Because of lower water-tables and depleted aquifers, many rivers can no longer replenish themselves in the dry season.
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Britain has much potential: natural salt caverns and depleted gas fields could store decades of emissions from Europe.
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Risk aversion, fear of default and depleted bank capital have caused private borrowing rates to deviate sharply from policy rates.
It is becoming a land of individual strangers questing for their inner happiness because the public realm is so corrupted and depleted.
However, Romania, Poland and Germany all have existing and depleted wells that are onshore and near water sources that would potentially be suitable for development.
After a year of imprudent policies coupled with low world prices for the country's staple exports (bananas, coffee and sugar), Mr Arzu will leave Guatemala with high fiscal and current-account deficits, slowing economic growth, a sharp depreciation in the quetzal, weak banks and depleted reserves.
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Today, the prospect is not altogether bright that the United States, its goodwill and resources depleted by Iraq and other cares, will play the same role.
These breakthroughs allow oil to be sucked economically from far beneath the ocean floor, and out of depleted and formerly abandoned wells.
Inman (Jude Law), a young Confederate soldier, badly wounded and spiritually depleted, deserts his company and tries to make his way back to his home town in North Carolina and to a young woman, Ada (Nicole Kidman), he knew briefly and fell in love with.
Our supply of dollar bills and wine was depleted, and our car was faster than theirs now.
The neighborhood booksellers are now largely gone, and the depleted competition in electronics may soon follow them into oblivion.
On Tuesday, US Defence Secretary William Cohen reiterated the position of both Washington and London that no link had been proven between depleted uranium and the cases of cancer among former peacekeeping troops.
Like its sibling, stress is an economic, medical and social problem of epidemic proportion and is making us emotionally depleted, physically sick, and, incidentally, fatter.
There is rarely crop rotation and soils are depleted after years of grain crops.
Eventually, our fossil fuel supplies will be depleted and the price-dependency squeeze will be worse than ever.
The IRS' depleted and demoralized staff became consumed with following the new rules.
As conventional oil is depleted and becomes harder to find, oil companies will increasingly look to unconventional sources to boost production.
Additionally he finds his hard earned savings has been severely depleted and now it looks like he will only have social security when he retires.
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So for example, banks or other institutions which were exposed to subprime lending would still see their capital base depleted and their shareholders wiped out.
The 1.4-liter gasoline engine under the hood acts as a generator after the 16.5 kWh battery is depleted and feeds electricity back to the motor.
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Porter, and he volunteered seventy acres of land where he had grown only cotton or corn for twenty-eight years, applied no fertilizer, and almost completely depleted the humus layer.
All these steps were aimed at reducing credit spreads on private loans and increasing the supply of private credit, currently constrained by fear of counterparty default, illiquidity and banks' depleted capital.
As a result, an unfair war for talent is taking place where resource rich companies and countries have an unmatched advantage in attracting and retaining the best talent from, sometimes, already talent-depleted nations and economies.
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For instance, water pumps and waste water treatment plants rely on electricity, so when power is lost for long periods of time, reserves are depleted and bottled water must be transported into the zone, usually by truck.
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Only in his depleted and desperate state would Max have considered that his best option would be to run, stumble, and crawl through the densest and wildest kind of jungle toward the sounds of what seemed to be some kind of riot.
He commented that the effects of depleted uranium were a matter of debate among scientists, politicians and campaigners and said the court was not concerned with political or campaigning questions, but with the scientific questions as to Mr David's illness and the effects of depleted uranium.
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Today he is backing the conservancy's efforts to get the balance right between Maine's fishermen and the oceans' depleted fish stocks.
Twenty-five percent of the aquifers in Qatar have already been depleted, and those remaining are being consumed at six times the renewal rate.
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So, apparently, did the Nethers, who planned to use her to repopulate their depleted numbers and bake various things they did not know how to bake.
The subprime crisis still dominates headlines as banks and financial institutions continue their multibillion-dollar writedowns and shoring up of depleted balance sheets with massive infusions of new capital.
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