The News Review:

- Lead contamination in Ireland’s water supplies
- Fluoride to be added to Burnley’s water supply?
- Burst water main delays traffic
- Coke cleared to pump extra water, court rules
- Water rationing falls short of EBMUD’s goal
- Water awareness goal of trip for Regina residents

Lead contamination in Ireland’s water supplies
Fair Home, UK 
Four of the affected areas have been issued public health notices, whilst other local authorities have been informed of what they need to do if excessive lead is discovered in their region’s water supply. New Drinking Water Regulations were introduced in March this year. Since then, excessive lead levels have been recorded in five areas of Galway city and county, in five areas of County Limerick, in three areas of County Donegal, two areas of County Leitrim, two areas in north Tipperary, two areas in County Kerry, and in Carlow, Longford, Wicklow and Cork. Thirty five residents in Galway city homes, that were found to have high lead levels in their water supply, were tested for lead toxicity, although none of them tested positive.

Fluoride to be added to Burnley’s water supply?
Burnley Express,  UK 
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Burst water main delays traffic
BBC News, UK 
Scottish Water said the incident was causing disruption in Cumbernauld Road, near its junction with Duke Street. Existing traffic lights have been switched off and temporary four-way traffic lights have been installed. The road repair is expected to be finished by next week. Water supplies in the area have been unaffected.

Coke cleared to pump extra water, court rules
Sydney Morning Herald, Australia 
Australians spend roughly $385 million on 250 million litres ofbottled water a year, a Department of Environment spokeswoman said. Only about a third of these bottles get recycled. “With climate change and the drought, and all the pressures onwater supplies, we have to look at [if] we should be allowingmultinational companies like Coke to be extracting so much waterfor sale,” Cate Faehrmann, the director of the Nature ConservationCouncil of NSW, said.

Water rationing falls short of EBMUD’s goal
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA 
Some 7,300 EBMUD customers filed “allotment adjustment” requests; that is they asked to use more water for medical needs, increased household size or because they had already maxed out their savings potential. Ninety percent of the requests were granted, Luong said. The district’s goal is to protect its dwindling water supply, which now stands at about 415,000 acre-feet. In an ideal water year, which officially starts Oct. 1, the district has 600,000 acre-feet. One acre-foot is equal to about 326,000 gallons, or the amount needed to supply two families for one year. No customer category – for instance, single-family residential or industrial users – hit the target savings rate.

Water awareness goal of trip for Regina residents
Canada.com, Canada 
Luzny said that even though Eastern Canada has a lot of fresh water, quality is an issue. There are also problems in the United States. Luzny believes that Lake Mead, which supplies water to San Diego and Los Angeles, could disappear in 10 years. The goal for the CWF at the world congress is to raise awareness about the conservation of water, not just in Canada, but for around the world. As media relations officer, Robison’s job there is to hand out mini-DVDs that feature public service announcements and to inform people about water conservation webisodes. “We have these Water Under Fire webisodes and public service announcements which we want to promote. We will (also) be handing out about 4,000 wristbands that indicate (to people) to come to our Web site (cwf-fcf.