The News Review:

- AMC, ADB to ensure 24-hr water supply
- Main burst cuts water supply to hundreds
- Tree planting to protect water supply system launched
- Water resources are focus of brainstorming session
- City, rural supplies flush with water
- Rs100m for improving Pindi water supply system
- Falls looks at water bottle ban No better than city’s supply, says …

AMC, ADB to ensure 24-hr water supply
Times of India, India 
AMC, along with Asian Development Bank (ADB), is studying to analyseas to how 24-hour water supply can be assured in the area. Theseareas include, Bodakdev , Thaltej, Satellite, Vejalpur , Sarkhej and the-newlyacquired gram panchayats and nagarpalikas. “Most of the new watersupply lines that are being laid in the new west zone have only strengthenedwater supply in the area. We are now looking at whether a 24-hour supply ispossible with the existing resources,” says AMC commissioner IP Gautam. The civic body was recently chosen for the National Urban WaterAwards recently for effective water supply management.

Main burst cuts water supply to hundreds
thisisgloucestershire.co.uk, UK 
A spokeswoman for the company said it happened at about 6. 30am yesterday when the main burst at the junction of Hewlett Road and Hales Road. She apologised to customers for the inconvenience and said the water supply had been reinstated as quickly as possible. She said most people had their supply restored by late morning after water was re-routed from another pipe. The spokeswoman said that it was difficult to know how many houses lost their water supply as many people would have been at work.

Tree planting to protect water supply system launched
Philippine Information Agency, Philippines 
The government is also presently granting emergency loans to water districts for rehabilitation of facilities damaged by the June 21, 2008 typhoon “Frank. ” Ten water districts in Panay Island, the area worst hit by the typhoon, were recipients of the emergency loans. MRWD Interim General Manager Engr. Bercilla encouraged communities surrounding the water treatment plant area to help protect the river system by also plating trees. Citing the importance of the activity, he said it would not be the last of its kind to be held at the facility. “Panay River is very important,” said Bercilla, adding that it is the source of water used by thousands of Capiceño households.

Water resources are focus of brainstorming session
Press-Enterprise, CA 
The brainstorming session, one of four sponsored by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, was aimed at finding new and novel sources of water to sustain the region during the next 50 years, organizers said. The recommendations will be used over the next year to update the district's supply and use plan. It will be the first revision since the plan was adopted 1996 in response to the severe drought of the late 1980s and early '90s. One theme was clear throughout the gathering in Ontario: Southern California cannot count on imported water in the future, and new sources will require creative thinking.

City, rural supplies flush with water
Kilgore News Herald,  USA 
com While thousands of Northeast Texans lost electricity in the fury of Hurricane Ike, relatively few in the Kilgore area suffered for lack of water. Overton and Laird Hill residents have been warned to boil water before drinking, but other area suppliers managed to get through the storm with few if any glitches. David Hackley, water utility superintendent for the City of Kilgore, reported Monday morning that although the city’s water treatment plant lost power Saturday evening and didn’t get it back until Sunday morning, the storm didn’t affect customers because elevated water storage tanks that work on gravity were full prior to the storm. “We fared better than expected,” Hackley said. Though six of the city’s eight wells were still without electrical power Monday morning, water never stopped flowing from faucets and Hackley never had to issue a warning to customers to boil water for drinking. The treatment plant also lost power during the height of the storm on Saturday evening into Sunday morning so it wasn’t utilized, but there was plenty of potable water in the city’s elevated storage tanks, Hackley said. He explained water pressure, per state regulations, must be maintained at a minimum of 20 pounds per square inch for fire fighting.

Rs100m for improving Pindi water supply system
The News International, Pakistan 
According to official sources, the provincial government had recently directed Wasa authorities to install high-power generators in main channels of water supply, including the Rawal Dam. As many as four high-power generators would be installed in a couple of months for which the Punjab government had approved funds of Rs3. Work on the project is currently underway.

Falls looks at water bottle ban No better than city’s supply, says …
Niagarathisweek.com, Canada 
"We want to implement a ban on providing bottled water on municipal facilities," said Frank Fohr, a member of the Park in the City committee. Park in the City is an advisory committee that is leading the charge on the ban but its recommendation will need the approval of city council first. "We have a perfectly good water source that the city provides us with through our taps and we should be encouraging the use of that, rather than the false impression that bottled water is better, when it is not," explained Fohr. Staff in the city’s parks department have been working on two reports for council to discuss at its October meetings.