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 International
 Sustaining Drinking Water Quality in Bulgaria
Resource protection is a key issue for EU member states. A survey conducted on behalf of the German Ministry of Environment and the Bulgarian health authorities renders interesting data  [more...]



 Lebanon: ICRC Completes Additional Water Projects
The ICRC in Lebanon has recently completed seven major water repair and rehabilitation projects in the south of the country and the Bekaa valley.  [more...]



 A Bumper Crop of Contracts for Suez Environment in China
Suez Environment is continuing its strategic offensive and development in China with four new contracts for water and wastewater services.  [more...]



 International Water Forum Fails to Tackle World Water Crisis
With around five million people a year dying from water-related diseases, governments attending the World Water Forum have failed to grab the opportunity to make tangible progress on the world's water crisis.   [more...]



 Drinking Water for Rainy Mountains
In Timor Leste half of the population lacks access to safe drinking water. The Austrian Red Cross constructs water and sanitation systems in the worlds youngest nation.  [more...]



 Algiers: Largest Desalination Plant in Africa
At a ceremony held in Algiers, GE Infrastructure, Water & Process Technologies, a unit of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), joined the Algerian Government, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the Algerian Energy Company (AEC), in announcing plans to build Hamma Water Desalination SpA (Hamma)  [more...]



 India Pioneers Rainwater Harvesting
GOA, India, October 7, 2004 (ENS) - Rainwater harvesting means catching and holding rain where it falls and using it. It can be stored in tanks or used to recharge groundwater. From this seemingly simple idea, India is learning some great lessons.   [more...]



 Water Action Plan for Africa
The Pan-African Implementation and Partnership Conference on Water (PANAFCON), which opened on December 8 simultaneously with the Africa Water Week, ended on December 12 in Addis Ababa with an action plan to meet Africa's World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) targets, the African Water Vision and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on water.  [more...]



 Resource Protection: About RBOs and Holistic Approaches
The Washington World Resources Institute is strongly involved in water issues. API spoke exclusively with its president, Jonathan Lash, who was guest of the ABCSD this autumn.   [more...]



 Strategic Partnership for Clean Water and Safe Sanitation
Time and again, the importance of water is reflected in our daily living. We need water for drinking, cooking, washing clothes, and cleaning our homes. Indeed, water is life and its scarcity may cause illnesses, diseases, malnutrition and even death.  [more...]



 Islands: Paradise with Blemishes
"...God desired to crown His work, and thus created the Kornati Islands..." (G. B. Shaw). Today the jewels risk running dry, which can only be prevented by a bundling of all forces.  [more...]



 Africa Could Face Water Wars
African countries could face water wars if the power of their mighty rivers isn't properly harnessed and shared Associated Press reports officials from across the continent said.  [more...]



 Protected Forests Supply Cities With Clean Water
A new study by World Bank-WWF Alliance for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use shows that protecting forest areas provides a cost-effective means of supplying many of the world’s biggest cities with high quality drinking water, providing significant health and economic benefits to urban populations.   [more...]



 New Drinking Water Rules to Cut Illness, Cancer Risks
WASHINGTON, DC, July 11, 2003 (ENS) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed rules that would require drinking water systems to monitor for and increase protection against the microbe cryptosporidium while expanding the monitoring and control of disinfection byproducts. The two new rules will reduce the risk of illness from microbes and decrease cancer risks from chemicals that form during drinking water treatment, the agency said.   [more...]



 UN World Water Report Presents Gloomy Forecasts
Already by the middle of this century seven billion people might suffer from a water scarcity. The main reason for this crisis is the improper use of the precious resource.  [more...]



 Moldova to Receive World Bank Support For Water Supply and Sanitation
The World Bank approved a US$ 12 million equivalent credit for the Pilot Water Supply and Sanitation Project to Moldova to improve the quality, efficiency and sustainability of water supply and sanitation services.  [more...]



 Water: A Driver of Growth
Calling for a new form of environmental diplomacy, an Athens Declaration applauded the potential of two new cooperative water programs - the Southeastern Europe Transboundary River Basin and Lake Basin Management Program and the Mediterranean Shared Aquifers Management Program.  [more...]



 Meeting the Challenge of Water
A new multilateral institution focusing on water resources management became the newest member of the Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) this month and embarked on a new program of knowledge sharing for countries linked through GDLN.  [more...]



 Problem identified – but the Solution?
Concerned about the future supply of the world population the United Nations have proclaimed 2003 as the "Year of Freshwater". Can this reverse the trend?  [more...]



 Supplying Water - For a Price
Supplying water and sanitation for the world’s people is a huge task - and an expensive one. Whether these essential services are best carried out by governments or the private sector is a much-debated question.   [more...]



 Thirsty Future As World's Fresh Water Supplies Dwindle
The world will face a water crisis a few decades from now as population growth, pollution and climate change deprive billions of the most precious natural resource of all, a UN report warned on Wednesday, reports AFP.  [more...]



 Water for African Cities praised by UN Foundation
Anna Tibaijuka, the Executive Director of UN-HABITAT, made the keynote address at a working luncheon hosted by the United Nations Foundation in Washington.   [more...]



 Kosovo: Clean Water for Gnjilane
The ICRC handed over its last water-supply project in the Balkans to the local water board.  [more...]



 Water: A Matter of Life and Death
There are more than one billion people who lack access to a steady supply of clean water. There are 2.4 billion people - more than a third of the world's population - who do not have access to proper sanitation. The results are devastating.  [more...]



 Mojave Desert Water Project Rejected
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California voted Tuesday to reject a proposed water storage project in the Mojave Desert. Critics of the controversial plan warned that the project would jeopardize wildlife, included endangered desert bighorn sheep and desert tortoises, and harm wilderness habitat at great economic cost.  [more...]



 Foreign Ministry Provides Assistance to Secure Water Supply in Albania
A model project relates to the sustainable improvement of the water supply to Shkodra, a town with 110,000 inhabitants in the north of the Albanian republic.   [more...]



 Improving Water Supply in Yemen
The World Bank last week approved US$130 million to upgrade urban water supply and sanitation services in densely populated urban communities of Yemen.  [more...]



 Water is our defining challenge!
As a United Nations committee continued to lay the groundwork for an upcoming United Nations summit on sustainable development, participants of the preparatory session in New York warned today (29 January, 2002) that without ensuring safe water and sufficient sanitation, there was little chance of meeting crucial long-term development goals.  [more...]



 Monitoring Water Quality in Thailand
Water availability is one of Thailand's most critical environmental issues – despite Government efforts to combat the increasing pollution and deteriorating quality of water resources—and urgent actions are needed to reverse the damage done to this diminishing, fragile resource, according to the World Bank's new report on the environment, the Thailand Environment Monitor 2001: Water Quality.   [more...]



 Water Management in Times of Crises
Aqua Press International made an interview with the new managing director of the Belgrade Waterworks, Vladimir Tausanovic, on the present situation in the Yugoslav capital.   [more...]



 Hoping for Aid from Abroad
Aqua Press International talking to Maria Bujor, the Head of the Production and Financial Section of "Acvaproject".   [more...]



 The Real Cost of Bottled Water
In light of an independent study WWF, the conservation organization, is urging people to drink tap water, which is often as good as bottled water, for the benefit of the environment and their wallets.   [more...]



 Are the Problems of Water Supply Solved?
Statement by the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Mr Glafcos Clerides, on the current situation.   [more...]




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