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  • There was no electricity or running water on Forward Operating Base Kushamond.

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  • Like his passage on how listening to water running through a canyon reminds him of the erotic sounds in the Kama Sutra.

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  • Some of the conditions we have to work and operate in for long periods of time lack basic things like electricity and running water, before you get on to providing the security that we're there to do.

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  • Ms Cobell and her seven siblings grew up in a one-bedroom house on the Blackfeet reservation without electricity, telephones or running water.

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  • Reaching a slipway guarded on their approach by a fence running down into the water, some of the men plunged into the river and began swimming upstream.

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  • "My idea of retirement would be having a nice boat, sailing around the world and exploring and being able to relax and enjoy being on the water -- to just enjoy life without running around quite so hectically!"

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  • They have hammocks where walls should be, plunge pools, and water-park bathrooms with rock-walled showers where water falls out of the stones-- though after bush showers on safari, we would have been delighted by water running out of anything.

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  • Water supplies in north Gloucestershire were running out on Sunday evening after a treatment plant flooded.

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  • Madoz focused on the fact that natural resources, especially water, are running out.

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  • At least fairly clean: One year Wardlaw turned on the water to take a shower, and it was running brown.

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  • Urara, a town of about 50, 000 inhabitants on the Transamazon highway, is a typical frontier town with no running water, no sewerage and no airport - apart from small, clandestine landing strips, which some people say are used for drug trafficking.

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  • We are just beginning to see the results of the long and successful effort to reclaim the Hudson River waterfront for public use in the river-front gardens and promenades of Lower Manhattan and the tree- and rose-lined bicycle and running paths that have transformed the water's edge on West Street.

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  • Reservoirs on the neighbouring isle of Coll were also running low - with only enough water for about another 50 days.

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  • It has long been argued by housing experts that public money is better spent on improving shacks in the favelas, and by providing them with electricity, running water, sewerage and street lighting.

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  • When you woke up this morning, chances are you turned on a light, took a shower in your bathroom, brushed your teeth with running water and checked the Internet.

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  • You had merely to lead them to the plate-glass porch door and point out a squirrel or a cat running on the railing, or the automatic pool vacuum flipping its tail in the water as it carried on, side to side, end to end.

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  • Here, about 30, 000 families (no one knows for sure how many) crowd into a warren of hastily thrown-together shacks on the fringes of Ghana's capital: there is no power, sewerage or running water, diarrhoea and other diseases are rife and deadly fires rapidly take hold.

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  • Peter York, a writer on posh London, notes that a previous generation built shockingly ostentatious houses in Mayfair, with running water and lots of marble.

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  • One problem with urban kayaking is that the people running the tours are often the only ones in the group with any real experience on the water.

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  • Many involve creating task forces or crafting better plans to address such needs as restoring power, distributing food and water, checking on homebound people and returning patients to evacuated hospitals once they're running.

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  • An undulating series of verdant falls on the border of Argentina and Brazil, Iguazu Falls almost puts Niagara to shame, though it has less water running through it.

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  • We arrived on the banks of the Comoue and the spot is idyllic - green, sunny, with the gentle noise of running water, basically the perfect breeding site for black flies.

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  • But Brent Nutt, who is not on board, told a local news station that his wife was a passenger and that she had no access to running water or a bathroom.

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