The News Review:

- `Nobody has the right to sell water’
- New Technology Removes Viruses From Drinking Water.
- Six million Chinese face water shortages
- Mudslide Forces Postponement of DWR Snow Survey.
- City to buy land for water plant for $2M

`Nobody has the right to sell water’
Hindu – Feb 28, 2007
Shivarudrappa, who inaugurated the event, condemned the Government’s move to privatise water. “Water and air are our natural resources and it is the obligatory duty of the Government to supply water free of cost. By privatising supply of water, the Government is actually trying to shun its responsibility,” he said. He lauded Inchara’s efforts in organising the event by involving children. “It is essential to educate our future leaders about the disadvantages of privatisation of water. This effort should be supported by one and all,” he said.

New Technology Removes Viruses From Drinking Water.
Free with registration – Space Daily – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 28, 2007
The new technology could dramatically improve the safety of drinking water around the globe, particularly in developing countries. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), over a billion people–one-sixth of the world’s population–lack access to safe water supplies. Four billion cases of diarrheal disease occur worldwide every year, resulting in 1. 8 million deaths, primarily infants and children in developing countries. Eighty-eight percent of this disease is attributed to unsafe water supplies, inadequate sanitation and hygiene. In the United States, viruses are the target pathogenic microorganisms in the new Ground Water Rule under.

Six million Chinese face water shortages
Reuters AlertNet – Feb 28, 2007
0 article header end –>. The city faces an acute water shortage in early March due to a continuing drought along the Yangtze River, the agency said citing a local meteorological expert. "The city will be lacking at least 500 million cubic metres of drinking and irrigation water and about six million people will be thirsty," Xinhua quoted the local meteorologist as saying. Official figures show that the amount of water stored in Chongqing’s reservoirs is around 1. 17 billion cubic meters, less than half the normal storage, it said.

Mudslide Forces Postponement of DWR Snow Survey.
Free with registration – Business Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Feb 28, 2007
| Business Wire (February, 2007). — The Department of Water Resources (DWR) scheduled snow survey scheduled for today (February 28, 2007) at Phillips Station has been postponed because of a mudslide on Highway 5.

City to buy land for water plant for $2M
St. Petersburg Times – Feb 28, 2007
Overstreet, of Clearwater, for vacant land located southeast of the intersection of L&R Industrial Boulevard and Brady Road. The deal, approved last week, will be financed by the $45-million bond referenda approved by 70 percent of voters last year for the drinking water supply project. The water plant concept has been in the works for more than four years by city staff, which say a system would end residents' reliance on external water providers. For many years, the bulk of the nearly 3. 5-million gallons of drinking water piped into city homes each day has originated from Pinellas County and Tampa Bay Water systems. The recent surge of growth across the region has made external suppliers more expensive and less reliable, City Manager Ellen Posivach said. City officials said the treatment plant will draw a supply of brackish groundwater, which will be filtered by a reverse-osmosis process to remove salt and minerals…
5-million gallons of drinking water piped into city homes each day has originated from Pinellas County and Tampa Bay Water systems. The recent surge of growth across the region has made external suppliers more expensive and less reliable, City Manager Ellen Posivach said. City officials said the treatment plant will draw a supply of brackish groundwater, which will be filtered by a reverse-osmosis process to remove salt and minerals. Charles Attardo, Tarpon Springs business specialist, told Commissioners last week that the city had been considering several tracts north of the Anclote River for the plant and wells, and negotiated with a number of landowners. Attardo said the property near L&R Industrial Boulevard and Brady Road offered the best features to meet the technical requirements and the lowest price per acre. Records from the Pinellas County property appraiser estimates the current value of the land is $539,500 and shows that Overstreet paid $350,000 for it in 1991. The parcel is vacant and includes a 1-acre pond.