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22 May 2018 - 10:12 - NEW YORK NY - OOSKAnews Correspondent
The government of Kyrgizstan has demanded a new United Nations resolution on problems associated from uranium mining tailings.
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22 May 2018 - 09:40 - HANOI, Vietnam - OOSKAnews Info
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22 May 2018 - 09:04 - PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - OOSKAnews Correspondent
Officials from Cambodia's ministries of Environment, and Mines and Energy are investigating gold mining company Rong Chheng, which is suspected of releasing cyanide waste into a water canal.
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21 May 2018 - 08:33 - WASHINGTON DC - Local Press Report
The US Congress's Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Friday introduced its biennial water resources legislation, setting up potential action on infrastructure at a time when President T
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21 May 2018 - 08:33 - ARAWAN - Local Press Report
At least six people have died in the last four days after drinking contaminated water in District Awaran of Balochistan, according to Commissioner Kalat Division Muhammad Hashim Ghilzai.
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21 May 2018 - 08:33 - BEIJING - Local Press Report
Governments across China will launch inspections to find out how the environment around sources of drinking water has been protected, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment said.
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21 May 2018 - 08:33 - BEIRUT - Local Press Report
Ensuring clean water and adequate sanitation for everyone in the Arab world was the focus of a meeting of Arab government officials and water, sanitation and health experts.
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21 May 2018 - 08:33 - NEW DELHI - Local Press Report
India's Supreme Court has brushed aside objections from Karnataka to the proposed Cauvery Board that will oversee actual water-sharing arrangements under the Cauvery Water Tribunal Award between the riparian states and ordered the central government to notify it before the monsoons.
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21 May 2018 - 08:33 - ABUJA - Local Press Report
WaterAid Nigeria has stressed the need for increased access to water, sanitation and good hygiene, saying these are key to the prevention of Ebola and other diseases threatening the nation and the African continent. Country Director of the organisation, Dr. Chichi Aniagolu-Okoye said unless Nigerians get access to the above, the fight against the deadly diseases might be futile.
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21 May 2018 - 05:28 - ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - OOSKAnews Correspondent
Malik Sohail, Chairman of Coordination of the Pakistan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) has said that conflicts over the construction of large dams in the country has wasted a lot of nation
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21 May 2018 - 05:59 - DURBAN, South Africa - OOSKAnews Info
The Environment Ministers of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (the BRICS nations) have reaffirmed their commitment to the Paris accord in dealing with climate change worldwide.
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20 May 2018 - 12:26 - DONETS, Ukraine - OOSKAnews Correspondent
Despite explicit security guarantees provided by warring parties, the beleaguered Donetsk Water Filtration Station in Eastern Ukraine remains in grave danger amid continuous shelling, Ertugrul Apakan, the Chief Monitor of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)’s Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine claimed in a May 18 statement.
More than 300,000 people in the region depend on the Donetsk Filtration Station for drinking water.
Further OOSKAnews coverage here.
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20 May 2018 - 11:19 - BEIJING, China - OOSKAnews Info
Chinese researchers have developed a nano material using waste cartons that can remove a toxic heavy metal from water.
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20 May 2018 - 11:37 - WASHINGTON, DC - OOSKAnews Correspondent
The Pakistan government is to apprise the top World Bank officials this week about "serious concern" over inauguration of Kishanganga hydro power project by India, "in violation of the Indus Waters
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20 May 2018 - 08:48 - MEDELLIN, Colombia - OOSKAnews Correspondent
Tens of thousands of residents evacuated villages on the banks of Colombia’s Cauca river last week after complications at the partially built Hidroituango dam, 170 kilometers north of Medellin and the country’s largest, led to a state of emergency among fears of a catastrophic burst.
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20 May 2018 - 08:08 - GABORONE - Local Press Report
Botswana, through its ministry of investment, trade and industry, has imposed a ban on the import of bottled natural and mineral water.
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20 May 2018 - 08:07 - GUANGDONG, China - OOSKAnews Correspondent
Thousands of fish died at a fish spa in Guangdong, China, after a customer reportedly urinated into a therapy foot tank.
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20 May 2018 - 07:21 - LOS ANGELES, CA - OOSKAnews Correspondent
Former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger has tweeted a proposition to Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt following reports about the administration's hand
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20 May 2018 - 07:23 - MACHAKOS - Local Press Report
A Kenyan county governor and the deputy of another county fell into a river on Friday morning. Machakos governor Alfred Mutua and Kisii Deputy Governor Joash Maangi were on Friday morning “fished o
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20 May 2018 - 07:53 - AMMAN, Jordan - OOSKAnews Correspondent
Jordan's northern governorates, where water demand has increased by 40 per cent over the past seven years, are set to receive additional water to ease an expected surge in demand during the holy mo
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