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10 Dec 2008 - 14:49 by Local Press Report
BAKU, Azerbaijan (Azerbaijan Business Center) — The National Environmental Monitoring Department of the Azerbaijan Ministry of Environment & Natural Resources has found excessive levels of copper and phenols in the Kura and Arax transborder The c
10 Dec 2008 - 14:49 by Local Press Report
LONDON (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) — Syktyvkarskiy Vodocanal utility is inviting sealed tenders for the Syktyvkar Municipal Water Services Development Project. The tenders are for equipment for water pumping stations
10 Dec 2008 - 14:49 by Local Press Report
LONDON, Russia (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) — Municipal water utility Archangelsk Vodokanal plans to use a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for a project to improve sustainability of water and wastewater infrastruc
10 Dec 2008 - 14:49 by Local Press Report
SKOPJE, Macedonia (Mina (Canada)) — France is providing some $770,000 USD for the $25 million USD Municipal Services Improvement Project. The project aims to improve services delivered by the communal services enterprises in
10 Dec 2008 - 14:49 by Local Press Report
HUNGARY, BUDAPEST (Caboodle.hu (Hungary)) — Water prices will increase by more than 10 percent in many cities in Hungary. Prices are expected to rise 8.4 percent in Budapest. Nationwide , prices will rise an average of 6-7percent due in
10 Dec 2008 - 14:49 by Local Press Report
SOFIA, Bulgaria (FOCUS News Agency (Bulgaria)) — Rainfall in Bulgaria has dropped by 30 percent in the last 20 years. The country is ranked fifth in Europe in terms of per capita water supply, according to water expert Prof. Rumen Arsov.
10 Dec 2008 - 14:49 by Local Press Report
LONDON, Ukraine (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) — Municipal enterprise Dniprovodocanal is inviting tenders for the Dnipropetrovsk Municipal 'Water Services Development Project.
The tender is for leak detection equipment, including
10 Dec 2008 - 14:49 by Local Press Report
BAKU (APA (Azerbaijan)) — Normal drinking water supply has been restored Baku after water reservoirs were filled, according to Agshin Rustamov, public relations officer of the state utility Azersu.
10 Dec 2008 - 14:49 by Local Press Report
TURKMENISTAN, ASHGABAT (Turkmenistan.ru) — A meeting of European Union and Central Asia opened in Ashgabat last week with the goal of defining cooperation priorities in the sphere of environment and water management.
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BUCHAREST, Romania — Mineral water bottler Perla Harghitei has revised its estimated turnover for 2008 from $23.87 million USD, announced at the beginning of the year, to $21.36 million USD.
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Two radioactive tailings in the area of a former uranium plant in the Mailuu-Suu River Valley will be moved to a safer place next year in the framework of a project carried out by the
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Kazakhstan, ALMATY — Deficit of fresh water can lead to conflicts in Central Asia, Anatoly Ryabtsev, chairman of the Water Resources Committee at Kazakhstan's Agriculture
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
SOFIA, Bulgaria — Bulgaria will sign all contracts for assimilation of funds for projects worth some $651 million USD by the end of 2008, Minister of Environment and Water Dzhevdet Chakarov announced last month.
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Lithuania, VILNIUS — L ithuanian and Latvian environmental specialists are still trying to establish the cause of fish deaths in the rivers of northern and central Lithuania and southern Latvia.
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — A regional principle of using water and power resources has been lost in Central Asia, according to Kyrgyz Minister of Industry, Energy and Fuel Resources Saparbek Balkibekov.
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MOSCOW, Russia — R ussia's federal government and the authorities of the country's provinces have started implementing a number of international projects.
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
SKOPJE, Macedonia — A s it has undergone major growth over the last 10 years, the Macedonian capital, Skopje, has not yet found a solution for its drainage issues.
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
SOFIA, Bulgaria — Water purification and waste management projects worth some $667,000 USD will be carried out through the Operative Environment Program, Minister of Environment and Water Dzhevdet Chakarov said.
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
switzerland, DAVOS — The year 2008 will go down in the record books as the year of food, energy and economic crises. Yet there is another looming crisis that cuts across this universe of problems, and it
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BUCHAREST, Romania — Mineral water bottler Perla Covasnei will take out credits worth up to $3.76 million USD for acquisitions, investments and refinancing, the producer based in Sfantu Gheorghe, Covasna county
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Tajikistan, KULYAB — Several houses have been severely damaged due to the rise of groundwater level in the Village of Safarmad, in Khatlon province of Tajikistan.
