy of the town municipal administration of Dadu which was causing spread of different diseases in the city. The thickly populated areas remain neglected as main nullah and drains are found over flowing with heaps of garbage lying at main roads and water supply lines broken at various places compelling the citizens to use unhygienic water mixed with sewerage water. A resident of Soomro colony UC-1, Aftab Ahmed Soomro told this correspondent that nullahs of Shah Latif colony, Azizabad, Soomro colony, Shahbaz colony, Pir Bux Colony, and DC colony were choked with its water gushing on main roads. He complained that owing to failure of drainage system, people were contracting diseases such as malaria and gastroenteritis. Residents of Gharibabad, Nadeem Ahmed Ghallo and Zulfiqar Khokhar complained that knee-deep sewerage water was running on different roads in the area.

Rs.68-cr. drinking water scheme inaugurated
Hindu – Dec 25, 2006
Stalin, Minister for Local Administration, here on Sunday. Inaugurating the first phase of the water scheme implemented at a cost of Rs. 68 crore, which would supply water to Virudhunagar and Aruppukkottai municipalities besides Kariapatti and Mallanginar town panchayats, he said the scheme would increase the supply of water from 42 lpcd (litres per capita per day) in Virudhunagar Municipality and 49 lpcd in Aruppukkottai Municipality to 90 lpcd. It would also ensure supply of 70 lpcd in town panchayats and 40 lpcd in panchayats, he added. Review meetings at the district headquarters helped to understand the needs of the people, Mr. Stalin said and added that he had visited all districts except Dharmapuri and Nilgiris.