Water bills are set to increase next month in some areas in Metro Manila and nearby provinces but will decline in others as water concessionaires prepare to adjust rates in reaction to movements in

Ongoing illegal fishing and trade in caviar in Romania and Bulgaria is threatening the survival of sturgeons in the Danube river basin finds a new report by WWF and TRAFFIC.

Statkraft has announced it will commence construction of the Devoll hydropower project in Albania.

The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) regional bloc has finally outlined the steps it plans to take to mediate the territorial dispute between member states Malawi and Tanzania over Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa.

Yerevan Jur, the water utility company serving the Armenian capital, last week announced it would reduce water tariffs by 5 percent. The move comes shortly after an announcement that prices in other parts of the country will increase, and has led to some political tension between the regions.

The Russian branch of international environmental NGO Greenpeace plans to carry out testing on the Moskva River’s water and to make the results -- as well as the names of the river’s polluters -- public.

Thousands of Peruvians farmers marched in protest on June 17 against US mining giant Newmont’s nearly $5 billion USD Conga project in Cajamarca department. The protesters fear they will lose their water sources to the mine’s operations, and so want the entire project shut down.

President Yoweri Museveni waded into the worsening row between Ethiopia and Egypt last week, criticizing the Egyptian government for making what he said were "chauvinistic and irrational statements" about Ethiopia’s controversial $5 billion USD Grand Renaissance Dam.

Rodolfo Ocampo, former director of Jalisco state’s troubled Intermunicipal Water and Sewerage System (SIAPA), has been arrested on charges of misappropriation of funds.