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28.12.05 : China Dumps Chemicals to try to Clean Toxic River
27.12.05 : EU want Nord Rhein Westfalen to protect completly the Rhine (g)
24.12.05 : New York State offers Hudson River restoration plan
23.12.05 : Nu River: Vast Dam Proposal is a test for China (New York Times)
22.12.05 : Danube Delta / Project Start: Connecting Katlabuh Lake with Danube
21.12.05 : Croatia - The Drava river basin project
20.12.05 : Elbe River : the new German government steps back ! Protection is out, improving navigability is in.
20.12.05 : A new report: "What have dams got to do with peace?
19.12.05 : Water transfers back on Spain's agenda28.11.05 : New dam project on Czech Elbe is environmentally and economically unacceptable ! (Pressrelease ERN / Arnika / BUND), pdf28.11.05 : Laos: Stone laid for Nam Theun 2 Dam27.11.05 : The Lessons of Harbin25.11.05 : Marocco : more dams25.11.05 : China : Poisoned River Shows Dark Side of China's Boom24.11.05 : Polluted River Water Heads towards Chinese City23.11.05 : (green) Hydropower is Making Waves23.11.05 : Damming the World Bank16.11.05 : OECD Governments : Environmental reviews Export Credits for Hydro Power projects16.11.05 : WCD+5 : Dams destroy environment, group warns15.11.05 : WCD+5 :Five Years after Landmark Report, Experts Call for Stronger Dams Standards03.11.05 : China: Dam opposition swells10.11.05 : Water in Irak: a ecolologic desaster (f)26.10.05 : Danube Basin: Enhancing access to information and public participation24.10.05 : Norway's mighty Vefsna river protected !21.10.05 : Greece – Learning river conservation skills from other countries12.10.05 : EU: Agreement on new bathing water directive12.10.05 : International Day for Disaster Reduction (f,e)08.10.05 : Bishop Ends Fast Over Brazil Irrigation Project07.10.05 : US : agreement to begin dredging New York's Hudson River to remove toxic waste.02.10.05 : Sao Francisco River Diversion: Brazil bishop makes river protest24.09.05 : Turkey : Ilisu Damproject for sale ! (TAZ) (g)23.09.05 : Doubts about value of large international water meetings22.09.05 : Inauguration of the South West Wastewater Treatment Plant in St. Petersburg - an important step towards an improved environment in the Baltic Sea
15.09.05 : Announcement: WCD+5: Implementing the Recommendations of the World Commission on Dams. (Expert Workshop, Panel Discussion and Media Conference in Berlin, November 15)
08.09.05 : Drome River Project Wins International Thiess Riverprize
05.09.05 : New Orleans / US : WETLAND RESTORATION SEEN AS CRUCIAL Delta's marshes, islands form buffers against storm surges, scientists say31.08.05 : Work with nature, not against it to reduce risk of floods in Europe, says WWF29.08.05 : Residents Return as Europe's Flood Waters Recede26.08.05 : Flood Fears Focus on Swiss Lakes and Romanian Toll Up (Reuters)26.08.05 : Floods and fires natural disasters linked to the power sector25.08.05 : Links to Information on the floods in Europe Switzerland ,Germany,24.08.05 : Iraq's Devastated Marshlands Recovering Fast - UN11.08.05 : Water Framework Directive - Summary of River Basin District Analysis 2004 in Germany11.08.05 : Disaster Charter brings satellites to bear on Romanian flooding06.08.05 : GWP CEE launches new IWRM web site05.08.05 : Poland - Vistula River Basin programme
29.07.05 : WWF - European drought: all dammed up but no water flows27.07.05 : UK - New direction in flood risk management27.07.05 : Germany - Successful flood protection requires compulsory insurance27.07.05 : European Commission - Public consultation on EU flood protection27.07.05 : European Commission – New: Water Information System for Europe17.07.05 : BIG JUMP : at least 200 000 europeans jump in the water - for more clean and living rivers (Pressrelease ERN / EEB / WWF)09.07.05 : Big Jump to save the Jordan River and for Peace01.07.05 : Marshland restoration in Spain’s Doñana National Park01.07.05 : Researchers from the Middle East and Europe work together to halt Dead Sea degradation01.07.05 : EU backtracks on water protection (Edie News)26.06.05 : UNESCO/RAMSAR: Update on the Danube Delta canal
