The Zambia Metrology Agency (ZMA) has with immediate effect suspended the supply and sale of potable water by some companies due to lack of compliance.

A crisis of plastic waste in Indonesia has become so acute that the army has been called in to help.

Governor Ndiritu Muriithi has announced that the county will spend Sh15 billion on water projects in the next five years.

A water point mapping exercise done in Mulanje District this year has revealed that over 200 boreholes in the district are at risk of contamination.

Excessive riverbed mining in Haridwar has rendered the quality of groundwater “very poor” and unsuitable for drinking, according to researchers from Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya.

Hundreds of people suffer from diarrhea and colic admitted to hospitals during the past two days in Iraq's central province of Salahudin due to contamination of drinking water, medical sources said

Afghanistan’s water crisis is one of the acutest in Asia. Less than a third of the country's population has access to clean drinking water.