Weekly email subscription newsletters covering local, regional and global water policy, government, business, finance and funding, environment, waste and supply.
OOSKAnews' network of more than 150 international correspondents provide current water and water-related news unavailable anywhere else.
4531 stories
7 Jan 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
NICARAGUA, MANAGUA — Water losses in the capital of Nicaragua Managua total nearly half of production, according to Ruth Selma Herrera, former president of the Nicaraguan Aqueduct and Sanitation Company (ENACAL).
7 Jan 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, ENSENADA — A lack of water is limiting wine production in the Guadalupe Valley in Mexico's Baja California state.
7 Jan 2013 - 09:43 by Local Press Report
SAN FRANCISCO (Dominican Today) — President Danilo Medina yesterday ordered the dredging of 20 kilometers of the Yuna river to resolve the historical flooding that affects more than 9,000 hectares of rice plantations in its lower
7 Jan 2013 - 09:25 by Local Press Report
4 Jan 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuacorriente SA (ECSA), an Ecuadorian subsidiary of China's CRCC-Tongguan Investment, has signed a contract with the country’s Ministry of Production and disbursed an initial $40 million USD inves
4 Jan 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies has approved more than $41 million USD for Sonora SI water projects, including the controversial Independencia Pipeline.
4 Jan 2013 - 09:27 by Local Press Report
KINGSTON (Jamaica Observer) — Jamaicans are being urged to begin preparations for the dry period, by increasing water storage and conservation measures. The advice from the Office of Disaster Preparedness and
4 Jan 2013 - 09:20 by Local Press Report
SAO PAULO (Bloomberg ) — Sabesp, Latin America’s largest publicly traded water utility, will be loaned $663 million USD by the national development bank to help clean up the Tiete River that originates in Sao Paulo.
4 Jan 2013 - 10:33 by Local Press Report
NEW MEXICO (The Chosunilbo) — Scientists examining a 2 billion-year-old rock from Mars that landed in the Sahara desert say it holds a large amount of water for a Martian meteorite. Experts at the University of New Mexico
3 Jan 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, MEXICO CITY — Environmental activism is proving increasing dangerous in Mexico, according to a report in Mexico’s Vanguardia newspaper.
3 Jan 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Colombia, BOGOTA — On January 1, Acueducto de Bogota, the water company providing services in the Colombian capital, re-assumed responsibility for billing and customer service, which had been carried out by private
3 Jan 2013 - 11:02 by Local Press Report
SAN PEDRO DE MACORIS (Cemnet) — Cemex will invest $2 million USD in a wastewater treatment plant for its San Pedro de Macorís cement works in the Dominican Republic as well as a continuous emissions monitoring system for its ki
3 Jan 2013 - 10:06 by Local Press Report
SAN JOSE (Inside Costa Rica) — The Lake Arenal reservoir and hydroelectric complex is under constant observation as it is the only reservoir in the country with enough capacity to save water from the rainy season for electrici
2 Jan 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Brazil, BRASILIA — Brazil’s Minas Gerais state has received some $192 million USD in funding under a $4.9 billion USD national irrigation program.
2 Jan 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
CHILE, SANTIAGO — Water and energy shortages “paralyzed” Chile’s mining industry in the second half of 2012, but mining companies expect solutions to these issues to take shape in the new year.
2 Jan 2013 - 10:16 by Local Press Report
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Haiti Libre) — The recent financial assistance agreement signed between the Swiss Ambassador, Edita Vokral, Jacques Rousseau, Minister of Public Works and Engineering Lionel Joseph Duvalsaint, CEO of the National
2 Jan 2013 - 10:04 by Local Press Report
MANAGUA (Prensa Latina) — Experts of the Territorial Studies Nicaraguan Institute (INETER) ruled out the possible contamination of the waters near the turbulent San Cristobal volcano in Chinandega, the coordinator of the Co
2 Jan 2013 - 09:51 by Local Press Report
ABU DHABI (Water World) — The Coca-Cola Company will discuss global and regional methods of water footprint reduction during the International Water Summit (IWS) taking place in Abu Dhabi from 15-17 January 2013. Coca-
21 Dec 2012 - 09:16 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BOLIVIA, LA PAZ — The cost of the second phase of Bolivia’s Misicuni Multiple Project in Cochabamba province has risen by $14 million USD to $110 million USD.
21 Dec 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, MEXICO CITY — Authorities of the Water System of Mexico City (SACM) are asking the Legislative Assembly to approve a budget ceiling of $313.8 million USD for 2013, double what was spent in 2012.
