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28 Nov 2020 GENEVA, Switzerland

World Is "Alarmingly Off-track" To Deliver Sanitation Goals

On World Toilet Day, 19 November, the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF launched a report on global sanitation conditions and provided an assessment of investment required in order to achieve Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6.2 in the next 10 years.In 2015, Member States committed to achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations, by 2030...

10 Nov 2020 SINGAPORE

Legal Challenge To Sembcorp's Divestment Of South African Water Assets

The 718 million rand (S$70 million) sale of Sembcorp Industries' (SCI) South African municipal water assets, completed back in 2018, may potentially be reversed as a result of legal proceedings. In December 2018, SCI announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Sembcorp Utilities (Netherlands) NV (SUNNV) had sold the entire stake in Sembcorp Utilities South Africa (SUSA) and the 100 per cent effective stake in Sembcorp Silulumanzi to South African Water Works...

15 Sep 2020 SYDNEY, Australia

Climate Change May Displace Over 1.2 Billion People By 2050

More than 1.2 billion people are at threat of being displaced by 2050, due to environmental change, conflict and civil unrest, warns a new report by think tank the Institute of Economics & Peace.Predictions include that by 2040, 5.4 billion people – more than half of the world's projected population – will live in the 59 countries experiencing high or extreme water stress, including India and China...

14 Sep 2020 SINGAPORE

Record Fine For Construction Company's Damage To Singapore Water Main

A construction company has been fined S$56,500 for damaging a large water main and carrying out unauthorised works at Dunearn Road in September 2019, which disrupted water supply to nearly 40 households in the area. Feng Ming Construction was last month convicted of damaging a 500mm diameter water main and fined S$55,000, said PUB in a press release on Monday (Sep 14)...

14 May 2020 EDINBURGH, United Kingdom

REMINDER! TUNE IN 27 MAY! aquaNOW Audience, "Water and Resilient Cities"

This OOSKAnews Article was updated 20 MayOur world will have an estimated 2 billion new urban residents by 2050, so how do we make our cities more resilient in a water context? We need cities that can absorb, recover and prepare for future stresses and hazards while promoting sustainable development, well-being and inclusive growth, deploying environmental, governmental, economical and societal tools at our disposal...

4 Nov 2019 SINGAPORE

Water Demand Under Extreme Hydrological Events: Implications For Cities (March 2020 Workshop)

The Institute of Water Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, and the International Journal of Water Resources Development, are organising a workshop on “Water demand under extreme hydrological events: Implications for cities”, 23-24 March 2020. The focus of this 2-day workshop will include discussions on planning, policy, management, governance implications, implementation constraints and lessons learnt, both positive and negative.

20 Oct 2019 JAKARTA, Indonesia

McKinsey Will Advise Indonesia On Capital Relocation

The government of Indonesia has appointed international management consultancy McKinsey & Company to prepare a feasibility study regarding the country's plan to relocate the capital from currently-sinking Jakarta to Borneo. Half of Jakarta is below sea level with one of the main causes being subsidence caused by extraction of groundwater for drinking water and other human use...

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15 Sep 2019 ABERDEEN, Scotland

aquaNOW Audience: "The Philosophy of a Hydro-Nation"

Scotland’s James Hutton Institute hosted the first of a new series of aquaNOW Audiences 11 September, at the Institute’s spectacular Craigiebuckler campus home of world-leading environmental research. The video of the aquaNOW Audience CAN BE VIEWED HERE. An eclectic international and Scottish panel discussed opportunities offered by the recent announcement that Glasgow, Scotland, will co-host the 2020 UN Climate Change conference (COP 26, the Scottish COP?); the role of nation states in addressing global water, and water-related challenges; the "value of water"; ways to engage popular and political discourse around water resources management beyond the "water industry"...

9 Sep 2019 NEW DELHI

India: Haryana State Challenges Plans To Treat Sewage For Potable Water Use

A year after Delhi government announced ambitious plans to use treated sewage water, as Singapore does, to improve drinkingwater supply, Haryana has succeeded in stonewalling the project. Haryana has questioned the very premise of using treated sewage water for boosting potable water as well as its social acceptability, revealed Delhi Jal Board vice-chairman Dinesh Mohaniya.

7 Sep 2019 HONG KONG

Hong Kong Protests: Did China Really Just Promote The Idea Of Cutting Off Water Resources?

In an interview with the People’s Daily’s Xiakedao program last week, Zheng Yongnian, former director of the East Asian Institute at the National University of Singapore, joked about cutting off Hong Kong’s water supply to end protests in the city. The interview, originally titled “Conversation with Zheng Yongnian: how to bring the Hong Kong disturbance to a conclusion,” was chosen by government authorities to receive special promotion across online platforms.

14 Aug 2019 GLASGOW, Scotland

"Water Diplomacy Talks" - Professor Asit Biswas

Professor Asit K. Biswas, one of the world’s leading authorities on water, is in conversation with David Duncan, Publisher, OOSKAnews in this (LINK) "Water Diplomacy Talks" audio interview.Professor Biswas and Duncan met in Scotland this month, where Biswas is Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Glasgow...

12 Jul 2019 SINGAPORE

Singaporeans Remain Reluctant About Tap Water Quality

Singapore is a global hydro-hub, home to more than 200 water companies and about 25 research centres. And national water agency PUB has gone to great lengths to monitor, treat and improve its drinking water supply. So Singaporeans are aware that tap water is “clean and safe to drink”, said Erny Kartolo, one of the founders of the Drink Wise, Drink Tap campaign...