The creaking electrical-supply system is starved of investment to carry out urgently needed repairs, as is the water-supply system.
Despite the care that the allies say they are taking, the water-supply infrastructure in Baghdad and other towns is now at risk again.
The first phase of construction includes early earthwork and concrete foundations for a mill and on-site power plant, expansion of the existing water-supply system, construction and operation of the initial phase of a new tailings facility, and expansion of camp facilities by approximately 6, 600 additional beds for workers.
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There are lots of small initiatives, either at the user end -- e.g. turning off stand-by switches, drinking tap water -- or the supply end -- e.g. wind energy, tidal energy.
It is the source of water-supply of agricultural and everyday needs.
In Guernsey, salt can only be used outside the water catchment area because it can contaminate the water supply, so the de-icer CMA needs to be used.
The metropolis has grown so big and fast that the once-adequate public water supply now serves less than half of the population.
And a project is underway today to create a solar-powered water purification system to supply the needs of 750-1500 people per day.
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However, this year the Namibian department of water affairs announced the discovery of a significant body of underground water - an aquifer dubbed Ohangwena II - that scientists say could supply the north of the country with enough water for centuries.
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Local residents have expressed concern that the process - known as fracking - could lead to the contamination of the water supply.
For the first five years of sanctions, Iraq was unable to import any of the parts needed to repair its water-supply system.
In most of France, for instance, private franchise-holders supply the water but local authorities maintain the pipes a solution which, if applied to Britain's railways, would have the government owning carriages and engines but not running trains.
European vessels are not allowed to remove fins from sharks and dump the carcasses in the water - a practice that used to be rife as fishermen sought to supply fins to the lucrative East Asian market with the minimum bother.
He cleared the way for the Kremlin to secure one of its most prized global objectives -- allowing it to muscle in on a Western-financed supply contract for significant components associated with the two light-water reactors Pyongyang has been promised by Washington.
"Roads, metro-rail, increased water supply, availability of more power - these are the aspects in which the government is taking active steps, " he explains.
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These had included cutting off some of Singapore's fresh-water supply and withdrawing the large numbers of Malaysian workers from the country.
The capital's main surgical hospitals and water treatment plants now rely solely on back-up generators because the normal power supply has been cut, an untenable situation, Doumani said.
And while water may not be getting the C-suite attention it deserves, many more companies are beginning to look at water-related supply chain risks (71%, up from 62% in 2011).
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If the project is successful, as a pilot has been, it will also establish the use of an internet-based management system, mitigate losses from flooding and increase the supply of water to industry.
When I look at the global water crisis purely from a market-driven perspective, I see perhaps the single greatest imbalance of supply and demand that exists in the global marketplace.
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They are usually erected not by criminals but by desperate locals appealing through the news cameras for road repairs, a water supply, or, on one occasion, the inclusion of a well-liked player in the national soccer team.
It is spread through infected faeces and, once it enters the water supply, it is difficult to stop - especially in a country like Haiti which has almost no effective sewage disposal systems.
There is no electricity or water supply and the nearest school is a five-kilometre (three miles) walk.
"Glaciers provide about 15% of the La Paz water supply throughout the year, increasing to about 27% during the dry season, " said co-author Alvaro Soruco from the Institute of Geological and Environmental Investigations in Bolivia.
As Assad has made clear repeatedly, what he wants is to receive the Golan Heights - and through it Israel's fresh water supply - for nothing.
And besides, they say, the water from the Colorado River -- the city's main supply -- already has to be treated to remove all types of pollution.
On at least two occasions last summer, the Bonneville Power Administration - the federal agency responsible for marketing power from dams in the Pacific Northwest - used water meant to aid migrating juvenile salmon to supply California with hydroelctricity.
The rural 5-acre property surrounded by forest has a tenuous water supply from a well.
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For example: if a company somewhere in Africa chops down a forest to grow food destined for Europe, and that deforestation wrecks the water supply used by villagers, who's to blame - the Africans or the Europeans?
All too often, while we are all getting ready for school and work, the water supply to the bathroom suddenly disappears, leaving everyone in mid-wash or with a mouth full of toothpaste.
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