State venue manager VenuesWest is working with Optus Stadium operator VenuesLive to install the new facilities in time for the new year.
As part of the new works, VenuesWest will also take the opportunity to retrofit the venue’s existing drinking facilities with new fixtures – which will elevate the stadium’s water quality above the Australian standard levels it already meets.
The Stadium Parkland’s external water facilities will also be upgraded as part of the works program.
VenuesWest has elected to carry out these extra upgrades over and above regulatory requirements.
As part of Optus Stadium’s water management planning, Ecosafe International has prepared a comprehensive report, available here: http://www.venueswest.wa.gov.au/about/corporate-publications/ “Queues for drinking fountains at Optus Stadium do get a little bit long during events.
That makes the experience a little harder for people, especially those with children, to enjoy a comfortable day out.
“With summer almost upon us, and with that the venue’s first full summer of cricket, it’s time to fix that oversight to ensure an even better experience for fans.
“As part of the works, VenuesWest will also upgrade the water fountains inside and outside the venue to elevate the stadium’s water quality above the Australian standard levels it already meets.
VenuesWest is taking this extra step to bring the fountains up to the best possible standard.
Professional sampling and testing shows drinking water at Optus Stadium and Stadium Park pass all the Australian drinking water guidelines.”

Although the hurricanes may have compounded this problem, having access to clean water is not a new worry for Puerto Rico’s residents, as the territory’s drinkable water was already deemed to be the worst of all the US states and territories.
A 2017 report released by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDF) reveals that in 2015, 99.5% of Puerto Rico’s population was served by community water systems in violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), and between 2005 to 2015, more than 33,000 SDWA violations were reported.
The report also states that a total of 201 out of 406 water systems committed 545 health-based violations in 2015.
Before Hurricane Maria, PRASA stated that it would need to invest $2.4 billion over the next decade to fix these ongoing issues, and since the majority of its water and wastewater treatment infrastructure was damaged by the storms, that number is surely much higher now.
Concerning the issue of transparency, in spring of 2017, the Puerto Rico Government Development Bank (GDB), received a hotline complaint from the EPA regarding financial irregularities with Puerto Rico’s Clean Water and Drinking Water State Revolving Funds, and therefore the OIG conducted an audit based on a reported complaint that the revolving funds had a combined balance of approximately $188 million at the Puerto Rico Government Development Bank.
Although the audit did state that the agencies investigated did not intentionally misuse government funds, much like the citizens of Flint, Michigan who were deliberately misled by state government officials about the safety of the city’s drinking water, with little trust in the government’s ability to protect its citizens health and safety, the people of Puerto Rico have learned to look to their fellow citizens and scientists for help.
Rivera states:“The water comes out of the tap white, and sometimes dark and dirty, with particles in it… Me, my son, my aunt and even the doctor here have got sick in some way.
It’s made me a little paranoid.
Traumatized.” Arecibo became a Superfund site in the summer of 2017, as it is in close proximity to a former battery processing facility that contained corrosive acids.
Rosario-Ortiz and his team went door to door gathering bottles of water from people’s bathroom sinks to test for bacteria, and the results indicated something else– possible lead contamination significant enough to warrant further study.

