The News Review:

- Science: Climate Change and Water Supplies
- SWEDEN: SINGAPORE WINS AWARD FOR WATER MANAGEMENT.
- He talks; officials gulp
- Warming Will Exacerbate Global Water Conflicts
- donga.com [english donga]

Science: Climate Change and Water Supplies
Washington Post – Aug 20, 2007
_______________________Mt. : Well, we know one thing about the world’s total water supply. The same amount we have now is equal to the amount in the early days of the earth’s forming. The only questions from the top-down view are what form does the water take (i…
, liquid, vapor, clean, contaminated) and where it’s located (i. , surface, atmosphere, subsurface, storage vessel)?So, who’s modeling, measuring, or mapping the movement of ALL of the earth’s water resources from a global scale? From that we can find who’s going to be the big winners and losers in the water grab 20 years (or sooner) out? The winners get to survive (evolution through natural selection) to reproduce the next generation. When fresh, clean, treated, and available water costs more than platinum, there might be some hope of controlling the world’s human population: the earth’s only real solution to the plagues that trouble it, and us. Registered Professional EngineerDoug Struck: You are correct about the finite and unchanged amount of water, and correct to say that a complete systematic analysis of where, when and how water will go would reveal all the answers. Unfortunately, it is far too complex at this point for a very detailed analysis of that type.

SWEDEN: SINGAPORE WINS AWARD FOR WATER MANAGEMENT.
Free with registration – Interpress Service – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 20, 2007
5 million people, has been touted as a phenomenal success story, despite the absence of most natural resources within its borders. Iraq has been declared an abject failure, despite its access to two major rivers within its borders. “We have ensured that our water supply is sustainable for the next 100 years or more,” said Khoo Teng.

He talks; officials gulp
Baltimore Sun – Aug 20, 2007
He is relentless in his message to towns and counties: You’ve got to stop planning for growth without first figuring out where your water will come from. The message is politically unpopular, but it is beginning to take hold. Last year, the General Assembly passed a law requiring local governments to file a water resources plan with the state as part of their land-use planning, legislation that Wolman sees as a small first step. Wolman has had water on his mind since he learned to walk. His father, legendary sanitation engineer Abel Wolman, designed water and sewage systems for Baltimore and cities around the world. Abel Wolman’s research helped lead to the chlorination of drinking water. Water, the younger Wolman said, “was part of a continuous conversation with my father, from the time I was 3 years old, all the way until the day he died” in 1989, at the age of 96…
After the 2002 drought, it became clear that the state needed help tackling its water woes, said Robert Summers, who headed the Maryland Department of the Environment’s water management administration and is now the MDE’s deputy secretary. The drought gave a taste of how bad the situation could get; Prettyboy Reservoir was down to 20 percent of its capacity, and Westminster was trucking in water from a local quarry. “It was very clear that our water supplies were being very heavily taxed to support all the growth, and it was very clear that we had to get a better handle on the water supply,” Summers said. Summers knew his former Hopkins professor and longtime mentor would have the energy to lead the committee – even in his 80s, Wolman leads field trips each Friday, wading into small suburban streams to show his graduate students the effects of sedimentation and runoff. wolman20aug20,0,2936828.

Warming Will Exacerbate Global Water Conflicts
Washington Post – Aug 20, 2007
"There is an emerging situation of climate refugees. "Global warming threatens water supplies in other ways. Much of the world’s fresh water is in glaciers atop mountains. They act as mammoth storehouses. In wet or cold seasons, the glaciers grow with snow. In dry and hot seasons, the edges slowly melt, gently feeding streams and rivers.

donga.com [english donga]
Donga.com – Aug 20, 2007
The enormous potential of the tap water market, whose scale is three times that of the sewage industry, is driving a host of business to jump into the water treatment industry. They believe that the tap water market will soon open its door to private companies. The water supply and treatment business accounts for 10 trillion won out of the entire 11 trillion won domestic water industry. Although many people regard water industry as just the bottled water industry, the drinking water market share is only about 400 billion won. Large enterprises are watching the movements of developing countries markets, which have been rapidly liberalizing in China, and the Southeast Asian region. Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction, the No. 1 company in the world in terms of building freshwater facilities, and Tae-young Construction are expanding their overseas operations, especially in the Middle East.