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- Water supply in city to be disrupted for four days
- Harold Ward: Squandering our ‘wet wealth’
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- APUA maintains regular water supply

Water supply in city to be disrupted for four days
Hindu – Nov 25, 2007
“We are shutting down the fourth stage of Cauvery water supply scheme at Torekadinahalli from 8 a. on November 27 for about 24 to 30 hours. This will lead to shortage of about 270 million litres (MLD) of water supply to the city,” T. Venkatraju, Chief Engineer (Maintenance) at the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) told The Hindu…
This will lead to shortage of about 270 million litres (MLD) of water supply to the city,” T. Venkatraju, Chief Engineer (Maintenance) at the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) told The Hindu. The shutdown is to link a new water line that will supply an additional 100 MLD of water from the Cauvery to 72 wards in newly added areas of Bangalore from December, a BWSSB communiqué said. “We hope to be able to start supplying water by the evening of November 28. But since the water takes about six hours to travel from the source to our reservoirs in the city, it will take two days to be able to restore supply. To be able to completely stabilise the water situation, it will take about a week,” Mr.

Harold Ward: Squandering our ‘wet wealth’
Providence Journal – Providence Journal (subscription) – Nov 25, 2007
North Kingstown, for example, depends entirely on water withdrawn from the Hunt, Annaquatucket and Pettaquamscutt (HAP) aquifer. In the summer of 2005, and again this year, the Hunt River, drained by seasonal demand, all but stopped flowing. To use our “wet wealth” to attract economic development, water supply must be dependable. Generally, industrial demand is relatively constant, and can’t be curtailed when droughts occur. When a bio-tech firm considered — and decided against — locating at the Quonset Development Park, it could not have helped that the significant amount of water its plant required was not reliably available from an aquifer — at least not without further draining the Hunt River. A responsible water budget would set our expectations for water use based on what is available in a dry year. Restricting use only in the time of drought is too late to protect our rivers and streams and to provide the reliable supply we need to foster economic development…
To take full advantage of our “wet wealth,” we need to budget that resource, and allocate it to our essential needs. First, the state Department of Environmental Management, which for at least three years has been studying the amount of water necessary to maintain healthy streams, needs to set standards that will provide the baseline for our water budget. Then the Water Resources Board needs to allocate that water among competing uses, giving priority to essential household uses and the efficient use of water by industrial and commercial interests, including agriculture. Until we establish sound water budgets based on enforceable water-supply plans, our “wet wealth” will not provide an effective economic-development advantage. Harold Ward is policy director of the Coalition for Water Security.

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Tucson Citizen – Nov 25, 2007
(Scotter) — November 26,2007 @ 12:00PM Rating: 1 Thumb Up Does this article signal we have major problems ahead? And, if we do nothing, it will get worse. This should be a wakeup call to all Arizonans, we have to understand the consequences of humans on our water supply and water usage. The water supply is controlled by effects of nature, wind and humidity, precipitation, and temperatures. The UN Report is clear, these factors have been altered by humans and humans must cleanup their act from fossil fuel usage to reducing electricity demands through conservation. Water usage demands we conserve our natural water resources by reducing human demands. Conservation can do only so much, after that, we have to reduce the human population in the west, which means slow down development and inefficient home building. Did you hear the alarm bell ringing? Take responsible actions now or you’ll have to live somewhere else, just like the ancient ones…
The water supply is controlled by effects of nature, wind and humidity, precipitation, and temperatures. The UN Report is clear, these factors have been altered by humans and humans must cleanup their act from fossil fuel usage to reducing electricity demands through conservation. Water usage demands we conserve our natural water resources by reducing human demands. Conservation can do only so much, after that, we have to reduce the human population in the west, which means slow down development and inefficient home building. Did you hear the alarm bell ringing? Take responsible actions now or you’ll have to live somewhere else, just like the ancient ones. We can’t control nature but need to live within its bounds so that equilibrium remains, if not, we’ll be living like on Mars without leaving the Earth.

APUA maintains regular water supply
AntiguaSun – Nov 25, 2007
This is according to Communication Officer of APUA Cathrona Samuel. Samuel said the company has received reports of a few broken mains which resulted in the suppression of the water supply was in some areas but they were quickly fixed and supply restored. âWe have managed to fix that and there have been no other complaints, everything is going ok,â Samuel added. Meanwhile, the utility company is calling on residents to conserve and save water.