"In addition to generally facilitating a better scientific understanding of the superfund site impacts to groundwater, EPA’s efforts will help identify whether the Cinnaminson Superfund Site is a source of certain contaminants that have been, and continue to be, treated at a Moorestown water treatment plant so that residents continue to receive safe/clean water," according to the resolution.
On Monday night, township officials said they approached the EPA about investigating 123 TCP as one of the contaminants, but that ultimately, it wouldn’t be included in the investigation.
The subject arose during the Sept. 24 meeting when Babcock was talking about putting out an RFQ to find someone to track down whoever was responsible for contaminating Moorestown’s water, and Locatell mentioned the investigation of the superfund site in Cinnaminson.
On Monday, Babcock pointed out that there is a superfund site in Moorestown that isn’t being investigated.
Township officials emphasized that the township has been focusing on cleaning the township’s water and pursuing those responsible for the contamination at a later time.
Documents show the total cost of the project to upgrade the North Church Street Water Treatment Plant currently stands at $18,652,882.
"You said you’d go out for an RFQ last year at this time, and nothing ever happened," Babcock responded.
"It’s better to narrow your focus," Township Manager Tom Neff said.
"We’re working with the EPA to minimize the impact on the residents," Neff said.
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At least 4,000 children in Busoga region will have access to reliable, clean and safe water in the coming months following dfcu Bank’s contribution of Shs20 million towards a Clean Water initiative by the Obwa Kyabazinga bwa Busoga.
The initiative seeks to invest in integrated and appropriate WASH solutions focusing on improving access to reliable, clean and safe water supply to promote total sanitation, hygienic environment, and healthy-productive children in public primary schools of Busoga.
dfcu Bank’s Head of Marketing, Jude Kansiime handed over the cheque to the Prime Minister of Obwa Kyabazinga bwa Busoga, Dr. Joseph Muvawala at his offices on Thursday 11th October 2018.
Speaking during the handover, Jude Kansiime, reiterated dfcu’s commitment towards positively impacting the lives of communities in and around the bank’s business operations.
Instead of spending time fetching water, the pupils can focus more on their studies,” said Jude Kansiime.
Corporate social responsibility dfcu’s Corporate Social Responsibility programme is hinged on number of pillars which include; Child and Maternal Health, Environmental Management, Community Development and Emergency Intervention.
Under these pillars, dfcu Bank supports a number of initiatives with the belief that the wellbeing of the individuals and communities which benefit from them will experience tangible transformation.
According to the Minister for Water and Environment, in Obwa Kyabazinga bwa Busoga Dr. Najib Bateganya Lukooya, while some schools currently have access to an onsite water source or piped water supply, they are still faced with challenges of intermittent supply; high risks of cross-contamination due to poor sanitation and hygiene or use of unsafe water sources, and lack and/or inadequate capacity for rainwater harvesting/safe storage facilities for drinking water.
“dfcu Bank’s contribution will go towards phase I of the project which is focusing on facilitating rain water harvesting and storage during the rainy season for use in the dry season.
Busoga has a water stressed belt, which easily dries up during dry seasons and people along this belt have limited access to clean and safe water.

AS the world celebrates the importance of hand washing with soap and water, the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) residing at Gongola camp in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria, have no potable water, as well as toilets.
According to NAN, this was revealed when a team of the National Task Group on Sanitation and non-governmental organisations like WaterAid and Action Against Hunger, visited the camp on Monday to mark the 2018 hand washing day.
Joseph Jauro, the camp chairman, said there was no accessible water in the camp.
He recounted numerous cases of diarrhoea and cholera cases and deaths among under-five-year-old children, saying this has been linked to poor sources of drinking water.
While narrating the difficulty in getting water in the camp, Jauro said the free source of water is a stream where many women have been bitten by snakes while sourcing for it.
He added some water vendors which are called “mai ruwa” sell water to displaced persons at N20 per a 20-litre of cans.
“There are times when you do not have the money to buy the water, you end up going to the stream to fetch the water the way it is,” the camp chairman said.
He called for immediate interventions from relevant stakeholders, saying this was necessary to forestall terrible incidents.
“We want the government to help us, to alleviate our sufferings in this camp, how can we call ourselves Nigerians when we do not have the basic necessities of life’’, Jauro said.
The WaterAid, in a statement on its website, says 59 million Nigerians have no access to clean water, representing one in every three persons.

AUSTIN, TEXAS — Austin runners will be able to give clean drinking water for life to someone in Burundi, Africa, by registering for the 2018 Run for the Water, in either the 5K, 10-mile or Kids K race.
Runners of all ages and experience levels are invited to take part in this upcoming Austin event which has helped bring clean drinking water to more than 92,000 people in Burundi, one of the world’s poorest nations, since 2006.
The city’s second-largest annual charity run, Run for the Water raises money for the Gazelle Foundation, a non-profit founded by Austin resident and Burundian genocide survivor Gilbert Tuhabonye.
This year, the foundation hopes to register 4,000 runners to raise more than $300,000 for water projects that will transform lives in Burundi, Africa.
Organizers added that proceeds from this year’s race will expand the foundation’s plans for regional water systems.
Run for the Water is also the second event in the Austin Distance Challenge.
The Gazelle Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that implements charitable efforts to improve life for people in Burundi.
• 9:15 a.m.: Kids K starts and finishes on the South First Street Bridge.
Why Run Most Americans can take access to clean water for granted, but for the people of Burundi, it’s a matter of life and death.
Burundi has one of the world’s highest child mortality rates due largely to a lack of clean drinking water.

