Contaminated water becoming major problem. Islamabad is receiving contaminated water supply as the Capital Development Authority has failed to repair leaking and old pipelines, residents told Daily Times on Sunday. [News Source]

Jakarta drinking water still poisonous. Studies have shown most of Jakarta's ground water is polluted with E. Coli and Coliform which can cause diarrhea and life-threatening cholera. [News Source]

Bad air messes with western U.S. Thanks to prevailing wind patterns, as much as 40 percent of the air from China's pollution ends up here. [News Source]

Lawmakers grill military leaders over pollution at returned US bases. A controversy has erupted over the costs for cleaning up U.S. military bases returned to South Korea earlier this year, as former and current South Korean defense ministers testified Monday at a parliamentary hearing on the viability of the process to get back the bases. [News Source]

Expert warns on failing environment. A Professor of Environment, Promise Karibo has called on the National Assembly to review liability laws of the country especially as it concerns oil and gas exploration. [News Source]

IIT kit converts buses to hybrids and could save millions. Local engineering students and their research professors are hoping to fuel interest in accelerating the Chicago Transit Authority's commitment to operating cleaner-running hybrid buses. [News Source]

Diary - Hong Kong - to June 28, 2007 (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News) (Times are provisional in HK time and GMT time in brackets; * denotes new entry; # denotes results cover; N/A denotes Not Applicable) [News Source]

Students participate in programme on pollution (Indian Express via Yahoo! India News) Around 200 school students participated in a programme hosted by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) today morning. The programme, a part of the 'Nirmal Ganga' project, aimed at making students aware of pollution in the city and the health hazards caused by it. The participants were students of KMC-run primary schools. "We wanted the young generation to participate in the 'pollution-free ... [News Source]

Mercury rises. Far from industrialized, pollution-producing cities and in the pristine environment of Glacier Bay, mercury has more than doubled during the past 15 years, researchers say. [News Source]

Number of birth defects higher in Valley than state average. A surprising number of Rio Grande Valley families face the heartache of finding out a child has a debilitating birth defect. [News Source]

Sri Lanka garment manufacturer going ‘green’. Garment manufacturer Hirdaramani says it is building a ‘green’ factory this year and is also gradually making all of the group’s existing factories more environmentally friendly. [News Source]