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Issue # 012 - Water solutions, problems, rebuttals, books and more.

H2O Weekly is an on-line publication that announces publications, policies, and activities about the world’s water on a weekly basis. A full article is followed by other brief headings are followed by links that will take you to the complete article you are interested in.

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Weekly Water Events

1. July SMART Irrigation Month
2. NEW! Ebook – 26 articles on timely irrigation topics
3. Weather Sites – Do You Know What’s Happening?
4. World's Water Problems, and Solutions, Can Be Found on the Farm
5. Safe drinking water act likely this year
6. Water and water policy in Europe

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1. July SMART Irrigation Month

Even though we have now arrived in August – and I must say with a real blast in my area, with a major band of thunder storms combined with tornado strength winds causing lots of damage in the now heavily populated cottage country, it does not mean that what we have learnt and experienced throughout the highly successful July SMART Irrigation Month, needs to be forgotten. In fact if you visit www.irrigation.org you can read about the achievements.

A major accomplishment has been combining forces with the EPA in the promotion of WaterSense. What about the not widely publicized volunteer Arlington National Cemetery irrigation installation headed up by none less than the IA’s own Contractor Common Interest Group players – mainly Andy Smith, Tim Malloy, and Bob Dobson?

Much has gone right promoting the wise use of water around the world during the past 30 days. But, as always much has also gone astray especially with the article by Amy Vickers basically killing the thought of residential irrigation. You didn’t read my rebuttal? Well then – go to www.irrigation.org articles and download the article. Anyway, let’s continue to be smart with water as we all do – right?

Lorne Haveruk

2. NEW! Ebook – 26 articles on timely irrigation topics

Coming soon to a website near you (our website)… IrriSense – Ebook with 26 articles dealing with timely irrigation topics from 2000 to 2006. This book contains more than 150 pages of the latest information surrounding the field of turf irrigation.

Contents

Irrigation Systems - An Overview pg.4
Automatic irrigation Systems pg.7
Automatic irrigation Controllers pg.15
Which Sprinkler is Right? pg.19
Power Side of Automatic irrigation pg.28
Difference by Design pg.34
Scheduling an Irrigation System pg.37
Making Sense of Sensors pg.45
Professional Spring Start-up Checklist pg.49
Know when to stop watering pg.56
Power side of Automatic irrigation pg.59
Guidelines for Outdoor Watering pg.64
Water the Right Amount pg.69
Irrigation BMP's pg.74
Your Valued Customers pg.80
Costing out the System pg.83
Be Last to be First pg.97
Season End Tasks pg.102
Fall Shut-down Steps pg.105
How Much Water is Enough? pg.109
ET - Watering With the Weather pg.119
Water - Alternative Choices pg.125
Reclaimed Water for Irrigation pg.137
2005 - New Era for Controllers pg.141
2005 - New Era for Moisture Sensors pg.148
New Breed of Controllers pg.153

3. Recently I have taken a heighten interest into the weather – I finally have become a sailor. So what does this have to do with water – everything! Here are a few interesting links to visit…

There are many more but these are the ones I found most interesting.

4. World's Water Problems, and Solutions, Can Be Found on the Farm
March 20, 2006 — By Mark Stevenson, Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Eliminating water waste and mismanagement on farms -- rather than building dams or diverting rivers -- would go far toward alleviating the world's water crisis, officials …

http://www.roncastle.com/ecocover/organic-mulch-news-march-20-2006.htm

5. Safe drinking water act likely this year
By Amin Ahmed

RAWALPINDI, June 11: Safe drinking water act, likely to be enacted this year, would set technical and supply standards for municipal bodies and make them accountable to the general public.

The Ministry of Environment has proposed the Act in its National Water Drinking Policy. The Act will declare safe drinking water a fundamental human right and the responsibility of the State.

Drinking water is the constitutional responsibility of all the provincial governments and the specific provision has been developed to create agencies in cities, towns and tehsil municipal administrations under the Local Government Ordinance 2001, states the policy document, obtained by Dawn.

It has been proposed that all water schemes will be based on the provision of a minimum of 20 litres per capita per day for rural households and 40 litres per capita per household for urban areas. It has also been proposed to provide at least one hand pump or spot source for every 250 persons; to establish district and tehsil levels, water filtration plants by…

http://www.dawn.com/2006/06/12/nat14.htm

6. Water and water policy in Europe

Water management is one of the European Commission's environmental priorities. The framework directive on water sets out the guidelines for water policy in Europe for the decades ahead. It more especially promotes the use of pricing and taxation as an incentive for consumers to use water resources in a more sustainable manner and to recover the cost of water services per sector of the economy. It is with this in view that the Commission has prepared its communication on the pricing and sustainable management of water resources. Its aim is to enable a fruitful political debate to take place on this matter and to inform those concerned.

http://europa.eu/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l28112.htm

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Lorne Haveruk C.I.D., C.I.C., C.L.I.A
Editors, H20 News
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