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(April 28, 2009, Planet Green)
According to a study by the Environmental Working Group, bottled water is just as polluted as a tap water. In fact, twenty percent of bottled water has more chlorine than California’s state regulations will allow in tap water.
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There’s a lot of talk comparing the oil boom to the coming water boom. Discussing whether water will be bigger and more important than oil is kind of a foolish tack, IMHO.  The point is that we can hardly do anything without water.  I think that rather than comparing the two industries, it’s more useful [...]

(March 17, 2009, MSNBC)
The global desalinated water supply will grow at a CAGR of 9.5% over the next decade, reaching 54 billion m3/year (cubic meters per year) in 2020 — 54 trillion liters/year — or triple what it had been in 2008, according to a new report from Lux Research entitled “Desalination’s Future Champions.”
According to [...]

(March 17, 2009, The Associated Press)
The global economic crisis threatens to shrink investment in water infrastructure, an already underfunded sector vital to growth and public health, the World Bank said Tuesday
The first global economic contraction since World War II threatens to overshadow the scarcity of clean water in many poor regions, where inadequate sanitation is [...]

(March 13, 2009, MSNBC)
With local lakes and rivers at critically low levels, the region’s water provider has virtually shut down the surface water supply to the Tampa Bay region.
“The reservoir’s level is so low we are unable to provide water, consistently, to the water treatment plant and we are unable to pull water from the [...]

(March 10, 2009, China Daily)
The authorities need to push ahead with a price hike, reflecting accurately the growing shortage of water in China and help plug further depletion of the resource, an official has said.
“We must set up a rational water pricing system adapted to the country’s severe shortage of water. So some cities will [...]

(March 1, 2009, The Chicago Times)
State officials are drafting plans to spend nearly $122 million in federal stimulus money to clean up Indiana’s aging, overflow-prone sewers and upgrade its drinking water systems.
Although federal agencies are still fine-tuning details of how the nation’s $787 billion stimulus package can be spent, Friday was the first deadline for [...]

(Feb. 28, 2009, The Water Blog, Portland Water Bureau)
Dear Water Blogmistress,

I am writing because I need advice in regards to a tap-related dilemma I’m having. I love Portland’s tap water so, so, so much and I find fellow tap-water enthusiasts… well, I’ll just say it… they’re hot. People who drink and love Portland’s tap water are hot! They [...]

(Feb. 16, 2009, Tara Lohan, The Nation)
If you’ve read anything about the global water crisis, you’ve likely read a quote from Dr. Peter Gleick, founder and president of the Pacific Institute, and one of the world’s leading water experts. His name has become as ubiquitous as drought itself, which is suddenly making major headlines. [...]

(Feb. 14, 2009, The New York Times)
Officials say that a major source of drinking water for about 25 million Californians is at risk. That water currently comes from the delta where the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers meet, and the levees that protect the region are more than 100 years old and are vulnerable to [...]

(Jan. 29, 2009, Lemoore Advance)

Residents of Kings County walk on water. It’s part of an aquifer that provides the vast majority of drinking water to area residents and water to many farms and ranches with irrigation supply. It lies beneath the ground.
Despite the recent rainy weather, a two-year drought has left above-ground storage facilities [...]

(Jan. 19, 2009, Inside Bay Area)

Construction of a new pipeline designed to improve Peninsula drinking water access will produce considerable noise, traffic and other impacts to homeowners over the next two years, according to officials.
Residents can voice concerns about the proposed 21-mile Bay Division Pipeline project at meetings this week. Some cities have begun expressing [...]

(Jan. 17, 2009, Portland Water Bureau)
The island nation of Fiji is in desperate need of clean drinking water after severe flooding left 11 dead and 9,000 people in evacuation centers. The flooding was caused by torrential rain and was the worst the country has seen in 40 years.
Fiji’s interim government has asked for international assistance.
Fiji’s Permanent [...]

(Jan. 15, 2009, Water Technology Online)
The government of Saratoga County, NY, headquartered here, will decide January 20 whether it will join six communities in the county that are planning to sue the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over what they see as a conflict between an EPA-backed PCB-dredging project in the Hudson River and the [...]

(Jan. 15, 2009, Orlando Sentinel)
Possibly 10 years from now, a converted oil tanker could offload desalted ocean water at an Atlantic port, with that water pumped to Mount Dora, Leesburg and DeLand.
A dozen utilities want to figure out whether that’s the best way to supply drinking water in the future.
The Coquina Coast desalination group on [...]

(Jan. 14, 2009, China View)
A Palestinian official said on Wednesday that 800,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip lack water due to the Israeli air and ground offensive on the enclave.
Monzer Shublaq, chief of the Gaza Strip water authorities, told reporters that 800,000 Palestinians out of the total Gaza Strip population, [...]

(Jan. 14, 2009, Detroit Free Press)
It’s not very sexy. Yet it is one of the most important and potentially costly health-related issues facing our nation. I refer to the need to continue supplying safe, clean drinking water — billions of gallons a day. Threats to our water security are increasing and the infrastructure for delivery [...]

(Jan. 15, 2009, WaterWired)

Here’s another missive for soon-to-be President Obama from the American Water Works Association (AWWA), Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies (AMWA), National Association of Water Companies (NAWC), and the National Rural Water Association (NRWA).
Download National Agenda for Drinking Water
Issues discussed include:

Economic stimulus through water infrastructure investment
Long-term water infrastructure investment
Safe drinking water standards
Source water protection
Climate change [...]

(Jan. 7, 2009, The Nation On Web)
With the sharp decrease in the graph of underground drinking water, City will be facing a critical water shortage in coming months. If government does not take concrete steps to cope with the situation, a water crisis is in the offing.
Sources in Wasa said that according to a State [...]