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9 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by Local Press Report
KINGSTON (Radio Jamaica) — Minister of Water Dr. Horace Chang said the $22.3 million USD government project to improve the water supply system in the corporate area and parts of rural Jamaica would pay for itself.
9 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by Local Press Report
Brazil, IL, NAPERVILLE (Nalco) — Nalco opened a new $2 million USD research and development facility in Campinas, Brazil, last week to serve the Latin America region. "Brazil is one of the 10 largest economies in the world,
9 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by Local Press Report
JAMAICA, KINGSTON (The Jamaica Gleaner) — The water levels in most National Water Commission systems are at critical levels due to drought. The Mona reservoir, which has a capacity of 809 million gallons, is holding only half
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
washington, dc, united states — T he growing global "water gap" between demand and supply could reach 40 percent by 2030, according to a new report released on November 23 by the 2030 Water Resources Group.
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuadorian water regulator Secretaria National del Agua (Senagua) inspected 623 water concessions in order to update the country's hydrological database,
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
united states, WASHINGTON DC — Anew report claims humans have increased their ecological footprint on the planet to the extent that they have fundamentally transformed the climate, threatening basic supplies such as water.
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
GEORGETOWN, Guyana — G uyana Water Incorporated, which controls the country's entire water network, has come up with a new plan to reign in illegal water users.
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Brazil, BRASILIA — B razil's basic sanitation agenda is "shameful," according to Raul Pinho, president of Trata Brasil Institute, an NGO focused on sanitation solutions and technologies.
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Australia, LANE COVE — Smart and financially sound businesses should reuse wastewater and look at ways to create energy from effluent, according to CST Wastewater Solutions Managing Director Mike Brambridge.
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
CHILE, SANTIAGO — Chile will need 45 percent more water, or 540 million cubic meters, to increase mining operations according to plans by 2020, according to a November 17 Chilean Copper Commission (Cochilco) report.
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
LONDON, United Kingdom — The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a non-profit organization that operates a voluntary greenhouse gas emissions disclosure system, is expanding its operations to include the water sector with the
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC — The national water utility for the Dominic Republic, Inapa, is investing almost $55.5 million USD in water and sanitation projects in the eastern provinces of the nation.
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MEDELLIN, Colombia — The Medellih-based Colombian multi-utility Empresas Publicas de Medellin (EPM) signed a collaboration agreement last month with Siapa, the water and sewage utility for Mexico's Guadalajara state.
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
PARIS, France — The European Space Agency (ESA)'s water satellite circling the globe returned its first data successfully last month, the agency said.
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by Local Press Report
SALT LAKE CITY, UT (University of Utah) — An engineer at the University of Utah has developed a new method of removing oil sheen from water. The method involves repeatedly pressurizing and depressurizing ozone gas, creating
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by Local Press Report
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, SANTO DOMINGO (Working With Water) — A joint venture of ACCIONA Agua, with 60 percent equity, and Dominican firm AbiKarram Morilla Ingenieros Arquitectos, with 40 percent equity, has won the contract for construction of a drinking wate
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by Local Press Report
new yorK, ny (NYSSA) — The New York Society of Security Analysts' (NYSSA) 13th Annual Water Utility Conference is being held on December 2. The conference noted that water stocks rebounded in 2009,
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by Local Press Report
Brazil, SAO PAULO (Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de) — Companhia de Saneamento Basico do Estado de Sao Paulo (Sabesp) selected a group led by BB-Banco de Investimento to structure its public offering of promissory notes.
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by Local Press Report
UNITED STATE S, KS, KANSAS CITY (CST Industries Inc.) — CST Industries in late November named Declan McLaughlin as president of the company. McLaughlin will be responsible for the general management and operations of the manufacturing facilities and
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by Local Press Report
Argentina, BUENOS AIRES (Frost & Sullivan) — Privatization is no longer the main focus of water supply reforms in Latin America, according to a new report by business research firm Frost & Sullivan. Instead, infrastructure
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by Local Press Report
Mexico, MEXICO CITY (Dow Jones) — Mexican construction company Empresas ICA won a $52.5 million USD contract from the National Water Commission to build a 40 cubic meter per second water-pumping station in central Mexico.
