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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
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 - 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 - 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 - 10:34 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 - 10:27 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 - 10:16 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 - 09:50 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,
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
14 Dec 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador is planning to inaugurate two new meteorological monitoring stations as part of the Adaptation to the Impacts of Rapid Glacier Retreat in the Tropical Andes (PRAA) program.
14 Dec 2012 - 11:19 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
united states, CO, BOULDER — The United States Bureau of Reclamation released a new report on December 12 that confirms demand for water in the trans-boundary Colorado River Basin, which includes the United States and Mexico,
14 Dec 2012 - 09:09 by Local Press Report
WASHINGTON DC (Inter-American Development Bank) — The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) has approved a $246.5 million USD loan to finance the first phase of a $546.5 million USD, three-phase program aimed at improving Trinidad and Tobago’s
14 Dec 2012 - 11:25 by Local Press Report
pa, TREVOSE (GEneral Electric) — Over the past 10 years, Degrémont and GE have helped more than 60 local municipalities and industries, including refining and petrochemical, save more than 40 billion liters of water with GE’s ZeeW
14 Dec 2012 - 09:15 by Local Press Report
LA PAZ (Daijiworld) — Bolivia's government has signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese company Sinohydro Corporation Ltd., which pledged to review existing studies for a hydroelectric dam project in the nort
13 Dec 2012 - 09:20 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Colombia, BOGOTA — An oil spill in the department of Tolima, in central Colombia,has required local authorities to turn off the drinking water for half of the 40,000 residents in the town of Melgar.
13 Dec 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
GUADALAJARA, Mexico — Mega projects like the controversial Zapotillo Dam or treatment plants will not be enough to address the water problems in Jalisco state, according to Agustina Rodríguez Morán, a representative of
13 Dec 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Colombia, BOGOTA — Colombia’s National Health Institute (INS) has released the first drinking water quality report for the entire country.
13 Dec 2012 - 10:16 by Local Press Report
sinGapore (Singapore International Water Week) — We are privileged to welcome Arcadis on board as the newest founding sponsor for Singapore International Water Week.
13 Dec 2012 - 10:08 by Local Press Report
LIMA (Bernama.com) — The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) will grant Peru $450 million USD in loans to be used in environmental sustainability, competitiveness and infrastructure, social inclusion and modernisati
13 Dec 2012 - 10:03 by Local Press Report
QUITO (Hydro World) — Ecuador's investment institute invites expressions of interest from consultants to perform feasibility studies, including hydropower potential, of the Rio Verde multi-purpose project on Ecuador's
13 Dec 2012 - 09:56 by Local Press Report
MONTEVERDE (Phys.org) — Tropical montane cloud forest trees use more than their roots to take up water.
12 Dec 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Argentina, BUENOS AIRES — The Argentine government has issued a new call for international tenders for construction of two dams in Santa Cruz province.
12 Dec 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, MEXICO CITY — International environmental group Greenpeace reports that it has found evidence of pollution of Mexican rivers by textile factories operating in two states.
12 Dec 2012 - 10:57 by Local Press Report
KINGSTON (Jamaica Observer) — National Water Commission (NWC) customers in sections of Red Hills in the Corporate Area are presently experiencing water supply disruption as a result of a several leaks on the distri
12 Dec 2012 - 10:16 by Local Press Report
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12 Dec 2012 - 10:07 by Local Press Report
HUANCAYO (Hydro World) — The Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) has approved a loan of up to $7.2 million USD to Empresa de Generacion Electrica Canchayllo S.A.C.
11 Dec 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
PERU, PUNO — The government of Peru’s Puno region last week asked the Environmental Prosecutor to investigation mining company Arasi due to water quality issues in the Ocuviri district, in the Lake Titicaca bas
11 Dec 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, MEXICO CITY — The large quantity of water used in mineral extraction, pollution with petroleum products, lack of potable supply, expansion of housing, and mismanagement of resources are among the problems creati
11 Dec 2012 - 10:37 by Local Press Report
CAMBAMBE (IPS) — The Kwanza river in the heart of Angola will be a symbol of Brazilian partnership in African development when power stations along the country's main source of water are fully operational. N
11 Dec 2012 - 10:24 by Local Press Report
GEORGE TOWN (EBR) — Guyanese government has secured financial assistance from the European Union to begin construction of a $3.1 million USD micro-hydro power station on the Chiung River. The EU will extend $
10 Dec 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
united states, WARRENTON, VA — The inaugural International Water Summit (IWS) has partnered with OOSKAnews, Inc., as the official publisher for the event to be held in Abu Dhabi in January 2013.
10 Dec 2012 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Ecuador, GUAYAQUIL — Negotiations between Interagua, the private water company operating in the Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil, and local government officials over the concession contract for water services in the city c
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