City is 'lurching from one water crisis to another'
DUBLIN is "lurching" from one water crisis to the next, it was claimed last night.As the city manager confirmed that restrictions affecting 1.5m people will be lifted on Thursday, councillors hit out at officials for their "lack of communication".
At a sometimes heated meeting of Dublin City Council, city manager Owen Keegan said there was still some way to go despite levels at the regional treated water storage plant increasing slightly.
He explained: "Water storage levels across the region have stabilised, with some increase over the last two days.
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Water Bills: Minister Urges Curb To Hikes
The Environment Secretary has urged water companies to "look closely" at whether price increases are necessary and urged them to introduce special tariffs for hard-pressed households.
In a letter to suppliers, Owen Paterson said they should recognise the financial strain that people were under.
The intervention came with Ofwat expected later this week to reject an application from Thames Water to increase bills by £29 in 2014-2015.
Government asks water companies to reconsider price hikes
(Reuters) - The government has written to the country's biggest water companies, asking them to reconsider looming price hikes given that households are already struggling to meet rising utility bills, it said on Tuesday.
Water companies such as Pennon, Severn Trent and privately-owned Thames Water were permitted by industry regulator Ofwat in a 2009 review to raise prices by an average of 0.5 percentage points above inflation in 2014 and 2015.
Los Angeles Water Supply May Not Be Enough In A Few Decades
A century ago, Los Angeles opened an epic waterway that ran 233 miles from the eastern Sierra to sate the thirst of its expanding city. But the L.A. Aqueduct wasn't enough.
Another line later tapped into the Colorado River, but it also wasn't enough to sustain the growth boom across Southern California. Yet another then dipped into the sensitive Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay Delta, but its southern stream now has been cut by a third.
The semiarid Southland imports more than half its water from hundreds of miles away through some of the modern world's largest aqueducts. But water officials now say that in the decades ahead, it may not be enough -- that more must be done to conserve and develop more water supplies here at home.
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