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20 Feb 2012 - 19:13 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
nairoBi, Kenya (OOSKAnews Corre...) — Naftali Mwaura, OOSKAnews, NAIROBI, Kenya -- The loss of topsoil due to mechanized farming, urbanization and population growth is contributing to depletion of freshwater ecosystems, according to a new report from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).
16 Feb 2012 - 16:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, MEXICO CITY (OOSKAnews Corre...) — The Center for Research and National Security (CISAN), a Mexican intelligence agency that has been conducting surveys on public perceptions of the water situation in the country since 2006, says addressing climate change and water issues is a matter of national security.
16 Feb 2012 - 16:27 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, COATZINTLA (OOSKAnews Corre...) — Veracruz State Attorney General for the Environment Eduardo Aubry de Castro Palomino in early February urged state-run petroleum company Pemex to create a technical committee to analyze recent oil spills and monitor company activities in the future.
De Castro proposed that the committee be made up of members from the state and federal government.
16 Feb 2012 - 16:39 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
QUITO, Ecuador (OOSKAnews Corre...) — As Ecuador makes an economic shift from petroleum production to mining, the country’s indigenous communities are raising concerns about the impact mining policies will have on water sources.
16 Feb 2012 - 16:38 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (OOSKAnews Corre...) — The Cayman Islands on January 31 enacted its new law governing water resources.
The law allows regulatory agency and utility the Cayman Islands Water Authority to formulate, review and revise a water resources development plan for the islands. This had previously been the domain of the Minister of Public Works.
16 Feb 2012 - 16:35 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
PERU, LIMA (OOSKAnews Corre...) — Peru’s Comptroller General’s office on February 1 announced that it had found financial irregularities in projects carried out as part of the country’s Water for All program.
The comptroller general said audits carried out from 2009-2011 had revealed potentially illegal activities by 45 former officials and managers of companies responsible for water projects.
16 Feb 2012 - 16:33 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, SALTILLO (OOSKAnews Corre...) — The Saltillo Association of Water Users is accusing the city’s partially private water utility, Aguas de Saltillo, of breaking the law by raising rates and not carrying out sufficient investment in public works.
16 Feb 2012 - 16:31 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Brazil, CAMPO GRANDE (OOSKAnews Corre...) — A group of environmental organizations at the beginning of February launched a new report on ecological risks in the Paraguay River Basin.
The document was prepared for World Wetlands Day on February 2 by the Nature Conservancy, WWF-Brazil, and the Pantanal Research Center in Brazil’s Mato Grosso do Sul state.
16 Feb 2012 - 15:59 by Local Press Report
MEXICO CITY (Local Press Report) — As half of Mexico endures one of the most severe droughts in its history, cloud seeding appears to be a promising way to bring desperately needed rain, although it remains a source of controversy.
16 Feb 2012 - 16:12 by Local Press Report
16 Feb 2012 - 15:57 by Local Press Report
LIMA (Local Press Report) — President Ollanta Humala is expected to meet with authorities from southern Peru’s Tacna region in an attempt to resolve concerns about the mining sector’s use of water. Prime Minister Oscar Valdes said the meeting is expected to occur within the next 15 days and will be held at the government palace, the government said.
16 Feb 2012 - 16:09 by Local Press Report
GEORGETOWN (Local Press Report) — As Guyana continues to be affected by unusually high rainfall, a major flood disaster was averted through drainage works undertaken by its government. And government has also extended a helping hand to farmers affected by floodwaters as some areas recorded in excess of 140 milimetres of water.
16 Feb 2012 - 16:22 by Local Press Report
BRIDGETOWN (Local Press Report) — The Barbadian public can look forward to significant improvements in the delivery of services from the Barbados Water Authority (BWA), with the construction of a new headquarters complex at the Pine, St. Michael. Dr.
16 Feb 2012 - 15:55 by Local Press Report
LIMA (Local Press Report) — A new hydroelectric plant in Peru is expected to boost the country’s agricultural exports by $2 billion USD a year. The Pampas Verdes irrigation project will supply water to 218,015 hectares of dessert in the Ica, Arequipa and Ayacucho regions, through the construction of four hydroelectric power stations, two dams and two reservoirs.
16 Feb 2012 - 16:07 by Local Press Report
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Local Press Report) — Haiti is tendering a contract for design, construction and operation of a wastewater treatment plant for domestic wastewater at the Caracol industrial park.
16 Feb 2012 - 16:20 by Local Press Report
LA PAZ (Local Press Report) — Bolivia has the highest potential of freshwater in the world, said the executive director of the National Irrigation Service (Senari), Delfin Reque. Reque noted that some of the most important water reserves on the planet are all located together in the Amazon area, which includes part of Bolivia.
16 Feb 2012 - 16:05 by Local Press Report
16 Feb 2012 - 16:18 by Local Press Report
SANTIAGO (Local Press Report) — The reservoirs of the Laja and Maule lakes have recorded critically low levels of water due to the increasing dry conditions of Chile. Lake Maule is at 32 percent of its maximum capacity. It has now reached its lowest level since 1999 and is close to what was recorded one year ago.
16 Feb 2012 - 16:03 by Local Press Report
KINGSTON (Local Press Report) — Jamaica is one of four Caribbean and Central American countries that will benefit from a $15 million USD pilot project that seeks to reform and finance the management of wastewater in the region.
16 Feb 2012 - 16:16 by Local Press Report
SANTIAGO (Local Press Report) — With a state of agricultural emergency declared across 77 districts in Chile, the government has approved a cloud-seeding initiative that it is hoped will help growers affected by drought.
