“Certified arsenic-free”. The traveller, new to Bangladesh and taking out a bottle of drinking water with this strange label from their hotel fridge, may smile in puzzlement.
Wastewater has poured into the lake, poisoning the water and almost everything in it
Up to 500,000 civilians in Mosul are facing a "catastrophic" drinking water shortage, the UN warned, as Iraqi forces advance against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria group in the city.
The Budapest Water Summit 2016, with the motto "Water connects", got underway on Monday, attended by nearly 1,800 participants.
Every child in the Victorian school system will be required to swim by the age of 12 under new government guidelines.
A company in Qingdao, Shandong province has launched a limited-edition bottled water design whose packaging contains information about missing children.
Unrelenting rain along the Huaihe River, China's third-longest waterway, has pushed the water level to a record high and fanned concerns over possible floods, Huaihe water conservation commission said on Wednesday.
Asia's largest subterranean water recycling plant commenced operation in Beijing on Thursday, one of the measures being rolled out by the capital to manage sewage in the city proper.
59-year-old woman, who was participating in the leisure category, had been in critical condition in hospital after being rescued
Tensions between India and Pakistan rose on Tuesday as India's leader canceled a visit to a regional summit and Islamabad warned it would treat it as "an act of war" if India revoked a water treaty.
Colas, sugary drinks and other much-maligned beverages of their ilk are feeling the heat not just of the summer but from the rise of new-age packaged liquids that are natural, healthful, harmless or vitamin-fortified.
The New Zealand government launched an inquiry on Thursday (Aug 18) into the contamination of a regional water supply that has left thousands of people sick with vomiting and diarrhoea.
The Olympic diving pool turned a mysterious shade of green on Tuesday and has not changed back to blue on Wednesday. The world swimming governing body FINA said the pool is safe.
A leading air crash expert has said the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was likely to have been in controlled flight as it hit the water, supporting the theory that it was brought down by a rogue pilot or hijacker.
A leading air crash expert has said missing Malaysia Airlines fight MH370 was likely to have been in controlled flight as it hit the water, giving life to the theory it was brought down by a rogue pilot or hijacker.
More than a week of flooding has claimed at least 14 lives and drove hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in parts of Bangladesh.
Two thousand, two hundred tonnes of rubbish - equivalent to the combined weight of more than 300 adult African elephants - is dumped into rivers, drains and waterways of Malaysia every month.
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