QUITE a bit of the blame for the economic backwardness in rural Sindh can be apportioned to the poor governance in the province. One such example is the execution of a Rs22 billion federally-funded ...

Building good fences could make our water cleaner, and help us to meet European standards, according to new research. Scientists have created a computer model to investigate the problem of faecal ...

In 1997, more than 100 nations gathered to adopt the UN Watercourses Convention – a flexible and overarching global legal framework that establishes basic standards and rules for cooperation between ...

A global agreement to protect rivers, aquifers and lakes shared between nations, as well as prevent so-called 'water wars' moved a step closer to coming into effect; it was announced in Rio today. Rio ...

The IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science in Dundee, UK (under the auspices of UNESCO) is pleased to announce the launch of a new interactive learning website for the UN Watercourses ...

The menace of terrorism looms over the international community, posing a major threat to the multilateral world order. Over the years, in an attempt to create a robust infrastructure to deal with this ...

FAISALABAD: Substandard and old watercourses and canals have caused wastage of 40 per cent of available water every year in Punjab, leading to loss of agricultural productivity, says an official ...

The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has begun an exercise to demolish more than 140 unauthorised structures on watercourses in its bid to reduce the perennial flooding of some areas within the ...

A quantity of white paint which was spilt in a motorway crash has polluted watercourses in West Yorkshire. About 12,000 litres pooled on to the carriageway following an HGV crash on the M606 in ...

“OUT of my total 3,000-feet watercourses, only 200-feet were lined under the Sindh On-Farm Water Ma-nagement Project (SOFWMP). After two years, another 300-feet of watercourses were lined under the ...