Johor's water regulatory body Badan Kawalselia Air Johor (Bakaj) has made an an urgent request for an additional supply of 6 million gallons of treated water per day for the next three days, PUB said on Sunday (July 17).
Armed police blew up a dike between two lakes in central China's Hubei Province Thursday morning to reduce pressure after heavy rain resulted in record high water levels.
Dike patrolman Shao Wentao, 34, has been bowed down with anxiety in recent days.
As water sits two meters above the alert level in vast Fanghu Lake in east China's Jiangxi Province, soldiers use forklifts to pour gravel to reinforce the embankment.
Land reclamation in Wuhan for construction worsened floods, say locals
China wrestles with the dual challenges of water scarcity and urban flooding -- problems that have been magnified by this summer's heavy rainfall.
Every drink of water earns Seema, 15, a rebuke from her mother. The wells in their village in Bangladesh have run dry, and so everything they need must be carried by hand from up to half a kilometre away.
Leaders order more resources to help with rescue and relief efforts.
An overnight storm following days of rain has stopped traffic, cut power and water supplies and trapped people in their homes in many parts of Wuhan, a metropolis on the Yangtze River.
Moisture seeping into power cable led to short circuit which plunged part of Central station into darkness earlier this month.
The Orlando police said Wednesday that they are still searching for the two-year-old boy who was dragged into the water by an alligator on the shores of Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa Tuesday night.
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has apologised for the distress caused to public estate residents affected by the last year’s lead-in-water scandal.
After the outbreak of the water contamination crisis in the U.S. city of Flint, Michigan, more U.S. cities have been exposed to have similar problems, according to an investigation by The Guardian newspaper.
A judge-led inquiry into last year’s tainted water scare said Hong Kong had no safety standards for drinking water and warned that government supervision should not just stop at the end of the water pipe.
Every year at this time, the ponds and wells go dry. People walk for hours to fill their plastic buckets at a lotus-filled pond that is the only clean source of drinking water in this community outside Myanmar’s biggest city, Yangon.
Rescue troops on Monday recovered at least seven more bodies from a landslide site in Sri Lanka's central Kegalle district bringing the total death toll from Sri Lanka's flash floods and landslides to 92, the Disaster Management Center said.
In Cambodia, riverbeds are dry and cracked and the wind feels like a gust from an oven. An extreme heatwave has followed a poor rainy season drying wells, killing cattle and causing water shortages.
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