• The Global Experiment explores the chemistry of water and the importance of water in the environment.

    UNESCO: Social and Human Sciences

  • The reports said the proposal "would not give rise to any undue impacts with regard to pollution, the water environment, the amenity of nearby residential properties and businesses".

    BBC: Catfoot Lane crematorium project supported by planners

  • It applauds ministers' commitment to tackle unsustainable abstraction from rivers and wetlands, extend the use of metering at a fair price and develop a catchment-based approach to managing the water environment.

    BBC: UK water resources 'left to weather's mercy'

  • The inquiry will look at how effectively Thanet District Council, the Environment Agency and Southern Water managed the incident.

    BBC: Margate

  • The representative of Group 13 (a group of donors that supports the Congolese government in matters concerning the environment, forests, water and sanitation) and the representative for conservation NGOs spoke to reaffirm their technical and financial support.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • The Environment Agency said water levels for large rivers were dropping but more rain was forecast.

    BBC: Hereford United football match cancelled due to rain

  • The new regulations were originally introduced by President Obama to better protect the environment from polluted water and potential earthquakes.

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  • To create and maintain a database on water and the environment by use of official, validated national data complementary to the EUROWATERNET, related to transboundary water bodies (rivers, lakes and coastal waters).

    UNESCO: UNITWIN

  • "It's showing that micro-plastics are quite widespread in the environment, not just in the water columns and the beaches, but actually in the creatures that live in those environments, " he said.

    BBC: What are long term threats of plastic in our seas?

  • With 148 countries sharing at least one transboundary river basin and two thirds of the world's 276 river basins being shared by two countries, cooperation is the key to preserving water resources and protecting the environment, but also to fostering and maintaining peaceful relations within and among communities.

    UNESCO: Water cooperation: more urgent than ever

  • The group says forcing water and chemicals deep into shale deposits to extract gas threatens drinking water and the environment.

    WSJ: NY fracking foes: will become lobby if necessary

  • Southern Electric said it was working with the Environment Agency to remove water.

    BBC: Osney Island in Oxford

  • "Our greatest obstacle in this environment is the water itself, " Newman said.

    MSN: Volcano behind Atlantis legend re-awakens

  • The Environment Agency has warned water levels are continuing to rise.

    BBC: Woman and child rescued in Berkshire flood waters

  • The bacteria are "remarkably common in the water and in the environment, " according to Dr. Buddy Creech, assistant professor of pediatric infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University.

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  • Silver Command involves staff from North Yorkshire Police, North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue, North Yorkshire County Council, Ryedale District Council, the Environment Agency and Yorkshire Water.

    BBC: Pumps in place in Ryedale due to flood threat

  • An inquiry by West Sussex County Council, Arun and Chichester district councils, the Environment Agency and Southern Water is looking into drainage systems, including whether ditches and gullies were blocked and how to improve maintenance.

    BBC: More flood-risk homes get Environment Agency warnings

  • Mark Pilcher from the Environment Agency said the water was currently rising at a rate which is "faster than the pumps could manage" and that there was a risk "a small amount may be discharged".

    BBC: Concern contaminated Wheal Jane water may pollute river

  • South East Water has applied to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to increase the amount of water it abstracts from the River Ouse.

    BBC: Drought fears after low winter rain levels

  • But Zafar Adeel of the United Nations University International Network on Water, Environment and Health, an expert on water management and a leading author of the report, warned that more needed to be done to combat desertification.

    CNN: Growing deserts 'a global problem'

  • Travel disruption at the weekend is possible due to surface water on roads, the Environment Agency said.

    BBC: River levels stay high after North Yorkshire rainfall

  • Fuel cells which produce electricity from the combination of hydrogen and oxygen, would supplement other energy sources and release only water vapour into the environment.

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  • Should a delegation travel from Wales to London to meet the Treasury and the Department for the Environment asking for a market rate for water transfers, I imagine the first response would be an examination of the financial transfers between England and Wales.

    BBC: Highly politicised liquid assets

  • Protesters say fracking could have "enormous implications" for the local environment particularly about the contamination of waste or flowback water once it has been used in the fracking process.

    BBC: Lancashire's shale gas estimated at ?136bn by Cuadrilla

  • As a part of the project, a manual on water education was developed in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, the Ministry of Environment and the Jordan National Commission for Education, Culture and Science.

    UNESCO: OFFICE IN AMMAN

  • Many of the services the environment provides, like clean water and air, are irreplaceable necessities, they point out.

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  • Colin Cheney, from the Environment Department, said ground water and streams were as low as they normally would be in June.

    BBC: Jersey water boss wants water behaviour change

  • It said it would work with Thames Water and the Environment Agency to review the effectiveness of flood risk reduction measures.

    BBC: Flooding affects Reading houses despite new defences

  • Thanet council, Southern Water and the Environment Agency have been criticised in a report into a sewage spill that shut Kent beaches in the summer.

    BBC: Margate

  • Metagenomics takes another approach, basically putting an entire environment--the water in an ocean, the soil in a forest or the insides of an animal--into a DNA sequencer.

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