The News Review:

- A Bottle Bill That Will Rot Your Teeth
- vercoming the stigma of ‘toilet-to-tap’ water
- Feds won’t step in to southern water dispute
- developing through a water shortage
- Customers face big rate boost for water
- Water: The New il?
- Sotomayor’s Past Rulings Encourage Environmentalists

A Bottle Bill That Will Rot Your Teeth
New York Times
When Californians recycle their beverage containers at the curb a portion of the redemption value (not paid to the consumer) is invested in community-based recycling. I am both a water bottler and an environmental activist. My water company Keeper Springs donates all its profits to the protection of rivers and public water supplies. I am also committed to achieving zero waste through recycling. To get there we need bottle deposit laws that require all beverage makers to take responsibility for reaching the highest possible levels of recycling and that finance the range of recycling options — drop-off centers buy-back centers and curbside pick-up. Keeper Springs has filed a declaration in support of a coalition of bottled water companies that have filed suit to keep New York’s new law from taking effect. (n Wednesday a federal judge temporarily blocked the law from going into effect until the lawsuit can be resolved.

vercoming the stigma of ‘toilet-to-tap’ water
SDNN: San Diego News Network
Whether from the Colorado River – that has a point of origin just north of Colorado’s Grand Lake in the Rocky Mountains – or snow melt and rain runoff transported south via aqueduct MWD notes both federal and state rules protect the drinking water along its journey. Under Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations water safety is monitored and regulated so that it will be safe before coming in human contact. Several agencies – including the U.
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Feds won’t step in to southern water dispute
The Associated Press
“At the end of the day the three states have got to come together and have got to figure out a way forward with a compact agreement between the three states” Salazar said shortly after taking a helicopter tour of north Georgia’s reservoirs with Gov. The approach is in contrast to that of previous Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne who convened meetings between the three states at the height of a severe drought in the region in late 2007. The governors broke off the negotiations last year after saying they could not resolve the complex battle that began almost 20 years ago.

developing through a water shortage
SDNN: San Diego News Network
Most new San Diego developments have been sky-rises or multi-unit complexes. Bill Anderson San Diego’s director of planning and community investment said that the number of sky-rises is not meant to attract new San Diego residents and that the population growth is actually internal. In addition Anderson said this is actually a benefit in terms of the city’s water supply since small units tend to use less water than households with lawns. Statistics of this show the average water usage in a single-family home uses about 170000 gallons per person per day compared to about 80000 gallons.

Customers face big rate boost for water
San Diego Union Tribune
May 28 2009 tay Water District customers can expect to get notices in the mail soon about a proposed rate increase of almost 20 percent in September ? plus possible additional rate increases for the next five years. District officials say the price increase is necessary because the Metropolitan Water District which supplies water to San Diego County through the County Water Authority is raising its price by 19. 7 percent in September. ther increases are projected for 2011 and beyond. 9 percent increase would raise a typical customer’s bill from $52.

Water: The New il?
IndustryWeek
Some industry experts predict that water prices could double or triple over the next few years. Negative impacts on business bottom lines may now result in a reverse migration based on the lack of water resources available in arid regions and all across the country. Lack of a reliable water supply due to drought caused by changing global weather patterns and overpopulation is an emerging 21st-century crisis. Manufacturers in arid regions are coming to terms with the growing problem of water shortage and the need to find solutions to local limitations on water supply. Severe constraints on local water supply in traditional and emerging arid regions can create increased expense for manufacturers as utility costs skyrocket to match demand the need for major investment in process innovation for less water-intensive uses and loss of productivity and profitability if sufficient water resources are not consistently available. Much of manufacturing worldwide relies on access to heavy water use — most obviously food processing and beverage and pharmaceutical creation but also product manufacturing electronics and metals wood and paper and geothermal energy.

Sotomayor’s Past Rulings Encourage Environmentalists
Reuters
Argued in 2005 and decided in 2007 the case was a challenge to a rule by the U. Environmental Protection Agency regulating cooling-water intake structures at power plants. The challenge was brought by 17 environmental groups six power utilities and the states of Rhode Island Connecticut Delaware Massachusetts New Jersey and New York. The EPA rule is intended to protect aquatic organisms from being harmed or killed by cooling water intake structures at large existing power plants.