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25 Mar 2013 - 10:25 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
new yorK, ny, united states — The United Nations stressed the theme of cooperation during this year’s 20th World Water Day events on March 22.
25 Mar 2013 - 07:47 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BEIJING, China — Beijing Enterprises Water Group Ltd.
25 Mar 2013 - 08:36 by Local Press Report
25 Mar 2013 - 08:30 by Local Press Report
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post) — A number of disadvantaged regions in the country are due to receive assistance to install tap-water and sewage facilities. The Australian and United States governments have pledged to give US$
25 Mar 2013 - 10:25 by Local Press Report
KS, MISSION WOODS (Layne Christensen Company) — Layne Christensen Company (Nasdaq:LAYN) ("Layne" or the "Company") is pleased to announce its partnership with Water
25 Mar 2013 - 08:39 by Local Press Report
COLOMBO (HIRU TV) — The National Water Supply and Drainage Board states that water purification at the Ambathale water purification facility in Colombo has been hampered due to sludge released to the Kelani river.&nbs
22 Mar 2013 - 06:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
united states, WASHINGTON DC — In keeping with the United Nations’ designation of 2013 as the International Year of Water Cooperation, events held around the globe this week focused on creating water partnerships.
22 Mar 2013 - 06:48 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
vientiane, laos — The Laotian government last week invited journalists to the site of the controversial $3.5 billion USD Xayaburi Dam for tours, interviews, and the release of a report all claiming that the Mekong R
22 Mar 2013 - 06:51 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
NEW DELHI, India — Leading Indian water activists have questioned the viability of the public private partnership (PPP) model in the country’s water sector, claiming that water privatization moves being pursued by st
22 Mar 2013 - 09:22 by Local Press Report
BANGALORE (Times of India) — Faced with its worst crisis, a desperate Bangalore Water Supplu & Sewerage Board (BWSSB) kicked off Save Water campaign.
22 Mar 2013 - 10:17 by Local Press Report
MI, DEARBORN (Automotive World) — Ford reduced the average amount of water used to make each vehicle by 8.5 percent between 2011 and 2012 – putting the company more than halfway toward its current goal of using an average of just
22 Mar 2013 - 09:55 by Local Press Report
BEIJING (The Guardian) — The number of dead pigs recovered in the last two weeks from rivers that supply water to Shanghai
21 Mar 2013 - 07:24 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
KATHMANDU, Nepal — Thousands of citizens of Bangladesh, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka came together on March 19 to launch a regional sanitation campaign for South Asia.
21 Mar 2013 - 09:45 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
China, CHANGSHOU — Residents have refused to drink, bathe, cook or clean with tap water in the town of Changshou, Pingjiang county in Hunan province, for several years despite assurances that water quality tests ha
21 Mar 2013 - 08:14 by Local Press Report
sinGapore (Channel News Asia) — Scientists at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have developed a material that promises to cut by up to half the amount of energy used to purify wastewater and reduce costs by 30 percent.&nb
21 Mar 2013 - 08:17 by Local Press Report
BANGALORE (The Ground Report India) — The Cauvery river water issue, which is a bone of contention between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu and also entangles Kerala and Puducherry, is now caught up in a new row. This time within Karnatak
20 Mar 2013 - 07:40 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
China, MAOMING — An acid mine water leak from a rare earth mining project in China’s Guangdong Province has contaminated water in the Wang Fu River near the city of Maoming.
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 - 07:39 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) on March 15 broke ground on an $88 million USD project in Punjab province aimed at control water logging and seepage on agricultural lands.<
20 Mar 2013 - 09:56 by Local Press Report
CAN THO (Eurasia Review) — Asian and European representatives meet in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho in Vietnam on March 21-22 to discuss closer Asia-Europe cooperation on water resource and river basin management.
20 Mar 2013 - 09:52 by Local Press Report
KATHMANDU (The Himalayan) — Policy makers from South Asia region on March 19 started the South Asian Sanitation Campaign aimed at exerting pressure for the implementation of the related decisions taken by them. The theme
19 Mar 2013 - 07:31 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
ZIMBABWE, HARARE — A major mining project in the area near the Gwayi-Shangani Dam is raising concerns over freshwater pollution in Zimbabwe’s Matebeleland North province, in the southwest of the country.
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 - 07:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — The Hague-based International Court of Arbitration’s recent decision on India’s Kishanganga Hydroelectric Plant has restored Pakistan’s confidence in the Indus Waters Treaty, a Pakistani official s
19 Mar 2013 - 07:29 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MANILA, Philippines — Complaints about government red tape dominated proceedings of a conference of small hydropower producers in the Philippines last week, as participants underscored that it now takes twice as long to
19 Mar 2013 - 10:15 by Local Press Report
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Globe) — The massive tunnel project that the Jakarta administration has proposed as a way of preventing flooding in the capital could also be used to ensure a steady supply of clean water to city residents,
19 Mar 2013 - 09:57 by Local Press Report
NEW DELHI (The Indian Express) — Traffic was disrupted at the Delhi-Hisar and Fatehabad-Jind national highways on Sunday afternoon, as the members of the Jat community of Haryana blocked the highways.
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
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 - 09:56 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
China, SHANGHAI — The number of dead pig carcasses fished out of the Huangpu River near Shanghai, China, has topped more than 13,000 in just one week, according to reports by state media today.
18 Mar 2013 - 07:45 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BEIJING, China — In response to widespread drought in southern and southwestern China, the Chinese Finance Ministry last week announced that the government would spend over $19 million USD for drought relief.
18 Mar 2013 - 07:47 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MASERU, Lesotho — Botswana has entered into an agreement with Lesotho and South Africa to explore options for withdrawing water from the multi-billion-dollar Lesotho Highlands Water Project (LHWP).
18 Mar 2013 - 08:20 by Local Press Report
NEW DELHI (Hindustan Times) — Public Private Partnership (PPP) models in the water sector has fuelled debates about the viability of the model globally. The Delhi Jal Board (DJB) had launched three pilot projects for 24-ho
18 Mar 2013 - 08:09 by Local Press Report
TAIPEI (Water World) — Cloud seeding may be started Monday to induce rain at Shihmen Reservoir in northern Taiwan, after water reserves there have dropped below the lowest level, a water resources official said Saturda
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 - 07:51 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MUMBAI India — State authorities in Maharashtra state have put police on high alert to avert possible clashes over available water in the Indian state, which is facing its worst drought in over four decades.
15 Mar 2013 - 07:52 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Pakistan, karachi — A prominent Pakistani development worker and water rights activist was shot dead on March 13 in the city of Karachi.
15 Mar 2013 - 09:55 by Local Press Report
NEW DELHI (Bloomberg ) — Suez Environnement (SEV), Eur
15 Mar 2013 - 09:30 by Local Press Report
BEIJING (Xinhua) — The first batch of regions and companies have been selected to carry out seawater desalination pilots, China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country's top economic planne
15 Mar 2013 - 07:58 by Local Press Report
LAHORE (Dawn.com) — Two days before the end of its five-year tenure, the government is likely to sign a $500 million commercial loan agreement with a foreign bank to finance the $2.8 billion Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower
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