FOLLOWING numerous complaints, Aena is set to force stores to reduce the prices of bottled water in all of Spain’s airports.
According to reports, the airport manager will ensure that all vending machines and convenience stores provide small bottles of water for a maximum price of one euro.
Shops will have to provide 33 centilitre bottles whereas vending machines must stock half-litre bottles for the same price.
Currently 19 stores in seven airports – Madrid-Barajas, Palma de Mallorca, Bilbao, Tenerife Sur, Santiago, Vigo and Girona-Costa Brava – follow the new rules, with another 16 in the process of changing their prices in Madrid-Barajas, Alicante-Elche, Valencia, Barcelona-El Prat and Malaga-Costa del Sol.
134 vending machines in six airports – Tenerife Sur, Gran Canaria, Fuerteaventura, Leon, Vitoria and Salamanca – provide the half-litre bottles and going forwards all machines must have at least 50 per cent of the water on offer in them at the new price.

Representatives from Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Risk Management, PDC Engineers, R&M Consultants and Shannon & Wilson, Inc. will be in attendance.
From 4:30-5:15 p.m., presentations will be given by PDC Engineers and R&M Consultants to outline their involvement.
From 5:15-7 p.m., representatives from state agencies will answer one-on-one questions.
For affected properties to be hooked up to College Utilities, individual property owners must file with the Division of Risk Management, according to a news release from Fairbanks International Airport.
On Oct. 27, the airport was alerted to the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, PFAS, in ground water at the Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting Training Areas.
Four of six wells tested had concentrations higher than the Environmental Protection Agency health advisory level of 70 parts per trillion.
Of the 158 business and residential wells adjacent to the airport that have been tested, 58 exceed the health advisory limit, 92 have tested below the level and 44 have shown no signs of PFAS, according to the release.
Fairbanks International Airport is the third Interior Alaska location to discover PFAS contamination.
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Greensboro officials seeking the source of a potentially harmful, drinking water contaminant are focused on a relatively small area that includes Piedmont Triad International Airport and its immediate surroundings.
“They are legacy sites that have been used for firefighting training over the decades,” said Drew, director of Greensboro’s department of water resources.
In addition to training drills, instances where the foam might have accumulated in that area include crashes involving tanker trucks and long forgotten industrial fires or spills.
In 2002 the only major U.S. manufacturer voluntarily agreed to phase out production of PFOS.
So no action was required of Drew and Borchers other than to alert state and federal regulators to their finding, which they did.
PFOS levels at the city’s other water treatment plant on Lake Townsend have not been so problematic.
The city’s most recent round of tests in November found that water from the plant contained PFOS at 43 ppt and its sister compound at 7.2 ppt.
Sister Chemical PFOS limits are often set in combination with its sister chemical, PFOA (perfluoroctanoic acid) that has been a major component of Teflon cooking surfaces and many other consumer products.
EPA’s 70 ppt health advisory for drinking water applies to both compounds either alone or in combination.
Water sources contaminated by PFOS have been associated with releases from manufacturing sites, industrial sites, fire/crash training areas, and industrial or municipal waste sites where products are disposed of or applied.

Without rain, Cape Town could run out of water by July 9, city authorities predict.
Will I be able to flush my hotel toilet and have a shower?
Sisa Ntshona, who heads the tourism marketing arm of South Africa’s government, has the answer you’d expect: Tourists — who support an estimated 300,000 jobs in South Africa’s Western Cape province — should come but they should be prepared to help out and "Save like a local," as the slogan goes.
"How do we recalibrate the norm for global tourism?"
Tourist cash For Cape Town, keeping tourists flowing through the city is an urgent priority.
"If South Africa falls off the tourism radar screen globally, to get it back on will take so much attention and focus," he said.
Bookings for the first quarter of the year have so far not fallen, Ntshona and Nadasen say, though they have been fielding inquiries from worried potential visitors.
Tourism officials are well aware of the potential threat, however.
Organizers of dozens of big conferences held in Cape Town each year are making plans to ship in water from other less thirsty parts of the country, Ntshona said.
But, regardless, "we need to recalibrate our relationship with water as a country," Ntshona said.

Columnist David McKay Wilson talks about changes in the plan for Westchester County Airport since George Latimer took over as county executive. FiOS Westchester has discovered groundwater contamination at the county airport, with officials suspecting it was caused by chemicals used in firefighting foam decades ago. Preliminary results from one monitoring well, located near a former Air National Guard septic field, found contaminants in concentrations that were 14 times the limit set by the US Environmental Protection Agency health advisory. The airport borders the Kensico Reservoir, which provides drinking water to New York City and some Westchester residents. Most residents in nearby Greenwich, Connecticut, get their water from reservoirs in town managed by Aquarion Water Co., although some rely on private wells. Tests of the Kensico Reservoir have found no evidence that the contamination has seeped into the water supply, a state official said. “We had a few high hits on some wells,” said Vincent Kopicki, the county’s commissioner of public works and transportation, at the Jan. 24 meeting of the county Airport Advisory Board. The contamination was detected at a well just north of the airport in July 2017, which led to testing of wells across the airport property. Samples taken in November found contamination at the airport, with the public notified of the findings at the Jan. 24 meeting of the Westchester Airport Advisory Board. Investigators want to determine which direction the contamination is flowing — to the west toward the Kensico Reservoir, or to the southeast, toward public wells in Greenwich. The EPA sets safe drinking water standards of 70 parts per trillion….

Neighbor wants conditions for Great Barrington airport permit, future expansion.
GREAT BARRINGTON — As Berkshire Aviation tries to get town approval for three new hangars at Walter J. Koladza Airport, one opponent is doubling down.
"The special permit [request] gives the town leverage," he said.
Fasteau submitted a list of conditions to the Select Board, which he sought to attach to a special permit for zoning compliance, ahead of Monday’s continued public hearing.
It needs approvals before it can build the hangars in its residential/agricultural zone off Seekonk Cross Road and Route 71.
The Planning Board will have to approve all of this if the Select Board approves the special permit.
His conditions would require the town do an environmental assessment.
In the list of conditions, Fasteau explains that his well water tested well above Environmental Protection Agency standards for lead.
Fasteau is also asking that Berkshire Aviation only use unleaded fuel, a request Krentza said he is willing to consider.
Some smaller airplanes require leaded fuel to prevent engine problems.

That bottle of water may soon cost a little more at DFW Airport.
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What we found is indeed, the market had increased their prices and it did warrant us to be able to increase our prices,” said Zenola Campbell, vice president of airport concessions.
Campbell said the airport found the market average for bottled beverages was $2.47.
Other airports, including Dallas Love Field, New York’s JFK and Miami, charge more, from $2.79 in Los Angeles to $3.39 in Chicago.
“One of the biggest comments from our customers is ‘more power,’ ” airport assistant vice president of customer experience Kevin Smith told the committee.
American Airlines also recently added media tables at some gates that include power charging outlets for customers.
The full board will consider both the bottled beverage price increase and power outlet contract at its Thursday meeting.
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