The News Review:

- Drinking water woes
- Alamosa Citizens’ Water Supply Better Protected Due to EPA Grant
- Water supply to Huey P. Long cut
- Improved Governance Management Boosts Water Delivery
- Bay Area water picture: Some will face strict rationing others won’t
- USAID World Water Day Statement

Drinking water woes
San Diego Union Tribune
Lou Kaplan of Torrey Hills said the water problems threw his schedule off track. ?It messed it up terribly? he said. ?I ran out early in the morning and made sure we had an adequate water supply because they said it could last 72 hours? Kaplan said. The problem started when a 24-inch water transmission pipeline broke Sunday night in the Torrey Pines State Reserve. It took city officials a couple of hours to identify the leak believed to be near Sorrento Valley Road and Carmel Mountain Road. City officials shut off the valves in the pipe and restored service about 1 a.
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Alamosa Citizens’ Water Supply Better Protected Due to EPA Grant
U.S. EPA.gov (press release)
The grant was awarded today under EPA’s Environmental Justice Small Grants program. "Colorado’s minority and low-income communities need support as they develop the capacity to respond to human health and environmental issues" said Art Palomares Director of EPA’s Environmental Justice program in Denver. “Citizens of the San Luis Valley will better understand important water supply protection methods through this grant. ” The organization Citizens for San Luis Valley Water in Alamosa Colo. received $20000 from EPA for the LEAP HIGH program a broad-based collaborative network formed to help low-income rural populations living in the San Luis Valley of southern Colorado. The goal of this project is to provide testing of unregulated household drinking water wells and to educate participants about ways to protect their health by protecting their water supply. Test results will be a tool for health care providers local governments regulatory agencies and decision makers.

Water supply to Huey P. Long cut
Alexandria Town Talk
Long cut | thetowntalk. com | The Town Talk. Long Medical Center in Pineville has been shut off after a 6-inch water main in downtown Pineville blew a valve Monday night.

Improved Governance Management Boosts Water Delivery
Voice of America
Several water specialists who say in many cases better management and governance can help meet the challenge. Many are asking global donors to include water infrastructure in the stimulus packages for re-starting their economies. Economists say every dollar spent on water and sanitation yields $8. 00 in income productivity and infrastructure-related jobs. Expanded use of micro-finance may help Economists have ideas for national and local governments.

Bay Area water picture: Some will face strict rationing others won’t
San Jose Mercury News
Sonoma County will face draconian cutbacks of up to 30 percent. Marin County won’t face any. What gives?”It all depends on geography and source of supply. It’s about where your water comes from” said Paul Piraino general manager of the Alameda County Water Agency. “Every source is not created equal particularly in a dry year. “Bay Area communities face an uneven — some might even think unfair — water picture in the months ahead. Whether you face restrictions depends on how much your water provider relies on local reservoirs Sierra Nevada snow groundwater or San Francisco Bay’s delta along with the politics of its board.

USAID World Water Day Statement
FXBusiness
The recent cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe is a stark example of the need for clean safe drinking water. More than 91000 people have contracted the disease and more than 4000 have died from this easily preventable and treatable intestinal infection. The disease is rampant because drinking water has been contaminated as a result of the poor state of water supply sanitation and hygiene services. Those without safe water sanitation and hygiene are likely to be poor hungry and malnourished. The increasing scarcity of safe water combined with rapid worldwide population growth and environmental degradation is also contributing to biodiversity loss and the world’s spiraling food insecurity crisis. Improving access to safe drinking water is an important component of USAID’s programs in health economic growth environment and international disaster response. Household water treatment and safe storage reduces waterborne disease empowers families and communities and improves productivity.