Madhya Pradesh: 21 peacocks die due to water scarcity.
At least 21 peacocks died of water scarcity in Sumawali forest area of Joura town in Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district.
The bodies were sent for postmortem straight away as the forest department rushed to the spot.
Sub Divisional Magistrate, Pradeep Singh, confirmed the report ad said that the officials are investigating the matter.
He assured that the damaged hand pumps would be immediately repaired.
The people from Hatupura village of the town found the dead peacocks in the forests and reported the matter.
The local administration has been accused by the villagers for being negligent of the duties, which have led to the rise in the untimely deaths of peacocks in the region in the past three years.
Forest department officials, while reacting to the incident, claimed that in recent times, ponds have been constructed, but the region has been facing deficit of rainfall since a few years, which has eventually led to the death of these birds.
The department has asserted that strict measures would be taken to prevent such a situation in the future.

Op ed from the Mayor: Local control best approach for secure water future.
As we watch the melting Sierra snowpack rush by and put the drought behind us, serious discussions are underway at the state capitol about how to best plan for the next time of water scarcity.
Water suppliers, including Roseville, were forced to cut back even though they had invested in developing local water supplies specifically to help weather times of drought and protect their ratepayers from the need for severe cutbacks.
Forced conservation in our communities did not improve supplies for anyone else in the state.
PPIC’s findings come at a critical time.
State water regulators have proposed continuing the type of centralized control they wielded during the drought on a permanent basis.
This is vitally important because local water use decisions are often correlated to economic development and land use choices.
This approach – embodied in AB 1654 by Assemblywoman Blanca Rubio – will empower communities to balance their current and future water supplies with future water use demands, during times of both drought and soaking rain.
Roseville supports this approach because it protects our ability to manage our water supplies based on community needs, respects the investments our citizens have made in developing sufficient water supplies and becoming more efficient (such as our use of recycled water) and provides for annual reporting to the State to enhance its ability to focus on communities in California that have water supply challenges that legitimately can use the State’s help.
It’s time for the state of California to adopt a policy framework that empowers Roseville and our fellow cities across the state to continue to be leaders in efficient water use and not discourage local investments that make our water supply even more reliable in the future.

Because of water shortage, food industry is also unable to produce enough food.
In this situation, it is very important for those people who are getting water more than their requirement to do their best to save water.
There are many industries, which are using a great amount of water, such as gas and oil industry, food industry and electricity plants.
These industries do not just consume water; they also waste a big amount of water on daily basis.
There was a time when the world has many small and big natural resources of water but because of changes in climate, many of those resources have lost their water or the amount of water in those resources has decreased.
The world need to take immediate steps to reduced the use of water in industries.
Oil and gas industries have taken an initiative in reducing their requirement of water.
It is also important for people to make sure that they are not wasting any water anywhere.
There should also be programs to inform people about the increasing water scarcity and how they should save the water.
It is very important to start special awareness programs about the importance of water, not just big industries but in all the industries, whether they are small or big, because there are very limited industries, which do not require water.

Israeli company that produces water from air launches first pilot program in Florida.
JTA) — Large parts of Florida are suffering from severe drought, and hurricane season threatens to make things worse.
On Monday, the South Florida city of Miami Gardens announced it was launching a pilot program with the company to address its water problems — the first U.S. city to do so.
“Water Gen’s pilot will enable us to measure its use for clean drinking water if needed for hurricane relief and any other emergency water situation that may arise.” Over the next two weeks, Miami Gardens will use a midsized Water-Gen generator to produce drinking water for its residents.
The company’s largest generator yields as much as 825 gallons of water per day for only 10 cents a gallon, mostly in energy costs, according to the company.
“I congratulate Mayor Gilbert and the City of Miami Gardens for its leadership in allowing for the demonstration of water generation technology that could be a game-changer,” he said Monday.
Water-Gen’s ambitions extend beyond Florida and the United States.
Owned by Russian-Israeli entrepreneur and billionaire Michael Mirilashvili, the vice president of the World Jewish Congress, Water-Gen has Jewish friends in high places.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned it in an interview last December with CBS’s “60 Minutes” about Israel’s high-tech prowess.
“You cannot boycott products that you can’t live without.”

Storm Runoff May Recharge Aquifers and Your Crops.
The results of the University of California, Davis, study are intriguing: First, water was indeed penetrating to a deeper level.
American Vegetable Grower® magazine reached out to Dahlke to learn more.
So, among those 8 million acres, there is a lower percentage of land that has suitable soils for doing groundwater recharge.
AVG: Your team analyzed the amount of water flowing through a stream, and focused in on streamflow that reaches 90th percentile.
The percentile was chosen so that enough water would still flow down a river that environmental flows and urban/industrial water demands are met.
So these flows are often not accounted for or stored in surface water reservoirs and we should better manage them.
Do you believe your recommended methods would apply to growers outside of the state?
It is just that we are realizing more and more how quickly we are depleting our groundwater reserves and that natural recharge from rainfall is not enough to refill groundwater aquifers at the rate at which we are pumping water out.
Therefore, this research and management need applies to any groundwater dependent region.

