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18 Mar 2013 - 07:46 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
WARSAW, Poland — Poland’s Myslenice municipality has received a $44.2 million USD investment grant from the European Union’s Cohesion Fund to expand the municipal sewage and water supply network.
18 Mar 2013 - 08:44 by Local Press Report
SOFIA (Novinite,com) — The level of the Danube River in the Bulgarian stretch has reached critically high levels Monday morning, stated Bulgaria's Ministry of Environment. According to information given to the Minis
18 Mar 2013 - 08:47 by Local Press Report
SKOPJE (The Windsor Star) — Two dams in Macedonia are in danger of collapsing because of extensive flooding caused by four days of torrential rain, while authorities were airlifting supplies Wednesday to hundreds of people
15 Mar 2013 - 09:08 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Geneva, switzerland — The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and Global Water Partnership (GWP) teamed up this week to launch an Integrated Drought Management Program that will focus on monitoring and preventing
15 Mar 2013 - 08:57 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MOSCOW, Russia — The Russian Federal Fund for Housing Development has signed an agreement with private water operator Rosvodokanal to carry out joint water sector projects.
15 Mar 2013 - 08:38 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
OOSKAnews Correspondent — Israel’s National Water Company, Mekorot, has shown interest in investing in a project to modernize water networks in Romania’s Botoșani County.
15 Mar 2013 - 08:18 by Local Press Report
SOFIA (Water World) — The Bulgarian town of Karlovo has invited bids for works on a water supply project with an indicative cost of 11.87 million levs ($7.92 million/6.07 million euro), Value Added Tax excluded, a not
14 Mar 2013 - 07:51 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MOSCOW, Russia — The Russian Ministry of Regions is considering a return to previous pricing policies for public services, including water.
14 Mar 2013 - 10:31 by Local Press Report
BUCHAREST (Water World) — Romanian water utility Compania de Apa Oltenia announced plans for the extension and upgrade of the water network worth an estimated $20.2 million USD, the European Union's procurement journal sh
14 Mar 2013 - 10:25 by Local Press Report
SOCHI (UPI) — Some 700 workers building the 2014 Winter Olympic facilities were evacuated after their camp was flooded by a dam break, Russian officials said Wednesday. The camp, where some 1,500 workers
14 Mar 2013 - 10:02 by Local Press Report
LONDON (Bloomberg ) — Modern Water Plc (MWG), which completed the world’s first commercial forward-osmosis desalination plant last year in Oman, said revenue tripled as the company competed with more reverse-osmosis wat
13 Mar 2013 - 08:52 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — The Asian Development Bank is providing a $20 million USD grant to support the Taza Suu (Clean Water) project in Kyrgyzstan, a Kyrgyz official said on March 12.
13 Mar 2013 - 10:22 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Czech Republic, PLZEN — The Czech city of Plzen (also known by its German name, Pilsen) will reconstruct its almost 20-year-old municipal water treatment plant.
13 Mar 2013 - 07:58 by Local Press Report
BUCHAREST (Balkans.com) — Romanian President Traian Basescu suggested on Monday the loans granted by the European Investment Bank (EIB) could be used to develop three large investment projects, given the limited
13 Mar 2013 - 09:00 by Local Press Report
ODESSA (China.org.cn) — A large oil slick was discovered on the surface of the Danube River in Ukraine's southern Odessa region, authorities reported Tuesday. A pool of about 400 square meters has appeared, after f
12 Mar 2013 - 00:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Russia, PERM — The District Court in Russia’s Perm Krai Oblast has filed a lawsuit against municipal company StroiTechService for negligence that resulted in multiple cases of water pollution-related infections a
12 Mar 2013 - 09:42 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
WARSAW, Poland — Local water utility PWiK has announced plans for a $39 million USD project to expand the municipal sewage network in Gliwice, Poland.
12 Mar 2013 - 09:40 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Ukraine, ODESSA — The city of Odessa last week started building a sewage pumping station to solve wastewater issues in the southern part of the city.
