Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday that prolonged drought had killed at least 301 buffalos and cows in northeastern country's Stung Treng province.
Martin Williams goes underground and behind closed doors with Hong Kong's water engineers for a look at how they maintain supplies of fresh, clean water, and considers the past and future of the city's water management
More than 100 people are feared dead in India in an early summer heatwave which has forced schools to close and halted outdoor work, government officials said yesterday.
Authorities in southwestern Cambodia's Kampot province have started distributing clean water to drought-stricken villagers in several districts, local media reported on Thursday.
The Indian government told its apex court that a total of 330 million people in the country were affected by an ongoing drought, officials said Wednesday.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday expressed profound gratitude to China for discharging water from a hydropower station to the drought-hit countries along the Mekong River.
A total of 36 people have been killed and 316 people injured during Myanmar's Thingyan water festival, official media reported on Monday.
With temperatures at near-record highs, Thailand began celebrating the week-long water festival known as Songkran even as the military regime urged people to save water and keep their clothes on.
One person was killed and 14 others injured in accidental cases on Tuesday, the first day of Myanmar's Thingyan water festival, the police said on Thursday.
Armed with water pistols and buckets, celebrants took part in the annual water festival Songkran in Thailand on Wednesday, amid a severe drought.
A court in India Wednesday directed organizers of Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament to shift matches from the drought-hit western state of Maharashtra to save water.
Myanmar's traditional Thingyan Water Festival kicked off across the country Tuesday morning with the opening ceremony of the festival launched at the Presidential Palace in Nay Pyi Taw.
About 80 per cent of groundwater in the mainland’s major river basins is unsafe for human contact, a survey by the Ministry of Water Resources has found.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that the country is facing severe drought and expresses his hope that China will continue releasing water into downstream Mekong River.
Yangon dwellers, especially the young, are preparing to celebrate Myanmar's upcoming Thingyan, a five-day water festival this year due to fall on next Tuesday.
A court in India has suggested organizers of Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament shift matches from the drought-hit western state of Maharashtra to save water.
India's federal government said on Saturday it would send a fact-finding team to asses depleting ground water situation in drought-hit Latur district of Maharashtra state.
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