More than four-fifths of the river water taken from the Murray-Darling basin is used for agriculture.
So perhaps the residents of Knighton should continue to keep a nervous eye on the river water.
After bathing at sangam, people fill up plastic bottles, jars, and pots with the river water to take it home with them.
But there is some concern that the river water is too polluted.
The entire sub-district of Sujawal was severely hit during the floods in 2010 and the town itself was completely evacuated as the river water started surging to the town.
Its sweltering citizens rushed for the beaches, its forests burned and some of its nuclear plants had to be closed down because the river water to cool them was insufficient.
Already in the planning stages: a 37-km tunnel to channel water from the Benus river in water-rich Pahang state to drought-stricken Selangor state, and a pipe to link the Gombak river in KL to the Wangsa Maju water treatment plant.
The city imports 90 percent of its water from the Colorado River and the state water project.
Meteorologist Jeff Masters notes today that although the storm surge has pushed salt water from the Gulf as far as 314 miles upstream, all the rain expected to fall north of New Orleans in the coming days will help raise near record-low water levels on the river and flush the salt water back out.
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The rain and river water in the city state's reservoirs is being mixed with recycled waste-water from air-conditioners, sinks and toilets.
Local economies also suffer when villagers can't sell their grain or eat the crops planted along the river because the water is so polluted.
Could ocean water desalination end the fight over water rights to the Colorado River, eliminate the need for new canals and pipelines to bring water to southern California and even allow for the return of stretches of biologically damaged parts of the Sacramento River delta to healthy wetlands?
The project is intended to give the authorities the ability to draw water from the Colorado River for the Las Vegas area and guard against water quality issues that are associated with continually dropping lake levels.
Spain's oldest nuclear power station - the Santa Maria de Garona plant - was shut down on Sunday because the Ebro river water became too hot to cool its reactor.
The new rules allow Arizona to bank the river's water in aquifers for the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
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For most of the past century, agriculture has been the winner of the water wars, receiving the great bulk of water from the Colorado River and its two large reservoirs at Lake Mead and Lake Powell.
"I'm not controlled by anybody, " he told the meeting, arguing that as mayor he would do far more to promote the town, putting river buses and more water sports on the river.
Chandler said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had adjusted a nearby dam to drop the river's water level by 2 feet and was regulating the current to make it easier on the divers, whom Chandler directs.
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Thames Water said the works at Abingdon would ensure the quality of the water in the River Thames was "exceptionally high".
But they said water from the river was safe, with water quality meeting government-set standards.
The salt water in the river has had a benefit for some anglers: "The redfish follow it up, so we're able to fish right in the Mississippi now instead of having to go to the gulf, " he said.
Stepping cautiously through the slime until he reached solid ground, looking disoriented, he regarded his image in the shallow water of the river while the paratroopers dried their feet with an old shirt, then pulled on their socks and boots and rolled down their pants.
But a partnership among The Nature Conservancy, the University of Georgia and the Flint River Soil and Water Conservation District are working to bring down the cost for Flint River farmers by supplementing their contributions with a variety of grants and federal funding sources, including the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.
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In a statement, the Shanghai municipal government said that the water in Huangpu River, which is a major source of drinking water for Shanghai, was safe.
Rain drilling the earth, and the path a river, gathering the water into a torrent that rinsed the chalk white again.
The backwater levee is designed to keep water from backing into the Yazoo River delta and is designed lower than the mainline levee so that water can flow over it.
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Opponents of the Tokushima dam argue that dams of similar design elsewhere have destroyed river habitats, blocking the flow of water and leading to an accumulation of sludge on the river bed.
The Jubilee River, a flood relief channel which diverts flood water away from the River Thames, will protect up to 3, 300 properties in the area.
River tribes are worried that the dams will block water ways and dry up the river beds they depend on for travel and fishing.
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