The News Review:

- With Water Cuts Businesses Could Supply LA Frisco San Diego
- Compromises Water Down Illinois Anticorruption Bills
- Salina rates well in state water use study
- TM WALSH Automakers in ‘uncharted water’

With Water Cuts Businesses Could Supply LA Frisco San Diego
Environmental Leader
The state needs to prioritize water conservation above increasing water supply. The state should levy a Public Goods Charge on water sales to help fund water efficiency programs. The state should set a target to reduce water use 20 percent within water agencies. The California Energy Commission should set standards for water efficiency in buildings appliances and landscape irrigation. The state should create a general permit for using recycled water for landscape irrigation.
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Compromises Water Down Illinois Anticorruption Bills
Wall Street Journal
“In the marquee issues the reform was much less than it could have been or should have been particularly given the cloud that hangs over Illinois” said Patrick Collins a former assistant U. Attorney who led the 15-member commission appointed by the governor.

Salina rates well in state water use study
Salina Journal
Salina’s unaccounted-for water loss was 11 percent and the average was 14 percent for cities in the region. The average unaccounted-for water loss among all regions in the state was 15 percent. Highlights from the report published recently by the state’s Division of Water Resources the Kansas Water ffice and the U. Geological Survey were included in information provided by Martha Tasker the city’s utilities director to Salina city commissioners. Salina is part of Region 7 comprising 33 counties. Salina is on the western boundary and Topeka on the eastern boundary.

TM WALSH Automakers in ‘uncharted water’
Detroit Free Press
‘s executive chairman talked Thursday to the Free Press about the stunning changes in his industry’s competitive landscape. There is no playbook for where we are today” Bill Ford Jr. said in an interview on Mackinac Island where he is to speak at a conference today. Ford Motor founded by his great-grandfather Henry Ford in 1903 is the only one of Detroit’s three automakers not surviving on federal loans. “We don’t even know as we sit here if GM’s going to file or not.