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NANAIMO —The District of Lantzville has triggered a 20-year water deal with the City of Nanaimo to serve the water-starved community.
Private well users can opt into the water system for a one-time hook-up fee of roughly $5,900.
Public opinions on both sides of the water debate raged on prior to the decision.
Upper Lantzville resident Paul Manhas said it’s critical he and his neigbours have access to safe and clean drinking water.
"It will either become unrecognizable due to major developments in three to four years, or we will have smelled the coffee and begun the process to amalgamate with the City of Nanaimo."
Lantzville Council implemented several new amendments to the deal, which was first struck in 2014.
“(Developers) have to source their own water, that’s what the new amended bylaw will actually do, is essentially block developers from accessing our water, unless Council resolves otherwise.” Opposed Coun.
He wanted the matter dealt with after the Oct. 20 municipal election.
“It will allow staff to advise Council on exactly where this water is going, how it’s going to be used,” an angered Coulson said.
reservoir.

Global Clean Water Shortage Water covers 70 percent of the earth.
Despite the concerted efforts being made, more than 844 million people around the world still have no access to clean drinking water.
Funds meant for aid, and relief projects are sometimes not efficiently utilized.
WaterCoin is a blockchain-based token that allows people from all over the world to donate money in support of clean water initiatives across the globe.
WaterCoin is a utility token in the truest sense of the word meaning that it can only be used within the clean water initiative ecosystem.
During the pilot project, one WaterCoin costs only $0.02, the price of the drinking water from water pipes.
The Narok, Kenya Pilot Project Established in Narok, Kenya, the BANKEX – Watercoin pilot project that provides potable water to families in the town via direct donor contributions from people around the world.
People from all over the world can donate by purchasing WaterCoins.
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(UTUADO, Puerto Rico) — Carmen Rodríguez Santiago counts herself lucky to have any water service at home.
Throughout Puerto Rico, electrical outages and faulty generators mean pumps don’t consistently deliver water to residents’ homes and operations are disrupted at water treatment plants.
Hurricane Maria’s destruction knocked out water service to over half of the residents using the island’s utility provider, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
The authority provides water to more than 97% of the island.
More than a third of sewage treatment plants were unable to function after the hurricane, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, resulting in raw sewage flowing into waterways residents used for drinking and bathing.
The results of that testing have not been released, according to the water authority.
Nearly 7 in 10 residents received water from a source that violated federal health standards, according to the report.
For the past eight months, she has walked a half-hour with her two children to a local water station maintained by the military to fill up plastic milk jugs for the family’s showers.
Kaiser Health News (KHN) is a nonprofit news service covering health issues.

The Milton-Freewater City Council unanimously voted Tuesday to authorize a $457,000 forgivable loan from the state to connect the trailer park to the city’s water system.
Inside the urban growth boundary but outside city limits, Locust Mobile Village has been in a protracted battle with the city to gain access to the municipal water system.
A year later, the Oregon Health Authority found a federal grant that would have covered the city’s cost of extending water lines, with the Umatilla County Board of Commissioners agreeing to act as the fiscal agent.
“I just want to thank Linda and staff for not folding or buckling to the county commissioners when they didn’t stand up for the city,” he said.
“And not buckling to the state (for) the disaster that no one will enforce their code over.
Balancing the budget required a few corresponding moves, including: • The council agreed to raise golf course rates 3 percent, but exempted student daily greens fees, student punch cards, golf cart barn rentals, and season passes from the increase.
The council also had the option of instituting an across-the-board rate increase, but the Milton-Freewater Golf Board recommended the more targeted raise.
The council voted 4-1 to raise the rates, with Humbert voting against.
• The council unanimously voted to increase electrical rates 3 percent and raise the service availability fee for commercial and industrial customers.
The council incorporated Pressnall’s recommendation into the motion and unanimously passed the fee increases.

GRANITE — More than 1,000 inmates and employees of an Oklahoma prison were without running water Sunday and Monday, leaving toilets unable to flush on their own and few showers available to use.
The Oklahoma Department of Corrections reported a water tower at Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite was discovered to be empty Sunday night.
Department spokesman Matthew Elliot said several pumps at a municipal water treatment plant were malfunctioning, which officials believe caused the issue.
As the tower’s water level dropped, so did water pressure inside the prison, causing every toilet to flush until the tower was empty.
The Oklahoma State Reformatory houses 1,028 prisoners.
The Corrections Department said they have access to drinking water with the use of two portable thousand-gallon water tanks.
“No issues are anticipated with drinking water for inmates or essential facility operations.
“The facility’s kitchen has running water, and food production has not been impacted.
“Staff are locating portable showers to use possibly tomorrow as the outage is likely to continue.
Some showers are operational at the facility, so inmates on work crews and food service can clean up.” The Oklahoma State Reformatory is 110 years old and is just one of Oklahoma’s aging prisons.

