The News Review:
- South Metro eyes Ark Valley water.
- BWSSB ready to meet city’s water needs
- Drought takes toll on water supply
- Delhi likely to get more water
- Singapore and Iraq: Contrasts in Water Management
South Metro eyes Ark Valley water.
Free with registration – Pueblo Chieftain – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 17, 2007
–> COPYRIGHT 2007 The Pueblo Chieftain Byline: Chris Woodka Aug. 17–DENVER — The booming area south of Denver is looking at water supply options all over the state, including the Arkansas Valley, to fill a growing need, officials told a legislative panel studying water resources this week. The Water Resources Review Committee briefly looked at the South Metro Water Supply Authority’s master plan, which looks at current projects as well as new sources that will be needed in the next 25 years and beyond. “The master plan will serve as a road map to guide our collaborative efforts as we work to optimize use of our resources, explore partnerships to acquire water rights and consider investments in major water infrastructure facilities,” South Metro President Charles Krogh said. New sources of water are needed because wells in the Denver Basin, a self-contained aquifer that underlies the South Metro area, is losing head pressure as a result of development. “We could spend $4 billion to drill more wells for a nonrenewable resource that’s going to run out anyway,” said Kell.
BWSSB ready to meet city’s water needs
Hindu – Aug 17, 2007
Minister for Health R. BANGALORE: The Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has in the pipeline projects worth Rs. 43 crore to augment supply, provide water supply and sanitation to the new areas coming under the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike. The projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) total Rs…
And the per capita water supply is 100 litres to 110 litres. The current initiatives of the BWSSB are to ensure a supply of 1,500 million litres per day by 2015, and unless augmented, the city will be looking at a gap in supply and demand of 1,050 million litres per day in 2036. The capacity of the sewage water treatment plants is 718 million litres per day, but the treatment plants at 12 locations are treating only 350 million litres per day of sewage generated in the core area daily. The Cauvery Water Supply Scheme Stage IV Phase II has been taken up with financial assistance of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation and this would augment supply by 500 million litres per day by 2011-12. Kumaraswamy said considering that ground water was scarce and peripheral Bangalore was expanding rapidly, the BWSSB would have to work fast and begin utilising the treatment plants to maximum capacity and use treated water for non-potable purposes. The main project taken up by the BWSSB is the Rs.
Drought takes toll on water supply
Knoxville News Sentinel – Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) – Aug 17, 2007
Bacon Springs, off state Highway 61 in the Marlow community, emerges from a small cavern. Oliver Springs pumps about 25 million gallons a month from it, Bolling said. Officials on Wednesday first noticed muddy water in the clarifiers for the water treatment plant, and that was the initial signal of trouble, Bolling said. Filters were back-washed to remove the mud, he said. “As soon as we found out Wednesday, we started buying (water) from ACUB and pulled the supply level up,” Bolling said. For now, Oliver Springs is pumping half its normal volume from Bacon Springs to reduce demand on its water source, he said. Bob Fowler, News Sentinel Anderson County editor, may be reached at 865-481-3625.
Delhi likely to get more water
Hindu – Aug 17, 2007
Lamba, Superintendent Engineer of the Haryana Irrigation Department. Sources in the DJB said the interconnection of the plants would also help check water shortage in the city, which is caused when pollution levels in the water rise and the supply has to be cut off. “When the levels of ammonia and other pollutants in the water passing through Panipat and Sonepat increase, water supply to Wazirabad has to be stopped, which creates a major crisis in the city. But now with the interlinking of the two treatment plants, a water crisis can be averted, ” said sources…
Sources in the DJB said the interconnection of the plants would also help check water shortage in the city, which is caused when pollution levels in the water rise and the supply has to be cut off. “When the levels of ammonia and other pollutants in the water passing through Panipat and Sonepat increase, water supply to Wazirabad has to be stopped, which creates a major crisis in the city. But now with the interlinking of the two treatment plants, a water crisis can be averted, ” said sources.
Singapore and Iraq: Contrasts in Water Management
Electronic Iraq – Aug 17, 2007
Iraq has been dismissed as an abject failure, despite its access to two major rivers within its borders. Singapore’s widely-acknowledged achievement in water management earned the South-east Asian nation the Stockholm Industry Water Award at an international water conference which concluded here Friday. “We have ensured that our water supply is sustainable for the next 100 years, or more,” says Khoo Teng Chye, chief executive of Singapore’s national water agency. This would have been unimaginable in the 1960s and 1970s, he said, when Singapore faced all the problems of rapid urbanization: water shortage, polluted rivers and widespread floods. “The rivers were cleaned up in 10 years. The Singapore River became pollution-free and is teeming with fishes,” he said at the award ceremony at the week-long conference sponsored by the Stockholm International Water Institute. A country that once depended primarily on neighboring Malaysia for its water, Singapore now has three additional sources: collection of water from local catchments known as the Four National Taps, as well as water recycling and desalination…
After signing a new partnership agreement with Singapore to jointly promote the safe management of drinking water globally, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) assistant director general Susanne Weber-Mosdorf stated that “Singapore is an exemplary model of integrated water management and WHO hopes to work closely with Singapore to share such expertise in water management with its member states. In contrast to Singapore, Iraq has been gifted with an abundance of water from two major rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates. But the country, rich in natural resources and with vast reserves of petroleum, has been bedeviled by years of conflict, including a war with neighboring Iran in the 1980s, the U. -led invasion five years ago and subsequent ongoing occupation, as well as sectarian violence. As a result, says the United Nations, Iraq’s water sector has “faced a major deterioration in recent years. The factors contributing to the decline include: a serious lack of coordination between various public administration bodies, weak capacity to implement a national water resources plan, increasingly depleted resources and environmental degradation.