21 Dec 2012 - 09:53 by Local Press Report
WASHINGTON DC (Inter-American Development Bank) — The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a $100 million USD contingent loan to help Costa Rica
20 Dec 2012 - 08:57 by Local Press Report
LIMA (Bloomberg ) — Lima will treat 100 percent of the wastewater produced in the capital city by 2015 compared with 16 percent now as two plants enter operation, Peru Housing, Construction and Sanitation Minister R
20 Dec 2012 - 08:52 by Local Press Report
BOGOTA (Colombia Reports) — A $54 million USD environmental protection grant was approved on Wednesday as part the Colombia government's ongoing "conservation, restoration, and ecological education program," reported local
20 Dec 2012 - 08:48 by Local Press Report
MEXICO CITY (ioL News) — A growing body of scientific evidence ranks Mexico and its southern neighbours near the top of the list of countries most vulnerable to global warming, and advances in micro-forecasting foresee a
19 Dec 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Argentina, BUENOS AIRES — Funding for the next stage Argentina’s multi-million-dollar Provincial Agricultural Services Program (PROSAP) is “imminent,” the World Bank’s manager for the program said on December 15.
19 Dec 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, MEXICO CITY — David Korenfeld Federman, the newly appointed director general of Mexico’s National Water Commission (Conagua), said he will work to strengthen the Technical Committee on Operation of Hydraulic Wor
19 Dec 2012 - 11:07 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
united states, CO, DENVER — Water-borne diseases have been a major contributing factor in increasing development of water purification and wastewater treatment throughout the world, according to several US water utility exper
19 Dec 2012 - 09:12 by Local Press Report
KINGSTON (Go-Jamaica) — The National Water Commission is urging residents of Corporate Area communities to store water, as the Mona Water Treatment Plant will be taken out of operation on Thursday for several hours.
19 Dec 2012 - 08:59 by Local Press Report
ASUNCION (Prensa Latina) — Riot police clashed today with hundreds of peasants protesting in the Paraguayan department of Misiones to force them to clear a strategic road they occupied due to late subsidies payment.
19 Dec 2012 - 08:37 by Local Press Report
MEXICO CITY (AlertNet) — Community-based water supply systems, which serve thousands of rural communities in Mexico, are seeking official recognition under the new federal legal framework currently under development.&nbs
18 Dec 2012 - 10:27 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BRUSSELS, Belgium — The European Commission’s European Innovation Partnership (EIP) on Water announced today the adoption of the Strategic Implementation Plan (SIP).
18 Dec 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, MEXICO CITY — A proposed General Water Law, designed to ensure the human right to water, will be presented to Mexican legislators and the public on January 31, 2013.
18 Dec 2012 - 10:34 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
CHILE, SANTIAGO — Chile’s water and sanitation providers will need to make investments of over $146 million USD in 2013 to help the country face its third year of drought, according to the country’s National Assoc
18 Dec 2012 - 10:16 by Local Press Report
PORT-AU-PRINCE (McClatchy) — The United Nations on Tuesday will launch a $144 million USD appeal to fund humanitarian programs that aid officials here say is urgently needed to help Haiti cope with the ongoing effects of Tropi
18 Dec 2012 - 09:00 by Local Press Report
AMAPA (New Energy World Network) — Energias de Portugal (EDF) has won the rights to build and operate a 219MW hydroelectric dam in Brazil as well as the rights to expand the output of its project in Santo Antonio do Jari dam.
18 Dec 2012 - 08:53 by Local Press Report
SANTIAGO (Mining.com) — Recent legal actions filed against the company for allegedly not having all the rights to proceed with the development of the mine.
17 Dec 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
CHILE, ANTOFAGASTA — The RDTC Chilean consortium, a subsidiary of Spanish telecommunications, technology and infrastructure company the Ezentis Group, has won the contract to maintain drinking water and sanitation netw
17 Dec 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s National Water Commission (Conagua) announced last week that it will carry out a technical, legal and social review of the Sonora Integral System (Sonora SI) project, which includes the co
17 Dec 2012 - 09:31 by Local Press Report
MANAGUA (The Costa Rica News) — The Foreign Minister of Costa Rica, Enrique Castillo, said December 16 in Managua that Nicaragua has proposed that his country discuss a border wetland in the Caribbean, which both nations (Nicar
17 Dec 2012 - 09:50 by Local Press Report
QUITO (Fuel Fix) — An author and petroleum engineer who used to work for the lawyers suing Chevron has given the company a sworn statement in which he accuses his former colleagues of trying to dictate, in advance,
Countries covered: Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands, Uruguay, Venezuela, and the Virgin Islands.
OOSKAnews, Inc is a specialist publisher of hard to find international water sector and water-related news and intelligence.
We produce weekly email subscription newsletters covering local, regional and global water policy, government, business, finance and funding, environment, waste and supply.
Tweet