The News Review:

- Conference will examine state of RI’s water supply
- Next JNNURM hope is also water supply
- Fill your glasses … with the Yarra River

Conference will examine state of RI’s water supply
Providence Journal (subscription) – Feb 25, 2007
pharmaceutical company, in West Greenwich, triggered a lot of momentum at the State House this year to make bureaucratic and regulatory changes that will help lessen water demand and shortages. Many of the key players in the debate unfolding at the State House are scheduled to speak on a panel titled “The Easy Years Are Over,” which will define the problems. Panelists include Ken Payne, director of the Senate Policy Office; Juan Mariscal, general manager of the Rhode Island Water Resources Board; Alisa Richardson, principal engineer at the state Department of Environmental Management; and Henry Meyer, chairman of the South Kingstown Planning Board and president of the Rhode Island Water Works Association. Another panel focusing on solutions includes Kevin Flynn, director of the state Division of Planning; Ann Veeger, chairwoman of the department of geosciences at the University of Rhode Island; Susan Licardi, director of water supply in North Kingstown; and Cynthia Giles, Rhode Island director of the Conservation Law Foundation. Presentations also will be made by Amy Vickers, a national water consultant; Dan Varin, chairman of the state Water Resources Board; and Peter August, director of the Coastal Institute at URI. The conference is scheduled for 5 to 9 p.

Next JNNURM hope is also water supply
Ahmedabad Newsline – Feb 25, 2007
For, alongside the Centres nod for the Middle Vaitarna Water Supply project, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation is also nudging its next set of projects submitted for funding under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). And all of these aim at improving water supply to the financial capital. Other projects recommended by the state-level steering committee for assistance under JNNURM include the Verawali to Adarsh Nagar tunnel (Rs 157 crore), the Malabar Hill to Cross Maidan tunnel (Rs 102 crore) and the Ruparel College to Marol tunnel (Rs 315 crore). The technical okays have been received for the tunnel projects, said Additional Municipal Commissioner Manu Kumar Srivastava. The proposals will next go to the Central Sanctioning and Monitoring Committee…
js’>One more project recommended by the state-level steering committee is for the replacement and rehabilitation of old pipelines, pegged at Rs 253 crore. Meanwhile, for a thirsty city with a shortfall of 900 million litres of water a day (mld), international tenders have already been floated for civil, mechanical and electrical works at the 900 mld water treatment plant at Bhandup to be constructed as a priority work under the Middle Vaitarna Water Supply Project. The qualifying criteria are steepcontractors must have designed and commissioned similar plants with a capacity of at least 450 million litres a day. The to-be-constructed dam across the Vaitarna has been designed by the Central Design Organisation, Nashik. They were appointed to prepare the design for the dam, the cost estimates and for carrying out detailed engineering studies. Also, a consortium led by Mott MacDonald is the project management consultant for the construction of an intake tower at Modaksagar involving complex hydraulics, for a 7.

Fill your glasses … with the Yarra River
The Age – Feb 25, 2007
The Government is undertaking a feasibility study to determinewhether after-storms water can be taken from Dights Falls inAbbotsford, treated and added to Melbourne’s water supply. The Environment Protection Authority has warned the river wateris unsuitable for drinking, and last month the Department of HumanServices warned people not to eat more than one serve of fish aweek from the river because of industrial pollution. The Department of Sustainability and Environment plans tocomplete the feasibility study into the use of the stormwater atDights Falls by the end of the year and, if approved, Melburnianscould be drinking the water by 2009. Opposition Leader Ted Baillieu said the water at Dights Fallswas of poor quality.