The News Review:

- Climate change likely to hurt water supplies
- Bottled Water, Plastics and a Permanent Replacement
- ABC News: Ice Sales Up in Baghdad as Power Falters

Climate change likely to hurt water supplies
Rocky Mountain News – Aug 23, 2007
Nearly 200 water officials from across the state are meetingto examine what new tools are needed to forecast changes and how tooperate water systems as spring runoff cycles change. “It will affect us first, and it will affect us worst,” Beharsaid. In Colorado and other Western states, roughly 80 percent of annualdrinking water supplies come from high-country snows. Early studies inSan Francisco show its high altitude reservoirs will likely be harderto fill as snowpacks shrink and melt earlier. Water managers have been stymied in responding to a warmingenvironment because climate models are built globally and don’t provideenough local or even regional data to reliably forecast changes tosnowpack. A new coalition of western water utilities is hoping to change thatby paying for more detailed, regional water models. © Rocky Mountain News.

Bottled Water, Plastics and a Permanent Replacement
Washington Post – Aug 23, 2007
But why not carry a pre-filled permanent water bottle around to avoid ever having to make that choice?_______________________Chantilly, Va. : Does bottled water have fluoride? My cousin attributed a cavity to the fact that she now drinks bottled water, and only drinks tap water when brushing her teeth. Laura Moser: Bottled water tends not to contain fluoride, which municipal water-treatment facilities add to the supply. The whole fluoride-in-water issue also has come under debate in recent years — does it cause a rare bone cancer in boys? Are we adding too much? Stay tuned for the results of this very public controversy. _______________________Washington: Can you give us a bottom-line analysis? What steps should the average adult drinker with limited time and resources take to minimize the risk of drinking dangerous levels of contaminants?Laura Moser: I definitely count myself as an "average adult drinker with limited time and resources," and my system — filtering tap water with a Brita — works just fine.

ABC News: Ice Sales Up in Baghdad as Power Falters
ABC News – Aug 23, 2007
invasion, and Baghdad residents are still lucky to get a few hours of electricity a day. The lack of electricity produces fury in Baghdad residents, particularly when the mercury can climb as high as 130 degrees, sometimes higher. This year, the double whammy of little power and a worsening water supply has Iraqis boiling. “We are going back,” said Ali Issa. “The Arab and Gulf countries are developing but we are going back. We depend on well water like we are living in a desert back in the 1920s and 1800s.