The News Review:

- Official: Reduced water supply won’t hit locals as hard as others
- Appeals court to hear Mississippi water lawsuit
- Water supply to improve in Ashanti

Official: Reduced water supply won’t hit locals as hard as others
Victorville Daily Press, CA 
“Aggressive management — combining State Water Project water supplies with local groundwater storage — puts our community in a very unique situation to avoid or minimize drastic mandatory cutbacks to end users that many others in the state will likely be facing next year,” said the Mojave Water Agency’s general manager, Kirby Brill. The state, faced with an ongoing drought and restricted water from the Delta, announced it will allow water contractors such as the MWA to draw only 15 percent of their demand next year. This marks the second-lowest initial allocation in the history of the State Water Project, after a 10 percent allocation in 1993. The agency, whose mission is to assure a stable water supply for local water districts and residents, already was operating under tight conditions, having been allotted only 35 percent of its demand from the state’s Department of Water Resources for 2008. Brill said the MWA is still waiting for final numbers from the state water department as to how much State Water Project supplies will cost in the coming year.
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Appeals court to hear Mississippi water lawsuit
Forbes, NY 
Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans on Dec. Hood sued the city of Memphis and the Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division, accusing them of tapping into a vast supply of pure water in an aquifer under parts of Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas. Hood believes that pumping from the aquifer has created depressions in the water table, which he said has allegedly diverted 372 billion gallons of Mississippi’s water into Tennessee since 1965. He claims Mississippi is losing millions of gallons a day. In dismissing the lawsuit, Davidson said the state of Tennessee, and possibly Arkansas, should have been parties in the litigation. Then the proper venue, he said, would be before the U.

Water supply to improve in Ashanti
Joy Online, Ghana 
He was briefing a 20-man delegation of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Water Resources, Works and Housing that inspected Barekese and Owabi Headworks on Sunday. The two Head works of Ghana Water Company in Atwima-Nwabiagya District in Ashanti Region are undergoing rehabilitation and expansion to improve water supply to Kumasi and its environs. The projects formed part of the Kumasi Water Treatment and Expansion Project being financed by Ghana and Netherlands Governments at an estimated cost of 37. Mr Moroney said the production of three million gallons of water per day at Owabi would not be increased but the Control Centre for the High Lift Pumps would be renewed and rehabilitated as well as providing chemicals for treating water. Appiah an engineer of the Company in Kumasi, said under the expansion and rehabilitation, a new Booster Station between Achiase and Barekese and Reservoirs at Suame would be provided as well as constructing 80 kilometre pipelines and valves to some areas.