The News Review:
- Board of Water Supply chief resigns
- Ike halted 20% of Houston water service despite protections
- Blue Lake to discuss animal control, water supply contract
- State unprepared for effects of warming, report says
Board of Water Supply chief resigns
Bizjournals.com, NC
us Digg This Clifford Lum will resign from his post as manager and chief engineer for the City and County of Honolulu Board of Water Supply at the end of the year. Lum, who had the job for three years, told the water board’s board of directors he was resigning for personal reasons, the board said in a news release Monday. “We are grateful to Cliff for the service he has provided the board and wish him the best in his future endeavors,” board Chairman Randall Chung said in a statement. Dean Nakano will continue to serve as deputy manager and chief engineer while the board of directors searches for a new manager and chief engineer.
Ike halted 20% of Houston water service despite protections
Houston Chronicle, United States
Up to 20 percent of the water systems that serve a combined 7 million people in the region hit by Hurricane Ike in mid-September were out of service for periods of time. Among the 85 percent that had generators, as state rules require, about 25 percent failed to function or ran out of gas. Even nine days after the storm, nearly 250,000 people lacked running water, most of whom live in Harris County. For about 625,000 others, the state could not determine whether they had it or not.
Blue Lake to discuss animal control, water supply contract
Times-Standard, CA
HBMWB General Manager Carol Rische said the adjustment would be a small one for the cities involved, including Blue Lake. The $70,000 would be spread among the six agencies. The council will also be looking at an interim plan for animal control services, which the city has done without since it disbanded its police department earlier this year. The city is currently contracting its law enforcement services from the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, but animal control is not part of the current contract.
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State unprepared for effects of warming, report says
San Francisco Chronicle, USA
In recent years, water agency managers have become increasingly aware of how climate change will affect their agencies and consumers, said Peter Gleick, executive director of the Pacific Institute, a nonprofit research center in Oakland. “But there’s a big difference between awareness and action. I don’t think enough is being done on the ground to reduce the vulnerability of our water supplies,” Gleick said. Scientists project that sea level could rise between 8 and 16 inches by mid-century, but efforts to control flooding are lagging, the report said. Flood managers haven’t started to change land-use plans to ward off possible devastating floods, particularly in fast-growing parts of the Central Valley, the report added. The state is also behind in protecting coastal resources, the report said. The California Coastal Commission and Bay Conservation and Development Commission have been urging communities and agencies to incorporate sea-level rise into development plans but the measures are in infancy stages, the report said.