Urgently need link to verify comments made recently ref.:

(paraphrasing)

15% of U.S. and Canadian water utilities won't be compliant and 30 million people, including residents of large municipalities, will be without safe drinking water."

-- Sara Nealy (keithn@aloha.net), April 15, 1999

Answers

...I'm sure you'll find it somewhere on that bastion of Gloomer Truth: worldnetdaily

-- Y2K Pro (2@641.com), April 15, 1999.

Well "Pro", you have kept your reputation intact with this latest post. You still haven't posted anything of value. Keep up the good (or bad, as the case may be) work!!!

-- Disgusted with Y2K Pro (disgusted@trolls.com), April 15, 1999.

Sarah:

It's 10% ....

The story you seek is at:

http://www.y2ktimebomb.com/Tip/Lord/lord9912.htm

More than thirty million people in the United States are likely to be without water after January 2000. Nearly two thirds of those affected will be in the big cities.

This bleak assessment was delivered during an American-Canadian meeting held on February 22, 1999 to discuss "Cross-Border Y2K Issues." At the meeting it was revealed that ten percent of large urban water suppliers in the United States are not expected to be Y2K compliant when the Year 2000 date transition occurs.

The minutes of the joint meeting indicate that John Koskinen, Chair of the President's Council on Y2K Conversion, " admitted that water is problematic."

A recent U.S. Senate report on Y2K indicates that, "Approximately seventy-five percent of the American public is served by (such) large community water systems. (Only)"eighty-nine percent of the community public water systems serving populations ranging from 100,000 to 1 million people expect to have Y2K compliance work completed on time."

The water situation for small and medium communities is even more grim. Nearly one fourth (23%) of the 51,000 such systems are not expected to achieve Y2K compliance in time according to information released at the joint American-Canadian conference.

These figures show that over nineteen million metropolitan users and eleven million rural users would be in jeopardy of not having sufficient water when the new year begins. Waste treatment, which depends on the availability of water, would also be at risk.

[SNIP!].... the rest of the article is at the above address...

Dan

-- Dan (DanTCC@Yahoo.com), April 15, 1999.

That link is http://www.y2ktimebomb.com/Tip/Lord/lord9912.htm.

It's a commentary by Jim Lord prompted by the "minutes" of the joint Canadian-American meeting. He doesn't quote the minutes directly, actually doesn't say very much about the meeting, and there's no link to them.

-- Tom Carey (tomcarey@mindspring.com), April 16, 1999.

Here is another tid bit along the same line

 

http:// www.usia.gov/current/news/geog/ar/99030903.lar.html?/products/washfile/ newsitem.shtml

09 March 1999

TRANSCRIPT: WHITE HOUSE'S JANET ABRAMS WORLDNET
ON Y2K ISSUE

(Interactive with Tegucigalpa, Managua, Salvador)  (6580)

Snip

Let me say that you've identified all the key sectors. One I would add
is water -- water supply. I'll note I've just come from a meeting this
morning that the United States is holding with Canada. We are having a
two-day session, a meeting with our neighbors to the north and our
neighbors to the south, and we'll have a trilateral meeting to wrap
up. And these sectors that you've identified -- the health care,
telecommunications, energy, civil safety -- those are certainly the
key ones. We would add national security. We would add water to that.
And I think you've got the key ones.

-- Brian (imager@ampsc.com), April 16, 1999.

Many thanks for the location scouting. You always come through.

If we do get to stay in touch via the internet post Y2K, it will be easier to bear whatever disruptions and aggravation(or worse) that will come our way.

BTW, didn't Buddy from Bell Atlantic sound like Y2K Pro in the beginning, too?

-- Sara Nealy (keithn@aloha.net), April 16, 1999.