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24 Sep 2019 - 05:33 - LAHJ - Local Press Report
More than 20 million people in Yemen are food insecure and water is a scarce resource, with access further restricted by over four years of conflict.
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24 Sep 2019 - 05:17 - NEW YORK NY - Local Press Report
Research compiled one year ago by Customs and Border Protection pointed to an overwhelming factor driving record-setting migration to the U.S.
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24 Sep 2019 - 05:36 - COLOMBO - Local Press Report
UNDP and Reforest Sri Lanka recently partnered with a commitment to revive the cascade systems in the Dry Zone of Sri Lanka by pledging to plant approximately 20,000 trees this season.
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24 Sep 2019 - 05:53 - MINNA - Local Press Report
Former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar, has attributed the rising conflicts in the country to the impact of climate change on the people.
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24 Sep 2019 - 05:43 - LAGOS - Local Press Report
Stakeholders have called on the Federal Government to enact a law that will allow private investors to own water plants for generation of water and supply to the public.
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24 Sep 2019 - 05:45 - CAIRO - Local Press Report
President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi ratified on Thursday a loan agreement worth KD15 million with the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) to establish four desalination plants in South Sina
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24 Sep 2019 - 05:11 - CAIRO, Egypt - OOSKAnews Correspondent
Egypt's Foreign Minister (FM) Sameh Shoukry has expressed frustration with Ethiopia’s stance on filling the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).
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24 Sep 2019 - 05:47 - HARARE - Local Press Report
Zimbabwe's capital shut its main water works on Monday citing shortages of foreign currency to import treatment chemicals, the deputy mayor said, potentially leaving the city dry and raising the ri
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24 Sep 2019 - 05:19 - SYDNEY - Local Press Report
New South Wales has been secretly exploring a highly controversial plan to turn the state’s coastal rivers inland to provide more water for irrigators and towns in the west of the state.
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24 Sep 2019 - 05:31 - BARWANI - Local Press Report
Nearly 2,000 men, women and children, riding bikes and packed in tractors and trucks, rallied in Barwani, a town of about 55,000 people, against submersion of their homes, property and businesses d
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24 Sep 2019 - 05:50 - SANTIAGO - Local Press Report
Representatives of Chile’s ruling party Chile Vamos defended this weekend a government proposal to allow mining companies to operate on rocky glaciers that are not listed in the national system of
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24 Sep 2019 - 05:22 - NEW DELHI - Local Press Report
China’s use of water as an “unconventional weapon” of warfare against India is a major geopolitical and environmental concern for New Delhi, strategic affairs expert Brahma Chellaney warned, as he
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24 Sep 2019 - 05:24 - THE HAGUE - Local Press Report
The Afsluitdijk – one of the low-lying Netherlands' key sea defences – has been taking a battering for 87 years.
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24 Sep 2019 - 04:32 - BOSTON MA, United States - OOSKAnews Correspondent
230 institutional investors representing $16.2 Trillion USD in assets under management called on companies to take urgent action with respect to the Amazon fires and the underlying cause of rapid deforestation in Brazil and Bolivia. An 18 September statement by the investors is consistent with the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that shows that 11 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions are caused by poor forestry and land-use management including commodity-driven deforestation.
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24 Sep 2019 - 04:39 - MEKELLE, Ethiopia - OOSKAnews Info
The city of Mekelle, capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray regional state, has commenced construction on a new China-funded water supply project that will meet the needs of an estimated 400,000 residents.
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24 Sep 2019 - 01:58 - KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - OOSKAnews Correspondent
The Malaysian government is finalizing a revised raw water selling price and expects to be propose this to Singapore in the near future.
Changes to the 1962 Johor River Water Agreement which governs water supply essential to Singapore have been a major effort of Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. The price-revision conditions in the agreement have long been a major point of bickering between Malaysia and Singapore for a number of years and discussions between the two sides on alternatives have not progressed.
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23 Sep 2019 - 07:15 - NEW YORK NY, United States - OOSKAnews Correspondent
Marking the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Henrietta Fore, Executive Director of UNICEF, has written an open letter to the world’s children.
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23 Sep 2019 - 06:25 - ISPRA, Italy - OOSKAnews Correspondent
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission have launched the World Water Quality Alliance (WWQA).
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23 Sep 2019 - 06:46 - BRUSSELS, Belgium - OOSKAnews Correspondent
The European Commission has announced an additional $38 Million USD in humanitarian relief for the Great Lakes region of Africa. The aid is earmarked for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and for continued support to Burundian refugees in the region.
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23 Sep 2019 - 06:54 - COLUMBUS OH, United States - OOSKAnews Info
New research from a consortium led by Ohio State University and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria draws a connection between power development plans through 2030 in Asia and its already “over-tapped waterways”.
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