Nepal has won an USD80 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) improvements to the Kathmandu Valley water distribution benefiting more than 2.72 million.
Protests have continued at the solar plant in east China's Zhejiang Province. Hundreds of locals are protesting at the Zhejiang Jinko Solar company alleging that the factory was polluting both the air and local rivers.
Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has opened a new environmental research centre which will focus on ways to process waste water efficiently and trapping greenhouse gases.
Sustainability services company Nalco has helped the 583-room Marriott Renaissance Mumbai drastically reduce water use in its cooling systems, which has also resulted in less energy use and waste-water discharge.
In the absence of a good governance system China’s “Power the Nation” dream is pushing the country into rapid environmental deterioration. Throughout this year, the alarm bells have been ringing:
China's district authorities in Qujing are investigating their own environmental watchdog for possibly being paid to ignore the illegal dumping of carcinogenic industrial wastes in Yunnan province.
Investing just 0.16 percent of global GDP in the water sector could reduce scarcity and halve the number of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation in less than four years, according to United Nations research.
China's State Council has adopted a plan to protect the safety of the country's underground water resources. It has ordered local governments to list "pollution prevention" and "underground water supply control" in their working agendas and to set up an underground water environmental supervision system by 2015.
China's environment agency has sent investigators to probe a chemical company's dumping of carcinogenic industrial chemicals into a reservoir that feeds one of the country's largest rivers, reports Xinhua.
Pakistan is seeking technological solutions for an unfolding water crisis, caused by depleting natural water resources and wastefulness, which is turning much of its land arid.
Metering company Itron will provide 250,000 residential smart water meters as part of an infrastructure upgrade project by the Delhi Jal Board (DJB). The 18 month contract project is Itron's largest yet in India.
Singapore-listed United Envirotech Ltd, a water treatment and recycling solution provider in China, has bagged USD113.8 million in investment from an affiliate of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, one of the world's largest private equity companies.
More than half of China's outlets for releasing sewage into the ocean are excessively polluted, according to figures from the State Oceanic Administration (SOA).
The Agricultural Development Bank of China said last week that it loaned 15.5 billion yuan (USD2.41 billion) for water facilities construction in the first half of this year.
The amount was higher than that of the same period of previous years, the bank said, expecting the full-year amount to exceed 30 billion yuan.
The bank said it is negotiating with the Ministry of Water Resources to sign a strategic co-operation contract in this area, aiming to establish a long-term co-operation mechanism to back the government's plan to improve water facilities.
Vietnam's latest environmental scandal has prompted the country's deputy minister of public security to say the country was becoming a dumping-ground for low-quality foreign goods and technologies which would push it to environmental disaster.
Traiton Global LLC of Germany is vying to build a desalination plant on India's Cooum river which could produce 600MW power and 75 million litres per day of clean water to the energy-hungry city of Chennai.
Greenpeace has published a new report, Dirty Laundry, that profiles the problem of toxic water pollution resulting from the release of hazardous chemicals by the textile industry in China.
This report by the World Bank spells out what the world would be like if it warmed by 4 degrees Celsius, which is what scientists are nearly unanimously predicting by the end of the century, without serious policy changes.
Companies in Asia reveal expectations that regulations that could lead to rising costs for reporting and reducing GHG emissions will also be the main sources of climate-related business opportunities.
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