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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 - 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
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. "
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 - 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 - 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 - 09:41 by Local Press Report
PURCHASE, N.Y. (Daily Markets) — PepsiCo, Inc.
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”.
28 Mar 2013 - 10:07 by Local Press Report
ZAGREB (Water World) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said on Tuesday it is considering lending up to 13 million euro ($16.8 million) to Croatian water and wastewater company KD Vodovod i K
28 Mar 2013 - 09:50 by Local Press Report
HONGSEONG (Chemistry World) — Across the world, millions of people cannot access fresh, clean water.
27 Mar 2013 - 07:18 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Puerto Rico is facing water shortages, with the territory’s Aqueduct and Sewerage Authority (AAA) announcing on March 25 that water volume in all eight of its main reservoirs are below optimum
27 Mar 2013 - 07:17 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Lithuania, VILNIUS — Lithuanian officials have expressed opposition to the European Commission’s draft directive on public service concessions due to concerns that it would mean inevitable privatization of public water
27 Mar 2013 - 07:13 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Russia, YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK — The sparsely populated Sakhalin Island, located in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Russia’s far-eastern region, is under serious threat of critical water shortages by the middle of this century.
27 Mar 2013 - 10:04 by Local Press Report
27 Mar 2013 - 10:19 by Local Press Report
JOHANNESBURG (Miami Herald) — Leaders of the five BRICS nations fueling global economic growth agreed Wednesday to create a development bank to help fund their $4.5 trillion infrastructure programs - a direct challenge to the W
27 Mar 2013 - 10:14 by Local Press Report
BUCHAREST (SeeNews) — The regional water utility in Galati, southwestern Romania, has awarded a $24.5 million USD contract for water cycle overhaul to local Vega'93, the EU's procurement journal showed on Tuesday.&nbs
27 Mar 2013 - 10:10 by Local Press Report
KYIV (Interfax (Ukraine)) — The technical state of the dams of sludge fields of Bortnychi aeration plant in Kyiv is satisfactory, and there is no threat of an accident, the press service of the Ministry of Regional Developm
26 Mar 2013 - 08:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Ukraine, SIMFEROPOL — The head of the seaport in Ukraine’s Crimea region is being accused of embezzling more than $1 million USD that was allocated from the national budget to upgrade water supply and wastewater systems
26 Mar 2013 - 08:03 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MINSK, Belarus — The city government of the Belarusian capital, Minsk, on March 20 announced a new construction project that will see the city relying entirely on groundwater accessed through artesian wells by 2015
26 Mar 2013 - 10:04 by Local Press Report
26 Mar 2013 - 10:25 by Local Press Report
BUCHAREST (Act Media) — Romania's south-eastern area will be under drought in July and August, according to the forecast on the humidity reserve in the agricultural soil National Weather Administration (ANM) director gene
26 Mar 2013 - 10:08 by Local Press Report
BAIA MARE (Romania Insider) — A consortium headed by German civil engineering firm Ludwig Pfeiffer Hoch und Tiefbau Gmbh has won the contract to carry out water supply and sewage work in Baia Mare, in the Maramureș area of Nort
25 Mar 2013 - 10:25 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
new yorK, ny, united states — The United Nations stressed the theme of cooperation during this year’s 20th World Water Day events on March 22.
25 Mar 2013 - 07:59 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
united states, WASHINGTON DC — The US Water Partnership (USWP) marked its first anniversary on March 22, World Water Day, with a review of partners' current activities and the partership's six Signature Initiatives.
25 Mar 2013 - 07:52 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Russia, NIZHNY NOVGOROD — The Nizhny Novgorod City Council last week vote against granting local vodokanal (water company) a 25-year concession for the city’s water supply and wastewater treatment services.
25 Mar 2013 - 10:14 by Local Press Report
SOFIA (Focus Information Agency) — "I hope very much that the new program about the cross-border cooperation between Bulgaria and Romania 2014-2020 will focus more on infrastructure projects and less on virtual measures that leave n
22 Mar 2013 - 06:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
united states, WASHINGTON DC — In keeping with the United Nations’ designation of 2013 as the International Year of Water Cooperation, events held around the globe this week focused on creating water partnerships.
22 Mar 2013 - 06:53 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s Lomianki municipality has announced a $26 million USD project to expand and modernize its sewage network.
22 Mar 2013 - 10:17 by Local Press Report
MI, DEARBORN (Automotive World) — Ford reduced the average amount of water used to make each vehicle by 8.5 percent between 2011 and 2012 – putting the company more than halfway toward its current goal of using an average of just
22 Mar 2013 - 09:50 by Local Press Report
PRAGUE (Prague Daily Monitor) — A 57.5-km-long water conduit from Brezova nad Svitavou to Brno, south Moravia, from 1913 has served in its original shape continuously to date, which is unique in terms of its length in the Czech
22 Mar 2013 - 09:47 by Local Press Report
KIEV (Hydro World) — Power developer Shala Energy sh.p.k.
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