"The city will not suffer what you could call a water crisis, " said Ramon Aguirre of the Mexico City water department.
But planners failed to consider the limits of the city's water supply and Cangzhou now faces one of the most severe water shortages in northern China.
"Good old marketing has convinced people that they should spend a lot of money on bottled water, " says Salome Freud, chief of New York City's distribution water quality operations.
The storm breached three levees and left more than three quarters of the city under water.
The city uses parts of its water fees to maintain the surrounding forest and carry out thinning to suppress wildfires.
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Riot police in the Turkish city of Istanbul have used water cannon and tear gas to prevent leftist May Day marchers reaching the main square.
Hoping to save yearly operating costs by combining utilities, the city shifted control of its water and sewer system to a not-for-profit trust that also runs the local natural gas.
The defences include a flood water storage area, upstream of the city, which can hold up to 1.5 million cubic metres of water.
As many of you -- my father was a pump operator at the city water plant, and neither of my parents had a college degree.
Incidents such as the recent discovery of more than 6, 000 dead pigs in Shanghai's Huangpu River, which supplies much of the city's tap water, make China a particularly hard sell, said Doreen Jaeger-Soong, managing director of legal recruitment firm Hughes-Castell.
The city imports 90 percent of its water from the Colorado River and the state water project.
This neighborhood on Ninth Avenue is nowhere near as hard hit as parts of the city nearer to water.
They're simply is not enough shelter here for them, you know, with 85 percent of the city covered in water.
To help New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers said Friday that it will open 52 more bays at the Bonnet Carre Spillway just north of the city, diverting water into Lake Pontchartrain.
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Gabriel Taussig, the chief of the city's administrative law division, pointed to two Board of Health decisions that were challenged in courts and remain on the books today: window guards on buildings with children in them and fluoridation of the city's water supply.
She is a fixture of the open-water swimming scene of New York City and currently holds the title of fastest woman to swim around Manhattan at 5 hours, 44 minutes.
But arid Adelaide recycles over 30% of its water, and to its south, the vineyards of McLaren Vale are irrigated with the city's waste water.
Many of the buildings are high-rises whose skeletons are making Panama City look like an out-of-water coral reef.
In return, an Arizona water-user (say, the city of Tucson) pumps the same amount of Nevada's water out of the aquifer under Arizona.
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Terrorists electronically break into the computers that control the water supply of a large American city, open and close valves to contaminate the water with untreated sewage or toxic chemicals, and then release it in a devastating flood.
The two are working on an economic-impact study of the restoration initiative that would create white-water rapids downstream of the city's largest spillway dam.
New York City, which touts the high quality of its tap water, offers portable fountains at events around the city.
In the Philippines, the city of Manila recently awarded contracts to run the city's water and sewerage services to two private consortia.
When the Department of Environmental Protection noticed hydrogen sulfide in the city's water supply, Stephen Hollowell, general manager of Steinhatchee's chlorine-based water-treatment plant, and his board were willing to a take a chance on new technology.
And all of a sudden, the levees start collapsing and all of the water just backs into the city and fills it up like a cup of tea.
As for the Yamuna river, long the main source of the city's drinking water, it is clinically dead.
About 80 percent of the city was flooded with water up to 20 feet deep after the two levees collapsed.
Thomas the Apostle School in Miami, Florida , whose city-design, Infinitum X, earned them a Future City National Award for Best Management of Water Resources.
"We think something on the line of 3 inches over six hours would probably put 2 to 4 feet of water in the lower-lying sections of the city, " said Lt.
Over the course of several weeks, CNN spoke with staff members from Memorial, who recounted the dismal situation inside the hospital after levees protecting New Orleans were breached on Monday, August 29, and most of the city filled up with water.
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