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20 Mar 2013 - 07:36 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Canada, OTTAWA — The International Development Research Center (IRDC), a key part of Canada’s aid program, together with Environment Canada, the government department responsible for coordinating environmental poli
20 Mar 2013 - 07:38 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
PERU, MOYOBAMBA — During a visit to the city of Moyobamba, in Peru’s San Martin region, this week, Peruvian President Ollanta Humala Tasso was confronted by demonstrators demanding that the government carry out wate
20 Mar 2013 - 07:38 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, MEXICO CITY — Potable water prices must be connected to real costs and subsidies must be cut in order to achieve efficient, sustainable and equitable water management in the country, according to David Korenfeld
20 Mar 2013 - 09:42 by Local Press Report
LIMA (NBC News) — Next year, the Olmos Irrigation Project will start pumping billions of gallons of water onto a nearby 170-square-mile patch of desert in the Olmos Valley near the Pacific coast.
20 Mar 2013 - 09:38 by Local Press Report
RIO DE JANEIRO (Global Post) — At least 27 people were killed by landslides caused by heavy rains in a mountainous area of the Brazilian sate of Rio de Janeiro
19 Mar 2013 - 07:27 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
united states, TX, AUSTIN — Construction and financing of water infrastructure projects is the biggest issue facing Texas, not the ongoing drought and water-sharing issues with Mexico, according to several experts across Texa
19 Mar 2013 - 07:27 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
washington, dc, united states — Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) experts from around the world met last week at World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC, to discuss how to improve sustainability of international WASH program
19 Mar 2013 - 07:28 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
NICARAGUA, MANAGUA — Thousands of Nicaraguans are facing water shortages, driving some residents to protest at the headquarters of state water and sewage utility ENACAL last week.
19 Mar 2013 - 09:53 by Local Press Report
BOSTON (Oxfam America) — Companies included in the Behind the Brands scorecard have for the most part made progress on managing water resources. Largely they recognize that access to water will be one of the greate
19 Mar 2013 - 09:47 by Local Press Report
TIJUANA (Fox 5 San Diego) — A long-term ocean contamination alert around the U.S.- Mexico border was expanded today to include the Imperial Beach shoreline. Northward sea currents are believed to have carried sewage-fo
19 Mar 2013 - 09:39 by Local Press Report
BOGOTA (International Rivers) — Colombian police and soldiers interrupted a peaceful protest by communities affected by Ituango Dam on March 14th.
18 Mar 2013 - 09:35 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
united arab emirates, WARRENTON, VA, United States/ABU DHABI — OOSKAnews is today publishing the official Synopsis for the inaugural International Water Summit (IWS), which was held in Abu Dhabi on January 15-17th.
18 Mar 2013 - 07:42 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Colombia, BOGOTA — Acueducto de Bogota, the water provider in the Colombian capital, last week offered assurances that the water provided to 9 million residents of the city and neighboring municipalities is fit for
18 Mar 2013 - 07:43 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC — The Aqueduct and Drainage Corporation (CAASD), which provides water and sanitation in the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo, has begun rationing water, leaving residents “desperate” as the country
18 Mar 2013 - 08:28 by Local Press Report
COCHABAMBA (DBR Technology) — Clean Water Systems & Stores, a California-based water treatment provider of contaminated well water, has introduced a line of custom water purification systems to address a wide variety of c
18 Mar 2013 - 08:14 by Local Press Report
PANAMA CITY (Gulf Times) — Latin America is increasingly looking to the private sector to help fund a $200bn a year infrastructure investment gap that is dragging on economic growth and preventing the region from catching
15 Mar 2013 - 07:45 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, IXTACAMAXTITLÁN — Farmers in the municipality of Ixtacamaxtitlán in Mexico’s Puebla state are asking the National Water Commission (Conagua) to carry out an investigation into water being used by Canadian mining com
15 Mar 2013 - 09:36 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
united states, NV, LAS VEGAS — Cooperation between the seven US Colorado River basin states – Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, California and Wyoming – and Mexico is at “an all-time high,” according to Southern Nevad
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 - 08:27 by Local Press Report
HANOVER (Jamaica Observer) — More than 9,000 residents in Eastern Hanover who have been suffering for years form a lack of water are now looking forward to an improved supply. This, as the National Water Commission (NWC)
15 Mar 2013 - 08:14 by Local Press Report
HAVANA (NZweek) — Cuba was among the world’s best prepared countries to meet the challenges of climate change, Grisel Acosta, regional representative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) said Thursday.
