The News Review:

- ADB lends $500 mln to clean up dirtiest river
- UTMB takes precautions after finding Legionella bacterium
- Trace chemicals found in drinking water supplies in Colorado nation
- Interest in water management blossoms
- China delays finishing mammoth water project: report
- Phoenix water chief is new CAP manager

ADB lends $500 mln to clean up dirtiest river
The Associated Press 
“Rapid urbanization climate change environmental degradation public health and food security are all important issues challenging water resources management in Asia and the Pacific region” said Christopher Morris an ADB senior water resources engineer. The loan also will allow the cultivation of an additional 61700 acres (25000 hectares) of rice paddy benefiting 25000 farming families he said. The river management program also aims to supply water to 200000 more households in Jakarta. It will ultimately increase Jakarta’s water supply by 2. 5 percent yearly and benefit millions by resolving critical water shortages in Bandung Indonesia’s fourth largest city the bank said. The project has not been without criticism. Dadang Sudarja who heads the non-governmental People’s Alliance for Citarum said one of the main worries was that 800 families living along the river would have to be evicted “many without being properly compensated.

UTMB takes precautions after finding Legionella bacterium
Houston Chronicle United States 
Sean Funston an associate professor at UTMB says it's OK to drink the water from a water fountain in his department Friday. Sean Funston an associate professor at UTMB says it's OK to drink the water from a water fountain in his department Friday.

Trace chemicals found in drinking water supplies in Colorado nation
Denver Post CO 
The most commonly detected chemicals found were herbicides disinfection byproducts and fragrances according to the report. The study did not look for pharmaceuticals or hormones. Low levels of about 130 of the man-made chemicals were found in streams and rivers before treatment at water facilities and about two-thirds of those chemicals were still found after treatment. Concentrations of chemicals detected in both source and treated water were generally less than 0. 1 part per billion. Most of the chemicals found were at levels equivalent to one thimble of water in an Olympic-sized pool. “Low level detection does not necessarily indicate a concern to human health but rather indicates what types of chemicals we can expect to find in different areas of the country” said USGS lead scientist Gregory Delzer.
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Interest in water management blossoms
San Francisco Chronicle  USA 
“It gets addictive” Bouley said. Understanding waterNo water no life Dolman reminds people. The abandoned orchards and walls of civilizations that forgot refused or became unable to balance their water use with their water supplies mark the course of our past 10000 years he said adding that we should call it planet Water instead of planet Earth. Other planets have soil; what they lack is water. Disrupt the water cycle to too great an extent and communities fragment governments topple and the quality abundance and diversity of life diminishes Dolman said. He gives 50 to 60 talks a year to groups ranging from the Audubon Society to the Rotary Club where he attempts to increase understanding of how water moves through urban and rural landscapes and how humans can participate wisely in its course. Dolman and his co-workers teach workshops on how to install rain gardens and roof water harvesting systems how to reduce sediment flow into creeks and rivers (which compromises fish habitat while washing valuable topsoil downstream) and how to mend eroding waterways.

China delays finishing mammoth water project: report
Reuters 
In the absence of the Yangtze tributary supplies Beijing has been pumping additional water from neighboring Hebei province which itself suffers severe shortfalls. A Hubei environmental official Zou Qingping said that once the central route draws water from the Danjiangkou Dam reducing flows along the Han River that cuts past the dam “water quality problems will become even more serious” for the province. Wang the project official said this meant “Hubei must build even more water treatment plants and ecological restoration facilities. There was no mention of the delay on the South-North scheme’s website (.

Phoenix water chief is new CAP manager
Arizona Republic AZ 
The CAP delivers more than half of Arizona’s Colorado River allocation through a 336-mile canal that stretches from Lake Havasu to Tucson. Meeting in Tucson the CAP’s 15-member board chose Modeer to replace Sid Wilson who will retire in May after 14 years. Modeer served on the CAP board as an elected representative from Tucson until March when he accepted the Phoenix job. At the time he was also director of Tucson Water where he helped integrate CAP water into Tucson’s supply after a rocky start. Although the Arizona Department of Water Resources manages the state’s Colorado River allocation the CAP distributes much of it among urban agricultural and tribal users in Maricopa Pinal and Pima counties. Under Wilson the CAP became a strong player among the seven river states helping to shape key agreements written to protect water resources from the pressures of growth and drought.