16 Feb 2012 - 16:01 by Local Press Report
KINGSTON (Local Press Report) — Minister of Water, Environment, Land and Climate Change Hon. Robert Pickersgill said there is an urgent need to increase the coverage of wastewater treatment in the Caribbean. He said current wastewater treatment levels within the region are far below what is needed.
16 Feb 2012 - 16:14 by Local Press Report
SANTIAGO (Local Press Report) — Mechanical Vapor Compression (MVC) desalination units from Israel’s IDE Technologies have been selected by Norgener (an AES Gener company) for a power station facility in Chile owned by AES.
09 Feb 2012 - 10:05 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, CHIHUAHUA (OOSKAnews Corre...) — Governor César Duarte Jáquez said the lack of water in Chihuahua will make it impossible for his state to meet its obligations to deliver water to the United States under the International Water Treaty between the two countries.
09 Feb 2012 - 09:52 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Argentina, BUENOS AIRES (OOSKAnews Corre...) — The Famatina mining project in Argentina’s La Rioja region has been delayed in the wake of massive public protests by local residents and environmentalists concerned about the effects it would have on water sources in the area.
09 Feb 2012 - 09:50 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Argentina, BUENOS AIRES (OOSKAnews Corre...) — The Cutral Co water supply system had to shut down water intakes at the end of January because of excessive turbidity in the Neuquén River.
The provincial drinking water and sanitation company, EPAS, detected the turbidity problem in Cutral Co and Plaza Huincul.
09 Feb 2012 - 09:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
CARACAS, Venezuela (OOSKAnews Corre...) — Water from the La Mariposa Dam facility in Venezuela’s Miranda state is heavily polluted and poses a threat to public health in the region, according to government officials and local environmental groups.
09 Feb 2012 - 09:43 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, VICTORIA DE DURANGO (OOSKAnews Corre...) — Mexico’s Durango state wastes 60 percent of its irrigation water due to flaws in the system, Carlos Matuk López de Nava, head of the state’s Agriculture, Livestock and Rural Development Ministry, said in late January.
09 Feb 2012 - 10:03 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
GUADALAJARA, Mexico (OOSKAnews Corre...) — An audit of Jalisco state’s Intermunicipal Water and Sewerage System (SIAPA) has found the agency misused $47.3 million USD.
The audit was part of an investigation into SIAPA launched after it was discovered in May 2011 that officials had diverted part of a $94.4 million USD loan provided by the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), Informador newspaper reported.
09 Feb 2012 - 10:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BOLIVIA, LA PAZ (OOSKAnews Corre...) — La Paz will need $50 million USD to restructure public water and sanitation utility EPSAS, according to the city’s mayor, Luis Revilla.
In a radio interview in late January, Revilla said that amount included the cost of renovating the city’s sewage and drainage system.
09 Feb 2012 - 09:59 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, CHILPANCINGO (OOSKAnews Corre...) — The head of Mexico’s National Water Commission (Conagua), José Luis Luege Tamargo, inaugurated the Lado Sur de Buenavista de Cuellar wastewater treatment plant in Guerrero state.
The plant uses innovative technology developed in Mexico that imitates natural conditions to clean water, according to a Conagua statement released in late January.
09 Feb 2012 - 09:34 by Local Press Report
09 Feb 2012 - 09:32 by Local Press Report
09 Feb 2012 - 09:30 by Local Press Report
SANTIAGO (Local Press Report) — Chilean Minister of Agriculture Luis Mayol announced last week that the water storage situation in 50 municipalities in the country is critical. He said that the problem of water in agriculture has been historic, but now it has worsened due to a three-year drought.
09 Feb 2012 - 09:28 by Local Press Report
SANTIAGO (Local Press Report) — Chile’s water situation has reached critical levels, with normal levels of rainfall not expected until June, according to Universidad de Chile agroclimatology professor Fernando Santibáñez. The national government has declared a state of agricultural emergency across 77 districts in the northern and south-central zones of the country.
09 Feb 2012 - 09:25 by Local Press Report
washington, dc (Local Press Report) — The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) announced last week that it will provide Banco ProCredit S.A. $2 million USD to help expand and improve access to clean and affordable water for as many as 14,000 low-income families in El Salvador. The project will start a credit and technical assistance program for communal water projects throughout the country.
09 Feb 2012 - 09:39 by Local Press Report
NASSAU (Local Press Report) — Bahamian environmental group reEarth is urging the government not to privatize the energy and water industries, saying this would allow foreign buyers to “hold the Bahamas ransom.” The group, in conjunction with the Nature Conservancy, the Bahamas Humane Society and other organizations, just issued a new “road map” on sustainable development titled “A Living Future.” Among other things, t
09 Feb 2012 - 09:38 by Local Press Report
HAMILTON (Local Press Report) — Bermuda’s water truckers met last week after a government-imposed moratorium on new permits. Transport Minister Derrick Burgess says he plans to carefully monitor the industry over the next three years because of the effects of the economic downturn and technological advances on water truckers.
06 Feb 2012 - 13:04 by Local Press Report
pa, TREVOSE (Local Press Report) — GE named Kevin Cassidy general manager of chemical and monitoring solutions in the water and process technologies department of GE Power & Water. Cassidy, who is based in Singapore, previously served as general manager of the Asia Pacific region for GE’s water business.
01 Feb 2012 - 10:59 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, MEXICO CITY (OOSKAnews Corre...) — Mexican President Felipe Calderón has authorized $2.6 billion USD for a program to address the country’s worst drought in 70 years.
Calderón vowed that no one will die from lack of food or water.
01 Feb 2012 - 10:41 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BOLIVIA, LA PAZ (OOSKAnews Corre...) — Members of the Guarani indigenous community in Bolivia are preparing for a stand-off with the government over a project to build a gas and oil separation plant on the Rio Grande.
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