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11 Apr 2013 - 09:56 by Local Press Report
WROCLAW (4-Traders) — Grontmij, a design, engineering and management firm, will contribute to an extensive program centered around the city of Wroclaw to protect an estimated 2.5 million inhabitants from frequent floo
11 Apr 2013 - 09:50 by Local Press Report
YEREVAN (Asbarez) — The American University of Armenia’s (AUA) School of Public Health and the AUA Acopian Center for the Environment have partnered with two Armenian governmental ministries to develop an inventory
10 Apr 2013 - 08:09 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Russia, KHABAROVSK — Genadij Nikanorov,director of the Garovskij Water Abstraction company in the Khabarovsk region of Russia’s Far East is being arraigned on charges of abuse of power.
10 Apr 2013 - 07:54 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Ukraine, SIMFEROPOL — Water from the Dnieper River has been released ahead of schedule to fill reservoirs in Crimea and supply the Ukrainian peninsula with irrigation and drinking water, regional authorities said last w
10 Apr 2013 - 09:35 by Local Press Report
SOFIA (Novinite,com) — Water prices in Sofia will be reduced by slightly over 4%, according to Milena Milanova, member of Bulgaria's State Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (DKEVR). Milanova, as cited by
10 Apr 2013 - 09:32 by Local Press Report
SHYMKENT (4-Traders) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is increasing the amount of financing for modernisation of the wastewater treatment facilities in the city of Shymkent, in southern Kazakhstan
9 Apr 2013 - 07:42 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Russia, VLADIVOSTOK — A privatization bid by the vodokanal (water company) in Russia’s Primorsky Krai province may be halted due to a new proposed federal law on water supply and wastewater treatment.
9 Apr 2013 - 07:41 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan’s Financial Crime Investigation Service (KFCIS) is looking into the country’s nearly completed Taza Suu water sector upgrade project for evidence of possible wrongdoing.
9 Apr 2013 - 09:23 by Local Press Report
BAKU (Azerbaijan Business Center) — Caspian international exhibition & forum "Water Treatment Technologies” CATEF 2013 will be held in Baku on 11-13 April. OJSC Azersu (Azerbaijan’s national water operator) reports that CA
9 Apr 2013 - 10:05 by Local Press Report
DOLJ (Bloomberg ) — Cia de Apa Oltenia SA, a Romanian utility, awarded a $7 million USD contract for water and sewage infrastructure upgrades in Bailesti in the southern county of Dolj to Grup Primacons SRL, according
9 Apr 2013 - 09:56 by Local Press Report
SHKODER (ABC news) — Albanian authorities say continuous rainfall is hampering efforts to address severe flooding that has left hundreds of homes swamped and without electricity or drinking water for the past three w
8 Apr 2013 - 07:52 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MOSCOW, Russia — A new position paper from the Russian Federal government has suggested the country needs to develop a coherent strategy to counter the threat of cyber-attacks on infrastructure, with specific empha
8 Apr 2013 - 07:49 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
PARIS, France — Participants at the first meeting of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Water Governance Initiative agreed that they wanted to see three major outcomes from the init
8 Apr 2013 - 08:56 by Local Press Report
SOFIA (novinite.com) — Code yellow has been declared Monday in Bulgaria due to heavy downpours, the National Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BAS, has announced. Code yel
8 Apr 2013 - 08:54 by Local Press Report
LONDON (Press TV) — In a report released Sunday on the eve of the International Roma Day (April 8), Amnesty urged the 27-member bloc to impose sanctions on the member states that refuse to halt their illegal practices
5 Apr 2013 - 10:06 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Moldova, CHISINAU — Moldova’s National Ecological Fund is allocating $33 million USD for 79 projects aimed at improving water supply and wastewater systems throughout the country, Acting Minister of Environment Gheo
5 Apr 2013 - 09:08 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s Zielona Gora municipality will tender construction contracts this year for a project to expand its sewage network by 35 kilometers, local water utility ZWiK said in a statement this week.<
5 Apr 2013 - 09:37 by Local Press Report
SOFIA (novinite.com) — Bulgarians gathered in the northeastern town of Dobrich to protest against the potential use of the hydraulic fracturing technology in neighboring Romania. The moratorium on the exploration
5 Apr 2013 - 09:35 by Local Press Report
ST. PETERSBURG (UPI) — Russia's push to create public-private partnerships as a way to help clean up the polluted Baltic Sea is the focus of an environmental summit in St.
