Asks PHE Department to ensure dependable access to safe drinking water to every household Web Admin 5 Dariya News Advisor to the Governor, Khurshid Ahmed Ganai, today reviewed the water supply position during a meeting with senior officers of the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department of Kashmir Division.Chief Engineer, PHE, Kashmir, Mr. Abdul Wahid, Special Secretary, PHE/ I&FC, Mr. Majid Drabu, Director Planning, PHE/ I&FC, Mr. Mohammad Yousuf, Superintending Engineers of all Ranges and Executive Engineers of all Divisions of Kashmir Zone attended the meeting.In his opening remarks, the Advisor emphasized upon sustained efforts to harness the State’s abundant water resources in order to provide safe drinking water to every household.
He said the performance of the engineers will be linked to the success of the schemes they execute on ground so that accountability is restored in the system.While taking detailed range-wise appraisal of the water supply position, Ganai stressed upon a well-thought out strategy before framing modalities of new water supply schemes, in particular relating to source depletion and long-term viability.The Advisor passed on-spot instructions to draw ‘Quick Action Plans’ and ‘Response Teams’ to meet any eventuality on account of water shortage, especially in rural areas where the people usually face the brunt.
“We receive a lot of complaints (of water shortage) during public hearing from rural pockets.
These complaints must be redressed on priority,” he stated.Ganai asked Chief Engineer PHE to ensure that all technical processes are completed before water is supplied to the habitations.
"Random checking of various schemes can be introduced to check quality of water and plug holes," he added.Asking SEs to undertake extensive tours of their respective ranges, the Advisor noted with concern some complaints received about contamination of drinking water, especially in North Kashmir districts.
He asked the Chief Engineer to remove all dry latrines from the river banks and seek facilitation of district administrations wherever required.Ganai also passed directions to accelerate access to quality water supply in all schools, anganwadicentres and essential services like hospitals and hotels.
He also indicated at introducing Rainwater harvesting across the state by replicating the model adopted by Rajasthan, which is a water-depleted state.Later, the Chief Engineer briefed the Advisor about various ongoing works and apprised him about issues related to fund constraints which are hampering work on certain critical projects.
He also briefed the Advisor about the mechanism devised to complete all languishing projects in the Kashmir Division.The SEs and Executive Engineers also gave detailed presentations about ongoing schemes and developmental works in their respective.
They informed the Advisor Ganai about water-deficient areas in their jurisdiction and steps taken to address the bottlenecks.

After test results evaluating all water sources, from sinks to fountains, for 16 schools showed higher-than-acceptable levels of the chemicals last month, the Detroit public schools community district announced it was turning off the water at all its schools.
The latest results come on the heels of previous tests from 2016 and spring 2018 that revealed elevated copper and lead levels, bringing the total number of schools with water quality issues to 34 out of the 106 Detroit currently operates.
That doesn’t make sense for ensuring the safety of children.” The shutdown of water fountains doesn’t apply to charter schools, but Detroit’s mayor, Mike Duggan, intends to initiate “the same level” of water quality testing at those schools, Vitti said.
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The Detroit Federation of Teachers, the local arm of the American Federation of Teachers union, supported the superintendent’s decision.
Older drinking water fountains are “a known source of lead exposure”, said Stuart Batterman, a professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health.
Detroit public schools have suffered from years of underfunding.
Vitti said: “The infrastructure of the public school system has been neglected, and this is an example of it.
“After 10 years of emergency management, there is a lot of work to be done, across, let’s say, 90% of our school buildings to get ceiling tiles, basic heating and cooling,” she said.
“This is not a new problem,” said Batterman, adding that it had been a known issue since the 1991 Lead and Copper Rule, which requires public water suppliers to monitor drinking water for lead.

“I provide water to so many people.
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‘I don’t drink that water’ Residents in Consejo and neighboring Viví Arriba are mostly elderly and low-income.
López Bonilla’s concrete box, which serves seven families, is connected to a spring by 2,500 feet of pipes.
Another 24 tanks operated by neighbors serve the rest of the community.
But an estimated 170 neighborhoods — which includes about 140,000 families — use water from wells, springs and streams, according to Environmental Protection Agency data provided by water engineer Ferdinand Quiñones.
These community systems are called Non-PRASA, and they’re loosely supervised by the Puerto Rico Department of Health.
Many had never been tested before, he said.
Locals resist change In parts of Utuado, Tamar said it was a challenge to get residents to understand the risks of drinking water from springs — even though most of the natural sources, in his view, were not reliable enough to use for drinking water.
“This will be hanging over Puerto Rico for the foreseeable future — whether natural or manmade problems — we may very well end up at where we were during Hurricane Maria,” Tamar said.

Irish Water and Louth County Council have stated this afternoon that they are working with the ESB to restore power to the Workhouse Hill Pumping station that supplies water to Dunbin reservoir as soon as possible.
The power outage which occurred as a result of Storm Ali has stopped water from being pumped to the reservoir and it is impacting water supply to 3,000 customers in Dunbin, Courtbane, Shelagh, Rathmor, Kilkerley, Stonetrough, Knockbridge Rd, Little Ash and surrounding areas in County Louth.
The supply to Dunbin and surrounding areas is currently solely dependent on storage in the reservoirs.
"We can confirm that ESB is prioritizing restoring power to the water supply infrastructure", said Irish Water in a statement this afternoon.
Bottled Water Supply is available at the following locations from noon onwards: – Kilkerley Community Centre – Philipstown Pump House located close to Callans Bar & Restaurant "Irish Water is encouraging customers to conserve water so as not to deplete our reservoirs while power is being restored.
We are urging customers to conserve water by not running taps, taking showers instead of baths and to refrain from using dishwashers and washing machines."
It is expected that water supply will return to normal by 5pm this evening.
The latest updates are posted to our supply and service section on our website www.water.ie and on Twitter @IWCare.
The Irish Water customer care helpline is open 24/7 and customers can call us on 1850 278 278.

