The News Review:
- Supply from local water basin nears all-time low
- Area water supply is in trouble
- Water sale to Cebu revived
- Pickens’ unsold water may stay home
- VMC seeks Sardar Sarovar’s help to meet city’s water demands
- Water audit mandatory for 247 cities in Maharashtra
- Kumasi and Offinso water supply will soon improve
Supply from local water basin nears all-time low
Whittier Daily News, CA
The deteriorating water supply is forcing local water agencies to be vigilant in their pursuit of conservation efforts and alternative water supplies. “The water that is available will be reduced, which means that we need to find new sources of water,” Garcia said. As a result, the Upper District is considering building a water treatment plant that would turn sewer water into drinking water. Some predict rationing will become a necessity if current conditions continue. “The future doesn’t look very good,” said Grace Kast, executive director of the Water Quality Authority, which is cleaning contaminated groundwater in the San Gabriel Basin.
Area water supply is in trouble
Monroe News Star, LA
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Water sale to Cebu revived
Bohol Chronicle, Philippines
But the idea was met with lukewarm reaction by advocates of sustainable water who preferred developing Cebu’s small river systems to address the water shortage. Ramos, who was in Cebu to keynote the 8th Asia Pacific Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production, said Cebu will have a big water problem unless it cooperates with its neighboring province. He said Bohol has a good water supply because it has a network of irrigation dams. Excess water flushes out to the sea instead of being utilized, he added. “This was a project we wanted to put up 15 years ago with (former Cebu governor) Lito Osmeña through a BOT (build-operate-transfer) scheme. A pipeline will connect Bohol to Cebu,” Ramos told reporters in a press conference. The project did not push through because of “cultural reasons,” he said.
Pickens’ unsold water may stay home
LubbockOnline.com, TX
Spokesmen said the company had not found a buyer for its water and instead of the pipeline deal it would focus on a major electric transmission project from a massive wind farm under development. Lubbock and regional officials responding to Avalanche-Journal questions this week said the absence of a buyer elsewhere in Texas could open up the possibility of keeping the water closer to home. “With the current situation at Lake Meredith, I think CRMWA should be open to all options for water supply sources,” Kent Satterwhite, general manager of the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority, wrote in a response to questions. “We haven’t heard from Mesa and haven’t approached them about their water rights for several years. If Mesa has an interest in selling their water in place, we would listen to them or any other water rights holder. Mesa and CRMWA, the primary source of water for Lubbock and 10 other member cities, have been uncomfortable neighbors for nearly four years. Authority members scrambled to purchase hundreds of thousands of acres of groundwater rights as the authority’s Lake Meredith reservoir withered away.
VMC seeks Sardar Sarovar’s help to meet city’s water demands
Indian Express, India
The water supply will come at a cost of Rs 37. 69 lakh under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) project. The decision has come after the widening of VMC jurisdiction following water scarcity in many parts of the city. The city limits are increasing and more villages are coming under the purview of the corporation. Water will be one of the major concerns in the future, which should be addressed soon, said P M Patel, executive engineer.
Water audit mandatory for 247 cities in Maharashtra
Zee News, India
The state government has issued a resolution asking Municipal Corporations and A and B level Municipal Councils to go for regular water audits. “Water audit has been made mandatory for the 22 Municipal Corporations, including Mumbai. Failure to submit a report will result in stoppage of financial grant for new water schemes,” a senior official of Water Supply and Sanitation Department told a news agency. The decision to make water audit report mandatory has been taken after the government noticed that there was as much as 30 to 50 percent leakage in water supply to urban areas, he said.
Kumasi and Offinso water supply will soon improve
Modern Ghana, Ghana
Mr Fred Lokko who gave the hint during an inspection tour by the members of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) on some utility service installations in Kumasi on Tuesday, said the project was four months ahead of schedule. He said the government awarded the project last year at a cost of 37. 9 million Euros and that the project involved the construction of a new treatment plant at Barekese, rehabilitation of the existing treatment plants at Owabi and Barekese and the construction of a new booster station with storage facilities tank at Suame in the Kumasi Metropolis and Achiase in the Atwima-Nwabiagya district. Mr Lokko said the other part of the project involved the extension of about 80 kilometres of distribution pipelines, installation of about 23,000 domestic metres on the existing service connections, and institutional capacity building.