The News Review:
- Water agency steps up search
- IBM Unveils Smart Technologies Services to Help Combat Mounting …
- Riot police quell protest as water forum opens
- Area Surface Water Supply Nearly Gone Supplier Says
- Santa Cruz water man is back from Iran
- Chilean Town Withers in Free Market for Water
- Participate in ‘Fix a Leak Week’
Water agency steps up search
San Diego Union Tribune
The Department of Water Resources has preliminarily offered just 15 percent of normal deliveries out of Lake roville. For Metropolitan that means receiving 280000 acre-feet instead of the more than 1 million acre-feet the state in total normally delivers. Tim Quinn head of a coalition of water agencies and former Metropolitan executive does not expect the water supply crisis to dissipate for some time. That’s because pumping restrictions to protect fish have diverted about 40 percent of the deliveries that usually move south out of the Sacramento delta. It will take an expensive delta restoration program from improving fish populations to cleaning up toxins before the state can resume normal supplies. Metropolitan officials are ramping up their quest for supplies while preparing its 26 member agencies and 19 million residents for rationing. New water is not be cheap.
IBM Unveils Smart Technologies Services to Help Combat Mounting …
Market Wire (press release)
Water Utilities — Enables water providers to make rapid decisions regarding business processes and operational efficiency to maximize their return on investments as well as foresee and quickly respond to contamination issues and emergencies. Water Infrastructure — Provides sensing systems for managing water infrastructure such as levee oversight management and flood control. Water Metering — Improves management of water supply and demand by integrating data between the dozens of stakeholders involved. Provides all stakeholders with consistent real-time information to help them work together to make critical decisions about water supply in a geographic region. Green Sigma for Water ™ — is a business consulting service that identifies where water is being used measures and monitors usage and creates process improvements to reduce water use. IBM pilots have achieved reductions in water usage of 30%. IBM also announced:Achievements of the.
Riot police quell protest as water forum opens
AFP
The protesters whose rally had been called by unions environmentalists and leftist organisations responded to tear gas by hurling rocks and beating officers with sticks. They chanted slogans such as “water is people it’s life it’s not for sale” and “we want to crush this forum which wants to take our water”. Heading an appeal for the globe to husband its water resources Loic Fauchon president of the World Water Council staging the conference said humanity was squarely to blame for wasting the precious stuff of life. “We are responsible” he said. “Responsible for the aggressions perpetrated against water responsible for the current climate changes which come on top of the global changes responsible for the tensions which reduce the availability of freshwater masses so indispensable to the survival of humanity. ” He added: “At this very time in the history of water we are faced with a major challenge to use more water resources but at the same time to protect enhance the value of and even reuse these waters. “The world’s population currently more than 6.
Area Surface Water Supply Nearly Gone Supplier Says
MSNBC
“The reservoir’s level is so low we are unable to provide water consistently to the water treatment plant and we are unable to pull water from the Alafia River or the Tampa Bypass Canal” said Tampa Bay Water spokeswoman Michelle Robinson. The agency is asking everyone to cut back in every way possible from repairing leaky toilets and faucets to shortening showers and only watering lawns when it is absolutely necessary. Story continues below ?advertisement |.
Santa Cruz water man is back from Iran
San Jose Mercury News
He returned home last Friday and is still trying to digest the things he saw and learned. He plans to share his new found knowledge with city water officials. While Schultz did not get to see Iran’s water systems he did get to meet with water engineers. “They have water supply shortages looming in their country just like here” he said. When asked why that is he replied population growth. “It’s not growing fast but it is growing” he said. Encouraged by the people he met Schultz is trying to raise funds to return to Iran in the hopes of finishing what he started — studying the country’s ancient water systems.
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Chilean Town Withers in Free Market for Water
New York Times
Nowhere is the system for buying and selling water more permissive than here in Chile experts say where water rights are private property not a public resource and can be traded like commodities with little government oversight or safeguards for the environment. Private ownership is so concentrated in some areas that a single electricity company from Spain Endesa has bought up 80 percent of the water rights in a huge region in the south causing an uproar. In the north agricultural producers are competing with mining companies to siphon off rivers and tap scarce water supplies leaving towns like this one bone dry and withering. “Everything it seems is against us” said Bartolomé Vicentelo 79 who once grew crops and fished for shrimp in the Loa River that fed Quillagua. The population is about a fifth what it was less than two decades ago; so many people have left that he is one of only 120 people still here. Some economists have hailed Chile’s water rights trading system which was established in 1981 during the military dictatorship as a model of free-market efficiency that allocates water to its highest economic use. But other academics and environmentalists argue that Chile’s system is unsustainable because it promotes speculation endangers the environment and allows smaller interests to be muscled out by powerful forces like Chile’s mining industry.
Participate in ‘Fix a Leak Week’
Port Clinton News Herald
Consumers who are in the market for a new toilet or faucet should look for WaterSense labeled products that use 20 percent less water and perform as well or better than standard models. The vast majority of leaks can be eliminated after retrofitting a house with new WaterSense labeled fixtures. As a WaterSense partner concerned with conserving our nation’s water supply the PUC can help you learn more. gov and click on the “Fix a Leak Week” link for helpful water conservation tips.