Northeast China’s Yongji County was hit by a severe 12-hour rainstorm on the evening of July 27. The following morning it was reported that two chemical plant warehouses had collapsed causing 7,000 barrels of chemicals to be catapulted into the Songhua River (also known as Sungari River.) Flooding was reported to be at the highest levels of Wende River in the last century.

The two chemical pla ... read more >>

Amid reports that water in parts of Tehran may be tainted with high levels of toxic nitrate, the Ministry of Power has handed out free bottles of water to an underprivileged suburb south of the city.

Parliamentarian Hasan Ta’mini, a member of the Health and Medicare Commission, reported that authorities had hoped to address the water crisis within a week, though no solution has yet been announ ... read more >>

India and Pakistan need to adopt a joint, cooperative approach on the Indus river waters to counter the growing water crisis that threatens not only the lives and livelihoods of the people of the region, but also relations between India and Pakistan, according to experts participating in an India-Pakistan seminar here on ‘Water is Life.' ... read more >>

Northern Thai villagers living on Mekong River’s banks are poised to join a growing tide of opposition against a planned cascade of 11 dams to be built on the mainstream of South-east Asia’s largest body of water.

These communities, many of them from the northern Thai province of Chiang Rai, are drafting a petition to be submitted in the coming weeks to Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. T ... read more >>

Besides grappling with insurgents, suicide bombers and deep poverty, Pakistan is facing a severe crisis as a ballooning population and inefficient farming combine to reduce the availability of water.

Up to a third of Pakistan's 175 million people lack safe drinking water and nearly 630 children die each day from diarrhea, according to a study done last year by the U.S.-based Woodrow Wilson Int ... read more >>

Lebanon’s waters are facing the imminent threat of environmental catastrophe, as over-fishing, pollution and coastline development reach critical levels, a global conservation charity announced on Tuesday.

Greenpeace Mediterranean, unveiling the findings of a report compiling two years of marine data, warned that the fishing industry was at risk of collapse if Lebanese waters were not designat ... read more >>

In a pine-scented Himalayan valley, Sushila Devi is a reluctant soldier in India's new war over water. Her village, Pipola, sits just southeast of the Tehri Dam, which bestrides one of the precursors of the Ganges River and is India's largest hydropower project. Since the dam was completed in 2006, the natural spring that once fed Pipola has dried up. Several times a day, Devi drapes a red sari a ... read more >>

More than a quarter of China's surface water is contaminated, the country's Ministry of Environmental Protection has claimed.

Admitting that China still faces "severe challenges" in pollution control, environmental monitoring authorities said 26.4% of the country's surface water samples were at levels IV and V -- only good for industrial use and farm irrigation.

A Xinhua report quoted a doc ... read more >>