The terminology — from tailenders to yorkers — is befuddling.
And yet the wild popularity cricket enjoys across South Asia is well known to even the most casual observer of the region.
I closely followed the Pakistan-India cricket final and took to Twitter — while shamelessly coining a new hashtag, #KugelmanKiCricket — to offer real-time commentary that likely provided more entertainment than analytical value.
Pakistan is often down but never out.
Still, what struck me the most was this: the team that triumphed on Sunday is an admirable microcosm of Pakistan on the whole: young and unpredictable, but also odds-defying and resilient.
This team, like the nation it represents, is often counted out, but still manages to persevere.
Nearly 100 months later, the state has yet to fall.
To be sure, Pakistan faces challenges in the coming months and years far graver than anything that will be thrown at (or should I say bowled to?)
its national cricket squad.
And yet if there is one teachable moment from Sunday’s victory, it is that Pakistan is often down but never out.

RepRisk Data Incorporated into Ecolab’s Water Risk Monetizer.
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150mgd water shortage in city after main line burst.
KARACHI: One of the 72-inch-dia pipelines bringing water to the city burst early on Tuesday morning, causing a shortage of around 150 million gallons of water to the metropolis, it is learnt.
A statement issued by the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board says that the repair work on the burst pipeline had immediately been started but it was expected to take around 30 hours and the city was expected to resume receiving its normal supply of over 500mgd of water from Thursday.
Responding to Dawn queries, KWSB spokesperson Rizwan Haider said that electricity supply to the water board’s pumping station at Dhabeji was disrupted owing to which back pressure mounted in the 72-inch pipeline, which could not sustain it and burst.
He said that immediately the valves and water gates were shut but in the meantime around 28 million gallons of water had come out of the burst pipeline and had inundated around a two-square-kilometre area in the vicinity.
He said that heavy machinery was immediately dispatched to the site and repair work was started, but it would take around 30 hours to repair the damaged pipe and the city would continue to receive at least 150mgd of water less than its normal supply of over 500mgd.
He said the repair works would continue round the clock without any break till the water supply resumed.
He said that despite repeated requests to the electricity company’s power supply did not remain normal and voltage drops were a common phenomenon, which resulted in frequent breakdowns of the water board’s pumps and motors, leading to water shortages in the city.
The water board also has to spend a huge amount on the repair and replacement of its heavy machinery and equipment at the water board’s Dhabeji, Pipri and North East Karachi installations, he said.
The shortage would just add to the water woes of Karachiites.

Summary: GURUGRAM: Faulty machinery at the boosting station aggravated water scarcity in sectors 5, 6 and 7 on Tuesday.
Residents in these sectors alleged that three of the four pumping machines in the boosting station haven’t been working, leading to recurring water shortage in these sectors.
"Over the last 10 days, there has been a shortage of water supply.
Residents alleged that incessant power cuts and unregulated power supply at the boosting station also added to their problems.
GURUGRAM: Faulty machinery at the boosting station aggravated water scarcity in sectors 5, 6 and 7 on Tuesday.
Residents in these sectors alleged that three of the four pumping machines in the boosting station haven’t been working, leading to recurring water shortage in these sectors.
"Over the last 10 days, there has been a shortage of water supply.
"We have been facing water scarcity for almost 10 days now, and hardly get water for at least 30 minutes a day.
On some days, the supply gets affected owing to erratic power supply, and on days when power is not interrupted, water supply gets affected," said Sanjay Luthra, a resident from Sector 5.The residents also complained that the water pipelines in their area burst almost every month as officials fail to upgrade the capacity of the pipelines to avoid such situations, especially during summer.
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Report identifies ways to reduce water contamination from oil and gas development in Texas.
A new report from the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas (TAMEST) is shedding more light on what we know and don’t know about the potential health and environmental impacts caused by oil and gas development in Texas.
In fact, according to the report, spilling or leaking wastewater and other substances is the most likely pathway for surface water contamination from oil and gas development in Texas.
Yet Texas is the only major state that doesn’t require companies to report their produced water spills.
Managing the strain on freshwater, without causing more environmental problems TAMEST also looks at the way industry uses water more generally.
Water scarcity is driving debate about whether or not companies should drill wells with brackish (salty) water, or use their own wastewater, rather than freshwater.
This practice could help alleviate water scarcity concerns.
However, as TAMEST notes, the use of these alternative resources “increases the potential for spills or leaks that could lead to further environmental impacts.” Therefore, while TAMEST notes that increased use of fresh water alternatives for oil and gas operations is desirable, the authors also recommend expanded research to understand the potential environmental trade-offs of increasing this practice.
According to the report, “In Texas, both economics and risk considerations dictate that much of the produced water will continue to be injected in deep wells or used as fracturing fluid to minimize impacts on other water sources.” The TAMEST report goes further, saying there are “potential negative impacts of trace contaminants in produced water that might limit their beneficial use” outside the oilfield.
There’s no doubt that water management in the oilfield can and should be improved.