TIRUVANANTHAPURAM : The city zoo which has been grappling with water scarcity for the past few days has finally been able to breathe easy.
The water supply which was partially hit for close to two and a half days, has been restored.
“By Monday night we were able to get water.
The past two days were extremely taxing for us.
Had they at least provided water in the night, we would have been able to tide over the situation.
Now everything is back to normalcy,” says Zoo superintendent T V Anil Kumar.
The pipeline which feeds the zoo store, canteen and which supplies drinking water to the enclosures of the monkeys was hit.
Although water has started coming in, the Kerala Water Authority has said that the issue has not been sorted out completely.
We are still working on it and have not been able to identify the cause.
We have observed a shortage in one of the lines and a team of four are working on resolving it,” says superintending engineer Suresh Chandran.

ISLAMABAD: Senators on Monday were concerned after it emerged that solid waste and sewerage was being dumped into the Rawal Lake, either directly or indirectly, which could endanger those consuming water supplied from it.
Senator Ayaz noted that the Rawal Dam, which serves as a water supply reservoir, was being contaminated by toxic water which drains into the lake.
Committee members noted that waste from the Rawal Lake Park was also dumped into the lake which further contaminates the water in the reservoir.
She detailed how it had been working as an attached department of the Climate Change Ministry following the promulgation of the Pakistan Environmental Protection Ordinance 1983.
Moreover, 54 notices were issued to offenders and polluters, violators of the act.
Shah, however, noted that they lacked sufficient human resource for monitoring of hospitals and the method of waste disposal.
Since 2004, they have received 92 cases for petrol pumps of which 81 were approved.
For CNG stations, all 133 applications received were approved.
Senator Ayaz asked why EPA had been created if it did not have the facilities and human resources to do its job.
Climate Change Ministry Secretary Khizer Hayat said that they were making efforts to achieve the set targets as per international conventions and treaties.

Irish Water has initiated a major project to secure drinking water supply in the Greater Dublin Area by linking the Leixlip Water Treatment Plant with the Saggart Reservoirs.
The work will result in greater connectivity between water supplies so Irish Water can access different sources at different times of the year and during extreme weather events to help ensure a more secure and resilient water supply.
Irish Water is investing over €35 million in the Leixlip to Saggart Water Main Project, which will involve the construction of a 6.8km pipeline and pumping station.
Irish Water engineer William McKnight said “The size and scale of this project is really significant and is of real strategic importance to Greater Dublin Area.
"Once completed, the new pipeline will increase Irish Water’s ability to distribute treated drinking water in the Greater Dublin Area and the surrounding region.
"This is a huge advantage to consumers and Irish Water, particularly during extreme weather events, likes the storms last winter or the drought this summer.
It will increase the security of the water supply for homes and businesses alike.”

By Thomas Goldsmith, North Carolina Health News Flooded state roads caused by Hurricane Florence meant that Wilmington was cut off from land routes Sunday, leaving the port city of 120,000 on the brink of closing its water plant because of waning fuel supplies.
“We are having a lot of road access issues into and out of the county,” said New Hanover County communications and outreach coordinator Jessica Loeper on Sunday.
“We … had a closure on U.S. 74 in Columbus County,” Trogdon said.
According to University of North Carolina system President Margaret Spellings, students who had evacuated from UNC Wilmington were unable to return to campus due to the closed roads.
New Hanover County officials initially said the water utility plant was running out of fuel because of the road closings, potentially affecting health and public safety.
“We’re having some calls about this, but I think most of our residents were prepared not to have water and not to have power for several days,” she said.
‘No immediate threat’ But by early afternoon Sunday, the utility offered a more reassuring picture.
There is no immediate threat to water service disruption.” State officials said efforts are also underway to reach Wilmington through its access to the Cape Fear River and the Atlantic Ocean.
“We’re … working other contingencies to support Wilmington on the ocean side,” Trogdon said.
Hospitals and other health-care providers had emergency plans in place and were not reporting problems Sunday, Loeper said.

SOUTH KINGSTOWN — An investigation into the source of an E. coli contamination is expected to be completed today after the bacteria was detected last week in the water supply that feeds five local water systems, the Rhode Island Department of Public Health (RIDOH) has said.
A boil water advisory was put in place by RIDOH in parts of South Kingstown and Narragansett Friday after Suez Water—which feeds several local water systems—learned during weekly testing that its water supply had been contaminated with E. coli.
Deb Rizzi, a spokesperson for Suez Water, added the advisory will likely remain effective through the weekend.
“We just want to thank people for their patience and their cooperation.” South Kingstown Town Manager Rob Zarnetske said Tuesday it’s been “a hectic few days” dealing with the advisory.
“The issue primarily has been that the advisory was issued late on the Friday immediately before the start of the Labor Day weekend,” he said, “which was impactful for all of the restaurants and businesses in the area and hit us at a time when folks were leaving for vacation.” Approximately 38,000 residents who get their water from the Suez, Narragansett-Point Judith, Narragansett-North End, South Kingstown-South Shore and South Kingstown-Middlebridge systems have been impacted by the advisory.
He said though that he had heard Thursday about water samples in South Kingstown that had tested positive for E. coli.
School staff members also helped distribute water bottles to the schools.
In a post to the district’s Facebook page, South Kingstown Superintendent Kristen Stringfellow wrote that “out of an abundance of caution” water access in the restrooms at Matunuck, Peace Dale and Wakefield elementary schools would be restricted.
West Kingston Elementary School was not affected by the boil water advisory.
“We will all get through this,” Manni said.

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