뉴욕 PSC(Public Service Commission)는 수에즈(Suez)가 보존 측정에 찬성하는 계획을 무산하며 지자체의 압력에 따라 1억5천만 달러 규모의 하버스트로(Haverstraw) 담수화 프로젝트 계획을 포기한다고 표명했다. PSC는 로클랜드(Rockland)에 제공하기 위한 허드슨(Hudsos)강의 대체 자원을 찾는 동안 보존 및 누출제의를 증대를 위해 수에즈의 계획을 승인했다.

 

이에 PSC의 의장인 Audrey Zibelman는 “위원회는 2006년에 처음으로 장기간의 물공급을 위해 기업에 처음으로 요청했으며, 종합적인 물절약 계획의 개발은 이후 공익사업에 의해 십년간 지역 사회의 요구를 충족하는 데 도움이 될 것”이라고 말했다. 그러나 PSC의 하버스트로 담수화 프로젝트는 지난 2014년 11월에 다른 수원이 필요 없다는 결론이 내려졌다.

 

 

 

The New York state Public Service Commission (PSC) has directed Suez, to abandon its US$ 150 million Haverstraw desalination project following local pressure to scrap the plan in favour of conservation measures.

 

The PSC has approved Suez's plan to step up conservation and leak control while seeking alternative sources of water to the Hudson River to supply the Rockland county.

 

PSC chairwoman, Audrey Zibelman, said, "Circumstances have changed since the commission first asked the company to develop a new long-term water supply in 2006. The development of a comprehensive water conservation plan by the utility and the community will help meet the needs of the community for the next decade."

 

The PSC put the Haverstraw project on hold in November 2014 after deciding that there was no need for another water source. A coalition of local environmental groups had petitioned the PSC to end the project. The protesters doubted that alternative measures had been adequately explored.

 

They asserted that the urgency for increase Rockland's water supplies had been overestimated by the Rockland supplier - Suez subsidiary, United Water which has since been rebranded as Suez. Founder of the coalition, George Potanovic, said the project was "unnecessary, expensive and not needed at least for ten years."

 

[출처 = Desalination & Water Reuse / 2015년 12월 21일]