The News Review:
- Should we introduce charges for domestic water usage?
- Kaduna Awards N15.7bn Water Expansion Contract
- Tricky task to bring drinking water to St Kilda a success
- 10 new reservoirs to solve water woes
- Water crisis closes KZN court
Should we introduce charges for domestic water usage?
Irish Times, Ireland
The report found that water treatment capacity in Athlone, Dublin, Galway and Letterkenny may be insufficient to meet development objectives by 2013. These urban centres, along with Mallow and Wexford, may also experience shortages of waste water treatment capacity within the same period. Secure and competitively priced water supplies and treatment services are essential for business and particularly for a number of sectors of strategic importance to the Irish economy including the biopharma and food sectors. In general, water charges in Ireland are competitive, although there are significant variations in different parts of the country. Successive national development plans have invested heavily in water services to meet the needs of our growing economy and population. The current NDP has earmarked more than €4. 7 billion for investment in these areas over the lifetime of the plan.
Kaduna Awards N15.7bn Water Expansion Contract
THISDAY, Nigeria
7 billion for construction of a water treatment plant in Zaria, to end water crisis in the area. The Federal Government is funding the contract with N9billion, while the state is getting the remaining balance of about N8. 8 billion from the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), World Bank and the Kuwaiti Fund for Soft Loan Financing. According to the Commissioner for Information, Saidu Adamu, the World Bank is also assisting the state with a grant of $72 million for further rehabilitation and expansion of water works in Zonkwa, Saminaka, Kaduna metropolis and Zaria.
Tricky task to bring drinking water to St Kilda a success
Press and Journal, UK
Scottish Water Commercial Operations and Veolia Water had the difficult task of providing a lasting and sustainable back-up drinking water source for the Ministry of Defence on the island of St Kilda, far out in the Atlantic Ocean. With little rain for the most part of this year, the spring supply for MoD and National Trust for Scotland staff working and living on the tiny island was quickly drying up, and drinking water supplies were rapidly running short. Veolia Water Nevis Ltd, has the contract to supply the MoD, under a 25-year public private partnership. Scottish Water is a partnering contractor in this venture known within the MoD as Project Aquatrine.
10 new reservoirs to solve water woes
Times of India, India
The BWSSB has identified sites for setting up as many as 10new reservoirs in these areas, which means, water supply will no longer belimited only to borewells. But, no reservoirshave been set up in the newly added BBMP areas. However, nearly 72wards in these areas adjoining the core areas had been supplied with Cauverywater through extended pipelines.
Water crisis closes KZN court
Dispatch Online, South Africa
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