The News Review:

- Water supplier will tap aquifer
- NJ American Water negotiating with union leaders to avoid strike
- ADWR water supply ruling

Water supplier will tap aquifer
Sarasota Herald-Tribune FL 
The Englewood Water District also has excess water to send to the Peace River plant. An expansion of the Peace River plant should be completed later this year allowing the authority to double the amount of water it can draw from the Peace during high rainy season flows. It will also double treatment capacity and add 6 billion gallons of water storage in reservoirs potentially ending three years of water supply strains. Felix said the water management district is likely to toughen area water-use restrictions when it meets in February. The restrictions would shorten the window of time on the days people are allowed to legally irrigate lawns. The district has already tightened restrictions in the Tampa Bay area where drought conditions are worse. This story appeared in print on page BN1.

NJ American Water negotiating with union leaders to avoid strike
Asbury Park Press NJ 
“That could spell disaster for the tens of thousands of residents and families in towns and municipalities throughout cean Union Somerset Middlesex Mercer Burlington and Hunterdon counties who depend on American Water for the safe and uninterrupted flow of their water supply routine repairs and response to leaks water main breaks and other emergencies” Utility Workers Union of America Local 423 said in a written statement. In total the water company actually serves municipalities in 17 of the Garden State’s 21 counties including Monmouth and cean. However none of the workers threatening to strike is employed in Monmouth or cean according to company officials. The union represents plant and station operators clerical personnel lab technicians equipment operators field service representatives maintenance mechanics meter readers sub-foremen and utility workers. “We are currently in negotiations with the union leadership and we are trying to reach a contract agreement and we hope to do so” said Richard G. Barnes a spokesman for New Jersey American Water.
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ADWR water supply ruling
Prescott Daily Courier AZ 
Sandy Fabritz-Whitney assistant director of water management for the Arizona Department Water Resources reported this week that a three-day appeal hearing on her department’s November ruling on Prescott’s use of Big Chino water would take place on Feb. Meanwhile the matter went before a judge to begin consideration of the five-count legal complaint that SRP filed Monday against the state and the City of Prescott over that November ruling.