The News Review:

- Clarendon Residents to Benefit from Improved Water Supply
- Ntimbale augments water supply
- E.coli found in water supply in Bertrand, Neb.
- Study suggests drinking water may be source of winter norovirus …
- When it comes to water, logic doesn’t always prevail

Clarendon Residents to Benefit from Improved Water Supply
Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service, Jamaica 
The Mayor was speaking yesterday, October 22, at a meeting held at the Halse Hall Great House in Clarendon, to discuss ways of improving the water supply to residents of the parish. He further noted that the rate of contamination of the water supply, which results from over-pumping of the water, or attempting to use more water than the system can sustain, would have to be significantly reduced. Managing Director of the Water Resources Authority, Basil Fernandez, disclosed that several measures would have to be taken to increase the capacity of the relevant agencies, to provide water in a more efficient manner. Chief among these, he stated, would be the need for proper planning and zoning of these developments, to ensure that the system is able to stand up to the demand that is being made. There would also be a need to re-evaluate the water, which has already been committed, and re-allocate this, for more even distribution of the commodity, he said. Improved efficiency in irrigation, would serve in part to address the problem as only 20 per cent of water consumed in Clarendon is used efficiently, particularly as it relates to that which is used for irrigation purposes, Mr.

Ntimbale augments water supply
Dailynews, Botswana 
He said the department is currently investigating the problem to come up with more compatible measures so that eventually these villages would get water of the same quality. Meanwhile, the North East District Council Chairperson, Mr City Kealotswe and other councillors, gladly received the dam water in a procession symbolising the start of the distribution of water around the district. Mr Kealotswe thanked the government for addressing the needs of the people in that manner to ensure that clean water supply to the people was assured.

E.coli found in water supply in Bertrand, Neb.
KPTM-TV, NE 
(AP) – Bertrand residents are being asked to boil water or use bottled after a test showed E. coli found in water supply in Bertrand, Neb.

Study suggests drinking water may be source of winter norovirus …
The Canadian Press, TORONTO 
The research, which looked for patterns that might explain norovirus outbreaks in Toronto, found that winter flare ups of the highly contagious condition were more likely to happen in the week after water temperatures in Lake Ontario dipped below 4 degrees Celsius or flow from the Don River into Lake Ontario was high. The findings suggest that under certain environmental conditions, noroviruses from human sewage may proliferate in bodies of water that are used both as municipal water sources and sewage treatment outlets, eventually finding their way back into human gastrointestinal tracts through drinking water. “It’s not the time of year when people are swimming or using the beaches or anything like that,” said lead author Amy Greer, a post-doctoral fellow working on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases at the Research Institute of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. “So the question is, if we have a reservoir in the lake of environmental virus, essentially how is it that people are coming in contact with it?.
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When it comes to water, logic doesn’t always prevail
Orlando Sentinel, FL 
Johns River Water Management District, which regulates water use, is encouraging residents not to waste water when irrigating their lawns. The district even launched an expensive public-relations campaign to get the word out and has proposed limiting watering to once a week for part of the year. The district warned that the state’s dwindling underground water supply is nearly exhausted and that people in Central Florida will have to find “alternative” water supplies. Property owners may end up being taxed to build a $500 million pipeline to bring water from the St. (Already, environmental forces downstream on the St. Johns are organizing to fight the proposal.