The News Review:

- With 74-day water supply, Durham adopts restrictions.
- Cameroon: Researchers Expose Problems of Potable Water Supply
- Choked drains, slush make it a hell
- Creating a vision for the Delta: Task force’s report could…
- Jamaica an important player in the Caribbean, says China

With 74-day water supply, Durham adopts restrictions.
Free with registration – News & Observer – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 21, 2007
21–DURHAM — Mandatory restrictions on water use are in effect in Durham as of this morning. The city’s water department expects a 20 percent to 30 percent cut in demand on a system that was, when restrictions were approved Monday, down to a 74-day supply. The Stage III conservation measures (the first two were voluntary) could give Durham another 30 days’ worth, said Vicki Westbrook of the city’s water resources department. Here are the new rules: –Lawns, grass, trees, shrubs, flowers, golf greens and vegetable gardens may be watered only.

Cameroon: Researchers Expose Problems of Potable Water Supply
AllAfrica.com – Sep 21, 2007
The research targeted only the Northwest and Southwest Provinces of Cameroon, where questionnaires were prepared and administered to respondents on the issue of potable water supply. Inferring from the findings, people are worried about suppliers' commitment to improving accessibility to potable water. Though people resist paying for water supply and wished that government provided free water, they are still willing to pay because water is an absolute necessity. According to Prof Enoh, they found out that low-income people resist the privatisation of water because they feel that water is so common that it is the social responsibility of the government to provide water to its citizens. "It is left for policy makers to see how far they would go in bringing in local communities in water management. We are participating from the Cameroon perspective; we have colleagues in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and Ethiopia. This workshop is to disseminate our findings, but we will have a bigger workshop at the level of Africa where we will know what is happening in the continent.

Choked drains, slush make it a hell
Hindu – Sep 21, 2007
The deluge clogged sanitary drains and damaged the borewell water pipelines in the area. Since the rains, residents are left without any water. “The water supply (which was already irregular in the past) has stopped since Sunday. We are either buying tanker water from other areas or using the smelly contaminated water from the private borewells in the neighbourhood. We are forced to drink this water,” said Nagaratna S. “Our toilets are blocked.

Creating a vision for the Delta: Task force’s report could…
Free with registration – The Record – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 21, 2007
| Record (Stockton, CA) (September, 2007). 21–In the Delta of the future, water supply and the environment must be "co-equals," and the estuary should no longer serve as such a critical hub of California’s water.

Jamaica an important player in the Caribbean, says China
Jamaica Observer – Sep 21, 2007
Citing China’s recent donation and shipment of pipes to Jamaica to improve the island’s water supply, Ambassador Jinghua said that other needs would be similarly addressed according to the priorities of the Jamaican Government. He also mentioned China’s role in the recent construction of the Trelawny Multi-purpose Stadium for Cricket World Cup 2007, as well as its undertaking to build an international convention centre in St James. Welcoming Ambassador Jinghua, who is in the 10th month of his tour of duty, Dr Chang said that the Jamaican Government “will certainly be looking at expanding and deepening co-operation in all areas, but particularly the area of improved water supply, given our shortage of capital”. “Jamaica also has a problem of severe shortage of housing at the lower and lower-middle income levels and I’m sure we can work on a structured development expansion programme in housing, looking at technology and materials,” he added. The minister was joined in the meeting with Ambassador Jinghua by state minister, Everard Warmington; parmenent secretary, Genefe Hibbert; chief technical director, Desmond Munroe; director of the Water resources Authority, Dr Basil Fernandez; president of the National Water Commission, EG Hunter, and his director of communications, Charles Buchanan.