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TheArabWaterChannel
12 Sep 09
TheArabWaterChannel – www.thearabwaterchannel.tv – is a new theme site presenting videos (ten at present) on water issues in the 22 countries that make up the Arab World.It was set up by the Arab Water Council in partnership with TheWaterChannel, which hosts the site, and with the support of From the Source, an interactive multimedia platform [...]
Egypt, Qalyubia: village water system replaced after typhoid outbreak
09 Sep 09
The government has completed the construction of a new water system in Al-Baradah village, after contaminated drinking water had led to an outbreak of typhoid.At the same time, a committee formed by the public prosecutor, cleared the contractor of the pipes of charges of polluting the water in the old water system. A committee statement [...]
Turkey says more water for Iraq, Syria is unlikely
09 Sep 09
A water rights battle over the historic Tigris and Euphrates rivers simmered on [03 September 2009] as Iraq and Syria appealed for increased water flows to cope with severe drought but Turkey said it was already too overstretched.Energy Minister Taner Yıldız said Turkey’s southeast region was also suffering from low rainfall and drought but the [...]
Yemen: Water crisis threatens swelling population
31 Aug 09
Some residents [in the Yemeni capital Sanaa (pop. 2 million)] receive piped city water only once every nine days and others get none at all. The sinking water table means the municipality can now operate only 80 of its 180 wells, said Naji Abu Hatim, a Yemeni expert at the World Bank. [In February 2009, [...]
Iraq: water shortage threatens two million people in south of country
27 Aug 09
A water shortage described as the most critical since the earliest days of Iraq’s civilisation is threatening to leave up to 2 million people in the south of the country without electricity and almost as many without drinking water.An already meagre supply of electricity to Iraq’s fourth-largest city of Nasiriyah has fallen by 50% during [...]
Israelis restrict Palestinians’ water supply
25 Aug 09
After World Bank issues report, commissioned by the Palestinian Authority on the condition of water accessibility in the West Bank, Israel claims the reports authors are biased. To understand the conditions on the ground, how they’ve been addressed, and whether the so-called peace process succeeded in addressing them, The Real News speaks to LifeSource Project, [...]
Yemen, Aden: One dead in protest over water cuts
25 Aug 09
At least one Yemeni was shot dead and three wounded when protesters clashed with police on Sunday [23 Aug 20009] in Aden in southern Yemen where several districts have gone days without water, police and witnesses said. At least two of the wounded were police, the sources said. South Yemen, formerly an independent state that [...]
Egypt: 40 per cent drink unsafe water
16 Aug 09
The lack of clean water is one of Egypt’s most urgent problems, a Dutch newspaper reports. Corruption, pollution and wastage are to blame, it says.When the inhabitants of the small town of Al-Barada (pop. 50,000) in Qalyubia Governorate, north of Cairo, finally got piped drinking water two months ago, it was cause for celebration. Until [...]
Egypt: launch of governorate-based national master plan for water supply & wastewater
29 Jun 09
The governorate-based national master plan for water supply & wastewater will be launched on 6 July 2009 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Cairo. The launch will be held under the auspices and addressed by H.E. Eng. Ahmed Amin El-Maghraby”, Minister of Housing, Utilities & Urban Development, H.E. Dr. Klaus Ebermann, Ambassador & Head of [...]
Iraq warns Turkey on Euphrates water supplies
16 Jun 09
Iraq called on Turkey on Sunday [07 June 2009] to release more water down the Euphrates river, saying the country’s farms and drinking water supplies were at stake. Turkish authorities told a visiting Iraqi lawmaker last month they had boosted the flow of the Euphrates through Turkish dams upstream of Iraq to help farmers cope [...]
