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20 Jun 2018 - 11:57 - CANBERRA - Local Press Report
Regulations on unconventional gas development across Australia would be tightened up if Labor wins the next election.
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20 Jun 2018 - 11:57 - BOGOTA - Local Press Report
Colombia’s capital Bogotá relies on a unique ecosystem called páramos for its water.
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20 Jun 2018 - 11:57 - SANTA ROSA CA - Local Press Report
In addition to destroying more than 8,000 structures and killing 44 people, the Northern California wildfires in 2017 unexpectedly also caused persistent contamination by the carcinogen benzene in
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20 Jun 2018 - 11:57 - SYDNEY NSW - Local Press Report
The New South Wales Government has watered down changes to laws governing the Murray-Darling river system that were proposed in the wake of the water theft and corruption investigations, according
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20 Jun 2018 - 11:57 - KYIV - Local Press Report
Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to resort to a military operation to force the land corridor via mainland Ukraine to Crimea, since he needs the peninsula only as a military base while
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20 Jun 2018 - 11:57 - DAR ES SALAAM - Local Press Report
Tanzania and Russia are expected to cooperate in managing forests and water resources.
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20 Jun 2018 - 11:47 - BEIJING, China - OOSKAnews Info
Eleven provinces and municipalities along China’s Yangtze River Economic Belt have seen some improvement in pollution control and ecological quality, but environmental challenges remain serious, ac
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20 Jun 2018 - 10:47 - HOUSTON, TX - OOSKAnews Correspondent
A new NASA instrument to be installed on the International Space Station will measure the temperature of plants from space, enabling researchers to determine plant water use and to study how drought conditions affect plant health.
The ECOSTRESS (ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station) instrument will be launched as part of a June 29 delivery payload to the space station.
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20 Jun 2018 - 08:35 - MADISON, WI - OOSKAnews Correspondent
Foxconn Technology Group has announced that it will voluntarily adopt a leading-edge water recycling system at the Wisconn Valley Science and Technology Park in Racine County, Wisconsin, USA.
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20 Jun 2018 - 07:34 - BOSTON, MA - OOSKAnews Correspondent
Even "modest" action to limit climate change could help prevent the most extreme water-shortage scenarios facing Asia by the year 2050, according to a new study led by researchers from the US's Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT).
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20 Jun 2018 - 07:56 - WARRENTON, VA - OOSKAnews Correspondent
Policymakers and farmers are underestimating serious water pollution risk to human health and ecosystems from unsustainable agricultural practices, a new report from the United Nations Food and Agr
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19 Jun 2018 - 12:07 - KAMPALA - Local Press Report
National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) has today signed a contract for the construction of a modern mega drinking water treatment plant in Katosi, to the east of Kampala.
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19 Jun 2018 - 12:07 - MUMBAI - Local Press Report
The Gurugram forest department on Saturday completed the drone mapping of two villages in the first phase to check encroachment or illegal activities in the Aravallis Mountain Range.
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19 Jun 2018 - 12:07 - ABUJA - Local Press Report
Niger Delta Activists Forum, NDAF, has warned of planned attacks on oil facilities in the Niger Delta belonging to Nigeria Agip Oil Company, NAOC.
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19 Jun 2018 - 12:07 - LUSAKA - Local Press Report
The World-Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Zambia and its partners have recently launched a petition to President Edgar Lungu to declare the Luangwa a Water Resource Protection Area. The Luangwa River ha
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19 Jun 2018 - 11:14 - NEW YORK, NY - OOSKAnews Correspondent
In a statement marking the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, the head of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has said that everyone needed to recognize th
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19 Jun 2018 - 09:00 - TEHRAN, Iran - OOSKAnews Correspondent
Iran's Foreign Ministry has criticized Israel for launching a Persian website to "assist people and farmers of Iran to recycle water", following Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's release last week of a video in which he offered Israel's water expertise to Iran, which he said faces an environmental disaster due to persistent drought.
"The Iranian people are victims of a cruel and tyrannical regime that denies them vital water," Netanyahu stated. "Israel stands with the people of Iran, and that is why I want to help save countless Iranian lives."
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19 Jun 2018 - 09:53 - JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - OOSKAnews Correspondent
The lobbying group Minerals Council of South Africa has signed a draft water conservation and demand management agreement with the the country's Department of Water And Sanitation aimed at driving
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19 Jun 2018 - 08:31 - BAGHDAD, Iraq - OOSKAnews Correspondent
The government of Iraq has instructed farmers not to plant rice and other water-intensive crops such as white corn, yellow corn, sesame, sun flower, mung beans and cotton as the country's drought c
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17 Jun 2018 - 10:40 - SANTA FE NM - Local Press Report
Republican New Mexico lawmakers challenged an agreement awarding water rights from the San Juan River to the Navajo Nation, asking the state Supreme Court on Friday to suspend the compact because t
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