The News Review:

- Delta smelt force emergency action at water pumps: Agencies, wildlife…
- Municipal authority to sell water to neighboring Zelienople
- Agencies, Inland counties brainstorm about water supply
- Sentinel Security Assessment – Oceania

Delta smelt force emergency action at water pumps: Agencies, wildlife…
Free with registration – Contra Costa Times – AccessMyLibrary.com – May 24, 2007
On Wednesday, the first day after an annual monthlong slowdown of the pumps, water managers did not take the usual step of beginning the annual ramp-up to normal summer pumping levels. And officials are preparing to tap a $13 million fund that has never been used before to buy water that could be used to help prevent Delta smelt from going extinct. When that money runs out after five to 10 days, officials could be forced to take more drastic actions impacting the state’s water supply if the smelt are still imperiled. This latest crisis is unfolding as massive pumps that ship Delta water to farms and cities from Dublin to.

Municipal authority to sell water to neighboring Zelienople
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Pittsburgh Post Gazette – May 24, 2007
Still, it’s a pricey proposition, having the authority lay 11 miles of pipeline will cost Zelienople up to $7 million, which compares with $5 million or so to repair the borough’s existing tanks. The difference, he said, is that repairing the existing system would leave Zelienople with a good, but, nonetheless, aging, system. “At the end of that, we still have the same water supply, the same water treatment facilities,” he said. With the new waterline, “we’d also get the advantage of anybody who’d tap in. and that’s a significant monetary advantage,” Mr.

Agencies, Inland counties brainstorm about water supply
Press-Enterprise – May 24, 2007
Among them are its 2,800 square miles spread throughout broad sections of Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange counties, home to 5 million people. That number is expected to grow to 7 million in 2025, and 10 million by 2050. It’s that last number that worries people in the 69 cities and 98 water agencies within that watershed; they expect higher demand, climate changes and fewer outside water sources to make it more difficult to keep water flowing through the area’s taps. To address that, more than 250 representatives of those agencies met in Chino on Thursday to pool ideas, an effort they christened "One Water, One Watershed…
Among them are its 2,800 square miles spread throughout broad sections of Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange counties, home to 5 million people. That number is expected to grow to 7 million in 2025, and 10 million by 2050. It’s that last number that worries people in the 69 cities and 98 water agencies within that watershed; they expect higher demand, climate changes and fewer outside water sources to make it more difficult to keep water flowing through the area’s taps. To address that, more than 250 representatives of those agencies met in Chino on Thursday to pool ideas, an effort they christened "One Water, One Watershed. " First, they plan to create proposals on how to spend $200 million in voter-approved bonds designed to fund flood-control and water-quality projects. Then they’ll extend those ideas on how to serve the customers in the area, while preserving recreational opportunities and the environment in the decades to come. "Our communities are growing fast.

Sentinel Security Assessment – Oceania
Jane's – May 24, 2007
Although these enquiries were apparently completed, nothing further had happened two years later. In February 2007, Samoa was working with the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) to identify alternative mining sources of sand and gravel to decrease beach sand mining and reduce coastal erosion. Water SupplyThe Samoa Water Authority manages the water supply for approximately 84 per cent of the population with the rest coming under the control of local district schemes. All households in Samoa except for those in Falealupo village have access to tap water. Two projects concerned with water supply and distribution have been funded through overseas aid programmes: the Rural Water Supply Project by the European Union which began in June 2000 and was completed on schedule in December 2002, and the Apia Water Supply Consolidation Project by Germany which ran from 1999 to 2001. Completion of both these projects has ensured that around 90 per cent of the authority’s customers receive safe and reliable drinking water in sufficient quantity and quality on a sustainable basis. A National Water Resources Policy was approved in 2001 and a National Water Services Policy in 2004…
Two projects concerned with water supply and distribution have been funded through overseas aid programmes: the Rural Water Supply Project by the European Union which began in June 2000 and was completed on schedule in December 2002, and the Apia Water Supply Consolidation Project by Germany which ran from 1999 to 2001. Completion of both these projects has ensured that around 90 per cent of the authority’s customers receive safe and reliable drinking water in sufficient quantity and quality on a sustainable basis. A National Water Resources Policy was approved in 2001 and a National Water Services Policy in 2004. WST520,000 (USD197,340) was earmarked in the 2006 budget for the government’s contribution to the ADB-funded Sanitation and Drainage Project, scheduled for completion in 2009. The total cost of the project, including of technical assistance grants and loan, is WST35 million (USD13,282,500). The main issue is that Samoa has one of the highest water consumption rates in the world. An awareness campaign is in progress to address this problem and installation of domestic water meters began in late 1997 throughout the islands to reduce wastage and oblige people to pay for their consumption.