The News Review:

- Pasco to accept $100000 for water fluoridation
- Swiss Seal Chinese Water Deal But Urge Co2 Cuts
- Quinn to probe EPA on Crestwood water
- Study: Shortages likely on Colorado River by 2050
- As we use less we could pay more for water

Pasco to accept $100000 for water fluoridation
TheNewsTribune.com
The city has put fluoride in its water supply for seven years to bolster the oral health of its public. But the practice was reconsidered recently because the city plans to start construction on a second municipal water treatment plant this summer. “The state department of health. requires that the entire water supply be provided the same treatment” City Manager Gary Crutchfield said. As long as one water treatment plant puts fluoride in the water the second one has to too… requires that the entire water supply be provided the same treatment” City Manager Gary Crutchfield said. As long as one water treatment plant puts fluoride in the water the second one has to too. “So it’s all in or all out” he said. The council voted to accept a $100000 grant from the Washington Dental Service Association to go toward the cost of installing fluoridation equipment at the new plant. Councilmen Tom Larsen and Bob Hoffmann voted against the grant.

Swiss Seal Chinese Water Deal But Urge Co2 Cuts
Journal of Turkish Weekly
But if he insisted on going there it is because the environment and energy minister is convinced “that we have to work together benefit from common interests and talk to each other”. “Meaningful dialogue”"It is much more constructive than to criticise all the time and it also helps to have a meaningful dialogue on human rights” he said. During his first official visit to China Leuenberger on Sunday signed a memorandum of understanding that strengthens Sino-Swiss cooperation in water management and hazard prevention. In a statement he said Switzerland had enjoyed “fruitful cooperation” with China in the field of natural hazard risk management since 2001. Flooding of the Yangtze have killed 500000 local people over the past century. The Three Gorges dam which came into full operation this year aims to limit the risks of flooding. “Before the construction of the dam 23 million people were permanently under threat” notes Andreas Götz a vice-director of the Federal Environment ffice and an expert on the Yangtze.
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Quinn to probe EPA on Crestwood water
Examiner.com
The water was contaminated with the chemicals perchloroethylene or PCE which is believed to cause cancer and liver damage. Village officials told state regulators that they would only use water from Lake Michigan the Tribune reports. Yet there were times that as much as 20 percent of the water supply came from the contaminated well. The well was closed down late in 2007 after state EPA officials tested the water and found the pollutants. City officials didn’t respond to Tribune requests for comment and messages left Sunday by.

Study: Shortages likely on Colorado River by 2050
San Francisco Chronicle
“We’ve got some serious issues to grapple with” he said. Under conservative climate change scenarios in the West Barnett and Pierce found decreases in runoff could short the Colorado River by about 400000 acre feet of water 40 percent of the time by 2025. That’s equivalent to the amount of water needed to supply 400000 to 800000 households. Those figures double later in the century according to the Scripps researchers. The signs point toward tough decisions about who will get less water. Agricultural operations use about 80 percent of the water taken out of the Colorado Barnett said. He knows the arguments though: Shorting farms could drive up food prices.

As we use less we could pay more for water
San Francisco Chronicle
But during a drought or a cool summer revenue tumbles. Because water districts operate at a break-even level they are forced to react with price increases when demand plunges. Some districts in California historically those with plentiful supplies charge a flat monthly fee for water. Although those districts recoup costs experts agree that such an approach doesn’t promote conservation and many of the agencies are switching to volume pricing. David Zetland a UC Berkeley water economist says water pricing in California must be overhauled. In his view each ratepayer should fork over a much higher fixed price for a base amount of water every month. Customers who use more should be charged considerably more money he argues.