The News Review:

- Reporter Ed Joyce Tell Us Why sd’s Water Supply is Getting Squeezed
- Providence water may pare its rate request
- Cities utility districts asked to conserve water
- Naples takes new direction to meet future water needs

Reporter Ed Joyce Tell Us Why sd’s Water Supply is Getting Squeezed
KPBS
The climate change models show that the snow in the Sierra will come sooner melt quicker which means we won’t be able to take advantage of that runoff. And Southern California is expected to be drier and hotter. Her name is Elissa Lynn by the way the senior meteorologist with the Department of Water Resources. And she does say that the state’s water supply is likely going to be or is already negatively affected by climate change. ELISSA LYNN (Senior Climatologist California State Department of Water Resources): The southern part of the state is going to be more prone to these excessive droughts than perhaps the north so that’ll make a greater disparity regionally across the state so water’s going to continue to be very difficult and challenging subject you know as we go toward the future. JYCE: Difficult and challenging. There’s a lot of challenges there and difficulty certainly.

Providence water may pare its rate request
Providence Journal
A typical customer would pay about $28 more a year if that rate hike is approved. However the request by the Providence Water Supply Board initially filed at the end of April may be scaled back before a ruling by the Public Utilities Commission this fall when the new rates would take effect. Jeanne Brasil Bondarevskis director of finance said it now appears that the board will seek to reduce the requested increase to about 8. 8 percent mostly because its expenses are less than expected after this year’s settlement with the Town of Scituate over how much property tax it must pay the town each year. The board owns about 42 percent of the acreage in Scituate the site of its reservoir system. As more expenses become clear Bondarevskis said the request could be modified further.

Cities utility districts asked to conserve water
Daily News – Galveston County
“Right now it’s just an awareness program that there is a water deficit” Bill Alcorn president of the utility district board said. “It’s not to a point where we want to restrict anybody. “The cautionary call for voluntary water conservation came after the Gulf Coast Water Authority which supplies most of the surface water supply for cities in Galveston County issued a Stage 1 Drought Contingency Plan. Surface water is water from lakes and reservoirs as opposed to water from wells. Stage 1 is the lowest level alert. It asks water customers to find ways to reduce water consumption to 95 percent of what the water service purchases from the water authority. For example if a city contracts to buy 20000 gallons of water it would be asked to keep its usage to 19000 gallons.

Naples takes new direction to meet future water needs
Naples Daily News
The plan all depends on being able to store enough water to bridge a two-month gap during the dry season when planners figure the city won’t be able to pull any water out of the canal. That’s where ASR comes in. But pumping treated effluent below the drinking water supply zone has raised questions before in other parts of Florida. When the city of Englewood sought a permit to do it many questioned whether arsenic and saltwater intrusion would make the plan unworkable DEP permit reviewer David Rhodes in Fort Myers said. “It’s worked better than a lot of people thought it would” Rhodes said. The city’s strategy part of a larger 20-year plan has drawn criticism from within City Hall. That plan envisions boosting the city’s water supply by 15 million gallons per day by 2028 largely to meet growth projections in the city’s utility service area beyond the city limits.
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