Global Water News

China’s South-North Water Transfer Project serves as the latest global example of a mega-project gone awry. (more…)

ITT’s recent acquisitions underscore the company’s ambition to move away from being a pure equipment supplier to a provider of broader solutions for its clients in the water industry. Emily Pickrell reports. (more…)

Demand for water in Australia could increase by 1.5 trillion litres over the next 50 years, a new report forecasts. (more…)

Water treatment products – Italy – a new market research report on companiesandmarkets.com. This market analysis gives an overview of the actual situation and future outlook of the markets for water treatment products in Italy. (more…)

The Met Office said average rainfall for January to June of this year was 356.8mm, the lowest reading since 1929 when 275.7mm was recorded. (more…)

The chief executive of Scottish Water has topped a list of Scotland’s highest paid public servants. (more…)

Payments to protect fresh water resources have grown in the last a decade to become the second- largest environmental market after carbon credits as China and the U.S. safeguard dwindling supplies, according to a study. (more…)

Up to 77 million Bangladeshis have been exposed to toxic levels of arsenic from contaminated drinking water, and even low-level exposure to the poison is not risk-free, The Lancet medical journal reported. (more…)

CompaniesandMarkets.com has released a new report and market analysis on the bottled water industry in the United States, according to a press release. (more…)

The water trade in Australia is growing quickly, but some fear that state restrictions will hamper river restorations. A record 1,800 billion liters of water entitlements were traded on Australia’s water markets in 2008 – double the volume of the previous year, the Sidney Morning Herald reports. (more…)