Japan's nuclear regulator on Wednesday green-lit a plan for the embattled operator of the disaster-hit Fukushima nuclear power plant in the northeast to start freezing soil around its battered reactor buildings, in a bid to reduce the massive amounts of radioactive water accumulating in the buildings.
The World Energy Council (WEC) predicted a 40 percent shortfall of available water across the globe by 2030 in a new report presented at the Asia-Pacific Energy Leaders' summit in Wellington Thursday.
A Southwest China hydropower station has increased water discharges to up to 2,190 cubic meters per second on a trans-boundary river, in order to provide emergency water supply to Vietnam and other countries in the drought-afflicted Southeast Asian region, Chen Lei, Minister of Water Resources said on Wednesday.
Members of a rural Indian caste reached a deal late yesterday to end protests that paralysed the North Indian state of Haryana and cut water supplies to Delhi's 20 million residents, a protest leader and a police source said.
A water crisis in India’s capital will take up to two weeks to fix, authorities warned as taps ran dry, days after protesters sabotaged a crucial waterway to press a demand for better treatment for their caste.
Some 500 children die every day from lack of safe water and sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa, the UN Chidlren's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
An iron ore tailings dam in the southeast Brazilian state of Minas Gerais collapsed Thursday, killing at least 15 people, according to local media reports.
The multinational task force helping Indonesia to put out fires in South Sumatra has met with some success, but it will take about 10 days before the flames can be largely extinguished, said a minister.
A multinational effort to fight forest fires in Indonesia began on Sunday (Oct 11) as Singapore joined forces with other countries to help douse fires in South Sumatra.
An Indonesian minister said on Wednesday that government is considering possibilities to receive foreign assistance to help the efforts to stop the forest fire in Sumatra and Kalimantan as the scale and level of difficulties in dealing with the problem requires more capable instruments.
U.S. space agency NASA announced on Monday it has found "strong" evidence that there is liquid water intermittently flowing on present-day Mars.
A New South Wales (NSW) sailor in Australia has witnessed a rarely seen phenomenon when a three- meter white pointer shark leapt from the water.
Officials in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday rebuffed claims from swimming's world governing body FINA that 2016 Olympic aquatic events are being treated with "disrespect".
The environment outside the core zone of the Tianjin blast site remained normal despite the rainfall over the past two days, authorities said on Tuesday.
Water pollution has gripped the attention of China's lawmakers as they questioned cabinet members in Beijing on Saturday.
"My design is a UAV for monitoring water quality, and it uses some of remote sensing technology to reach the goal," said Ke Shuai, from Middle School attached to HUST China. He presented his design on Sunday during World Water Week in Stockholm, Sweden.
Air and water quality near the site of Wednesday night's blast in north China's Tianjin are being closely monitored as conditions remain unclear.
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