The News Review:

- Water, water everywhere, but…
- Water shortage might delay opening of Central Broward Regional Park.
- Stormwater is a much better option than desalination

Water, water everywhere, but…
deccanherald.com – Jun 22, 2007
We used to get water at least once in two days in the summer, but that too has been disrupted now, the public complain. The main concern of the residents is the ‘unscientific’ schedule of water supply. Improper supply“The issue is not the availability of water but the poor supply system and operation,” one of the residents points out. According to the present system, the City Corporation supplies water in between 5 am and 5 am the next day, which appears too inconvenient to the public. “The main and simple change to be urgently implemented is supplying water in between 5 pm and 5 pm, instead of the present schedule,” a resident indicates. However, Mr Gopala Gowda, the Executive Engineer of Mangalore City Corporation connects the drinking water misery with the accumulation of plastic and other garbage in the Netravathi river at Thumbe. “There is suffient water in the river…
The main concern of the residents is the ‘unscientific’ schedule of water supply. Improper supply“The issue is not the availability of water but the poor supply system and operation,” one of the residents points out. According to the present system, the City Corporation supplies water in between 5 am and 5 am the next day, which appears too inconvenient to the public. “The main and simple change to be urgently implemented is supplying water in between 5 pm and 5 pm, instead of the present schedule,” a resident indicates. However, Mr Gopala Gowda, the Executive Engineer of Mangalore City Corporation connects the drinking water misery with the accumulation of plastic and other garbage in the Netravathi river at Thumbe. “There is suffient water in the river. But the plastic being flown from Uppinangady direction has become a major hurdle in the proper supply of water,” he says.

Water shortage might delay opening of Central Broward Regional Park.
Free with registration – South Florida Sun-Sentinel – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 22, 2007
| South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL) (June, 2007). 22–A water-supply problem may raise the price of a new Broward County park and prevent it from having all its grass and trees when it opens in November — if it opens on t.

Stormwater is a much better option than desalination
The Age – Jun 22, 2007
THE Victorian Government had an excellent record on water policy— until now. This week’s decision to supplement Melbourne’surban water supplies with a very expensive and energy-hungrydesalination plant is a very disappointing about-face. The harvesting of urban stormwater is a much better and moresustainable alternative to desalination. All Australian cities, including Melbourne, produce and wastehundreds of gigalitres of stormwater each year. This resourcerepresents a startling opportunity to help solve our water shortagewhile also protecting our rivers and producing just a fraction ofthe greenhouse emissions produced by desalination. One of the biggest problems with stormwater is that there is toomuch of it…
But such a centralised scheme would produce no stream healthbenefits. The damage is already done to the river and itstributaries by the time the stormwater has reached Abbotsford. Fixing the Yarra will require dispersed stormwater treatmentmeasures, including rainwater tanks, across the catchment. In doingso, the volume of water that could be harvested from residencesalone is huge. If the Government were to take this option seriously, there areeven greater volumes of water that might be harvested from theexpanses of commercial and industrial roofs across Melbourne. In fact, Melbourne produces enough excess stormwater run-offthat we might even be able to use that pipeline across the GreatDividing Range to supplement irrigation supplies in theMurray-Darling basin. It is not too late for a policy rethink on desalination.