Outdated water ducts have been blamed for contamination of tap water that affected 2.4 million people in the northwestern Chinese city of Lanzhou in April, local authorities announced Thursday.
Although progress has been made in the past year, China's environment, especially water, air and soil, faces serious challenges, according to a report on Thursday.
As it works to transform itself into a tourist destination, a village on Lake Lashi in southwest China's Yunnan Province is learning the importance of environmental protection.
Training the mind and body to adjust to the sudden shock of cold water could save countless people from death by drowning, according to New Zealand research out Thursday.
Research revealing high antibiotic concentration in China's surface water has caused widespread concern over the safety of drinking water.
Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) 2014, the world's largest oil trade show, concluded Thursday in the U.S. city of Houston with a record high attendance, including a heavy Chinese presence.
Nearly 60 percent of monitored areas of China had "very poor" or "relatively poor" underground water quality last year, a new report showed on Tuesday.
China faces severe environmental tasks but there are opportunities for companies to become more sustainable in the way they operate, delegates at a summit on "green business" said on Monday.
Local authorities of Lanzhou City in southwest China's Gansu Province admitted on Tuesday afternoon a lack of regulatory supervision led to a tap water crisis, and pledged to find a second water source for the city as soon as possible.
People across Thailand on Sunday kicked off their three-day merrymaking for the water-splashing Songkran festival, or the Thai New Year, under little, if any, shadow of the prolonged political tension.
Lanzhou city in northwest China's Gansu province canceled emergency water supply to Anning district at 5 p.m. Sunday, as the contaminated tap water was found safe there, local government said.
Rescuers are racing to pump water from a flooded coal mine in southwest China's Yunnan Province, as all 22 trapped miners remain missing, local authorities said Monday.
Yangon dwellers, especially young ones, are making preparations to celebrate country's upcoming Thingyan, a four-day water festival due to fall on Sunday.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Wednesday that it could not get enough evidence to explain why 100 tons highly radioactive water spilt from a storage tank on February, local media reported.
The "substantive" round of talks on Iranian nuclear issues touched upon some controversial problems, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said on Wednesday in a joint statement after a two-day meeting in Vienna.
China's largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake in eastern Jiangxi Province, has recently seen a sharp decrease of water level to a record low of only 7.93 meters. Due to the lake's prolonged dry seasons in recent years, an escalating water shortage has caused drinking water scarcity, crippled the local fishing industry, and threatened the lake's ecology. China Report takes you to the scene.
All cities in China should be charging tiered prices for household water by the end of 2015, to encourage people to use less water.
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