The News Review:
- Water treatment concepts unveiled
- abc7news.com: The Water Supply Is Still Short Despite The Storms…
- Haryana flouting water treaty: Delhi
Water treatment concepts unveiled
Stockton Record – Jan 26, 2008
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at The Reserve at Spanos Park in north Stockton, 6301 West Eight Mile Road, to provide information on its Delta Water Supply Project. The new capital improvement project aims to provide supplemental water supplies to replace declining surface water resources; protect and restore groundwater supplies; and provide for current and future water needs in the Stockton metropolitan area. An intake facility on the San Joaquin River will draw water from the Delta and send it through miles of underground pipeline to a new state-of-the-art water treatment facility on Lower Sacramento Road, slightly north of Eight Mile Road. Residents are invited to learn more about design alternatives for water treatment facilities and provide opinions regarding various presented design concepts at today’s event.
abc7news.com: The Water Supply Is Still Short Despite The Storms…
abc7news.com – Jan 26, 2008
This year’s first snow survey measured less than 60-percent of normal for the season. “The snow pack is very, very important. It’s everything to your water supply,” said Arthur Hinojosa from the CA Department of Water Resources. Some farmers in the lush Sacramento Valley are well aware of the state’s water needs. They’re thinking of not planting crops this year to sell their irrigation water on the possibly more lucrative, open market. As the governor and Democrats disagree over how to solve the state water crisis, some look at this week’s rainfall and wish more could be saved and stored. “It needs to be captured so when we have a drought, that we have enough water available.
Haryana flouting water treaty: Delhi
Hindu – Jan 26, 2008
In a statement released on Friday, the Delhi Government said the immediate consequence of the unwarranted action was a reduction in production of water at the Wazirabad and Chandrawal water treatment plants by about 30 per cent. It said at present the pond level was around 673 feet and this had forced the Delhi Jal Board to cut down supply to various areas in North Delhi, West Delhi and Central Delhi as well as VVIP areas of New Delhi. “This action of Haryana has resulted in unavoidable distress to lakhs of people of the Capital. In spite of several communications sent both by the Chief Executive Officer of the Delhi Jal Board and Chief Secretary, Delhi, to Chief Secretary, Haryana, and other officials of the Irrigation Department Haryana, including communications sent by the Member-Secretary, Upper Yamuna River Board, there had been no positive response from Haryana to restore the supply,” the release added.