With the World Rivers Day just around the corner, the World Wide Fund (WWF) Malaysia is calling on Malaysians to place serious attention on the issue of water pollution in the country.
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) admitted that about 2.3 lakh people in the city do not receive direct pipeline water, while 2.6 lakh people receive less than 100 litres per day.
Soldering materials were one of the main causes of the lead-in-water scandal, according to the chairman of a review committee on fresh water quality in public estates.
Australia's attempts to curb damage to the Great Barrier Reef, which was almost listed as being in danger earlier this year, are falling well short of targets, a report released by the national and
To facilitate an environment-friendly Ganeshotsav, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has directed its regional offices to carry out water quality monitoring of water bodies where idol
Experts in the field has stressed the need for conducting a water audit in the Kozhikode Corporation to formulate a water policy to overcome water scarcity and to carry out remedial measures.
LUSAKA, Sept 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Dorothy Zulu's dream is to have a water tap and a small vegetable garden in her home in Ngombe, one of many slums in Zambia's capital Lusaka.
Cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite that can cause diarrhoea. Human faeces are an important source of Cryptosporidium in surface waters. We present a model to study the impact of sanitation, urbanization and population growth on human emissions of Cryptosporidium to surface waters. We build on a global model by Hofstra et al and zoom into Bangladesh and India as illustrative case studies.
Water with lead levels nearly 80 times World Health Organisation safety standards has been found at the Hong Kong public housing estate where the city’s tainted water scandal began, in the latest r