• Eugene Lochman, who runs a pool business in the Dallas area, says that he has seen spending on pools and water elements triple since 2008.

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  • We constantly underestimate the role of wetlands as basic water management elements within the supply and regulation process upon which humanity depends.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • Sure, we lose some of the water-cooler elements of live, mass-media broadcast.

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  • Sky and water become the focal elements, always expanding, while the buildings become simply a line of demarcation between them.

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  • Lunar Prospector itself provided more evidence last year when it used an instrument called a neutron spectrometer to look for the tell-tale signs of hydrogen, one of the elements of water.

    ECONOMIST: Creative destruction

  • Feng shui balances the elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water to create positive energy, and these elements can be seen throughout the theme park.

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  • Tepco is developing a few measures, including a system that would pump groundwater away from the reactor buildings so there would be less contaminated liquid to deal with, and another that would remove all radioactive elements from the water so it could be released safely into the environment.

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  • Just as every school child knows that water is formed by the two elements of hydrogen and oxygen in a very simple combination we all know as H2O, so deflation has its own elements of composition.

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  • The natural elements such as wind, water, earth, and fire have been inspirations to composers throughout time.

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  • Comets are made up of water, ice, dust and other elements and minerals, all loosely packed together, Battams said.

    CNN: Welcome to the year of the comet (we hope)

  • The April 2012 EPA decision to reduce air emissions from fracking could well be followed by an effort to end exemptions from certain elements of the Safe Drinking Water Act.

    FORBES: In Obama's Second Term, Shale Gas Production Not Likely to Slow Down

  • His moment of recognition came late on a raw winter's night, when he hankered to stay under his blankets but couldn't, because his family business makes quirky demands: Oyster growers like the Bishops engage in a rare branch of agriculture that farms in two elements, exposed earth and water.

    FORBES: Lifestyle Feature

  • When the tide goes out, organizers shovel up and pat down the sand to create the racing line, but such are the elements that occasional pools of surface water can remain, which some horses don't mind but others despise -- merely another nuance to the racing at Laytown.

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  • Other instruments will test for atomic elements, organic materials, radiation and water.

    CNN: Curiosity opening Martian frontier?

  • Beth Irving and Teach Carter have their hands bound in coloured ribbons representing the elements of earth, wind, fire and water.

    BBC: UK

  • The game itself is a wonder, as it uses purposefully blocky textures and models, where players craft vast structures from elements like wood, stone, earth, water and fire.

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  • Yet at hot springs and thermal spas where radon typically is found in the air or water along with carbon dioxide, sulphur gases and trace elements of other minerals, health-seekers sing its praises.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The bug infests most elements of everyday life: electricity, gas and water supplies, telephone services, the banking system, health services, transport and industry are all at risk if it is not caught in time.

    ECONOMIST: The bill for the millennium bug keeps going up

  • They are the ornamentation motifs of flower, vine, flame, lotus petals, bamboo-shoot or water-buffalo teeth, used to decorate objects and architectural elements throughout Cambodia, and people have long drawn these motifs from the environment and social life - from the Angkorian period to today.

    UNESCO: CULTURE

  • There are far fewer trees and water obstacles, but the courses are far more open to the elements.

    BBC: Carnoustie

  • In Hinduism each wick of the candle represents one of the five elements: wind, earth, fire, sky and water.

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  • It also found no threat from the warmer water that is discharged back into the river or from any radioactive elements escaping from the plants into the Hudson.

    WSJ: Feds: Relatively few fish die if NY nukes continue

  • The limestone used to build the 3rd century structure is being eroded by the elements and suffers particularly from frost-thaw - when water enters the stone then freezes and melts.

    BBC: Lincoln's Newport Arch suffers winter damage

  • Tough work in extreme elements, magnified this day by rough seas that repeatedly send water over the side and the stern onto the deck.

    CNN: King: Waterman finds Chesapeake Bay 'dying daily'

  • Mehta is now awaiting the release of Earth, the second film in her Elements trilogy, and is busy drafting the script for the third, Water.

    CNN: BURNED BY HOME FIRES

  • Elements of the approach are similar to that in Andhra Pradesh: farmers gather in water-users' associations to plan and operate irrigation services, for example.

    ECONOMIST: But the science of yields is unyielding

  • Some of the important elements of these measures include full cost recovery, increase in tariffs, privatisation of water supply and introduction of tradable water rights.

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  • Plato believed that the first four corresponded to the elements of which the Greeks thought the material world was composed: fire, air, water and earth.

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  • Of course, Mr Letwin and Mr Cameron, both old Etonians, may simply be attempting to put some clear blue water between themselves and the more populist - or wilfully philistine depending on your point of view - elements on Labour's front bench.

    BBC: David Cameron

  • For example, one of the most popular elements of our onboard service is also one of the least expensive for us to deliver: water.

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