If you notice a large, blue ‘W’ in the window of your local grocery store or library, feel free to drop in and fill up your water bottle.
The sign means that businesses and organizations in the community are participating in a national tap refilling initiative called Blue W. As part of the first formal Blue W project in Manitoba, nine municipal governments within the Southern Health-Santé Sud region are partnering with Public Health-Healthy Living to bring the Blue W program to the area.
The first five to sign up are the cities of Morden, Winkler and Portage la Prairie, the Town of Niverville as well as the RM of Westlake‒Gladstone.
“We commend these municipalities as early adopters of the project,” says Healthy Living Facilitator Dianna Meseyton-Neufeld, who will be working to have the remaining communities onboard over the next few weeks.
“We want people to start recognizing what the Blue W is and what it means.
We hope that it will become a habit that people take their refillable water bottles wherever they go because they see water as a healthier beverage choice.
“Our municipal partners have great water resources and we want them to be recognized for the good services that they offer,” says Meseyton-Neufeld.
All of the 26,000 (and growing) Blue W filling sites across Canada are shown on a map at the bluew.org website, so anyone with a phone or other mobile device can easily find them.
Anyone can fill up their refillable water bottles with municipal tap water at these premises free.
The goals of the program are to help people make healthy choices for hydration, avoid single-use plastic and to appreciate the hard work of municipal water providers.

Steady winter rains over the last week have substantially eased Cape Town’s worst drought in a century, replenishing reservoirs for the western Cape region of South Africa to levels well above last year’s, officials said on Monday.
Dam levels have risen to 31.5 percent as of this week compared with just 21 percent the same time a year ago, said Rashid Khan, regional head at the water and sanitation department.
The drought has ravaged crops, hit tourist numbers and forced changes to consumption habits in Cape Town and surrounding areas as mandatory water restrictions were implemented.
We urge water users – domestic and industries – to continue using water sparingly,” he said, adding that it was too soon to ease a limit of 50 litres a day for domestic users, which has helped to halve consumption since 2016.
“We urge water users – domestic and industries – to continue using water sparingly,” he said, adding that it was too soon to ease a limit of 50 litres a day for domestic users, which has helped to halve consumption since 2016.
Day Zero explained Day Zero will be the start of active water rationing.
As far as possible, drinking water will continue to be supplied to some critical areas.
It also means that a portion of water collected from the distribution points will have to be used, for example, to flush toilets.
This will be impractical and hugely challenging at the very least.
Site selection is unlikely to be evenly distributed across the city because distribution sites will depend on existing water pipelines.

WASHINGTON, DC, JUNE 11, 2018 — The House has overwhelmingly approved the Water Resources Development Act of 2018 (H.R.
8), which authorizes improvements to the nation’s ports, inland waterways, locks, dams, flood protection, ecosystem restoration and other water resources infrastructure.
The House on Wednesday passed the bipartisan bill, titled the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2018.
The bill passed the lower chamber on a 408-2 vote, and authorizes the Army Corps of Engineers to sustain the nation’s water infrastructure.
"Construction, dredging and repairs to our vital marine transportation system will help ensure the reliability of the most affordable, energy efficient and environmentally sustainable mode of transporting agricultural products," American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall said in a letter to House members urging them to vote in favor of WRDA.
The Hill reports: The reauthorization, which Congress has recently taken up every two years, specifically calls for an analysis of the effects of moving the Corps’s civil work out of the Pentagon and into another agency or to a completely new entity.
It also offsets the cost of newly authorized water infrastructure efforts by deauthorizing idle projects.
The Senate is expected to take up its version of the legislation this summer.
The upper chamber’s Environment and Public Works Committee unanimously approved the bill last month.

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Zenner, a professor at Fordham and author of Just Water: Theology, Ethics, and the Global Water Crisis, and Agustinez, a tribal policy adviser for the California Department of Water Resources who has been named one of the nine experts to watch on California water policy, will unpack how water crises start and share some of the most important ones of today.
"People following the news have the opportunity to see that the availability of fresh water is not a given and is deeply wedded to the institutions society has built up," Zenner told mbg earlier this year for a story on California’s Central Valley, where 500,000 to 1 million people lack access to clean water.
As the global population continues to soar and climate change influences the world’s weather patterns, water access problems will likely worsen.
Agustinez has seen firsthand how water politics, weather patterns, and infrastructure converge to leave Native American communities in California without water.
This year on mbg, we have profiled an activist who is running 100 marathons in 100 days to shine a light on water access, learned from an all-female team sailing around the world to clean up our water, and seen how a new solar panel design can extract clean water out of thin air.