The News Review:
- Mumbai water supply may resume ahead of schedule
- Villagers tap in to water supply
- Harsher water restrictions ruled out
Mumbai water supply may resume ahead of schedule
Economic Times – Dec 28, 2006
The water supplywas cut off for 24 hours from 10 am on Wednesday for repairs and connectingalready laid pipelines to a filtration plant. Mumbaikars were gearedup for the water cut due to advance intimation from the Municipal Corporation ofGreater Mumbai (MCGM). Many office-goers preferred to eat outside and somehousewives avoided washing clothes. Hospitals conducted only emergencyoperations. Chief hydraulic engineer Deepak Kajbaje said repair workwill be completed by 8 pm on Wednesday and water supply will be restored bymidnight â almost 10 hours before schedule.
Villagers tap in to water supply
BBC News – Dec 28, 2006
People in Blair Atholl and Bridge of Tilt have had their supply from Network Rail, or its equivalent, since 1911, because of a historical quirk. However, more than 200 homes should now enjoy the same quality and water pressure as most of the country. 2m improvement project was carried out by Scottish Water.
Harsher water restrictions ruled out
NEWS.com.au – Dec 28, 2006
Authorities have not ruled out the possibility the dam would reach its “extreme minimum operating level” of 13 per cent later next year, the report said. But Ms Kosky said the reason water levels had dropped in the Thomson Dam was because water had been transferred to another dam due to fears bushfires in the area could contaminate drinking water. “Water has been shifted in order that we don’t have contaminated water supply because of the threats from the bushfires and contaminating that water supply,” she said. She said there was no risk stage four water restrictions, due to be introduced in if overall storage levels drop below 29. 3 per cent, would come in earlier. “We need to look at total storage volume, which is at 39 per cent,” Ms Kosky said. “We have to use the scientific trigger, and not just a general feeling around the community.