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Issue # 003

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Weekly Water Events

1. Why is Britain so short of water?
2. Waukesha may restrict lawn, garden sprinkling
3. Watering Established Lawns
4. Water Efficient Factoid
5. Wasteful Mexico City Hosts Water Summit

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1. Why is Britain so short of water?

John Vidal
Friday February 3, 2006
The Guardian

Not all of Britain is. Last month was exceptionally dry, and rivers, boreholes and reservoirs are low, but anyone living outside south-east England can expect to fill their swimming pool and wash their car this summer without the police knocking. South-east England, however, as northerners know, is another country, and there it regularly rains less than in California or Athens. There is less water available per person in Surrey than in Saudi Arabia, and the region is officially classed as "semi-arid". Like Algeria or southern Spain, it is more or less permanently water-stressed.

Down there, 2006 looks bad. There has been below-average rainfall for 13 of the past 14 months, and hydrographers and water companies say that unless it buckets down between now and April (when the plants start drinking any water available), some of Britain's wealthiest communities could be collecting water from standpipes and playing golf on yellow grass under dying trees.

There are two problems. Southeasterners use 25% more water than people in any other English region. According to one water company, they flush the loo more, bathe more and clean the car more than anyone in Europe. They are also more careless with water. Few have installed even the simplest water-saving devices. Thames Water, moreover, loses as much though its 100-year-old pipes as Leeds uses in a year.

The other problem is John Prescott. The deputy PM's department is pushing through massive housing developments all over the south-east without regard to where the water will come from. Some 300,000 more homes are expected to be built in Kent and Essex in the next 20 years, and not far short of that in the deserts of Sussex and Suffolk. The water companies, the Environment Agency and local authorities are getting twitchy. There is talk of building new reservoirs and even desalination plants, but the expense could be ruinous.

The government says it has no plans to appoint a minister of drought. But that might be the answer: last time it did, in 1976, the weather broke and it poured - and Denis Howell had to be reinvented as the minister for floods.

2. Waukesha may restrict lawn, garden sprinkling

Waukesha - Violating proposed city lawn and garden sprinkling regulations would cost of $50 for the first violation, $100 for the second and $500 for a third offense under a measure city officials considered Monday night. See link for more information.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=390307

3. Watering Established Lawns

To determine the most appropriate irrigation schedule for an established lawn consider the following: turf species; soil type; cutting height; potential disease and pest problems; local weather patterns; and microclimates (i.e., shade vs. full sun exposure; low vs. high areas of the yard). For example, a lawn cut at 3 inches holds water longer…

http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/garden/07199.html

4. Water Efficient Factoid

Water Efficiency Factoid

Did you know that each average household that fully adopts water efficient products and practices saves 30,000 gallons per year? Enough to supply a year of drinking water for 150 neighbors? (USEPA)

5. Wasteful Mexico City Hosts Water Summit

MEXICO CITY — Mexico City is plagued by an almost diabolical combination of floods and water shortages, rising sewage and sinking water tables. What better place for world leaders to come together to discuss…

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/3718178.html

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Lorne Haveruk C.I.D., C.I.C., C.L.I.A
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