The News Review:

- Bottled Water: Is the Tide Turning for a Top Seller?
- BMC plans 24X7 water supply
- Water supply to elevated areas continues to be affected
- Government in denial

Bottled Water: Is the Tide Turning for a Top Seller?
NPR – Apr 27, 2007
The restaurant – and others – have qualms about how much energy it takes to get water from Italy to California dinner tables. Other concerned citizens are upset about the huge number of water bottles not being recycled. And a political argument is beginning to bubble up: If public water is being bottled and sold, does that mean the water supply is being privatized? Public Citizen and the Sierra Club are just two of the groups asking that question. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. It’s way too early to tell whether the anti-bottled-water crusade will remain a trickle or become a flood. There are still water bars, water sommeliers and water menus – places where you learn what water goes best with what food. And there is certainly no sign of retreat in the marketplace.

BMC plans 24X7 water supply
Times of India – Apr 27, 2007
The announcement was made at apress conference by civic chief Johny Joseph on Thursday. Josephâtipped tobe the next chief secretaryârolled out the BMC achievements and futureplans during what could be his last few days at the civic headquarters. According to the presentation,the BMC has set 2011 as year by which it aims to get in place severalinfrastructural projects for water supply, storm water drains, roads and sewagedisposal. âThe problem isnot with the availability of water but with water management. We are appointingconsultants for conducting a water audit for the city. Their job includeschalking plans for revamping the system, looking at not only leakage detectionbut for a 24×7 water supply system,ââ said additional municipalcommissioner Manu Kumar Shrivastav. âBy the time MiddleVaitarna gets completed by 2011, we will start the Gargai project and then thePinjar project by 2016,ââ he added.

Water supply to elevated areas continues to be affected
Hindu – Apr 27, 2007
The KWA has all along maintained that the repeated power outages at Aruvikkara and the resultant disruptions in the pumping of water are at the root of the water shortage to the elevated areas in the city. Now that there has been no major power supply disruption over the past 48 hours and the elevated areas still continue to face shortage of water, the KWA has been constrained to look into other possible reasons for this problem. Engineers of the KWA now say that they are stymied in their efforts to check the valve chambers as they have been buried underground following the resurfacing of the Kowdiar-Vellayambalam stretch of the road carried out by Thiruvananthapuram Road Development Company Ltd.

Government in denial
NEWS.com.au – Apr 27, 2007
Why should dry small towns' evacuation be the exception? Posted by: Bruce of Bananaland 11:17am April 27, 2007 So the question still remains: What is the government's disaster management plan for the event that major towns and cities, such as Brisbane, run out of water?I can't imagine large-scale trucking of water working all that effectively, and we as the public do have a good reason to understand what would happen in the event of Wivenhoe, Somerset, North Pine, and any other major supplies running so low on water as to be unusable. At current rates that point will be sometime within the next 18 months. We might get lucky, and have sufficient rainfall in the intervening time that the situation abates; equally, we may very well not. So far it appears that water management is being played on a day-by-day basis; viz…
running out of water) should be in place. Moreover a total failure of the water supply would affect substantially more people than ANY likely and concievable terrorist attack, in that the vast majority of residents would be immediately and personally affected. I'm sure that if such plans exist the government would be reluctant to share them for fear of scaring the populace, but at the moment some of us are worried that our elected officials and public servants aren't doing the jobs for which they're paid so well – a fear which is both well-founded and far greater in magnitude than any fear derived from the realisation that we might well run out of water in the next year or two. Posted by: Iain of Mansfield QLD 10:51am April 27, 2007 Is the Courier Mail trying to suggest that The Government should not discuss all of the options that can solve this problem?The problem: Town A is likley to run out of local water supplies for its population. A potential solution: Move the residents of the town to somewhere we there is a suitable supply of water. The result: The problem has been solved.