The News Review:

- DuPont Will Reduce PFA Level in West Virginia Water
- Tip for recyclers: Water water everywhere
- Tampa Bay Water makes last withdrawal from tapped out reservoir
- Farmers Scramble For Solutions To California’s Water Shortage
- Capture Rain Runoff to Water Plants

DuPont Will Reduce PFA Level in West Virginia Water
Environment News Service
This action level replaces the 0. 50 ppb threshold established under a November 2006 EPA consent order with DuPont. Based on current data approximately 14 private residences may need a treatment system or connection to a public water system. Also DuPont will take additional samples of private drinking water wells that were installed after 2006 and sample in some previously untested areas. EPA’s ffice of Water issued a Provisional Health Advisory in January for PFA that establishes a reasonable health-based value above which action should be taken to reduce exposure to PFA in drinking water. The time frame for action is short-term meaning weeks to months the agency said. This Provisional Health Advisory prompted the new consent order to lower the allowable concentration of PFA in drinking water from 0.

Tip for recyclers: Water water everywhere
Boston Globe
At the Deer Island treatment plant in Boston Harbor approximately 45 million gallons per day of effluent are recycled for what is called “plant water” which is employed for washing equipment and other nonpotable uses. Reclaimed waste water for nonpotable uses saves pristine water for drinking cooking and other potable uses. In an office building for example up to 90 percent of the water supply goes to toilet and urinal flushing and other non-potable uses. Many office buildings in California have dual plumbing systems to facilitate reuse. Although the Boston metropolitan area has an adequate supply of water sooner or later water reuse may be the only environmentally – and politically – acceptable option. John ElwoodBourneThe writer is a retired engineer with the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. MINDY LUBBER and Peter Gleick (p-ed March 9) made a compelling case for the need for businesses and investors “to bring new ways of thinking to using the most essential ingredient of life: water.
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Tampa Bay Water makes last withdrawal from tapped out reservoir
Tampabay.com
The reservoir which covers about 1100 acres in rural Fort Lonesome is normally filled with water from rainfall the Hillsborough and Alafia rivers and the Tampa Bypass Canal. But an ongoing drought which started three years ago has left all those sources depleted. Meanwhile cracks in the reservoir walls have further hampered the water supply effort. To figure out what was causing them utility officials lowered the water level last year. As a result the reservoir was only half-full when Tampa Bay Water began tapping it last September. Now with no more water available from area rivers or the reservoir the utility’s general manager Gerald Seeber told board members this week that he is shutting down the $144 million surface water treatment plant in Brandon which has been running since 2002. The plant’s employees who work for a Tampa Bay Water contractor called Veolia can keep busy doing maintenance projects Robinson said.

Farmers Scramble For Solutions To California’s Water Shortage
Redrbit
But farmers and state government officials agree that infrastructure rather than conservation is ultimately the key to their future.    They both seek a "peripheral canal" built around the delta that can deliver water without violating pumping restrictions for fish conservation. "We have to look at the things we can invest in at the state level that give us more predictability of a water supply that is deliverable has high quality and protects the environment" said A. Kawamura the state?s agriculture secretary in an interview with Reuters. The region?s large remote dams of the past offer no solution for the current water shortage. However re-directing precipitation toward depleted aquifers as Meyers is doing on a small scale can help generate water reserves for times of drought.

Capture Rain Runoff to Water Plants
Washington Post
html”"headline”: “Capture Rain Runoff to Water Plants”"reporter”: “”"abstract”: “NEWPRT NEWS Va. — The next time there’s a rainstorm stand outside and look at how much water falls from the roof of your house.