(May 1, 2009, Treehugger)
The EPA has decided to hand over $82 million in Recovery Act funds to Arizona for water projects that will hopefully create jobs, give a sugar shot to local economies, and update old water and wastewater infrastructure. It’s one small chunk of $6 billion dollars in funds that will go to water [...]
(March 5, 2009, The San Francisco Chronicle)
The ongoing struggles of managing California’s limited water supply to support our cities, farms and natural environment are well known. As we face what some are calling one of the worst droughts in California history, we must all learn to conserve water wherever possible. Just as the Bay Area [...]
(March 2, 2009, The Sacramento Bee)
Californians have grown accustomed to digesting odd ideas that routinely flow out of Sacramento, many of them not so palatable.
But are they ready for this one?
Last week, amid a third year of a statewide drought, the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District adopted a strategy to sell treated sewage as drinking [...]
(Feb. 9, 2009, Scoop)
NZWWA CEO, Murray Gibb, is urging government to continue its reforms and rationalise water management in New Zealand.
“The question must be asked why a country of only four million people needs over seventy water utilities and twelve separate regional water regulators,” said Mr Gibb.
“With the imminent release of the Royal Commission’s report [...]
(Feb. 4, 2009, The Recorder And Times)
It’s going to cost the average Brockville homeowner $21.33 more this year to wash the dishes and flush the toilet.
Director of finance Donna Cyr outlined what amounts to about a four per cent increase to the combined water rate and sewage surcharge Monday night at council’s fourth of [...]
(Jan. 19, 2009, Sarah Kuck, WorldChanging)
On the blue planet, and especially in the industrialized world, water is seemingly everywhere. At the turn of the faucet or the flush of a toilet, our control over our water supply is misleadingly large.
Although the planet is covered in more than 70 percent of the stuff, only three [...]
(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 [...]
