The News Review:

- … Gloucestershire faces fortnight without drinking water | UK…
- Three Clear Plays on Water Purification
- Advocates hope to turn tide against bottled water.

… Gloucestershire faces fortnight without drinking water | UK…
Guardian Unlimited – Jul 24, 2007
The situation at the Walham substation was so critical last night that the cabinet’s emergency committee had been warned the facility was at risk of being swamped, he said. “The crisis may have passed last night, but the ongoing emergency is not over. “As the flood levels receded, the emergency services turned their attention to distributing water to homes cut off by damage to the Mythe water treatment plant, in Tewskesbury. Severn Trent Water, which manages the plant, said it would take up to 14 days to restore supplies. The company is planning to send 600 bowsers, or mini-water tankers, out to locations around Cheltenham, Gloucester and Tewkesbury. Many of these are being sent out under police escort. Gloucestershire county council said several bowsers had been vandalised in the Gloucester area amid frustrations over the water supply…
With supermarket stocks of water running low as far away as Bristol, hundreds of people gathered outside a Tesco supermarket in Quedgeley awaiting the arrival of thousands of bottles. Queues began forming outside the store at 9am even though the delivery was not expected until after lunch. Mr Brain said: “The ongoing problem of water supply is going to give us severe problems for days to come. “But he added: “Do not panic. If people behave calmly and with patience, there is sufficient water for personal needs. “Up to 3m litres of bottled water is to be delivered each day to Cheltenham racecourse. The army will then distribute it around the county.

Three Clear Plays on Water Purification
thestreet.com – Jul 24, 2007
, a safe, reliable water supply is not a given. Many of the water-treatment plants built in the 1970s are nearing the last days of their usefulness just as contaminants in water that were unknown 30 years ago become more prevalent. Over the past two months, three new exchange-traded funds focused on the water industry have hit the market, following on the success of the PowerShares Water Resources Portfolio(.

Advocates hope to turn tide against bottled water.
Free with registration – Chicago Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jul 24, 2007
Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa have issued executive orders prohibiting the use of city money to buy bottled water, and the Ann Arbor City Council in Michigan last month approved a measure calling for city events to be bottled-water-free. “For a long time, I’ve viewed (bottled water) as a huge marketing scam,” Anderson said recently, explaining why he has called for city employees to drink tap water and use refillable water bottles. Municipal water supplies are just as good as bottled water and are monitored far more closely, city.