4 Apr 2013 - 08:40 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The government of Kyrgyzstan has started negotiating with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) over funding for water supply and wastewater rehabilitation projects for the
4 Apr 2013 - 08:10 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan — Kazakhstan’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs Erlan Idrissov last week travelled to both Tajikistan and Uzbekistan to act as a negotiator between the two nations over the controversial Rogun Hydropo
4 Apr 2013 - 09:19 by Local Press Report
SKOPJE (Hydro World) — Macedonian company Sol Hydropower has launched the construction on the Bistrica river, in the country's northwest, of the first of four planned small hydro power plants (SHPPs), the economy minis
3 Apr 2013 - 08:08 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Ukraine, SEVASTOPOL — Ukrainian authorities plan to start supplying the Black Sea city of Sevastopol with water from the Dnieper River this week.
3 Apr 2013 - 09:25 by Local Press Report
BAKU (Azerbaijan Business Center) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) continues to prepare for the beginning of twinning- support program, proposed to national water operator of Azerbaijan, Azersu OJSC. The Baku-based ADB resid
3 Apr 2013 - 09:20 by Local Press Report
MOSCOW (bsr-Russia) — A Greenpeace activist wearing a polar bear costume paddled down a river in Russia Monday to protest potential oil drilling in the Arctic. At around 10 a.m., the protester used an iceberg-loo
2 Apr 2013 - 08:47 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Ukraine, DONETSK — A devastating explosion and fire at a wastewater treatment plant in Donetsk on March 30 has raised concerns in the area about the risk of catastrophes at other such facilities.
2 Apr 2013 - 08:37 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MOSCOW, Russia — Reacting to the rapidly rising public service tariffs throughout the country, Russian Duma (Parliament) member and chairman of the Audit Committee Sergeij Stepashin has proposed a freeze on “any
2 Apr 2013 - 09:24 by Local Press Report
2 Apr 2013 - 09:20 by Local Press Report
BUCHAREST (Act Media) — Romanian National Waters Administration (ANAR) will take part as a partner in the implementation of the SEE RIVER regional project to be completed in 2014, with the main purpose of it being the sus
1 Apr 2013 - 00:06 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Water rates will increase in the northern Kyrgyz city of Karabalta to allow local authorities to pay back a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Mayor Daniyar Shab
1 Apr 2013 - 00:07 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MOSCOW, Russia — The Russian government and state-owned oil pipeline company Transneft on March 27 offered journalists in the Russian Far-East a tour of the environmental protection facilities attached to a new oil
1 Apr 2013 - 08:23 by Local Press Report
KYIV (Ukraine News Agency) — Ukraine's water reservoirs have enough capacity to cope with melted snow water, however there still can be local flooding, including in Kyiv, Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Vilkul has said. "
1 Apr 2013 - 10:16 by Local Press Report
TASHKENT (Trend News Agency) — Tariffs for natural gas sold to the public in Uzbekistan increased by 14 percent, for the central heating, hot and cold water supply - by 13.5 percent, electricity - by 7.4 percent from April 1.&nb
29 Mar 2013 - 07:34 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Russia, VORONEZH — The Russian city of Voronezh, which has suffered several years of press over its water infrastructure, announced on March 25 that the microbial content of drinking water provided to residents has f
29 Mar 2013 - 07:35 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Ukraine, KHARKOV — Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers on March 26 adopted a new revitalization program for the country’s troubled economy.
29 Mar 2013 - 09:34 by Local Press Report
LJUBLJANA (UPI) — Slovenia, which has some of most abundant fresh water supplies in Europe, should develop new strategies to preserve and protect them, ministers said this week. Slovenian President Borut Paho
29 Mar 2013 - 09:25 by Local Press Report
BRUSSELS (Energy Live News) — Countries across Europe are failing the EU environmental standards for water, which could result in taxpayers paying more than €1 billion (£0.84bn) a year in fines.
28 Mar 2013 - 07:30 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Kyrgyzstan, OSH — About 20 percent of the population of Kyrgyzstan’s second largest city, Osh, do not have access to safe drinking water, Osh Deputy Mayor Rustam Mirzamatov said on March 26.
28 Mar 2013 - 07:35 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
WARSAW, Poland — The central Polish town of Belchatow has awarded a $10.5 million USD contract to expand and modernize the municipal sewage treatment plant to a consortium of three local construction companies, the
28 Mar 2013 - 10:12 by Local Press Report
MINSK (Belarusian Telegraph Agency ) — The Republic of Belarus will receive a grant of over $27 million USD for the implementation of the project “Belarus: Environmental Infrastructure Project – First Stage”.
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