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12 Mar 2013 - 09:27 by Local Press Report
LIMA (Reuters) — Anti-mining activists have filed a complaint with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights accusing Peru's government of rights abuses during protests against one of Latin America's biggest
11 Mar 2013 - 08:56 by Local Press Report
KINGSTON (Go-Jamaica) — The National Water Commission will temporarily shut down operations at the Ferry Hill Tanks in St. Andrew, on Monday, March 11 through to Wednesday March 13, 2013.
11 Mar 2013 - 08:48 by Local Press Report
CASTRIES (Prensa Latina) — Facing the intense dry spell in St Lucia, the Water and sewerage Company, Inc.
8 Mar 2013 - 08:38 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
CHILE, SANTIAGO — Aguas Andinas, the water supplier to the Chilean capital, on March 5 released a 49-page-long “confidential” agreement with power producer AES Gener over the $1.4 billion USD Alto Maipo hydropower
8 Mar 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, CIUDAD VICTORIA — Approximately 60 rural communities in Mexico’s Tamaulipas state are in critical condition due to lack of water, according to Eduardo Espronceda Galindo, president of the Federation of Small Rural
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 - 10:44 by Local Press Report
SAO PAULO (Bloomberg ) — Reservoir levels at a decade low are curtailing the use of cheap hydro power and forcing Brazil to fire up costly thermal plants to avert an energy shortfall. Brazil plans to offer subsidized
8 Mar 2013 - 09:16 by Local Press Report
PUERTO GAITAN (The Jerusalem Post) — Amiad Water Systems, an Upper Galilee-based international water-filtration firm, this week signed an $8 million agreement to implement its technologies in a Colombian oil field. The company wi
7 Mar 2013 - 08:59 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
CHILE, SANTIAGO — A Chilean appeals court this week ordered a suspension of all work on the $1.4 billion USD, 740-megawatt Punta Alcalde hydropower project, due to local fishermen’s concerns that it will cause ser
7 Mar 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, TUXTLA GUTIÉRREZ — Approximately 2,000 people from 11 municipalities in the Sierra Madre de Chiapas mountain region have formed “civil self-defense battalions” to patrol the region to prevent the Canadian mining gr
7 Mar 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Brazil, BRASILIA — The Brazilian government will invest some $15.2 billion USD to provide universal access to drinking water in the country, President Dilma Rousseff announced this week.
7 Mar 2013 - 10:35 by Local Press Report
BOGOTA (Global Post) — Three simultaneous bombings on Tuesday interrupted electricity and water service in the Pacific port city of Tumaco, Colombian authorities said, blaming the attack on leftist FARC rebels. Th
7 Mar 2013 - 11:01 by Local Press Report
TABOGA (Newsroom Panama) — Taboga, the Island of Flowers, and one of Panama’s most visited tourist destinations is facing a drinking water crisis and emergency supplie
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 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC — The Dominican Environmental Movement has asked the country’s president, Danilo Medina, to annul its contract with Canada-based mining giant Barrick Gold for the controversial $3 billion USD Pueblo
6 Mar 2013 - 10:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Colombia, BOGOTA — Over the last 30 years, more than half of Colombia’s glacier mass has melted away due to rising temperatures caused by climate change, according to a new report by the Colombian Institute of Hydr
6 Mar 2013 - 09:58 by Local Press Report
KINGSTON (Go-Jamaica) — Customers of the National Water Commission (NWC) in sections of Trelawny should soon get a reprieve from the harsh drought conditions now affecting them. The NWC has mandated its team at
6 Mar 2013 - 08:35 by Local Press Report
SAN JOSE (Inside Costa Rica) — The Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers (AyA) said it would be performing preventive maintenance on the Tres Rios Water Treatment Plant on March 5, which will leave a large swath of cen
5 Mar 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, MEXICO CITY — An assessment of environmental public policy by Mexico’s Superior Auditor of the Federation (ASF) funds that per capita water availability in the country is decreasing.
5 Mar 2013 - 10:51 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Australia, BRISBANE — New research released this week finds that climate change is having a direct effect on crop yields -- but not because of temperature increases.
5 Mar 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
PERU, LIMA — A “mega commission” of the Peruvian Congress is investigating $1.7 billion USD in alleged fraud and irregularities in the country’s Water for All Program.
