The European Commission announced Friday that it is taking France to court over its failure to properly treat waste water in over 60 large towns, including Avignon, Bordeaux and Lyon.
Amnesty international accuses Israel of depriving Palestine of water and mobilises net users; the web stands divided over Barack Obama’s planned education reform; and net users are invited to ask questions to Nobel Prize winners on Youtube.
Amnesty International accused Israel on Tuesday of restricting Palestinian access to water while allowing Jewish settlers generous supplies. Israel says it allows access to twice as much water than it is required to under existing agreements.
ENVIRONMENT travels to the Pyrenees on the French Spanish border to visit the latest dam built in the area. Small in size it provides electricity to just a few hundred homes but it does so with very little cost to the environment.
ENVIRONMENT takes to the high seas on board the TARA, a boat that is sailing across the world’s oceans and seas to examine the effect climate change is having on them and their biodiversity.
Molecules of water exist on the moon, according to reports based on the findings of the latest space missions. Data from India’s maiden moon mission found spectrographic evidence of water, which appears to concentrate closer to the poles.
in this edition: summer camps in the Gaza Strip; the battle for water in the West Bank and in Iraq; the link between marriage and national identity in the United Arab Emirates.
In this edition: the run-up to Macedonia's elections; the Net opens the tap for World Water Day and Wikipedia, the internet encyclopedia, is at the movies.
A seven-day forum on the world's dwindling water resources is expected to end with a pledge to work harder to provide clean water and sanitation, but without agreement on the recognition of access to drinking water as a "basic human right".
Not far from Delhi, Badkhal and its lake were once the place to rent a pedalo and take to the water. For the last year, the drained lake has become a cricket ground for local children.
