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.
"The city will not suffer what you could call a water crisis, " said Ramon Aguirre of the Mexico City water department.
The city uses parts of its water fees to maintain the surrounding forest and carry out thinning to suppress wildfires.
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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 storm breached three levees and left more than three quarters of the city under water.
The defences include a flood water storage area, upstream of the city, which can hold up to 1.5 million cubic metres of 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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As for the Yamuna river, long the main source of the city's drinking water, it is clinically dead.
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.
Still, the implications of the Rutgers project unnerve residents of Surf City, on Long Beach Island, where the map shows water pouring over nearly all of the barrier island's six municipalities with a 6-foot increase in sea levels.
Most of those who rail about Cochabamba do not also remind their listeners of the woeful failure of the city's previous public-sector water supplier.
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.
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.
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.
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.
New York City, which touts the high quality of its tap water, offers portable fountains at events around the city.
As his great career starts winding down, it is only fitting that his greatest legacy is being built in the heart of the country's biggest city on the water where he has watched so many sunsets.
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.
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.
In the lower sections of the city entire gardens remain submerged and muddy water can be seen flowing from properties.
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Bruce Hickling from the International Rescue Committee says the daily search for water in the city has become one of the most pressing concerns.
Karlin Music Theater, in one of the hardest-hit areas of the city, was filled calf-deep with mud and water.
The dam system accounts for 20 percent of the water used in Mexico City and its surrounding area.
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.
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.
The creak of ancient waterwheels turning in the cool water of the Orontes, which snakes through this city of 800, 000, was the only sound in the still hot air during the daytime last weekend.
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