Engineering Clean Water in Indonesia
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Aid workers use brains and brawn as tsunami relief turns toward sanitation.
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Protection of fresh water needs prompt clarification and strengthening in the United States.
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Floods in the Indonesian capital have killed at least nine people and made nearly 200,000 homeless, with the deluge of muddy brown water up to 4 metres (13 feet) deep in some areas, officials said on Sunday.
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By Brahma Chellaney  The sharpening Asian competition over energy resources   has obscured another danger: Water shortages in much of Asia are becoming a threat to rapid economic modernization.
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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang   Yudhoyono has formed a national team led by the energy minister   to tackle an unfolding environmental disaster caused by mud   pouring from an exploratory oil well.
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Why running water may mean a better education for some Afghan children.
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A study conducted by Indonesia's Environment Ministry has determined that Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. did not pollute the waters near its gold mine in North Sulawesi province despite complaints from villagers that they had been sickened by waste dumped in the bay near where they live.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- An ambitious plan to set up an Indian Ocean tsunami warning system is expected to dominate an upcoming gathering of leaders from stricken nations and world donors seeking to prevent a repeat of last week's carnage.
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To make matters worse in South Asia, the disaster zone is now being threatened with outbreaks of disease. The World Health Organization is warning that if fresh water and medicine
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By MICHAEL CASEY YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia - Asia's rapid economic expansion has turned its skies into some of world's most polluted and the region must do more to fight a scourge that is blamed for more than 500,000 premature deaths annually, delegates told a clean air conference Wednesday.
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Indonesia has had a successful first direct presidential election. The process of the elections was beyond expectations: fair, peaceful, and democratic.
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To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS  Contact: Tom Lalley of the World Wildlife Fund, +1-202-778-9544, tom.lalley@wwfus.org   BALI, Indonesia, Feb.
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By ANTHONY DEUTSCH  JAKARTA, Indonesia - A boat ride with emergency workers Tuesday revealed the hardships residents are suffering five days after torrential rains unleashed floodwaters that have killed 44 people and chased hundreds of thousands from their homes in this city of 12 million.
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By Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop  For many decades, going back tolong before its independence from Malaysia in 1965, Singapore has depended on its northern neighbor for fresh water supplies piped in to supplement the modest resources of its island catchment area.
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The United States is focusing on providing clean water and basic sanitation in South Asian areas hit by an earthquake and tsunamis, to try to prevent illness and more deaths among survivors.
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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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Advancements in nanotechnology are increasingly being applied in the water-purification industry, where keeping harmful microbes out of drinking water requires nano-scale innovation. By Michael Bradbury.