5 Mar 2013 - 08:45 by Local Press Report
SAO PAULO (Hispanically Speaking News) — The Brazilian government remains committed to the goal of providing universal access to clean water, President Dilma Rousseff said Monday during her weekly radio program. The administration is
5 Mar 2013 - 08:42 by Local Press Report
BROWNSVILLE (Brownsville Herald) — U.S. Sen.
4 Mar 2013 - 10:59 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
HAITI, PORT-AU-PRINCE — The Haitian government last week announced its new $2.2 billion USD plan to eliminate cholera from the island of Hispaniola (which includes Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
4 Mar 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
CHILE, SANTIAGO — A confidential agreement between power producer AES Gener and Aguas Andinas, the water supplier to the Chilean capital, on the $1.4 billion USD Alto Maipo hydropower project will be made public thi
4 Mar 2013 - 10:43 by Local Press Report
LOS ANGELES (Los Angeles Times) — High-altitude dust blown thousands of miles across the Pacific from Asian and African deserts can make it rain and snow in the Sierra Nevada, according to new research that suggests tiny particle
4 Mar 2013 - 09:05 by Local Press Report
KINGSTON (Jamaica Information Services) — The Government is looking to see how it can improve assistance to residents in drought stricken parishes. Approximately half the island is now being affected by worsening drought conditions
4 Mar 2013 - 08:53 by Local Press Report
SANTIAGO (Prensa Latina) — Regulations on drinkable-water quality are not complied with in several Chilean localities and the allowed level of arsenic is exceeded in some cases, according to a study published today. T
1 Mar 2013 - 10:04 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
PERU, LIMA — Local Peruvians have ended a nearly week-long protest of Barrick Gold Corp.’s Lagunas Norte Mine, the Canadian mining giant announced on February 27.
1 Mar 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
NICARAGUA, MANAGUA — The National Aqueduct and Sanitation Company of Nicaragua (ENACAL) has failed to deliver the main points of its Development Plan for 2008-2012, according to local media reports this week.
1 Mar 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, XALAPA — Water shortages in Xalapa, the capital of Mexico’s Veracruz State, are being made worse due to illegal logging in the forests of the Cofre de Perote region, according Bolívar Arias Olguín, head of
1 Mar 2013 - 08:35 by Local Press Report
AFRANIO (Al Jazeera) — Dairy farmers struggle as the Brazil's northeast continues to suffer from its worst drought in a half century. Nobody is being hit harder than the small-scale dairy farmers here in Afranio, as
1 Mar 2013 - 08:29 by Local Press Report
LUTON (Daily Markets) — Elster announced today that Brazilian utility, Companhia de Saneamento do Parana (SANEPAR), has selected Elster to supply more than 105,000 single-jet water meters in Brazil over the next three mon
1 Mar 2013 - 11:08 by Local Press Report
LONDON (Water and Energy Exchange) — The Water and Energy Exchange has announced the winners of its water-energy innovation awards competition. The winner in Innovation in Process Technology was VITENS - Clean Operator Project.
28 Feb 2013 - 10:44 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Brazil, SAO PAULO — The federal Public Prosecutor’s Office in Brazil’s Para state announced on its website this week that it is investigating allegations that the consortium building the controversial Belo Monte Dam h
28 Feb 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, CIUDAD VICTORIA — Work will begin this year on the second line of the Guadalupe Victoria Pipeline, which will supply water from the Vicente Guerrero Dam to Tamaulipas’ state capital, Ciudad Victoria, according to
28 Feb 2013 - 10:45 by Local Press Report
QUITO (Prensa Latina) — Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa ratified the legitimate defense of national sovereignty in the legal process of 30.000 Amazon applicants against Chevron transnational oil company, which seeks
28 Feb 2013 - 10:53 by Local Press Report
TRENTON (Fox Business) — Argentina's state-run oil company, YPF SA (YPF), could face billions of dollars in environmental-damage claims for the contamination decades ago of a New Jersey river by a long-defunct pesticide pl
27 Feb 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
PERU, LIMA — Peru is investing over $3.5 billion USD to expand sanitation treatment and water coverage in the capital district.
27 Feb 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
CHILE, SANTIAGO — Three years after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit Chile’s central coast, the country has repaired two-thirds of the damaged infrastructure, according to Chilean President Sebastian Piñe
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