The News Review:

- 11 water supply schemes to be implemented in Kanyakumari
- Water worries
- A warning the Southland cannot ignore

11 water supply schemes to be implemented in Kanyakumari
Hindu – Aug 12, 2007
A detailed project report for comprehensive water supply scheme (CWSS) to coastal habitations in the district for Rs. 02 crore and for Kuzhithurai CWSS at an estimated cost of Rs. 14 crore have been approved by the Government.

Water worries
San Diego Union Tribune – Aug 12, 2007
But experts agree the delta is literally one big storm or earthquake away from disaster. The aging levees that protect the delta are at risk of failing in a major flood or quake, and that would disrupt water deliveries for months or even years. Such an event would leave Southern California without a major water supply source – with potentially dire consequences for the economy, the environment and the lifestyle that we all take for granted. Climate change, which could usher in longer droughts and more severe floods, is raising even more uncertainty for our water system. Meanwhile, a crisis involving a troubled delta fish continues to cloud the picture. The State Water Project's delta pumps were shut down for 10 days in June to protect the minnow-sized delta smelt, and further curtailments are likely over the next year.

A warning the Southland cannot ignore
San Diego Union Tribune – Aug 12, 2007
Its impact could be quite real and dramatic for the coming year. State agencies and environmental groups have suggested to the court to reduce water supplies from the delta for much of next year by as much as 54 percent. This kind of cut in this big of a water supply, long-term, would be felt up and down the state, including San Diego. Metropolitan is the single largest source of water for San Diego County. The delta may seem far away, but problems in the delta could strike very much at home. This isn't the kind of problem that will have a single solution. A comprehensive package of delta improvements will be absolutely vital…
But there is no getting around the touchiest issue of them all in the delta – whether this system needs another way to pump water either through or around the delta. Some may remember that California voters defeated a version of this idea in 1982. The idea was to pump supplies from the Sacramento River before the water reached the inner delta and to move the water in a new aqueduct to the existing one south of the estuary. The idea is back, but it is not the same. Smaller versions of a new conveyance system are now under review. Technically, the advantages seem compelling. A shutdown of the system this June, for example, wouldn't have been necessary if there had existed a second set of pumps that were far away from the migration path of the delta smelt.