POCATELLO — Portions of Butte and Jerome streets will be closed through July 31 while City of Pocatello Water Department employees perform maintenance on water mains in the area.
Crews will be installing pressure-regulating valves and performing mainline modifications on Butte Street from Hiskey Street to Appaloosa Avenue and at the intersection of Hiskey and Jerome streets.
Because of construction, Butte Street will be closed from Hiskey Street to Appaloosa Avenue, and the intersection of Hiskey Street and Jerome Street will be closed.
During the project, access to the construction area will be restricted and sections of the road will be completely closed while workers are digging.
Parking will be restricted during construction hours in the work zone and residents are asked to park vehicles away from this area during the day.
At the close of each day, access will be restored to all properties.
The work may cause short-term disruptions to water service and individuals around the construction zone are encouraged to keep a supply of drinking water available.
Officials thank the public for their understanding and apologize for any inconvenience the closure may cause.
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the work schedule may change.
Residents with questions about the project are asked to contact the City of Pocatello Water Department at 208-234-6174.

No water for days?
: Owensboro and Daviess County could be without water for days after water main break Owensboro had a significant water main break and boil-water order that lasted for several days last November.
Water?
I can barely tie my shoes without caffeine, much less think through a crisis.
After pouring myself a quick cup of joe, I lugged out all the bottled water I had stored in case of catastrophe and surmised we had enough drinking water for at least three days.
At the checkout, the cashier told me I was the first person in that morning buying food, and by the time I left the store, management announced they were completely out of water.
I had picked up two cases — but because I had water at home — I offered those to others who didn’t have any.
Many said other stores were out, too.
Communities come together in times of need, and Owensboro is no exception.
I think fondly of my grandparents who lined their closet shelves with canned goods and water for decades after they endured the Great Depression.

"During the inspection, residents of this village informed us that they have to collect filthy river water as the tank providing clean water to them, has been empty since it was built in 2008," described Tembalihle Xangayi – a Councillor at the OR Tambo District Municipality.
"This particular river is littered with filth and used diapers and is shared with animals."
Xangayi said that the villages in Madwaleni, Mamalisa, Mnqanda and Gqaqhala in King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality, are also still without the basic rights off access to sufficient, clean drinking water.
"The district municipality is responsible for the water supply to the King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality.
I will write to Nomakhosazana Meth, OR Tambo District Municipality Mayor, and request her urgent intervention in this dire situation," he described.
"My colleague in the provincial legislature, Vicky Knoetze MPL, Shadow MEC for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA), has written to the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) (see letter here) requesting urgent intervention.
"In April 2018 she also submitted questions regarding the water situation in the King Sabata Dalindyebo Local Municipality for written reply to Fikile Xasa, the Eastern Cape MEC for COGTA, but received no response."
Xangayi said that everyone has inherent dignity and the right to have their dignity respected and this basic human right is being denied.
"According to the Constitution of South Africa, every person also has the right to clean water," he said.
"The residents of the OR Tambo District Municipality are fed-up with the ANC’s record of poor service delivery and bad governance."

KIGALI, Rwanda, Jul 10 2018 (IPS) – To many of us, ‘keep out of the reach of children’ is a phrase we see printed on labels for medicines and chemicals.
Three years later, the village is transformed now that its 6,000 people have access to clean water close to their homes.
Those two boreholes give a combined yield of 3.4 litres per second, which is enough for such a small village.
Mukakibibi could not be happier; instead of walking for an hour-and-a-half to get dirty water from the lake, she now needs only a few minutes to fetch clean water to cook, drink, or wash with.
The Nzangwa Health Centre in the village has also undergone a transformation; the head of the centre, Ndamyuwera Edison, told me he had not heard of any child who died of waterborne diseases over two years, since the villagers have access to clean water.
Ndamyuwera explained that before the health centre had a clean water supply, the janitors were so busy fetching water that none of the delivery rooms were cleaned in between births, at great risk of mothers and their babies.
Instead, he was constantly transporting water in jerry cans on his run-down bike.
World leaders have come together at the United Nations headquarters in New York for the High Level Political Forum (HLPF), 9 July-18 July, to review the progress that has been made on Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) – to provide clean water and sanitation to everyone, everywhere.
On current progress, Rwanda is on course to have universal access to clean water by 2082 and to give everyone access to a decent toilet by 2047.
To achieve the transformation that Mukakibibi’s village has gone through all around Rwanda, efforts on health and nutrition need to be integrated with action on water and sanitation.