Abdulkhamid Davlatzoda, a local resident
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
WARSAW, Poland — Polish state-controlled environmental protection bank BOS has so far granted over $678 million USD for loans for projects connected with water management.
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
SKOPJE, Macedonia — Prespa is the lake most polluted with pesticides in Macedonia, experts concluded at the end of a week of environmental debate in Skopje in November.
The major polluters of Prespa Lake are
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
ASTANA, Kazakhstan — The Kazakh cities of Karaganda and Ekibastuz are left without water and heat supplies in winter as the Satpaev Canal has not been prepared for work in the
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Lithuania, SIAULIAI — The municipality of Siauliai has issued a new tender for construction of water supply and wastewater management system in two regions of the city, to be announced in December.
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BUCHAREST, Romania — The Rivers Administration Authority (DGA) in Mehedinti county in western Romania, is the beneficiary of an external
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon has tasked municipal authorities with monitoring proper use of the allocated funds and ensuring the quality of rehabilitation and construction work.
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by Local Press Report
Lithuania, VILNIUS (Cambi AS) — Germany's WTE Wassertechnik GmbH together and Norway 's Cambi AS have signed a major order for construction of a sludge treatment plant for Vilniaus Vandenys, the municipal water and wastewater comp
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by Local Press Report
HUNGARY, BUDAPEST (Budapest Business Journal) — Hungarian Environment Minister Imre Szabou has hailed the announcement that a tannery in Wollsdorf Austria, had cut emissions of naphthalene 1.5-disulphonate discharged into the Raba river by 90 per
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by Local Press Report
UNITED STATE S, ALBUQUERQUE (MIOX Corporation) — Water treatment firm MIOX Corporation, has elected Michael J. Reardon to its board of directors. Reardon had been President and COO ofCulligan International, and was a co-founding
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by Local Press Report
HELSINKI, Finland (Newsdesk (Sweden)) — Members of the Helsinki Commission (HELCOM) are submitting a proposal to the International Maritime Organization to ban discharge of untreated sewage from passenger ships and ferries into the Baltic
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by Local Press Report
TEHRAN, Tajikistan (Tehran Times (Iran)) — Tajik President Imomali Rahmon and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad discussed expanding cooperation in water and other projects during Rahmon 's visit to Iran last week.
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by Local Press Report
BAKU (TodayAz (Azerbaijan)) — The Asian Development Bank will allocate $200,000,000 USD for infrastructural projects in Azerbaijan every year. In 2009 the funds would go toward modernization of water
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by Local Press Report
TASHKENT, Russia (Georgian Daily (Georgia) oosKAriews) — At a recent international conference in Tashkent, a Russian scholar proposed construction of a canal from the Arctic Ocean to the Persian Gulf. Damir Ryskulov, an expert on information systems and
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by Local Press Report
BAKU, Azerbaijan — Azerbaijan will allocate some $3.7 billion USD to develop the country's infrastructure in 2009, according to Minister of Economic Development Shahin Mustafayev. The funds would go toward
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by Local Press Report
BUCHAREST (Financiarul (Romania)) — The market for polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipe in Romania in 2009 is not expected to be affected by the global economic Emil loan Pop, general manager of RehauPolymer, predicts 10 to 15 percent growth
3 Dec 2008 - 14:48 by Local Press Report
BUCHAREST, Romania — Romania will resume work on a canal to connect the capital with the Danube River. The government will select a company to build the canal by mid-2010. The project is
19 Nov 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
RIGA, Latvia — ALatvia-financed water supply project has been successfully implemented in Afghanistan, the government said last week.
The Latvian foreign ministry had allocated
19 Nov 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Welcome to this week's issue of Weekly Water Report, Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union This note is to remind readers that we're taking) a week off next week.
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19 Nov 2008 - 14:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Ukraine, ODESSA — The Parliament of the Odessa region has asked the Ukrainian Cabinet to provide funds from the state budget to construct a canal from the Danube River to the Danube-Dniester irrigation system.
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