26.06.05 : Save Chara River Campaign
24.06.05 : In one week: 29.06.05 : Danube Day15.06.05 : FRANCE - National consultation in France : respecting Water12.06.05 : Big Jump 2005-2015 - the european campaign for public monitoring of the WFD implementation starts on 17 July08.06.05 : Vietnam wants mass relocation of people speeded up for giant power project Hanoi (AFP)06.06.05 : Spain and Portugal in Water fight
27.05.05 : Government Shirked Its Duty to Wild Fish, a Judge Rules27.05.05 : IRN Welcomes New Water Policy from Major International Bank
24.05.05 : Four more hydropower plants for Yangtze River
21.05.05 : RhineNet/ERN :Rivers of pictures and flows of words along the River Rhine19.05.05 : SUDAN: Environmental groups warn over new dam15.05.05 : UNESCO 2005 great man-made river international water prize12.05.05 : Serbia Obtains Grant to Support Its Efforts to Protect the
Danube River from Agro-Industrial Pollution09.05.05 : Germany : New Flood Control Act enters into force
08.05.05 : India : Gangetic river dolphins struggling to survive21.04.05 : Chinese government agrees to protect Yangtze River (WWF)21.04.05 : Turkish Dams Violate EU Standards and Human Rights14.04.05 : Damming evidence of human interference
05.04.05 :China Announces Plan to Move 400,000 People for Giant Water-Diversion Project (AP)
03.04.05 : Watermix in the lake of Geneva confirmed (f)
01.04.05 : the World Bank approve the Nam Theun 2 dam (Laos) (Com. presse FOE)01.04.05 : Montenegro abandons plans to flood Tara gorge (Reuters)30.03.05 : Afghanistan : Dam burst causes flooding in Ghazni
26.03.05 : Dam construction destroying mangroves in Pakistan25.03.05 : Laos: Dam a watershed for World Bank
23.03.05 : New slow-current turbine invention can change the world
22.03.05 : Bangladesh : Country faces disaster due to water diversion by India22.03.05 : Czech Republic to ban phosphate detergents (Environment Daily)
22.03.05 : JRC: new eu water policies "urgently needed" in light of climate change
21.03.05 : EU Urged to Stop Water Privatisation21.03.05 : Marking World Water Day, UN to launch Water for Life Decade
21.03.05 : problems harass Water-rich Russia21.03.05 : NGOs call for water to remain public good
18.03.05 : Asia : Rivers threatened as Himalayan glaciers retreat
18.03.05 : Northern Ireland-River project to tackle water quality18.03.05 : WORLD WATER DAY, 22 MARCH - WATER IS LIFE
16.03.05 : Parliament's environment committee puts future of groundwater protection at risk
16.03.05 : The Netherlands- Plan for the Scheldt River14.03.05 : Russia-protection of baltic sea requires vast resources
14.03.05 : States given low marks over EU Water law
12.03.05: Financing Water for all (WWC/GWP)
10.03.05 : Oceans more vulnerable to agricultural runoff than previously thought09.03.05 : lawn on US dams dismantling abandonned
04.03.05 : France must tighten up environmental legislation (Edie News)
28.02.05 : HOLY RIVER UNDER THREAT : River Jordan now little more than sewage channel (FOE Pressrelease, Word doc.)28.02.05 : New strategies needed to secure food and safeguard ecosystems.19.02.05 : Water Wars: Pakistani Provinces Clash Over Mega Dam (OneWorld South Asia)18.02.05 : Dams in Iran: reprieve for some, no time left for others14.02.05 : EDF in examination for violation of the Guiding principles of OECD about a dam in Laos11.02.05 : Spain (Ecotaxe on water), Government backs down (Edie News)03.02.05 : Denmark : streams meander into the future27.01.05 : Italy Sounds Alarm Over Shrinking Beaches (Reuter)
26.01.05 : Brazilian Dam-Affected families blockade roads to protest against multinational corporations
21.01.05 : French draft water law heads for parliament21.01.05 : Russian Rivers Prove Man-Made Climate Change - Report19.01.05 : Spain : preparations made should drought continue (if the lack of rain continues)
13.01.05 : Angler's paradise threatened by plans to dam Norway's Vefsna river12.01.05 : Russia to Invest up to $500M in Hydropower Station in Tajikistan03.01.05 : New report on Public Participation in Water Management in the Eastern Baltic Sea Region