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4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BUCHAREST, Romania — The Romanian Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, the institution in charge of major investments
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BUCHAREST, Romania — In two years the city of Braila, located on the Danube River in eastern Romania, will have a new wastewater treatment plant worth $64 million USD, Mihail Chirita, general manager of Braila Water
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MOSCOW, Russia — The deputy director of Evrazisky utility, Dmitry Puzanov called on Russia's utilities to consolidate in order to lobby the parliament and government.
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
ASTANA, Kazakhstan — The $85.8 million USD first phase of the rehabilitation of the Syr Darya riverbed and the preservation of the northern part of the Aral Sea, initiated by Kazakh President Nursultan
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Poland, OPOLE — Poland's Ministry of Environment has accepted an application from the southwestern city of Opole to continue a wastewater management project. This decision gives Opole a good chance at an
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — Uzbek President Islam Karimov has asked Moscow to influence how a water dispute will be solved by its upstream neighbors, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
switzerland, DAVOS — T he world is heading toward "water bankruptcy" as demand for water outstrips population growth, the World Economic Forum has warned.
A new report by the Davos-based organization said many places
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BUCHAREST, Romania — The Romanian Ministry of Finance this month will give final approval for the construction company that will build a new wastewater treatment plant in Eforie Sud, Constanta county, according to
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
PANEVEZYS, Lithuania — T he Panevezys City Council has started discussions on the investment plan of Aukstaitijos Vandenys, a municipally-owned drinking water supply company.
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — c entral Asia may face a water deficit this year, as a result of last year's drought, Tajik Minister of Land Reclamation and Water Resources Saidi Yokubzoda said in late January.
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
CHJSINAU, Moldova — Moldova received a $14 million USD loan from the World Bank for the national project to improve water supply and drainage systems.
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
KIEV, Ukraine — u kraine's Ministry of Housing and Community Services has drafted a bill on centralized water supply to ensure the quality of drinking water.
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Russia, OMSK — T he government of Omsk region is implementing a plan to build two dams on the Irtysh River in order to raise the water level.
In recent years, the river has been growing shallower because of
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MOSCOW, Russia — Russian utility Rosvodocanal will invest $19.6 million USD in Ukraine's Luganskvoda utility in 2009, utility director general Victor Maslak said at the recent session of the Lugansk
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MOSCOW, Russia — T he contract between Russian utility Rosvodocanal and the Kaluga government has not been terminated, the company told OOSKAnews.
The utility said that while Governor of Kaluga Region Anatoly
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by Local Press Report
BAKU (Azerbaijan Business) — Azerbaijan is issuing a tender for a detailed feasibility study and tender documentation for 16 regions of the country as part of the World Bank Urban Water Supply & Sanitation Project II.
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by Local Press Report
KOSOVO, PRISTINA (New Kosova Report (Sweden)) — Kosovo's Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, and Ali Ahmeti of Macedonia's ethnic Albanian Democratic Union for Integration party discussed cooperation between Macedonia and Kosovo during a meeting in Pri
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by Local Press Report
BAKU, Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan Business) — Azerbaijan and the Japan Financial Corporation have completed preparations for a $260 million USD loan agreement for the water sector. Azerbaijan's Republic Ministry
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by Local Press Report
Kazakhstan, MOSCOW (Journal of Turkish Weekly (Turkey)) — The Eurasian Economic Community is working to address water problems in Central Asia, according to organization secretary general Tair Mansurov. Speaking at the "Eurasian Economic Community:
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by Local Press Report
YEREVAN (Public Radio of Armenia) — Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan met with a World Bank delegation headed by Regional Vice-President Shigeo Katsu to discuss cooperation with the World Bank and possible assistance with a stra
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by Local Press Report
LONDON, CROATIA (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) — The Zagreb Holding Company is inviting tenders for its Water and Sewer Investment Project: Package 1 A. The company will use part of the proceeds of a loan from
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by Local Press Report
YEREVAN, Armenia (Public Radio of Armenia) — The French Department of Hauts-de-Seine and the Fonds Armenien de France (the French affiliate of Hayastan AllArmenian Fund) have signed a convention setting up a program for agricultural developmen
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by Local Press Report
SOFIA, Bulgaria (The Sofia Echo (Bulgaria)) — Bulgaria's Sea Administration Executive Agency is starting two programs: one for Increasing Capacity for Preventing the Pollution of the Danube River with Oil and Other Harmful Substances, and one f
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by Local Press Report
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty (Czech Republic)) — Tajikistan has expressed concern over statements by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on construction of hydropower stations in Central Asia. Medvedev said during a
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by Local Press Report
BAKU (Azerbaijan Business Center) — Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources inspections in Geychay, Ujar, Zardab, Kurdamir in 2008 found numerous violations of environmental laws. The ministry drafted 10 deeds
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by Local Press Report
SLOVAKIA, BRATISLAVA (The Slovak Spectator (Slovakia)) — Slovakia will take over presidency of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) for 2009. Ol'ga Srshovd, general director of the water and energy
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by Local Press Report
BAKU (Trend News Agency (Azerbaijan)) — The State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan (SOFAZ) has allocated $149.7 million USD for reconstruction of the SamurAbsheron irrigation system. It allocated $262.8 million
4 Feb 2009 - 14:46 by Local Press Report
Macedonia, STIP (M1NA (Canada)) — The drinking water in Probistip is polluted due to the increase in underground water in the well system in Ratavice. The problem occurred after
28 Jan 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BUCHAREST, Romania — Over 100,000 Romanians will benefit from about $95 million USD worth of investments in the water supply and sewage networks in Olt county, southern Romania.
28 Jan 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BUCHAREST, Romania — Almost $5 million USD will be spent starting this year to rehabilitate river beds of the Cosustea, Topolnita and Racovat Rivers in Gorj counties.
The works will also include construction
28 Jan 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan's national electric company has warned of a possible water deficit threatening the entire Central Asia region due to production of electricity at the Nurek and Kayrakkum
28 Jan 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — Termination of the Turkmen power transit to Tajikistan via Uzbekistan "can create serious water problems in the countries located in the lower basins of Amu-Darya and Syr-Darya
28 Jan 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MOSCOW, Russia — Chelyabinsk's mayor on January 21 approved a project to rehabilitate the part of the Miass River that flows through the city.
Today the river's water is of low quality,
28 Jan 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MOSCOW, Russia — On January 21, Governor of Kaluga Region Anatoly Artamonov ordered his aides to terminate the agreement between the regional government and Rosvodocanal Group, which had
28 Jan 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Poland, GDANSK — l\pj n agreement has been signed for the first stage of a major roject to prevent floods in Zulawy, in northern Poland.
28 Jan 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MOSCOW, Russia — Russia's water supply systems are not ready for the negative consequences of global climate change because the government does not pay enough attention to the problem, said Rosvodocanal Group
28 Jan 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan has offered Russia 49 percent in the Kambarata-1 hydroelectric plant on the Naryn River, but Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has insisted on a 50 percent stake
28 Jan 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — The International Fund to Save the Aral Sea is starting two projects in the region aimed at creating ponds in the Amu Darya River's delta and at growing plants on what used to be
28 Jan 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BUCHAREST, Romania — Pepsi Americas Romania, local bottler of Pepsi and other beverages including mineral water, has investment plans worth $10 million USD to increase the production capacity of its factory
28 Jan 2009 - 14:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MOSCOW, Russia — The draft Clean Water program may be submitted to the government for approval in the first quarter of 2009, but it is not likely to be implemented before 2010,
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