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27 Feb 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
India, SRINAGAR — To meet growing drinking water needs in its winter capital, Jammu, the government of Indian-administered Kashmir is fast-tracking its $145 million USD Chenab Water Supply project.
27 Feb 2013 - 10:48 by Local Press Report
Bangkok (Bernama.com) — The state-run Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand will soon release more water from western dams to boost the country's hydropower production to offset a cut in gas-generated power due to
27 Feb 2013 - 10:46 by Local Press Report
ZHEJIANG (Radio Free Asia) — An environmental activist from the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang who dared a local official to take a swim in a polluted river has since been attacked by a group of unidentified men, he said
27 Feb 2013 - 09:20 by Local Press Report
BERKELEY SPRINGS (CNN International) — The 23rd annual Berkeley Springs International Water Tasting, held in the spa town of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, is the largest
27 Feb 2013 - 10:57 by Local Press Report
PRAGUE (Marcus Evans) — The 2nd Edition Advanced Water Management for Oil & Gas: Excellent Water Treatment and Produced Water Management to Ensure Profitable Production will be held April 15-17, 2013, i
26 Feb 2013 - 10:42 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Vietnam, HANOI — If the hydropower projects planned within the Mekong River basin are completed, they will accumulate as much as 16 percent of the river’s water volume, or 475 billion cubic meters a year, accordi
26 Feb 2013 - 10:24 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Bangkok, thailand — The Thai Water and Flood Management Commission is studying five proposals for setting up a new water ministry.
26 Feb 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
China, SHANGHAI — Chinese authorities have penalized an Apple supplier for environmental damage.
26 Feb 2013 - 10:54 by Local Press Report
YONGXIU (China.org.cn) — Tap water for 60,000 people was cut off Monday due to the pollution of a water source in east China's Jiangxi Province, government sources said. Around 10 a.m.
26 Feb 2013 - 10:51 by Local Press Report
KATHMANDU (Pakistan Today) — The Asian Development Bank on Tuesday approved a $150 million USD loan for a giant hydropower plant to ease Nepal's chronic electricity shortages which lead to power cuts of upto 14 hours a da
26 Feb 2013 - 11:03 by Local Press Report
karachi (Daily Times (Pakistan)) — During a big operation against defaulters in Cattle Colony Landhi, Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) disconnected connections of 65 Cattle Farms (pens) and confiscated 70 water suction motors
25 Feb 2013 - 10:22 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
BEIJING, China — The Chinese government has finally admitted to the existence of “cancer villages,” where decades of land, water and air pollution has caused the rates of cancer to be exponentially higher than they
25 Feb 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MANILA, Philippines — The two water companies serving Metro Manila and surrounding areas, are seeking to increase average basic water tariffs by 15.2 percent in the east zone and by 22 percent in the west zone as part
25 Feb 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
NEW DELHI, India — The Indian government will invest $30.5 billion USD during its current 12th Five-Year Plan period (2012-2017) to increase drinking water supply to rural areas.
25 Feb 2013 - 10:43 by Local Press Report
NEW DELHI (The Indian Express) — Seeking to bring around Bangladesh to support the construction of two dams in Meghalaya, India is considering offering a stake in the two projects. India has planned construction of Mawphu D
25 Feb 2013 - 08:31 by Local Press Report
PRINCETON (The Conversation) — Increases in humidity caused as a result of climate change are reducing labour productivity and it’s only likely to get worse over time, argue researchers from America’s National Oceanic and Atmosp
25 Feb 2013 - 10:55 by Local Press Report
HANOI (The Asahi Shimbun) — Mitsubishi Rayon Co. has entered into a distributor agreement with the Vietnamese engineering firm Greentech Environment Joint Stock Co.
22 Feb 2013 - 10:59 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Malaysia, SHAH ALAM — The government of Malaysia’s Selangor state this week offered to pay $3.1 billion USD to take over all four of the state’s water concessionaires.
