The News Review:

- Rocket Fueled Baby Formula ‘Safe’ Says Industry Council
- Federal judge refuses to throw out suit against klahoma water …
- State water supplies short of normal
- Weekly water roundup: Regional Watershed Supply Project Snowpack …
- The dirty truth: They’re smuggling soap in Spokane
- Greensboro developing a resilient water system
- Hutchinson to dedicate water treatment plant

Rocket Fueled Baby Formula ‘Safe’ Says Industry Council
MedHeadlines
  The study merely identified the presence of perchlorate in an assortment of powdered baby formulas that it did not mention by name.   The study gained public attention once an advocacy group the Environmental Working Group called attention to it on Thursday by means of a press release. When the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducted recent tests of almost 4000 public water supply systems servicing populations of 10000 or more approximately 160 of them contained perchlorate in detectable levels.   The EPA is considering raising the safe limit of perchlorate in the public water supply and under the proposed new standards 31 of the water supplies tested would have exceeded the safe limit.   Water supplies most affected by perchlorate contamination occur near sites associated with the defense and aerospace industries. Several states have established their own safe levels of perchlorate in drinking water independent of federal standards. Scientific evidence indicates perchlorate impacts thyroid function although no tests on perchlorate have proven the chemical causes health problems.
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Federal judge refuses to throw out suit against klahoma water …
Dallas Morning News
“Hugo leaders claimed in their lawsuit that proceeds from the sale of the water to Texas would go to fund essential city services. Additionally they claimed that there was no legitimate basis to support “hoarding stream water to the detriment of both residents and nonresidents who could benefit from the sale of stream water in interstate commerce. “To support that argument Hugo cited water supply and usage data published by the water resources board reportedly indicating that klahoma has plenty of stream water and that nearly 14 times as much of it flows out of the state in a given year than is allocated for use in the state. Also among Hugo and Irving’s arguments is a U. Supreme Court finding that one state’s law against out-of-state groundwater transfers violates the interstate commerce provision of the U.

State water supplies short of normal
Bizjournals.com
The snowpack needed to be at least 120 percent of average by the beginning of April to replenish the state's most important reservoirs after three years of below-average precipitation the department said Thursday. The state said that it will be able to deliver only about 20 percent of the water it typically allocates for cities and farmers.

Weekly water roundup: Regional Watershed Supply Project Snowpack …
Examiner.com
The project promises to be all things to all people over here on the dry side of Colorado. Water for unbridled municipal growth water to replace the fossil water many communities south of Denver are drinking and dumping on bluegrass and a little left over for irrigators so that farms stay in business. The project is even going to save the Poudre River by making it unnecessary to pump the river dry to fill the proposed Glade Reservoir — part of the Northern Integrated Supply Project. And it’s going to be green — possibly using renewable energy — wind generated power for some of the uphill runs while generating hydroelectric on the downhill portions. The pipeline will run in existing utility corridors from the source to various locations avoiding many of the permitting problems faced by other proposed transmountain diversions. Leave it to Eric Kuhn — General Manager of the Colorado River District — to add a pessimistic note to the discussion.

The dirty truth: They’re smuggling soap in Spokane
Los Angeles Times
The problem Marcotte and many of her neighbors say is that most low-phosphate detergents are wimps when it comes to fighting greasy pots and spaghetti-crusted plates. So she has become a detergent outlaw driving 45 minutes across the Idaho state line to pick up secret stashes of the old bad dish cleansers: the brutish Cascades the muscular Electrasols. “With the ‘green’ stuff the dishes come out with a real slippery texture — like somebody poured a cup of grease in some dishwater — and a white film. Just really gross” Marcotte said.

Greensboro developing a resilient water system
Greensboro News Record
" During high flows in the winter months when water consumption is down the city can pump water from the Haw River to its Lake Townsend reservoir for storage until warmer months when demand is higher. The city launched a major water line rehabilitation initiative in 2004. The city is investing $1. 75 million per year to replace old leaky water lines. It has modernized its system of water meters and water billing. It bills its customers monthly to provide them current information about their water consumption. Some other cities waited until the 2007-2008 drought before adopting similar policies.

Hutchinson to dedicate water treatment plant
NTV
The new plant will take water extracted from contaminated well sites near the Fourth Avenue and Carey Boulevard area and purify it. It will use water pressure and semipermeable membranes to filter out contaminants. To avoid corroding the city’s distribution pipeline with the purified water the city will blend 60% pure water with 40% of its current water supply. City officials learned in the 1980s that volatile organic compounds contaminated a public water supply well. Information from: The Hutchinson News.