The News Review:
- Arizona mulls new water source: Ocean
- Long-range water supply on tap for City Council
- City to reduce water pressure to stop waste
- Like oil, speculators and water an uneasy mix
- Studies: Mining expansion poses water bug risk
- Briefing: Water charges back on the agenda
Arizona mulls new water source: Ocean
Arizona Republic, AZ
But if backers can clear those hurdles, Arizona and neighboring states could tap a plentiful supply of water largely immune to the effects of drought and climate change. “Desalinated ocean water is the future sustainable source,” said Herb Guenther, director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources. “It’s only logical that eventually we’ll migrate toward it. We don’t need interim supplies now. We need a permanent supply. Oceans, which hold 97 percent of the Earth’s water, were long considered a source of last resort, mostly because of the high cost of removing enough salt to produce drinking water.
Long-range water supply on tap for City Council
Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise, OK
Council meetings are typically held on Mondays, but will be held Tuesday this week due to the Labor Day holiday. The Water Resources Committee voted recently to recommend the city pursue water supply options listed as “3C” in the Planning Assistance to States study completed by the Corps of Engineers. The options include seeking alternative pricing from Congress for water storage for the original 1 million gallons of water per day of water rights on Copan Lake and reallocate water quality to water supply, as well as realocate flood control to water supply on Copan and Hulah lakes. The committee also voted to recommend that the city request that Congress authorize flood control reallocation studies of up to 5 percent of flood control on Hulah and Copan lakes. Contracts for the options were previously authorized but not executed, pending final approval. The city has until 2012 to execute any or all of the contracts.
City to reduce water pressure to stop waste
Independent Online, South Africa
“We conducted many tests to find one central supply point and we notified companies that would be affected. Working the project into the budget took some time. Macleod stressed that people would still receive an adequate water supply, but at a lower pressure. “We notified all businesses about the plan, especially those in buildings higher than four storeys, to check their water pumps, as they need to be in good working order to be able to pump water throughout the building,” he added. Macleod said there were very few illegal water connections in the Durban city centre, but they were aware that a major source of waste was the use of unmetered water by people washing cars and taxis in undesignated areas. Metro police spokesperson Joyce Khuzwayo said she could not pinpoint where taxi washers obtained water. “They are very resourceful.
Like oil, speculators and water an uneasy mix
Reuters
“Where we are it’s broadacre cropping. But the market now is driving significantly more per megaliter from horticulture than you can get a profit margin out of wheat and barley,” he says. Across the world, speculators are increasingly looking to water as a new profit engine as supplies dwindle, caught between booming populations demanding more access and climate warming threatening its very availability. Australia, the most parched inhabited continent, has for 25 years had an internationally unique water market to better share supplies among farmers and reverse years of allocating more water than the country’s rivers and dams could spare. That market last year traded $1. 1 billion in permanent and seasonal water rights, according to Mark Siebentritt, the Operations Manager for national water broker Waterfind, who says business last year grew by 20 percent. But Kingwill, whose corporatized farm lists on the Australian Stock Exchange, says prices are being pushed up by a metaphorical gold rush, luring bankers and speculators both at home and internationally to a new and waterlogged Elysian field.
Studies: Mining expansion poses water bug risk
MiamiHerald.com, FL
comp –>WATER SUPPLYStudies: Mining expansion poses water bug riskNew studies suggest that expanded mining will heighten contamination risks for the public water supply, but industry leaders and county and federal regulators are downplaying the threat. Posted on Sun, Aug.
Briefing: Water charges back on the agenda
Times Online, UK
This has been done so that correct url isgenerated if we are coming from a section or topic –>Gabrielle Monaghandiv#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited {color:#06c;}THE ROWGovernment brushes off climate expertIrish householders have endured a summer of floods, landslides, cancelledbarbeques and bored children trapped indoors by weeks of rainfall. Soimagine their surprise last week to learn that water is in such short supplythat we really should be paying for it. Domestic water charges are “inevitable” because of a shortage of cleansupplies in heavily populated areas such as Dublin and Cork, according toJohn Sweeney, head of the Irish Climate Analysis and Research Unit at NUIMaynooth and the country’s leading climate-change expert.