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3 Jun 2008 - 10:43 by Local Press Report
PUNE (The Sangai Express (India)) — Repair and renovation work is complete on the Chingtham Leikai water supply plant. The rehabilitation project started last year.
The plant was formally handed over to community
3 Jun 2008 - 10:43 by Local Press Report
SEOUL, South Korea (Asia Pulse) — South Korea's Kolon Engineering & Construction Co. has won a $46.4 million USD contract with Jordan's Water Authority to build a sewage treatment plant in southern Amman, the company said last
3 Jun 2008 - 10:43 by Local Press Report
BEIJING, PUNE (China Daily) — Construction is due to start within the next two months on the Sino-Singaporean Tianjin Eco-city demonstration project. The joint project by the governments of Singapore and
3 Jun 2008 - 10:43 by Local Press Report
SINGAPORE CITY (Singapore International Water Week) — The World Health Organization will review work for the fourth edition of its guidelies on drnking water quality during Singapore's International Water Week from June 23-27.
3 Jun 2008 - 10:43 by Local Press Report
BEIJING (Xinhua (China)) — The Ministry of Water Resources was working to secure drinking water by last weekend for 760,000 residents of rural areas affected by the 8-magnitude earthquake that hit the country on May 12.
3 Jun 2008 - 10:43 by Local Press Report
MANILA (The Visayan Daily Star (Philippines)) — The Philippine Tourism Authority and Maynilad Water last week signed a $6.9 million USD partnership agreement for management of water supply systems and sewerage on Boracay Island.
3 Jun 2008 - 10:43 by Local Press Report
BEIJING (GE) — 'Water, power and technology multinational General Electric (GE) has pledged to reduce its fresh water use by 20 percent by 2012, as part of its "ecomaginatwn commitments.
3 Jun 2008 - 10:43 by Local Press Report
PESHAWAR (The International News (Pakistan)) — Residents of Town-lV Council are asking the provincial government to supply them with irrigation water from 'Warsak Dam. Council leaders say that transporting water from the
3 Jun 2008 - 10:43 by Local Press Report
ISLAMABAD (Daily Times (Pakistan)) — Islamabad has been hit by summertime water shortages, leaving residents to depend on water bowsers dispatched by the Capital Development Authority for their supply. A number of factors are being
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BEIJING, China — — Starting last week, military and volunteer relief efforts were launched to distribute bottled water to refugees displaced by the 8-Richter-scale earthquake that shook China on May 12.
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BEIJING, China — — China moved swiftly within days of its devastating earthquake to remove online reports that the May 12 quake could have been caused by the controversial Three Gorges Dam project.
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
India, LUCKNOW — — Uttar Pradesh is set to enact comprehensive legislation to regulate the conservation and extraction of groundwater resources.
A new bill will be presented that seeks to ensure that the
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
India, MARGAO — — Most of southern Goa state, including Margao, the commercial capital, have been experiencing water shortages amounting to an estimated 20 million liters a day.
Margao consumes about 70 million
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
India, PATNA — - In order to minimize the devastation caused by flooding every year and provide potable drinking water to residents, the Bihar government in eastern India has decided to spend
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
NEW DELHI, India — — Civic authorities in India can now be sued for compensation for supplying poor-quality drinking water.
A consumer court has ruled that "a consumer has the right to be
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BEIJING, China, ORCHHA, India 900SKAnews) — — Water-scarce China is exploring ways to augment supplies to major cities through construction of underground reservoirs.
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Malaysia, KUALA LUMPUR — — Puncak Niaga Holdings Bhd is expanding into the water industry in China through a joint venture worth over $75 million USD to immediately take over seven water concessions in the country.
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
CHENNAI, India — —Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi this Saturday directed water supply officials to complete the controversial Hogenakkal Integrated Water Scheme by the scheduled date of 2012.
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
dhaka, Bangladesh — — Hundreds of residents of Bangladesh's capital defied a ban on public demonstrations to protest shortages of drinking water last month.
A dropping water table and lack of
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
NEW DELHI, India — - Mozambique has received $20 million USD in funding from India's Export Import Bank (Exim Bank) for water supply projects in its two most populous provinces, Nampula and Zambeze.