Security forces fired at protesters, injuring at least one and arresting over 10, of which only 7 have been released.
The report below was published by Amnesty International: Iranian authorities must carry out an impartial and thorough investigation into reports that security forces used unnecessary and excessive force, possibly including firearms, against generally peaceful protesters during recent protests in Khuzestan province, where people have been demanding clean and safe drinking water, Amnesty International said today.
Reports by Persian-language media outside Iran have indicated that the number of protesters injured in the demonstration in Khorramshahr on 30 June [2018] was higher than that disclosed by the authorities.
It may therefore only be used for dispersal if violence has reached such a level that security forces cannot contain the threat by means which can directly affect the violent individuals only.
Amnesty International calls on the Iranian authorities to ensure that there is an impartial and effective investigation into the use of force by the security forces in the demonstrations in Khorramshahr on 30 June, with a view to establishing responsibilities and accountability of the officers involved, including at various levels of the command structure in charge during those events.
According to Human Rights Activists News Agency, an independent human rights group, dozens of people have been arrested in Khorramshahr, Abadan, and Ahvaz in connection with the protests, though at least seven individuals from Ahvaz are reported to have since been released.
Iran has experienced serious water problems for years, depriving people frequently of their human right to have adequate access to clean and safe water.
Khuzestan is one of the provinces that has been particularly affected by Iran’s water crisis.
Clean, safe water is crucial for human survival and health, and this is reflected in international human rights law, where access to adequate clean and safe drinking water is a key right.
Access to traditional water sources in rural areas should be protected from unlawful encroachment and pollution.” In her 2013 report, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation stated, "Human rights standards demand that States invest the ‘maximum available resources’ in water and sanitation sectors.

Dennis Capati / MGN IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI/KIDK) – Bonneville School District #93 officials found elevated levels of lead in the drinking water at Bonneville High School during a test conducted on July 3, 2018.
The lead level that requires public education and additional requirements is 15 parts per billion or 0.015 mg/L.
The level of lead tested at BHS’s water system is 0.035 mg/L.
The sink had not been used for some time, so officials said the high level of lead could be a simple function of the water sitting in place for an extended period of time.
Even though several tests also yielded acceptable results, officials are taking appropriate steps to ensure public safety and to remedy any problems prior to the start of the 2018-2019 school year.
As officials await the results of these tests, access to drinking water at Bonneville High School has been cut off.
Bottled water is available in the building for staff members and summer school students.
Students participating in clinics or camps are being asked to bring their own water to these events.
The district is cooperating with the DEQ to conduct further tests and to determine how to remedy the problem.
All previous samples collected at BHS have yielded acceptable results.

During a boil order, tap water must be brought to a rolling boil three minutes before being used in food preparation or for making beverages, such as coffee and tea.
In response to Monday morning’s water main break, Owensboro Health opened its emergency command center, canceled elective surgeries at Owensboro Health Regional Hospital and closed many of its medical offices and other facilities by noon.
Other OH closures included the Mitchell Memorial Cancer Center; family, rheumatology, occupational medicine and pediatrics clinics; and the business center on Frederica Street.
With the exception of endoscopies, it looked as though it would keep its surgery schedule, said Brian Hamby, OH director of marketing and public relations.
However, that changed about 11 a.m. with a drop in water pressure.
Owensboro Municipal Utilities instructed homes and businesses that still had access to tap water Monday to boil it for three minutes before preparing food or drink with it.
Green River District Health Department pulled staff from its seven-county region to visit area restaurants about the boil order and other sanitation issues related to water and food preparation, said Clay Horton, public health director.
Even restaurants with water pressure must provide hand sanitizer for staff and customers to use after washing hands.
The nursing home keeps almost 1,400 gallons of potable water on hand all the time, Whitlow said.
The maintenance staff also filled one-gallon jugs of water to send home with staff so they would be able to flush their toilets, too.

