water weblog; Water News : Feb. 2008

Water News 5 - February 2008

 

Engineers Without Borders Provides Clean Water to Villagers by Richard Springer

San Leandro India West - San Leandro, CA, USA. 29 February 2008

 

Tajikistan Weather Crisis Could Worsen, Aid Workers Warn by Fred Weir

Christian Science Monitor - Boston, MA, USA. 28 February 2008

 

ASEAN countries suffer huge economic loss from poor sanitation

Xinhua – China. 28 February 2008

 

India’s first holistic water resource management system

Media For Freedom - Nepal, Nepal, Nepal. 27 February 2008

 

Key delegates gather in Tokyo as part of the International Year of Water and Sanitation by Mihoko Nakagawa

UNICEF (press release) - New York, NY, USA. 26 February 2008

 

Water shortage projected for China

Spero News – USA. 26 February 2008

 

Japan Announces New Foreign Policy on Water

MaximsNews Network - New York, NY, USA . 25 February 2008

 

ADB to provide Pakistan 150 million for PIASDP

Unique Pakistan - Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. 24 February 2008

Water News 4 - February 2008

 

Philippines to clean up heavily polluted river

AFP -. 22 February 2008

 

Solomon Islanders in Sydney to Receive Global Award for Watershed Management from World's Leading Reinsurer

PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA. 21 February 2008

 

Japanese Alliance to Enter into Joint Development in Singapore with PUB

Japan Corporate News (press release) - Tokyo, Japan. 20 February 2008

 

China: Water Quality Worsens Near Three Gorges Dam by Keith Bradsher

New York Times - United States. 20 February 2008

 

Water shortages threaten human food supply by Henrylito Tacio

People & the Planet - London, UK. 18 February 2008

 

WB: 31 Filipinos die daily due to poor sanitation

Manila Times - Philippines. 18 February 2008

 

RP to launch international year of sanitation

Inquirer.net - Philippines. 15 February 2008

Water News 3 - February 2008

 

Dam drops to 50 per cent
Manning River Times - Taree, New South Wales, Australia. 13 February 2008

 

Water costs more; still undrinkable by Laura Poole
The Wimmera Mail Times - Horsham, Victoria, Australia. 13 February 2008

 

UNICEF Executive Board members visit child friendly school in northern Lao PDR

UNICEF (press release) - New York, NY, USA. 13 February 2008

 

Plan to develop inland water transport system along Indus River in Pakistan

Unique Pakistan - Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. 13 February 2008

 

Our Oceans Are Not Giant Trash Cans
Chosun Ilbo - Seoul, South Korea. 12 February 2008

 

Singapore International Water Week trade expo sold out within months

WaterWorld - Tulsa, OK, USA. 8 February 2008

 

ADB and other donors to proceed water supply project for Nepal

ReliefWeb (press release) - Geneva, Switzerland. 8 February 2008

 

Japan Bank to fund Hogenakkal water project

Myiris.com - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. 7 February 2008

Water News 2 - February 2008

 

Innovative water filtration project by Mohsin Babbar

The Post - Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. 8 February 2008

 

More dams, less irrigation
OneWorld.net - London, England, UK. 7 February 2008

 

Monitoring Asia-Pacific disasters from space

Science Centric - Sofia, Sofia Town, Bulgaria. 6 February 2008

 

Push for KUKL to manage water supply  

Gorkhapatra - Kathmandu, Nepal. 6 February 2008

 

Two billion face water famine as Himalayan glaciers melt by Joydeep Gupta

Indian Muslims - San Diego, CA, USA. 6 February 2008

 

DEVELOPMENT: South Asia Exports Sanitation Successes by Nergui Manalsuren

PS – Italy. 4 February 2008

 

Indonesian floods displace thousands by Ade Mardiyati

International Herald Tribune - France. 3 February 2008

 

New agencies to oversee water supply in Valley

Nepalnews.com - Katmandu, Nepal. 3 February 2008

 

Lost wetlands being recovered by Teresa Yong

New Straits Times - Persekutuan, Malaysia. 3 February 2008

Water News 1 - February 2008

 

Bangladesh receiving $190m to fund recovery from floods and cyclone

Associated Press of Pakistan – Pakistan. 31 January 2008

 

Lao PDR suffers their first cholera outbreak in nearly eight years by Tom Greenwood
UNICEF (press release) - New York, NY, USA

 

Two-thirds of people still excluded from safe sanitation services

Independent-Bangladesh - Dhaka, Bangladesh. 31 January 2008

 

Dry spell puts heat on aquifers by Jared Morgan
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand. 29 January 2008

 

Fiji lashed by powerful cyclone

BBC News – UK. 29 January 2008

 

Tirupur water privatisation a success by Sam Daniel
NDTV.com - New Delhi, India. 29 January 2008

 

Goldman, funds to buy $50 mln China Water bonds

Reuters – USA. 26 January 2008

 

Treatment facility curbs park’s pollution
Viet Nam News - Hanoi, Vietnam. 26 January 2008

 

Filipinos aware water pollution a serious threat -- SWS by Jocelyn Uy

Inquirer.net – Philippines. 25 January 2008