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BEIJING, China — - Chinese authorities have requested Israeli company CheckLight to send more drinking water pollution testing kits.
The government had already ordered and received 36 such testing kits, but
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BEIJING, China — — China is taking steps to reduce the risks of quake lakes in Sichuan province, formed by landslides that blocked rivers.
Landslides that blocked rivers in the province have formed 35 barrier lakes
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
— U.S.based Heckmann Corp. last week bought out China Water and Drinks, Inc., Heckmann CEO Richard Heckmann announced.
The company is worth an estimated $625 million USD.
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Malaysia, KUALA LUMPUR — — Water concessionaire Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Syabas) is recommending that water subscribers check their pipes and water storage tanks, following complaints from
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
India, DARJEELING — — The eastern Indian state of Bengal plans to complete its long-delayed 10-year-old drinking water project in Darjeeling by November next year.
The Darjeeling Water Supply Scheme
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
India, BANGALORE — — It has now been confirmed that the rise in the incidence of communicable diseases in Bangalore is due to contaminated water and not the result of consuming
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by Local Press Report
MANILA, Philippines Local Reports (Philippine Daily Inquirer) — — DMCI Holdings Inc., which owns 42 percent of Maynilad Water Services, reported a 68percent drop in first-quarter net income to $2.5 million USD, mainly due to foreign exchange losses
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by Local Press Report
Vietnam, HANOI (VietnamNet) — — Vietnam is set to join the Asian Monsoon Year 2008 international research program, the Central Hydro-Meteorological Forecast Center reports.
Vietnam runs 40 weather stations, six
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by Local Press Report
Germany, HAMBURG (Der Spiegel Online (Germany)) — — Getting clean water to survivors of the cyclone that ravaged Myanmar two weeks ago is one of the top priorities for international aid workers, but Myanmar's government
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by Local Press Report
NEW DELHI, India (Business Standard (India)) — — Minister for Rural Development Raghuvansh Prasad last week called for making sanitation programs a top priority in 2008, the International Year of Sanitation.
Sustainability of water sources and
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by Local Press Report
Vietnam, HANOI (Thanh Nien News (Vietnam)) — — The Ministry of Construction is considering a $1.16 billion USD "live safely with flooding" program.
Under the project, which will run up to 2010, infrastructure like
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by Local Press Report
India, PUNE (Expressindia.com (India)) — — Pune is considering reviving a 700,000 gallon per day supply system built during the Peshwa era (1749-1750) and last used in the 1970s.
A committee report on the supply line,
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by Local Press Report
Indonesia, JAKARTA (MTI (Hungary)) — — Hungary has signed an agreement for a $10 million USD aid loan for Indonesia last week.
Under the 16-year agreement, signed by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Hungarian
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by Local Press Report
SEOUL, South Korea (Hankyoreh (South Korea)) — — The government plans to privatize 50 to 60 of its 305 state-run companies, but will retain control of water supply companies.
It hopes to raise about $60.2 billion USD though the sale.
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by Local Press Report
NEW DELHI, India (Newindpress.com (India)) — — Water supply in New Delhi has improved since neighboring Haryana state released Delhi's share of water, Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said Saturday.
Dikshit said the Delhi Jal
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by Local Press Report
India, CHandiGarH (Business Standard (India)) — — Japan is proposing a joint committee with the Punjab state government to monitor and clean up polluted rivers in the state.
The project, funded by the govern2009 and would be completed
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by Local Press Report
Pakistan, karachi (Pakistan Daily) — - A delegation of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), has reviewed the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board master plan for water supply
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by Local Press Report
Pakistan, karachi (Daily Times (Pakistan)) — — A new study on rainfall in Karachi and its effects on civic services calls for immediate preparation of a stormwater drainage master plan.
The study by Sir Syed University of
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by Local Press Report
Malaysia, JOHOR BARU (The Malaysia Star) — - An investment of some $311 million USD is needed for infrastructure - water, electricity, roads and telecommunications - for the Aeropolis development in Iskandar this year.
26 May 2008 - 22:29 by Local Press Report
TOKYO, Japan (Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan)) — — Japan plans to send a "water defense force" to provide direction in water management for African countries, Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will announce this week.
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