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The Dotonbori area of Osaka. Severely aging water and sewage systems pose a challenge across much of Osaka Prefecture.
JAPAN / Society / FOCUS
Oct 14, 2026
Osaka grapples with severely aging water and sewage systems
Even if replacement work moves forward, completing it quickly is seen as nearly impossible primarily due to staffing and financial constraints.
Cloudy water that came up from a well in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, following a major earthquake in July
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2026
Residents in Yatsushiro face well water issues following July earthquake
Yatsushiro’s public water supply coverage rate is only 52.1%, leaving nearly half of local households reliant on well water as an essential lifeline.
U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham speaks at the House of Commons in London on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 2, 2026
Burnham says water central to U.K. plan for public control
Thames Water, which serves London, is seen as the leading target for more direct government control, though the prime minister did not name it.
Houseboats are seen on the Het Meertje river, as water levels being lower than expected for this time of the season in Nijmegen, Netherlands, on July 17.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Aug 17, 2026
Faced with historic drought, the Dutch rethink water management
The Netherlands, which designed its dikes, dams and vast waterworks to battle floods, faces a dilemma: how to retain water while protecting itself from it?
Residents carry buckets filled with water collected from a nearby filling station in the township of Olievenhoutbosch, north of Johannesburg, South Africa, on Aug. 7.
WORLD / Society
Aug 12, 2026
Johannesburg’s water crisis angers voters while driving rich off-grid
Wealthier inhabitants of the commercial capital are drilling boreholes to bypass the municipality, starving it of funds needed to fix the mess.
Bottled water delivered as relief supplies to the Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force's Vice Camp Takayubaru in Kumamoto Prefecture on Sunday
JAPAN
Aug 10, 2026
U.S. Forces airlift water for Kumamoto earthquake victims
The operation sent about 33,000 bottles of drinking water to the area.
People walk on the dried-out Danube riverbed near downtown Budapest on Thursday.
WORLD
Aug 2, 2026
Europe’s key rivers are drying up as extreme heat impact widens
Rhine and Danube levels have dwindled over an unusually hot and dry summer, with repeated bouts of high-pressure blocking moisture-bearing clouds from replenishing watersheds.
A displaced Palestinian woman washes clothes on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Gaza City on July 14.
WORLD / Society
Jul 22, 2026
In Gaza, a mother’s hunt for water lays bare a worsening health crisis
Gaza is facing an unprecedented collapse of its water and sanitation systems, warn aid agencies, U.N. officials and Palestinian ?health authorities.
Kubota is buying atmospheric water harvesters made by Delaware-based AirJoule to be initially deployed in California and Texas to provide developers of suburban subdivisions with sufficient water supplies.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 22, 2026
Kubota to use H2O-from-air technology to supply water-stressed suburbs
The climate-driven water crisis is becoming a housing crisis as builders increasingly face challenges in securing sufficient water supplies for new residential developments.
Senior politicians and technology company representatives pose for photographs after a memorandum of understanding signing ceremony during a public briefing on the development vision for advanced industry in South Korea's southwestern region, in Gwangju, South Korea, on June 30.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 21, 2026
Power and water needs test South Korea’s push to build AI chip hub
South Korea has said it wants to establish a new semiconductor hub in its southwest within four years, but local opposition to the project's massive power and water needs is set to be among its biggest obstacles.
A woman uses an umbrella to protect herself from the sun during a heat wave in Valencia, Spain, on Tuesday.
ENVIRONMENT / Climate change
Jul 8, 2026
Europe’s third major heat wave raises grid and water risks
The latest spell of hot weather is being driven by a high-pressure heat dome, similar to the one that shattered records across much of the continent last month.
Romain Troublé, the executive director of Tara Ocean Foundation, speaks to visitors aboard the Tara during a rare port call in Tokyo in April.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET
Jun 28, 2026
A French ship with close ties to Japan combines arts and sciences on the high seas
With research on microplastics and the health of coral reefs, the crew of the Tara are making a difference as the world’s environmental issues mount.
With copper prices rising in recent years, a single water meter is believed to fetch roughly ?1,800 ($11.50) to ?2,000 when resold.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 7, 2026
Water meter thefts spread across Japan as copper prices rise
Experienced thieves can remove a meter in under a minute, according to a water bureau official.
A hot spring facility in the city of Tomioka, Gunma Prefecture, has suspended the operation of its open-air baths since March.
JAPAN
May 3, 2026
Water shortages hit tourist spots in Japan during Golden Week
Sightseeing boats, operators of hot springs and other businesses have been forced to reduce service hours.
People wait to fetch drinking water at a makeshift camp for displaced Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip on April 10
WORLD
Apr 28, 2026
Israel using water access as ‘weapon’ in Gaza, report says
Doctors Without Borders has warned that Israeli authorities are systematically depriving people in Gaza of water.
Farmers separate wheat grains from husks at a farm on the outskirts of Varanasi, India, on Tuesday.
ENVIRONMENT / Sustainability
Apr 15, 2026
India’s green fuel plans collide with farmers’ water fears
India, which imports 80% of its oil and gas, has made ethanol central to its clean energy plans and, as war in the Mideast impacts the price and supply of oil, its energy security.
Workers monitor the water at the Sea Water Desalination Plant in Fukuoka.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Apr 9, 2026
Waste water to clean energy: Japanese engineers harness the power of osmosis
Engineers in the city of Fukuoka and their private partners have opened what is only the world’s second osmotic power plant.
Water utilities will be required to conduct PFAS tests every three months in principle under new tap water quality standards that will take effect next month.
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2026
Japan to mandate inspections for PFAS in water from April
The Environment Ministry aims to assess PFAS concentrations in water supplies nationwide.
A boy fills a water tank from a truck outside his family home in Diwaniya, Iraq, on Oct. 20, 2022. Desalination plants are essential to the economy and drinking water supplies in the Middle East.
WORLD / EXPLAINER
Mar 23, 2026
Water emerges as a dangerous new war target
Iran has threatened to target desalination plants in the Middle East, which are essential to one of the driest regions in the world.
A monument to Russian Czar Alexander III on the embankment of the Siberian Ob River in Novosibirsk, Russia. Climate change is undermining Central Asia’s water supply by shrinking glaciers and rivers, prompting interest in the river as a potential source to meet the region’s needs.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 11, 2026
A Soviet-era water scheme returns as a Eurasian lifeline
The convergence of climate, economic and geopolitical crises has transformed this once-impractical proposal into an urgent policy priority.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
How this long-term resident avoids the annoying tourist label in Japan
Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
What can Asia do to avoid crossing crucial climate tipping points?
Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
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Japan weighs how to evacuate thousands of tourists if Mount Fuji erupts
Climbers and visitors gather on the first day of the climbing season at the Fuji Yoshidaguchi Trail, at the fifth station on the slopes of Mount Fuji, in Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, on July 1, 2024.

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