The News Review:
- Ministry Invites Bids for Water-Supply Contracts
- Water supply to Jammu has improved: Minister
- Water warning as rain hopes turn to dust
- Kadaperi residents want water tank put to use
Ministry Invites Bids for Water-Supply Contracts
Arab News – Aug 26, 2007
The minister hoped, then, that Jeddahs water problem would end with the commissioning of the third desalination plant in Shuaiba on the Red Sea, which will have the capacity to supply 1. 3 million cubic meters of water. The plant is expected to supply about 194 million gallons of water daily as well as 900 megawatts of electricity daily when it is ready by the end of next year. It would also increase the per capita water share in the city to 350 liters daily. The Kingdom signed a SR9. 1-billion contract in November 2005 with a consortium of Saudi and Malaysian companies to set up Shuaiba-3 desalination plant, the first independent water and power project (IWPP) in the country.
Water supply to Jammu has improved: Minister
Hindu – Aug 26, 2007
26 (PTI): The Jammu and Kashmir government admitted in the assembly that water supply to parts of Jammu was badly affected for nearly a week this month but claimed that the position has improved. Water supply to parts of Jammu was badly affected due to washing away of one intake structure at Sitlee. While turbidity in second intake, caused by heavy rains in the catchment of the river Tawi, reduced the supply further, Minister for Public Health Engineering, Mohammad Dilawar Mir said. Replying to a call attention notice given by Yogesh Sawhney (Congress), the minister said between August 12 to 16 the supply of clear water was reduced by about 30 gallons as against 80 to 90 lakh gallons per day earlier. However, he added that now the position has improved considerably as turbidity has got reduced and the water availability has increased. The minister said the Chief Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had an emergency meeting with the concerned ministers and local MLAs on August 19 at Jammu on the issue.
Water warning as rain hopes turn to dust
The Age – Aug 26, 2007
Former premier Steve Bracks announced a $4. 9 billion plan lastJune to “secure water supplies for the long-term”. But the centrepieces of the new water supply plan, a $3. 1billion desalination plant in the Wonthaggi region and the $1. 8billion north-south pipeline to deliver water from northernVictoria, will not be completed for several years. In the interim, Melbourne will rely on additional water from thereconnection of the Tarago Reservoir and water saving programs,including tougher water restrictions.
Kadaperi residents want water tank put to use
Hindu – Aug 26, 2007
Chezhian, AIADMK councillor of Ward No. 2, wondered why the municipality was delaying operating these facilities which, he said, were constructed with taxpayers’ money. Water supply was provided for three weeks in July, but stopped soon after. He charged the municipality and the government with having stopped the supply deliberately, as the ward was represented by an opposition party councillor. However, municipal authorities denied the allegation. They explained that all the works were completed only by June-end, and they started a trial supply from July 1. The trial was conducted for three weeks to ensure there was no leakage in the distribution system.