12 Mar 2013 - 00:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BUCHAREST, Romania — Romanian regional water provider SC ApaProd SA Deva, together with the Inter-Community Development Association (Aquprest), last week announced they had secured financing for a $208 million USD proj
12 Mar 2013 - 09:39 by Local Press Report
WASHINGTON DC (World Bank (press release)) — The World Bank Water practice is pleased to announce the opening of the public voting process for the Sanitation Hackathon! Nearly half of the 2.5 billion people who lack access to sani
12 Mar 2013 - 10:01 by Local Press Report
12 Mar 2013 - 09:57 by Local Press Report
MINSK (Business New Europe) — Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko flew to St Petersburg this week to meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in an effort to get a $2bn loan to modernise the country, just as the E
12 Mar 2013 - 09:51 by Local Press Report
LUXEMBOURG (Bloomberg ) — The European Investment Bank will probably approve loans worth as much as $1.3 billion USD in five western Balkans countries this year to support the region’s integration with the European Union.
11 Mar 2013 - 09:57 by Local Press Report
SOFIA (The Sofia Globe) — Bulgaria’s acting Cabinet has appointed Deputy Economy Minister Evgenia Haritonova as chairperson of the State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (SEWRC). Haritonova replaces acting chai
11 Mar 2013 - 08:39 by Local Press Report
MOSCOW (Hurriyet Daily News) — Russian scientists on Saturday dismissed initial reports that they had found a wholly new type of bacteria in a mysterious subglacial lake in Antarctica. Sergei Bulat of the genetics laborator
8 Mar 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MOSCOW, Russia — The Russian Ministry of Regional Development has offered its support to a pilot project under which RusHydro, a large state-owned water infrastructure company, would take control of small provinc
8 Mar 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Ukraine, KYIV — The amount of clean freshwater consumed by residents of the Ukrainian capital has fallen to levels last seen just after the Second World War, according to an announcement from the information dep
8 Mar 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
sinGapore — Too little is actually known about the informal water sector to assume that formalizing it is the best policy in all cases, according to UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education senior lecturer K
8 Mar 2013 - 09:36 by Local Press Report
BAKU (apa) — "The situation over Lake Urmia is better and the water level in lake has risen,” said Iran’s ambassador to Azerbaijan Mohsen Pak Ayeen in his interview with APA TV.
8 Mar 2013 - 09:32 by Local Press Report
SOFIA (Novinite,com) — Sofia Mayor Yordanka Fandakova has objected to an alleged request for a 14% tariff increase of water utility Sofiyska Voda. According to a media statement of the Sofia Municipality, Fandakov
7 Mar 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
ASTANA, Kazakhstan — Starting in 2015, the Astana reservoir in Kazakhstan will be used exclusively for drinking water supply, and will be off-limits for industrial use, the Astana mayor’s office said last week.
7 Mar 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BRUSSELS, Belgium — The city of Bucharest is seeking some $5.2 billion USD in funding from the European Union for water infrastructure projects through 2020, including the long-planned Danube-Bucharest Canal.
7 Mar 2013 - 10:27 by Local Press Report
BAKU (Azerbaijan Business Center) — Azerbaijan’s national water operator Azersu OJSC has begun a project jointly with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) - Reconstruction of water supply and sewerage system of Naftalan
7 Mar 2013 - 10:31 by Local Press Report
ST. PETERSBURG (RT.com) — Russian researchers have found previously-unknown bacteria in waters of the unique sub-glacial Lake Vostok, isolated by 4km-thick layer of ice for around the past 20 million years.
6 Mar 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
PRAGUE, Czech Republic — The Czech Republic’s Water Supply and Sewerage Association (SOVAK) has proposed that the companies in charge of the country’s roads and highways and its railways should pay for treatment of stormwa
6 Mar 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Russia, STAVROPOL — The police force in the Stavropol Region of southern Russia has opened a criminal investigation into corruption at the local water utility.
6 Mar 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
sinGapore — Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) has become a de facto solution for many water issues, but it sometimes results in negative outcomes and has shut out alternative thinking, International
6 Mar 2013 - 08:46 by Local Press Report
OSH (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) — Osh City and Osh Municipal Enterprise “Oshgorvodokanal” intends using part of the proceeds of a grant from the Government of Swiss Confederation (SECO) administered by the European Bank for Recon
6 Mar 2013 - 08:31 by Local Press Report
KETY (Trenchless International) — Two egg-profile sewer lines in Kety, Poland, have been rehabilitated using a spiral-wound pipe method. The town of Kety in Poland contracted to have the SPR Europe spiral-wound pipe variant us
6 Mar 2013 - 08:28 by Local Press Report
SOFIA (Novinite,com) — The Regional Inspectorate of Environment and Water in the southern city of Smolyan has imposed a fine on mining company Gorubso Madan AD for polluting the waters of the Madanska river. The com
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