Basic water utility fees will be waived for residents of Tokyo this summer in an effort to limit the impact of extreme heat, ...

Some regions of Japan, including the Tokyo metropolitan area, face the possibility of water shortages due to scarce rainfall and scorching heat. Tropical temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius ...

Pakistan and Japan have signed agreement for installation of smart water meters. A signing ceremony for the grant agreement, exchange of notes and record of discussion between the governments of ...

A panel of experts at the Environment Ministry is discussing changes to Japan's drinking water standards to protect the public from harmful per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as ...

Over 20% of water pipes across Japan have exceeded their legal service life of 40 years, but many municipalities are struggling to deal with the matter. Of the roughly 740,000 kilometers of the ...

ISLAMABAD: The Japanese government has approved a grant assistance of $3.50 million for Pakistan to provide smart water meters and related equipment to the Water and Sanitation Agency (Wasa ...

Japanese people know all about the Kappa - a slippery water demon from ancient folklore. The pond and river-dwelling monsters are typically depicted as human-like but with the scaly green or blue ...

The Embassy of Japan has signed a grant contract with Japanese non-governmental organization Ikaw-Ako to support the third phase of a safe water supply and sanitary education project in Bohol. In a ...

SHANGHAI—Chinese boats are catching fish in what Beijing calls “Fukushima nuclear-contaminated water” for distribution in China, while the same marine products caught in the same area by ...

Japan will begin releasing a second batch of waste water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant from next week, its operator has said, an exercise that angered China and others when it began in ...