The News Review:

- Coweta is lucky — water supply plentiful
- Water supplies may drop for Calif. cities, farms
- WASHINGTON SUBURBAN SANITARY COMMISSION Warning Issued Near Largo …
- Eye on the environment: Water crisis is real; now is time to act
- Water waste of our dam money
- Don’t be surprised by water-shedding
- Makaha Valley water main repair completed

Coweta is lucky — water supply plentiful
Newnan Times-Herald, GA 
But having more water than you need is infinitely preferable to the other option. insertBanner(“inStory250x250″);
“I think it has been really good planning to have the water resources available to Coweta County that we have,” said Coweta County Administrator Theron Gay. Coweta County currently gets water from three sources: Newnan Utilities, Griffin and the county’s B. Brown Water Treatment Plant. In the past, the county has purchased water from the city of Atlanta. But that contract has no minimum, and Coweta hasn’t taken any water from Atlanta since December 2007, said Ellis Cadenhead, general manager of the Coweta County Water and Sewerage Authority.

Water supplies may drop for Calif. cities, farms
San Diego Union Tribune, United States 
The regulations could slash state and federal water deliveries by up to 1. 1 million acre feet, bringing California’s total water supply to slightly more than half of what it would be in an average year. That’s in addition to recent water cutbacks imposed by the state Department of Water Resources, which plans to deliver just 15 percent of the amount that local water agencies request every year. The combination “could create a water supply and delivery crisis the likes of which Californians have not seen in decades,” warned Director Lester Snow in a statement. Another dry winter may prompt widespread water rationing in cities from the San Francisco Bay area to San Diego, and a drop in the diversity of crops planted over the coming months, said Carl Torgersen, who operates the State Water Project for the department. Major agriculture groups said new cuts could cripple farming families already struggling to do business since a federal judge ordered federal and state agencies to restrict pumping last year to protect the threatened delta smelt, the longfin’s cousin. “So much uncertainty around the water supply will make it hard for farmers to get crop loans,” said Sarah Woolf, a spokeswoman for the Westlands Water District.

WASHINGTON SUBURBAN SANITARY COMMISSION Warning Issued Near Largo …
Washington Post, United States 
There was no indication that the water supply had been tainted, White said. But as a precaution, the commission urged residents in a 39-square-mile area in Prince George’s to boil tap water for one minute before drinking it, making ice, washing dishes, brushing teeth or preparing food. If tap water is discolored, residents should let it run until it clears, White said. The advisory is expected to remain in effect until the completion of testing, expected to take at least five days. The affected area is a square flanked by Church Road to the east, the Capital Beltway to the west, Route 50 to the north and Ritchie Marlboro Road to the south.
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Eye on the environment: Water crisis is real; now is time to act
Ventura County Star, CA 
Metropolitan Water has increased rates by 14. 3 percent, while Calleguas will increase its delivery surcharge to local water agencies by 27 percent. With imported water supplies dropping and costs rising, water districts in Ventura County are increasing the focus on developing local water resources. Here is how one local water agency, the Camrosa Water District, is taking a multifaceted approach to reducing reliance on imported water:n Increased use of recycled water for irrigation: Keeping outdoor landscaping looking lush comes with a price; about 70 percent of residential water usage is outdoors. Instead of using expensive drinking water from Northern California for landscape irrigation, Camrosa has made a great deal of progress developing its recycled water resources to keep landscapes green. Leisure Village in Camarillo is in the third phase of retrofitting its piping and water system to use recycled water to irrigate its greenbelt. In addition, since 1990, Camrosa has reduced its drinking water sales to agriculture by 37.

Water waste of our dam money
The Age, Australia 
3% of catchment capacity by year end, unless there is above normal rainfall, level 4 water restrictions are supposed to apply to Melbourne consumers automatically. Even so, the problem for Melbourne is more a lack of confidence than a lack of water. Even at 29% capacity, this amounts to 516 gigalitres compared with Melbourne’s annual consumption, under current 3a restrictions, of 380GL. Even without rain and the 150GL at the bottom of the dams which is sludge and can’t be used, there is still enough water to get Melbourne through to June 2010 at current consumption rates.

Don’t be surprised by water-shedding
Independent Online, South Africa 
Yet these two calamities differ in one important and encouraging aspect: the financial one will reach into all our pockets, but fixing it is primarily the preserve of a few, namely the Bernankes, Paulsons, Manuels and Mbowenis of the world. On the other hand, our water supply crisis will also affect us all, yet each human being has the capacity to do something about it. And with the capacity to act, comes the responsibility. Around 2,2 billion human beings live in water-stressed catchments. Climate change and other factors will see that figure double in the next two decades. It’s common knowledge that South Africa is a water-stressed country and that at current consumption rates our demand for it will outstrip supply by 2015.

Makaha Valley water main repair completed
Honolulu Advertiser, HI 
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