Uzbeks say enough water for all
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The states of central Asia are negotiating to solve their disagreement over water, a senior Uzbek official says.
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In a cruel irony, survivors of the tsunami in South Asia whose lives were devastated by water, now need fresh water to help stave off the threat of disease.
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26 December 2004 -- Uzbek President Islam Karimov has lashed out at Europe&#39;s top election watchdog for criticizing today&#39;s parliamentary vote.
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By Kate Brusse, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 8--Hundreds of volunteers will scour the banks of the Boise River Sept. 16 in an effort to keep the river -- which provides 20 percent of Boise's drinking water -- healthy and safe.
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Uzbekistan voted Sunday in a election that featured only parties loyal to autocratic President Islam Karimov, who said he would not tolerate "revolutions" such as those which shook Ukraine and Georgia.
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ROME, Jun 29 (IPS) - Water is not the stuff of business, it is a basic  human right. Hama Arba Diallo, outgoing executive secretary of  the Convention of the United Nations to Combat Desertification  (UNCCD), is convinced that the United Nations is about to  formally recognise this principle, possibly by 2008.
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Communities worldwide are finding ingenious ways of purifying water and getting the most out of their supplies.
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The United States and Russia carried out a secret operation last week to remove weapons-grade uranium from the former Soviet republic of Uzbekistan, whose government is facing growing Islamist unrest, the Energy Department announced.
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Why running water may mean a better education for some Afghan children.
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Islam Karimov is sworn in for a seven-year term as President of Uzbekistan, following elections in December
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Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan's only president since independence from Soviet rule, was heading for certain victory on Monday following a weekend presidential election condemned as a sham by the opposition.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 19--A year ago, a handful of people turned out to protest a plan to pipe Catawba River water into Cabarrus County.
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Comment is free: Peter Preston: The cheerleaders of democracy have one anthem for Musharraf and another for Putin
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WASHINGTON, June 19  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Water For People was awarded the maximum grant of $200,000 for an innovative sanitation project in Malawi designed to reduce the incidence of diarrhea through hygiene education, the use of children's latrines, and the production of compost for sale.
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The people of Belarus know oppression. They know hardship and misfortune on a scale far beyond most corners of the world. So it should be no surprise to learn that an entire countryâs great
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An outlawed Uzbek opposition party made a new attempt to get formal recognition Thursday, as Uzbekistan prepared for parliamentary elections that can only be contested by the country's five legal parties, which ...
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WASHINGTON, Aug 28 (IPS) - A recent International Crisis Group (ICG) briefing  warns that Uzbekistan's political and socioeconomic  instability remains "a serious risk to itself and [the]  region", and that the international community must brace  itself for a civil conflict.