The News Review:

- Second agency OKs Wilmington’s connection to state water supply.
- Excess water from SRP can supply local water district
- Drinking water scheme for slums launched
- Mumbai’s largest water treatment plant to have new actuators

Second agency OKs Wilmington’s connection to state water supply.
Free with registration – Sun (Lowell, MA) – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 18, 2007
–> COPYRIGHT 2007 The Sun Byline: Alexandra Mayer-Hohdahl Jun. 18–WILMINGTON — Town officials are weighing whether to hold a Special Town Meeting this fall, after a second state agency this week approved the town’s plans for a permanent connection to the state water supply. The Water Resources Commission on Thursday voted 8-0 to allow water from the Quabbin Reservoir to be used once Wilmington’s permanent connection to the state Water Resources Authority becomes a reality. The Environmental Policy Act Office had previously approved the project. “We are very pleased with the.

Excess water from SRP can supply local water district
sunstar.com.ph – Jun 18, 2007
Star Election 2007Yu made the announcement following SRPs acquisition of two water treatment facilities to supply water to its locators. He said one treatment plant will recycle wastewater while the other one will convert seawater through desalination to produce potable water. Water is not going to be a problem in SRP, Yu said. We can sell water to MCWD if we need to, he added. Should the entire SRP be filled with locators, the area is projected to use some 20,000 to 25,000 cubic meters of water per day.

Drinking water scheme for slums launched
Hindu – Jun 18, 2007
The scheme, named “Akshaya Jal Dhara”, will supply 1. 5 lakh litres of drinking water daily to the residents of 25 slums located in five zones in the City. Rajasthan Water Resources Minister Sanwarlal Jat carried out the formal launch of “Akshaya Jal Dhara” at the Akshaya Patra Foundation premises in the Jhalana Institutional Area here on Friday. The Minister on the occasion noted that the water supply scheme was another initiative from the Foundation to help the needy. Foundation trustee Ajay Jain said the Jal Dhara scheme meant to mitigate the acute scarcity of potable water in certain parts of the Rajasthan capital. “Jaipur is a water scarce area and this affected the poor most,” he said…
5 lakh litres of drinking water daily to the residents of 25 slums located in five zones in the City. Rajasthan Water Resources Minister Sanwarlal Jat carried out the formal launch of “Akshaya Jal Dhara” at the Akshaya Patra Foundation premises in the Jhalana Institutional Area here on Friday. The Minister on the occasion noted that the water supply scheme was another initiative from the Foundation to help the needy. Foundation trustee Ajay Jain said the Jal Dhara scheme meant to mitigate the acute scarcity of potable water in certain parts of the Rajasthan capital. “Jaipur is a water scarce area and this affected the poor most,” he said. Govind Das, in charge of the Akshaya Patra Foundation in Rajasthan said a pilot project; launched eight months back had looked into the problems of water supply in the “katchi bastis” of Jaipur.

Mumbai’s largest water treatment plant to have new actuators
Daily News & Analysis – Jun 18, 2007
The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) on Monday said the 2,100-million litre per day treatment plant at Bhandup will get the new system at a cost of Rs 60 lakh. Bhandup Complex water treatment plant controls 70 per cent of the city’s water supply and was recently awarded the ISO 9000-2001 certification for consistent high quality water treatment. “The new actuators will save time and hard labour taken up by valve operations and would also better supervise control and data acquisition,” MCGM sources said. At the equalisation point in Bhandup Complex, six valves, now operated anually, control and regulate water supply to the city’s pipelines. Some require attention even at night, and as the valves are spread over distances of 1. 5 km, attending to them manually is difficult, the sources said.