22 Feb 2013 - 10:53 by Local Press Report
NEW DELHI (News Track India) — Union Water Resources Minister Harish Rawat Wednesday in a seminar urged the industry to come forward with cost effective and technical feasible solutions to address the usable water scarcity pro
22 Feb 2013 - 10:50 by Local Press Report
CHAROLETTESVILLE (NBC Politics) — In his first major address since taking office three weeks ago, Secretary of State John Kerry told an audience at the University of Virginia Wednesday that Americans must invest more in foreign aid
22 Feb 2013 - 10:36 by Local Press Report
BOSTON (Seeking Alpha) — The report, Global Mining Industry: Water Scarcity to Raise Capex and Operating Costs, Heighten Operational Risks, comes as more miners venture further afield, often to some of the most parched pla
22 Feb 2013 - 11:09 by Local Press Report
SICHUAN (Bloomberg ) — Suez Environnement (SEV), Europe’s second- biggest water company, is entering the Sichuan market in China by teaming up with Dayi Water to manage wastewater treatment plants in Shuangliu County
22 Feb 2013 - 11:04 by Local Press Report
BEIJING (The Australian) — Environment protection chiefs in China are being taunted with challenges: cash rewards if they dare to swim in the rivers for which they are responsible. To no one's surprise, given the reekin
21 Feb 2013 - 10:47 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
nairoBi, Kenya — Risks from chemical products and Arctic ice melting are this year’s major emerging issues for the global environment, according to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).
21 Feb 2013 - 10:31 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
China, JINAN — A senior official in China’s Shandong Province announced this week that 324 pollution-prevention projects along the eastern route of the counry’s South-to-North Water Diversion Program in Shandong
21 Feb 2013 - 11:03 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Bangkok, thailand — Thailand is abandoning plans to build the controversial Kaeng Sue Ten Dam on the Yom River, Deputy Prime Minister Plodprasop Suraswadi announced on February 19.
21 Feb 2013 - 10:38 by Local Press Report
HARARE (The Herald (Zimbabwe)) — Harare City Council has negotiated a $80 million USD loan with a Chinese bank to overhaul water treatment plants and replace ageing pipes to ensure at least 80 percent of the city receives constant
21 Feb 2013 - 10:33 by Local Press Report
BEIJING (Reuters) — China aims to spend $850 billion USD to improve filthy water supplies over the next decade, but even such huge outlays may do little to reverse damage caused by decades of pollution and overuse in
21 Feb 2013 - 11:33 by Local Press Report
NAYPYIDAW (Eleven Myanmar) — Environmentalists are urging the government to protect the source of the country's most important river, the Ayeyarwady, by turning the watershed of the Maykha and Malikha rivers into a national
20 Feb 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Netherlands, THE HAGUE — The International Court of Arbitration at The Hague has ruled that India can move forward with construction of the $687 million USD Kishenganga hydropower project in northern Kashmir, but rejected
20 Feb 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
NEW DELHI, India — The Indian government may introduce a rating system for appliances based on water consumption, along the lines of the one the the Bureau of Energy Efficiency has in place for electrical appliances.
20 Feb 2013 - 10:37 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
LONDON, United Kingdom — The Carbon Trust, a UK-based organization devoted to helping companies, governments and the public sector accelerate the move to a low-carbon economy, this week announced the launch of the world’s
20 Feb 2013 - 10:31 by Local Press Report
TAIPEI (Focus Taiwan News Channel) — The water supply in Taoyuan and certain areas of New Taipei has dropped slightly below normal due to lower than expected rainfall since the beginning of the year, the Water Resources Agency said Tu
20 Feb 2013 - 10:36 by Local Press Report
TOKYO (Japan Daily Press) — Japanese trading houses, always known to be major players in global issues such as energy and commodities, have recently stepped up acquisitions in the global water industry.
19 Feb 2013 - 10:30 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
dhaka, Bangladesh — An agreement between India and Bangladesh on sharing the water of the Teesta River could be reached this September when the Bangladeshi prime minister is next scheduled to visit India, according to
19 Feb 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
Bangkok, thailand — Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra last week expressed concern that drought conditions in many provinces could intensify over the next three months, and vowed to continue to pursue long-term
19 Feb 2013 - 10:47 by Local Press Report
BEIJING (Radio Free Asia) — The latest data from Beijing has revealed that around 90 percent of ground-water in China is polluted, much of it severely, with activists blaming local governments for protecting polluting enterpr
19 Feb 2013 - 10:41 by Local Press Report
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Globe) — The infrastructure unit of conglomerate Rajawali Corpora is bidding for two toll road projects and two water supply projects in an effort to expand its local business. The unit, Nusantara Infr
18 Feb 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
NEW DELHI, India — A new report released last week by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) urged the Indian government to find new ways to measure available w
18 Feb 2013 - 01:00 by OOSKAnews Correspondent
MANILA, Philippines — Japan’s Marubeni Corp has finally closed a deal to buy a fifth of Manila concessionaire Maynilad Water Services Inc., for $400 million USD, according to disclosures submitted to the Philippine Stoc
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