The News Review:

- ADB report outlines Pakistan’s water woes
- Governor’s panel seeks water, habitat changes in delta
- Angola: Cunene – Govt Officials Analyse Ondjiva City Water Supply…
- AMEC acquires Boulder-based water resources specialty firm.

ADB report outlines Pakistan’s water woes
Pakistan Dawn – Nov 30, 2007
The report said that water supply systems are characterised by limited hours of supply, low pressure, intermittent water supply, high levels of non-revenue — for example 60 per cent in Islamabad. In the first half of 2006, major outbreaks of waterborne disease epidemics swept Faisalabad, Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar as a result of sewage and industrial waste leaking into drinking water through damaged pipes, necessitating a major emergency public investment programme to finance more than 6,000 filtration plants. In Karachi and Lahore, 40 per cent of the water supply is unfiltered and 60 per cent of effluents are untreated. In Lahore, there is no sewage treatment and only three out of 100 industries chemically treat their waste-water. In Karachi, the sewerage system is in disrepair and there are no sewage treatment facilities, with even the two largest industrial estates in the country having no effluent treatment plants. The report said some of Pakistan was heavily constrained by water availability with the situation deteriorating annually. The country needs to pursue conservation aggressively, particularly in the irrigation sector, which is characterised by low productivity relative to other countries.

Governor’s panel seeks water, habitat changes in delta
San Francisco Chronicle – Nov 30, 2007
The recommendations embrace key initiatives that Republicans and Democrats have promoted in a bid to get a water bond on the February 2008 ballot. However, those talks have stalled over disputes about dams. Schwarzenegger has promoted building two new dams and expanding a third to shore up the state’s water supplies as part of his $10. 3 billion water bond proposal. But his proposal lacks any money for building a canal — even though he supports the concept. The task force said dams and changes in how the state moves water must be linked. Aaron McLear, the governor’s spokesman, said Schwarzenegger’s proposal requires the Department of Water Resources to consider the task force’s recommendations — including changes in how water is routed — as it develops a statewide water plan.

Angola: Cunene – Govt Officials Analyse Ondjiva City Water Supply…
AllAfrica.com – Nov 30, 2007
Participants to the meeting are also analysing the plan of water necessities for the whole province, as well as balance the execution rate of the Programme of Improvement and Increase of Basic Social Services, during the third quarter of 2007. The two-day meeting of the provincial council will also analyse the profile statistics of human resources of civil servants and the job market structure, as well as the training of local staffs…
Participants to the meeting are also analysing the plan of water necessities for the whole province, as well as balance the execution rate of the Programme of Improvement and Increase of Basic Social Services, during the third quarter of 2007. The two-day meeting of the provincial council will also analyse the profile statistics of human resources of civil servants and the job market structure, as well as the training of local staffs.

AMEC acquires Boulder-based water resources specialty firm.
Free with registration – Colorado Springs Business Journal – AccessMyLibrary.com – Nov 30, 2007
–> COPYRIGHT 2007 Dolan Media Newswires Byline: CSBJ Staff AMEC, an international engineering and project management company with offices in Colorado Springs and Lakewood, has acquired Hydrosphere Resource Consultants Inc. Hydrosphere, founded in 1983, is a 27-person water resources planning and management company with a head office in Boulder, and a satellite office in Socorro,.