The scientific and medical arguments against their replacement never held water.
The end of the year was in stark contrast to the beginning of 2012 when politicians, farmers and water industry officials held a "water summit" to look at supply concerns.
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The government investigation is only partly complete, but it has now looked in detail at one dramatic failure, the breach of a wall that held back water in the 17th Street canal.
On the night of the attack, he twice had boiling water poured over him and his finger was held in boiling water to make him reveal where he hid his money, the court heard.
Water held in the reservoir, upstream of the city on the River Laver at Birkby Nab farm, will gradually drain away downstream.
The fish, which include bream, roach and some eels, are being held in fresh water buckets and released safely in another part of the canal.
Mr Mimlitz said he met the FBI and DHS last week to explain that he had taken a call on his mobile phone while on holiday and had been asked to check data held by a water district in central Illinois.
What makes this prosecution particularly senseless is that the Safe Drinking Water Act was adopted to prevent the pollution of water supplies, yet the evidence at trial convincingly demonstrated (and the trial judge so held) that the water King injected into his irrigation wells contained absolutely no contaminants.
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World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of water and advocating for the sustainable management of water resources.
Other major events marking the Year include a conference on water cooperation to be held in August in Dushanbe (Tajikistan), World Water Week in Stockholm (Sweden) from 1-6 September, and the Water Summit, which will take place in Budapest (Hungary) on 8 to 11 October.
The heavy water is held in an acrylic sphere, and is surrounded by a network of nearly 10, 000 photomultiplier tubes.
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Water Orton held on for a losing draw with Steve Taylor and Hitshu Bachandi taking four wickets each for the Shropshire side.
In Kent, water was held back at the Leigh Barrier near Tunbridge Wells, preventing it flowing down the River Medway towards Tonbridge.
The men claim they were deprived of sleep, food and water, held in extremely cold cells without warm clothing, and threatened with beatings.
But the near-farcical playing surface, with the ball repeatedly held up in surface water, put Chelsea's passing game all at sea and Frank Leboeuf was almost caught out on the edge of his area trying to dribble clear.
President Obama's drilling moratorium officially includes only projects in more than 500 feet of water, but the U.S. Minerals Management Service, a division of the Interior Department that regulates deepwater drilling, has held up shallow-water permits, too, until it can review safety standards.
Eyes should be held open and flushed with water for at least as long.
Also when a individual or corporation does not reinvest anything back into the community for which the land or water trust was held for by the governing body.
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He told jurors they were among the most significant cases of edema he had seen, the likely cause being forcefully held under the bath tub water for minutes, not seconds.
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International World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.
Regional development minister Danny Kennedy answered a number of questions relating to water supply, including Exercise Watermill, a mock incident exercise held in October 2011 to stress test Northern Ireland Water's response capacity.
She held onto a branch in the water for three hours before help arrived, she said.
Their example is held up to would-be water traders all over the world.
Even China's state-controlled press has aired complaints, many of them directed at the public hearings held in various cities to discuss water-price proposals.
Every state in the nation held preliminary contests to pick the best water from a rural water system in their state.
The land and water in our area is held in trust for the people by the state government appointed over its jurisdiction.
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This past Fourth of July, as the Amazon deal was percolating behind closed doors, he held a party for employees, with water guns.
He was held for two weeks while soldiers used water torture in a failed attempt to make him admit he was an activist.
The giant power tunnel intakes, gleaming like outsized radiators, guarding the underwater voids where two scuba divers were sucked to the grating by water entering the tunnels and held there until they drowned.
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