15 Mar 2013 - 08:07 by Local Press Report
SANTIAGO DE CUBA (Ground Report) — Foodstuffs are in short supply in Santiago de Cuba Province in the far southeast of Cuba, a legacy of Hurricane Sandy which raged through the area in October. The flooding and infrastructure
14 Mar 2013 - 07:52 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS — Employees of National Aqueducts and Sanitation Service (SANAA), have announced plans to strike over $6.2 million USD the company is owed by the government. The strike could leave the Honduran
14 Mar 2013 - 07:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, MEXICO CITY — Mexico is only capturing 3 percent of the approximately 1,500 cubic kilometers of rainwater that it could be capturing annually; that amount could supply the 15 million residents of the country tha
14 Mar 2013 - 09:53 by Local Press Report
SANTIAGO (Water World) — The world’s largest copper-producing nation is looking to integrate a solar powered desalination facility in the Atacama Desert’s Lluta Valley to boost water supplies for agriculture. In a s
14 Mar 2013 - 10:04 by Local Press Report
RIO DE JANEIRO (The Windsor Star) — Rio de Janeiro's environmental authorities say a massive storm earlier this week washed organic matter into the lake at the heart of the city, leading to a big die-off of fish. Rio's municip
14 Mar 2013 - 10:02 by Local Press Report
TX, BROWNSVILLE (Brownsville Herald (United States)) — Cameron County Commissioners Court is expected to vote today on a resolution asking the IBWC and State Department to request Mexico repay the water it owes to the United States. The Commission
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 - 10:24 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
PANAMA CITY, Panama — A month after it was first presented to the National Assembly, the future of Panama’s proposed National Water and Sanitation Authority remains uncertain.
13 Mar 2013 - 10:23 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
PERU, LIMA — More than half of residents in the Peruvian capital, Lima, fear that the city will face water, while just under half say state-owned water and sewage utility SEDAPAL should be privatized, according
13 Mar 2013 - 07:31 by Local Press Report
NASSAU (Tribune 242 (Bahamas)) — An all-Bahamian investor group led by a former Water & Sewerage Corporation chairman has approached the Government about taking over one of the New Providence-based reverse osm
13 Mar 2013 - 10:09 by Local Press Report
PORT AU PRINCE (Haiti Libre) — A few weeks before the beginning of the rainy season [April to November], synonymous of resurgence of cholera in Haiti, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) visited more than thir
13 Mar 2013 - 07:55 by Local Press Report
SANTIAGO (The Santiago Times (Chile)) — Residents of Lampa, a small town north of Santiago, denounced the local government and sanitation company this week for failing to address excessive arsenic levels in the town’s water supply.Sympto
12 Mar 2013 - 08:15 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
united states, TX, El Paso — The International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) of the United States and Mexico -- a joint governmental agency in charge of applying the boundary and water treaties between the two nations a
12 Mar 2013 - 09:39 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
PERU, AREQUIPA — All of the schools in Peru’s Arequipa region will have drinking water as the new school year starts, despite $806,000 USD in unpaid debts at 144 educational institutions, according to regional wate
12 Mar 2013 - 09:38 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, VILLAHERMOSA — Mexico’s Federal Congress last week held the first of a series of regional forums aimed at designing a proposal for a new General Water Law for the country in the Tabasco state capital, Villahermos
12 Mar 2013 - 00:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
TEGUCIGALPA, HONDURAS — Water providers in Honduras’ Sula Valley met last week to address water issues affecting the region.
12 Mar 2013 - 10:01 by Local Press Report
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 - 09:36 by Local Press Report
KINGSTON (Stabroek News) — For the second time in just over three years, Jamaica has secured a multibillion-dollar infrastructure development programme with China, a government insider has revealed. The US$300-million
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.
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