But that’s not the case for the nearly 2,200 indigenous people about 10 miles away on the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nations reserve.
Six of its water systems are under long-term drinking-water advisories.
But the commitment, part of a raft of pledges designed to bring about reconciliation with Canada’s indigenous people, has not been easy to address, and chiefs and others worry that a combination of red tape, undertrained operators at water treatment plants and insufficient funding means that progress will be sporadic.
Despite the fact that Canada has the world’s third-largest supply of fresh water, water on indigenous reserves has for decades been contaminated with various chemicals or bacteria, tough to access or at risk because of broken-down water systems that can take years to fix.
In Neskantaga, a remote fly-in reserve also in northern Ontario, residents have been boiling water for 23 years after a water treatment plant that was built in 1993 broke down.
Since becoming prime minister, Trudeau has earmarked nearly $2 billion to make good on his promise, but addressing the crisis hasn’t been easy.
Maracle’s community has seen progress.
In 2016, after four years of negotiations with the federal government, his reserve got something that many don’t have: a $31 million state-of-the-art water treatment plant, which provides clean water to 68 homes and various community facilities.
A report from Human Rights Watch in 2016 found that of the dozens of drinking water advisories in place on Ontario’s reserves, almost 60 were for systems less than 25 years old, and 12 were for systems less than 15 years old.
A $41 million water treatment plant was built to serve part of the Six Nations reserve in 2014, she explained, but residents are afraid to drink from it because they don’t trust that the water is clean.

To get clean drinking water, residents of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nations reserve must go to one of two fill-up stations.
less To get clean drinking water, residents of the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nations reserve must go to one of two fill-up stations.
But that’s not the case for the nearly 2,200 indigenous people about 10 miles away on the Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte First Nations reserve.
Six of its water systems are under long-term drinking water advisories.
But the commitment, which was part of a broader raft of pledges designed to bring about reconciliation with Canada’s indigenous people, has not been easy to address, and chiefs and others worry that a combination of red tape, undertrained water treatment plant operators and insufficient funding means that progress will be sporadic.
To avoid drinking water contaminated with blue algae or bacteria such as E. coli, residents of Ontario’s third-largest First Nations reserve boil water, pay for it to be delivered to them by truck, or haul jugs to and from the reserve’s two fill-up stations.
Despite the fact that Canada has the world’s third-largest supply of fresh water, water on indigenous reserves has for decades been contaminated with various chemicals or bacteria, tough to access or at risk because of broken-down water systems that can take years to fix.
Since becoming prime minister, Trudeau has earmarked nearly $2 billion to make good on his promise, but addressing the crisis hasn’t been easy.
In 2016, after four years of negotiations with the federal government, his reserve got something that many don’t have: a $31 million state-of-the-art water treatment plant, which provides clean water to 68 homes and various community facilities.
A report from Human Rights Watch in 2016 found that of the dozens of drinking water advisories in place on Ontario’s reserves, almost 60 were for systems less than 25 years old and 12 were for systems less than 15 years old.

ALMOST 40 years after independence, marginalised Tsholotsho villagers are still living in abject poverty, with no access to clean water and toilets, exposing them to waterborne diseases.
Villagers from Pumula, Nkunzi and Simanje 1 and 2 under chief Mahlathini and Gampu, who rely on unprotected water sources, said their situation has been exacerbated by the El-Nino-induced droughts which led to many of their water sources drying up.
"In Pumula, we survive on drinking and cooking with muddy dam water, which we share with our livestock.
This season, the dams in our vicinity have dried up and we have to walk 8km to the nearest water source and have to get there around three in the morning before wild animals and our livestock muddy it up.
Dlomo bemoaned government’s failure to drill boreholes in the area.
Water will be cleaner during the rainy season because animals then survive on rivers, but now human beings and animals drink from the same source," Tshuma said.
"Very few people have Blair toilets in Tsholotsho and we resort to the bush and during rainy season, the excreta is washed into our dams, contaminating our water sources," another villager said.
Tsholotsho North legislator Sibangumuzi Khumalo said the water issue was affecting the whole constituency where no dam has ever been constructed since independence.
People of Tsholotsho, to be specific those from my constituency, have never drunk clean water.
Everyone relies on those small community-made dams, but the situation becomes dire, particularly this season because even those dams are empty and there are no rivers.

This year, 46 countries gave their voluntary national report to the United Nations on Goals 6,7,11, 12, 15 and 17.
While the U.N. was formulating the Sustainable Development Goals, they were talking in terms of insuring that people had "access to water."
Our civil society groups advocated for the U.N. to say "the right to water" instead.
I thought the symbolic walk was a great idea, though walking for water is not new to me; I have seen and experienced water shortages in the villages of India.
Though the bucket was empty, it became rather heavy as we walked, and I even thought of giving up on the way, but the cause kept us going.
Women and girls bring water just as they nurture life.
They need to be supported so that they have adequate time for other things too — like getting an education!
We wanted to remind our policy makers that the civil society representatives at the U.N. will not rest until safe drinking water becomes a reality for all.
How can human beings be fully alive without water?
[Originally from India, Celine Paramundayil is the international representative for the Medical Mission Sisters’ nongovernmental organization at the United Nations.