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by Local Press Report
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (InterPress Service) — Uruguay needs to work with its neighbors to combat the effects of global warming, according to Professor Mario Bide gain of the atmospheric sciences unit at the Faculty Sciences of Uruguay's public
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by Local Press Report
JAMAICA, KINGSTON (Jamaica Observer) — The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) said that providing water and sanitation in informal settlements does not encourage squatting. "Ninety-nine percent of our work is related to situations
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by Local Press Report
NC, RALEIGH (North Carolina State University) — A new water management framework developed by Dr. Sankar Arumugam, a researcher at North Carolina State University, is using improved climate forecasts, and the information they provide
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by Local Press Report
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (Jamaica Observer) — Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo, who is currently serving as chair of the Caribbean Community (Caricom), wants the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to support the agriculture plan of the
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by Local Press Report
CA, LIVERMORE (DOE/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) — P or if era Inc. has secred the license for a carbon nanotube technology to desalinate water. The technology was developed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. It can
2 Dec 2009 - 16:02 by Local Press Report
washington, dc, GUATEMALA (Inter-American Development Bank) — The Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and the Spanish government are providing a total of $100 million USD — half in the form of grants from Spain and the rest in the form of IADB loans — to fi
18 Nov 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, MEXICO CITY — Mexico's 31 states and the federal district will receive 10 percent cuts in their water spending budgets in 2010 in the budget bill submitted to the lower house for
18 Nov 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
united states, BOTHELL, WA — New research from HaloSource, a global clean water and anti-microbial technology company, found a strong correlation between access to clean water and economic stability and growth.
18 Nov 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
PARIS, France — French utility Veolia Environnement SA, the world's biggest water company, said profit fell 14 percent during the first nine months of 2009 as the global economic slowdown cut demand for waste
18 Nov 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
ASUNCION, Paraguay — Representative of the Paraguayan lower house met with Public Works and Communications Minister Efraih Alegre and Emilio Insfran, head of state water utility Essap, to discuss a loan to finance
18 Nov 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Mexico, MEXICO CITY — Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) President Luis Alberto Moreno on November 16 said Latin America and the Caribbean were facing serious water crises that will impact the
18 Nov 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
PERU, LIMA — Peruvian President Alan Garcia and Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa signed an agreement creating a permanent bi-national committee to manage the Zarumilla river basin, located on the border of
18 Nov 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
UNITED NATIONS — Conflicts over water are often at the heart of regional instability, yet could become catalyst for cooperation and peace if managed properly, a leading expert in water resource policy
18 Nov 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
GUATEMALA, GUATEMALA CITY — Guatemala's Vice President Rafael Esada is heading a team to find short, mid- and long-term solutions to the pollution problems of Lake Atitlan, one of Guatemala's most important
18 Nov 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Welcome to this week's issue of OOSKAnews Weekly Water Report, Latin America and the Caribbean.
This note is to remind readers that we're taking a week off next week.
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18 Nov 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Brazil, SAO PAULO — The governor of Sao Paulo has signed a $100 million USD loan agreement between the water utility for Sao Paulo, Sabesp, and the World Bank's International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
18 Nov 2009 - 16:02 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
PERU, LIMA — Peruvian President Alan Garcia, announced that 100 dams and 30 reservoirs would be constructed in the nation by the end of 2010.
This is being done to boost agricultural productivity and combat
18 Nov 2009 - 16:02 by Local Press Report
JAMAICA, KINGSTON (Jamaica Information) — Residents of Scotts Hall now have an upgraded water supply system, thanks to a project by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF). The $261,000 USD upgrade was completed in June 2008.
18 Nov 2009 - 16:02 by Local Press Report
Ecuador, PAUTE (The Latin American Herald Tribune) — Authorities blamed extremely low water levels at hydropower plants in southern Ecuador for recurrent blackouts over the past weeks. The reservoir water level at the dam on the Paute was at
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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