The News Review:

- Bottled out: Americans rethink their wasteful approach to water
- Cryptosporidium outbreak discovered in Clonmel water supply
- … Behind the Sanctions How the US Intentionally Destroyed…
- A Big Win Against Corporate Control of Water

Bottled out: Americans rethink their wasteful approach to water
The Independent – Independent – Aug 4, 2007
It is led by environmentalists, consumer activists and increasingly by local political leaders. The media is gulping down the brouhaha; and the beverage business, with much to lose, is starting to squeal. The H2O militants, who include the mayors of cities such as New York, Salt Lake City and San Francisco, are asking why spend your hard-earned cash on buying fancy brands of bottled water such as Fiji, Poland Spring, Aquafina and Dasani, when the stuff that comes out of the tap at home – or from the fountains in public spaces – is perfectly good? The quality controls imposed on public water supplies here by federal regulators are, after all, far more stringent than those required of bottled water. But it is not just an issue of wastefulness. Rather, the principal objection to our love affair with bottled water has to do with ecology. It takes energy and oil to make those bottles, all of which contributes to global warming. And then there is the question of where you throw them when you are done.

Cryptosporidium outbreak discovered in Clonmel water supply
Belfast Telegraph – Aug 4, 2007
The revelation was made during an emergency meeting of the town council last night. A ‘boil water’ notice has been issued this morning to houses in the area as a precautionary measure. The warning is expected to remain in place over the coming weeks. It’s understood that the parasite is a different strain to that which has caused major problems for thousand of residents in Galway over the last months.

… Behind the Sanctions How the US Intentionally Destroyed…
uruknet.info – Aug 4, 2007
” Incold language, the document spells out what is in store: “Iraq willsuffer increasing shortages of purified water because of the lack ofrequired chemicals and desalination membranes. Incidences of disease,including possible epidemics, will become probable unless thepopulation were careful to boil water. “Thedocument gives a timetable for the destruction of Iraq’s watersupplies. “Iraq’s overall water treatment capability will suffer a slowdecline, rather than a precipitous halt,” it says. “Although Iraq isalready experiencing a loss of water treatment capability, it probablywill take at least six months (to June 1991) before the system is fullydegraded. “Thisdocument, which was partially declassified but unpublicized in 1995,can be found on the Pentagon’s web site at www.

A Big Win Against Corporate Control of Water
AlterNet – Aug 4, 2007
“That isn’t going to work, and hasn’t worked in most cases. “Hauter, of Food and Water Watch, says private utilities use the public’s crumbling infrastructure “to get a foot in the door. ” But deteriorating utilities, says a report from Food and Water Watch, “should not be used as a pretext to shift control of water resources and infrastructure from the public to private sector. “Instead, both Kirk and Hauter, along with the WIN coalition, are pushing for a federal trust fund dedicated to supporting clean and safe public water. The government already has similar trust funds that sustain that nation’s highways and airways. “If trust funds are good for highways and airports, than why not water?” Kirk says. But as lawmakers consider legislation to adequately fund water infrastructure, private corporations are buying up public utilities.