The News Review:
- Water Supplies Tested After Tennessee Spill
- Main Water Break: Latest News
- Water supply emergency at Navajo Mountain
- More Colorado River water on tap for county
- Easy water no more
Water Supplies Tested After Tennessee Spill
New York Times United States
A sample taken near the intake for the water supply of Kingston met standards for drinking water said Gilbert Francis Jr. a spokesman for the authority. He said heavy rain and freezing temperatures were probably to blame for the breach. Jeremy Heidt of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said barriers had been constructed to prevent the ash from reaching the Tennessee River. The report from the most recent inspection of the retention wall in ctober was not yet complete but a preliminary report showed that a “wet spot” was found indicating “a minor leaking issue” according to a fact sheet released by the authority.
Main Water Break: Latest News
Washington Post United States
ET to discuss the latest news including the safety of the water supply road closures the condition of those trapped in the flooding and the long-range impact of the water main break. A transcript follows. ____________________Jim Neustadt: Hi. This is Jim Neustadt.
Water supply emergency at Navajo Mountain
Salt Lake Tribune United States
The main water supply line from Beaver Springs leading into the remote Navajo Nation community has broken and the system has not been able to deliver water since Dec. 19 the county commission says. With the county’s declaration water shipments by truck have been authorized. Current water storage for the community is expected to run dry sometime on Christmas Day.
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More Colorado River water on tap for county
Daily Camera C
From where the town of Erie sits — on the flats at the very eastern edge of Boulder County — residents can see the snow stacked in the valleys near the Continental Divide which melts to quench the thirst of Boulder and Longmont. But they can’t see their own water supply. Most of the water for the nearly 17000 residents — triple the population from just a decade ago — doesn’t come from the snow melt in western Boulder County or from Boulder Creek or St. Vrain Creek or the South Platte River or any of the tributaries carrying water from the Rockies to the Gulf of Mexico. Instead more than 90 percent of the town’s water is piped up and over the Continental Divide from the headwaters of the Colorado River where the water is captured early on its long trip to the Pacific. If Erie’s population continues to explode the town is looking at a serious water shortage by 2025.
Easy water no more
Daytona Beach News-Journal FL
Will there be enough water to sustain 90 million people? Based on one estimate of all the current land use maps that’s how many residents the state could one day house more than four and a half times the current population. That “really intriguing question” is one Charles Gauthier ponders in his job overseeing community planning for the state Department of Community Affairs. “What will the water supply be for 90 million people?” he wonders. “Where will it come from?”No one seems certain what the water supply will be for the next 10 or 15 years much less 20 or 30 years out. “We need to be as smart as possible with how we use water and we need to build it in now” Gauthier said. “We don’t need to wait until we have problems and have already created a land use pattern that’s water intensive. “But leaving a pathway worn by years of political sidestepping around Florida’s limited supply of fresh water might be difficult.