The News Review:

- Time is running out to conserve water
- Daily water supply in twin cities soon
- Purcellville Signs Deal to Tap Into Private Wells to Boost Supply

Time is running out to conserve water
San Francisco Chronicle – Dec 16, 2007
My friend’s father told me that, like many locals, they are taking shorter showers, shutting off the faucet more quickly, and are not watering their yard. While not all residents have made such changes, he said of his family’s new approach, “We definitely can no longer take an endless supply of cheap and safe drinking water for granted. The water supply is on the minds of California’s government officials and environmental planners as well, who recently convened for the annual California Water Policy Conference. Our water supply, and what we as individuals can do to preserve it, also needs to be on the minds of Californians. While we may not have the power to make decisions regarding water allocation, or to push technology forward, we have one great power – we can stop using so much water. I will admit that I am slightly sensitive about wasteful water use, cringing at the water lost when someone brushes their teeth leisurely while the faucet runs, or running the faucet while cleaning the kitchen – not just the dishes – after a meal. Knowing that much of California’s conservation efforts are aimed at the agricultural sector which, at about 78 percent of California’s total water use, is the state’s greatest drain on the water supply, I wondered: Do individual Californians need to conserve water? How do we use or waste water? And what can we change about our habits to save water?I decided to ask the experts those questions, and the answers show that individuals should not discount the potential effects of their conservation efforts…
75 million acre-feet, according to the Pacific Institute in Oakland, a leader in the analysis of our state’s water system. That is between 43 percent and 54 percent of the state’s total urban water use, which means that households can directly affect about half of the state’s water supply directed toward urban use. California’s Department of Water Resources says 25 percent of water used in landscaping is wasted, and the Department points to toilets, clothes washers, and showers as the top three sources of indoor water use. By using spray nozzle hoses outdoors, and indoors repairing leaks, installing low flow showerheads and low flow flush toilets, and purchasing high efficiency washing machines, the department believes we can markedly lower residential water use. And the effect of such cut is two-fold – water is saved, and so is the energy used to convey, treat, and deliver the water. Win-win, right? A major obstacle though is getting Californians to change their habits. After all, why conserve? The Pacific Institute has the simple answer: “the way we use water today is not sustainable – environmentally or politically.

Daily water supply in twin cities soon
Times of India – Dec 16, 2007
Withcity’s population exploding and water becoming scarce, the residents have cometo terms with water supply twice or thrice a week, not to speak of dailyserpentine queues at public taps. That is set to change as theHyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) has decidedto supply daily water to several areas in the twin cities from the end ofDecember. Water board officialssaid it was planned to supply daily water from January 1, 2008 but at theinstance of chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, it would be done by the end ofthe month itself. However, theerstwhile surrounding municipalities, which do not have a proper distributionsystem as yet, will not get daily watersupply…
Withcity’s population exploding and water becoming scarce, the residents have cometo terms with water supply twice or thrice a week, not to speak of dailyserpentine queues at public taps. That is set to change as theHyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (HMWS&SB) has decidedto supply daily water to several areas in the twin cities from the end ofDecember. Water board officialssaid it was planned to supply daily water from January 1, 2008 but at theinstance of chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, it would be done by the end ofthe month itself. However, theerstwhile surrounding municipalities, which do not have a proper distributionsystem as yet, will not get daily watersupply. As of now, the board issupplying water for two hours on alternative days. Now, the board will supplywater for one hour everyday.

Purcellville Signs Deal to Tap Into Private Wells to Boost Supply
Washington Post – Dec 16, 2007
correction {margin-top:8px;padding-top:10px;margin-bottom:8px;border-bottom:1px solid #CCCCCC;padding-bottom:10px;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#333333;}. correction strong {color:#CC0000;text-transform:uppercase;}Purcellville Signs Deal to Tap Into Private Wells to Boost SupplyBy Arianne AryanpurWashington Post Staff WriterSunday, December 16, 2007; LZ03Purcellville officials have signed a contract to withdraw up to 205,000 gallons of water a day from four private wells starting next month, a short-term measure to supplement the town’s depleted water supply. The wells are owned by Western Loudoun Wellfield Co. on property near the town’s water treatment facility on Short Hill Road, Town Manager Robert W. The water will be sold to the town at a cost of $1.