* Commissioner: I’m not aware of the project Francis Sardauna in Katsina The multi-million naira water project established by the administration of former governor of Katsina State, Ibrahim Shehu Shema, to cater for the residents of Kurfi Local Government has been abandoned by the present administration of Governor Aminu Bello Masari for about three years.
It was gathered that the water scheme is expected to supply water to the people of the area including some neighbouring communities, considering the fact that the communities still battle with scarcity of water while some don’t even have access to the precious commodity till date.
When THISDAY visited the site of the abandoned project, it was observed that the tanks and pipes now rot away in a shed erected five years ago.
However, some residents who spoke to THISDAY on Monday, called on the state government to come to their aid by renovating the abandoned water project.
A resident of the area, Muhammadu Kurfi, appealed to Governor Masari to urgently facilitate the renovation of the abandoned water project to enable the people of the area have access to potable drinking water.
The project if renovated would address water challenges facing residents of this local government.” Also, Iliya Garba, a resident of Gidan-Mallam, a community in Kurfi, described the challenge of not having drinking water by people in the area as pitiable and called on the appropriate authorities to intervene.
Garba said the only source of water in the area is a stream flowing in the community, which was not hygienic for consumption, stressing that the only way to touch the lives of people in any community is by providing social infrastructure and development.
According to him, “We go to river to fetch water which is unhygienic.
So we are appealing to the government to renovate the abandoned water project in Kurfi so that we can have potable water.’’ Another resident of the area, Hajiya Asebe Maigoro, said that the residents of the area have been neglected.
When contacted for comments, the state Commissioner for Water Resources, Alhaji Salisu Dandume, denied any knowledge of the project and directed THISDAY to come back on Wednesday for briefing.

More than a century ago, nearly everyone’s lives revolved around the mine.
The coal company built three terraced ponds to provide water to the workers of Stockton No.
Gravity fed the water down the hillside and to the homes and businesses that lined Stockton Road.
According to the EPA, the system "had no operator or responsible ownership since it was discovered about five years ago."
"All the people in this village took care of it and maintained it," said Kairewich.
That, Kairewich said, is how they found the deer carcass.
Pennsylvania ultimately spent $2.2 million via the federal Drinking Water State Revolving Fund to connect the Stocktons to Hazleton’s municipal water system.
"I was pushing for the water even though no one else was," Kairewich said, "because the water was dangerous.
Residents in the shadow of the old mines have faced water issues since taking over the system.Mark Pynes photo Daniels, meanwhile, is troubled by the Trump administration’s emphasis on private infrastructure funding–particularly if that means that federal State Revolving Fund dollars are cut.
Private companies, she said, likely won’t be looking to invest in smaller water systems.

When the Jamaica Observer visited the St Catherine West Central community last Friday residents expressed that the issue has been a long-standing one that is costing some of them more than $60,000 per month.
“I pay $21,000 every nine days for water.
I have to buy three truckloads of water, each at $7,000, every nine days to fill five tanks in order to be comfortable and operate my business,” said Neville Grant of N&D Farms in Dover district, Kitson Town.
Others without the income suffer bad, and from time to time will turn up with their buckets and ask for water, and I help out as best as I can,” Grant said.
However, this improved the water situation for only some areas in Kitson Town.
Today, running water is still not a reality for several areas of Kitson Town — including districts like Fletcher, Dover, Cherry, Content, Cottage, and Long Hill — that are now bearing the burden of being without a constant supply of the essential commodity.
Sometimes you call the truck for days and it doesn’t come on time.
Frissilla Lindsay, who also resides in Fletcher district, said she has been living in the area for more than 20 years and for the majority of the period she has been without piped water.
“I was born in 1948 and growing up we had piped water, but we have to be buying it now and it’s so funny that now, in modern times, we are not better off.
From I use water and am told this is what I consume, I don’t have a problem paying [an NWC] bill,” she continued.