U.K.'s Northumbrian Water Group reported a higher profit for the first half as revenue rose 5 percent, and said it was well placed to maintain a strong financial performance. The provider of water and waste water services lifted its interim dividend by 7.5 percent to 4.72 pence.
Passengers traveling by water in the European Union countries will now be able to enjoy similar traveling rights as those who travel by air or rail, the European Commission said.
British water company Pennon Group reported a 0.7 percent rise in its first-half pretax profit due to higher demand for water from summer usage and asset sale of its water utilities business South West Water but said looking forward, South West Water is well placed to outperform the assumptions for the K5 (2010-2015) period.
UK-based water supplier United Utilities Group reported interim results slightly ahead of its expectations, following the recent regulatory price review.
Britain's water services group Severn Trent reported a 51 percent fall in pretax profit for the six months ended September 30 and it slashed its interim dividend by 2.5 percent to 26.04 pence.
The lack of clean drinking water and sanitation in the world's poorest nations threatens U.N. goals to cut poverty and disease, and raises the risk of conflict, leaders and aid groups said on Wednesday.
We have always known that water is good for us and good for fighting fat, but now there is research backing the idea, which says that if you drink two cups of water before every meal you can lose up to 5 pounds in three months.
The lowest dissolved oxygen measured in the Gulf of Mexico areas was 3.5 parts per million, which is above hypoxic levels, the report said.
Azimut 64, the next gen take on the popular flybridge yacht Azimut 62, is all about sleeker, sportier design and elegant finish. The whole design of the new flybridge is well balanced and space has been used optimally.
According to latest significant findings of a breakthrough research in Australia, baby fish may become easy meat targets for predators as the world's oceans become increasingly acidic due to rising carbon dioxide emissions from human activity.
Elderly residents of nursing homes in SA are at risk of contracting the highly deadly rotavirus.
Malaysia has put reefs before ringgits (that's money to you and me) by closing 12 popular coral reefs until the end of October.
Kingaroy residents are demanding the shutdown of an experimental coal-seam gas plant in Queensland for allegedly contaminating underground water supplies.
Several residents in Tasmania expressed their concerns in one of the area's water supply against toxic waste from plantations.
Scuba diving enthusiasts will be flipping their fins with anticipation over the news that there will soon be another wreck-site to explore off the Cayman Islands.
Royal Dutch Shell will continue its deep-water drilling to meet rising global oil demand, its chief executive said on Sunday, despite safety concerns following rival BP's Gulf of Mexico blowout.
Brazil's state oil company Petrobras announced on Monday a 29 percent investment hike over five years as it stepped up its campaign to tap some of the world's largest deposits of deep sea oil.
The claims of Prahlad Jani, 83 saying he has been without food and water for over 70 years, have been strongly disputed by Australian scientists.
AHMEDABAD: An 83-year-old Indian holy man who says he has spent 65 years without food or water has astounded a team of military doctors who studied him during a two-week observation.
An Italian inventor, Luciano Marabese has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with a way to keep church traditions alive for the faithful without the fear of contracting swine flu -- an electronic holy water dispenser.
Investors should urgently diversify the web of undersea cables that serve as the world's information and banking arteries to address soaring demand and piracy concerns and reduce the risk of catastrophic outages.
U.S. sellers of everything from cosmetics to cruises to car rentals were scrambling for options after a tower of ash from an Icelandic volcano turned much of Europe into a no-fly zone.
