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The Queensland State Government will spend $125 million on early works to ensure South East Queensland’s water supply even if all-time record low rainfalls continue, Acting Premier Paul Lucas said. Mr Lucas said preliminary works including site selection, surveying, water modelling, environmental studies and geotechnical works would begin shortly on two mobile desalination plants and further expansions to South East Queensland Water Grid projects. “By starting work straight away, up to an extra 144 megalitres (ML) a day in contingency supplies can be added to the region by the end of next year,” Mr Lucas said.
Serving the most highly regulated industry in the world, RDSI Banking Systems has selected Neverfail to protect the more than $12 billion in total banking assets for its 70 community banking partners. RDSI relies upon Neverfail for Microsoft Exchange and Neverfail for Microsoft SQL Server to ensure continuous availability and disaster protection for its business-critical email and data. "There is no downtime in banking," said Jeremy Cullen, infrastructure specialist at RDSI. "Our client banks are dependent on us to provide key uninterrupted processing and email services for them and their customers, as well as house transactions for regulatory compliance. With our successful implementation, we've been able to decrease the time needed to complete our disaster recovery project from three years to 12 months." http://www.neverfailgroup.com
Ian Bremmer, the president of Eurasia Group, has outlined what he sees as the top political risks for 2008. Read the PDF
FEMA has announced that federal disaster aid has been made available for Iowa to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the area struck by a severe winter storm during the period of December 10-11, 2007.
http://www.fema.gov/news/event.fema?id=9206
FEMA daily SITREP
World weather impacts
Floods hit Southern Africa
•Date: 8th January 2008• Region: Various
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