Now, a high-school student designs low-cost teabag to remove arsenic in water
Arsenic contamination in groundwater is a global public health concern, with south and southeast Asia being the most affected with
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VA Tech Wabag-led consortium bags wastewater plant contract in Georgia
A consortium-led by water technology major VA Tech Wabag has secured a large contract for construction of a 19 million
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Shifting rainfall patterns to hit water resources, agriculture
Shifting rainfall patterns could put water resources and agriculture under increasing strain in coming decades due to rising global temperatures
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Coordinated global action, integration of WASH within health systems needed: WHO
Stating that unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) still drive at least 1.4 million preventable deaths each year, the World
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ADB opens $100-mn green bond issue to manage glacier melt impacts
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has issued $100 million green bonds to raise awareness of glacier melt across the region.
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ADB approves $182 mn additional funding for Assam flood management project
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $182 million in additional funding to scale up a ongoing flood and erosion
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Aging populations could cut global water demand by 30 per cent
Against a backdrop of water scarcity emerging as one of the most pressing challenges of the 21st century, there’s good
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Nature-based infrastructure vital to avert Asia’s looming water crisis
Fatima Yasmin The Asia-Pacific has made remarkable progress in water and sanitation over the past decade. Hundreds of millions more people now
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World on verge of entering new era of ‘water bankruptcy’
Against a backdrop of chronic groundwater depletion, water over-allocation, land and soil degradation, deforestation, and pollution, the world is on
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Major river deltas sinking faster than sea-level rise
River deltas sustain dense human populations and major economic centres, but groundwater withdrawal, reduced river sediment supply and urban expansion
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