River Basin management

Statistics from Vietnam Academy for Water Resources discovered that some 28 million cubic metres sand was exploited each year in the region, twice the amount of sand flowing from the upstream of the Mekong River

Policymakers and experts gathered at Can Tho City on Friday to discuss and propose an inter-provincial policy for the sustainable management of sediment in the Mekong Delta region.

Pollution in the Yamuna seems to be going from bad to worse. The MCG has, for the first time, admitted that untreated sewage water also gets into the Najafgarh drain that connects to the Yamuna 

Once badly polluted, the Sepang Besar River is recovering. It’s greenish-blue brackish water today supports a thriving mangrove forest. Yet, 20 years ago, it was as good as dead 

The locals nicknamed the waterway “Nipah River” then to reflect its putrid state. The name refers to the Nipah virus which took human lives and caused the culling of over a million infected pigs in 1998.

Dutch ministers Lilianne Ploumen (Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation) and Melanie Schultz van Haegen (Infrastructure and the Environment) signed an agreement with the Bangladesh government and the World Bank Group, on the development of a financial strategy for investements in a more sustainable protection of Bangladesh's river delta

An intensive media and political momentum is taking place in Egypt in regard to the conflict with Nile headwaters countries over securing Egypt’s annual share of the Nile waters