Karachi Port Trust (KPT) and Port Qasim Authority (PQA) on Monday singed two memorandum of understanding (MoUs) with a French firm to conduct a comprehensive study on the development of desalination and water treatment plants at Karachi Port and Port Qasim.

Grameen Veolia Water Ltd. launched its first water treatment plant at Goalmari village in Daudkandi, Comilla, on Wednesday.

Health Minister Dr AFM Ruhul Haque inaugurated the plant as the chief guest. Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, chairman of Grameen Veolia Water Ltd, Subed Ali Bhuiyan MP and Antoine Frerot, CEO of Veolia Water, were present on the occasion.

): Punjab Chief Minister, Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that provision of potable water to save the masses from hepatitis and other water-borne diseases is the top priority of the government, and in this connection a number of projects are being executed expeditiously, utilising all available resources.

Tourism is priority; not ecology as the Rajasthan government prepares to award contracts for restoring Pichola lake near Udaipur

Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) will launch a campaign tomorrow (Wednesday) to provide free stock solution to every household to purify water in all 46 union councils of Rawal Town, said WASA Managing Director (MD) Islamul Haq in a press statement.

A case against Industries Secretary Jakir Hossain and Director General of Environmental Department Md Najibur Rahman has been filed with the High Court on the allegation of contempt of court.

The Obama administration stepped up efforts to reverse a rule adopted late in the Bush administration that makes it easier for companies to deposit debris from mountaintop coal mining near streams. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, left, said that the rule was legally flawed and that he had asked government lawyers to press a federal court to vacate it and send it back for reworking.