They sit on the sidewalk in a circle, water pipes bubbling between their white plastic chairs.
It could be used to install objects in hard-to-reach places such as underground water pipes, he suggested.
Officials believe leaking underground water pipes eroded sand under the pavement and contributed to the street giving way.
Amid this borrowing spree, city and state officials say, Harrisburg neglected to invest enough in its aging water pipes.
This helps black entrepreneurs, but means that the government builds fewer houses and lays fewer water pipes with its limited budget.
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What they want from the government is land to build their own houses, their water pipes, make their own little sub-economies.
Settled into wicker chairs, their fans laid carelessly across their bellies, old men smoked their water pipes, occasionally squinting at a sunbeam.
In Southern California, Los Angeles water officials are thinking about raising rates to replace thousands of miles of decaying water pipes.
And we can use fibre optic cable for the telephone cables and thus have more copper to use for the water pipes.
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The technician discovered that farmers were not only washing their clothes in the washing machines they were also washing potatoes, which clogged the water pipes.
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Traditional shisha water pipes are also found in many coffee shops.
There have also been bans on women smoking water pipes in public, riding on the backs of motorcycles or getting their hair done by male stylists.
Contractors are moving gas and water pipes, as well as phone and electricity cables in Leith, so they will not be damaged when the trams are operational.
Freezing conditions caused water pipes to split in many regions.
In the past, Hamas has approved laws aimed at appealing to conservative elements in Gaza: Banning men from cutting women's hair or forbidding women from smoking water pipes are two examples.
Her mother, Rosa, also owned a restaurant just across the road and they invested the money from the loans in a new refrigerator and maintenance such as fixing the water pipes.
Nevertheless, correspondents say Beirut's bustling pavement cafes, restaurants and downtown boutiques are packed with locals and Arab tourists, who come to dine, smoke water pipes or just stroll through the district.
The American Cancer Society is pushing to make New York the first state to enact a comprehensive restriction on the sale of candy- and fruit-flavored cigarillos, chewing tobacco and tobacco used in water pipes.
United Utilities said this was caused by harmless sediment which normally lies at the bottom of water pipes and which can get stirred up due to the changes in pressure when a main bursts.
Meanwhile, downed power lines, leaking gas lines, broken water pipes and still-blazing fires have blocked the return of thousands of Southern Californians who fled their homes this week ahead of more than 20 wind-whipped wildfires.
The little cigars, chewing tobacco and loose tobacco for use in water pipes are sold individually for as little as 99 cents or in packs and avoid stiff cigarette taxes aimed at dissuading young people from smoking.
These bills will curb lead levels in water pipes, a major source of harmful lead exposure for children, and help address diesel engine pollution that is linked to serious health conditions like asthma and heart and lung disease.
They have set up protection rackets against the utilities companies by cutting power lines, damaging water pipes, destroying cellular telephone antennas and breaking into businesses, and then offering their "security services" to the firms and owners they have robbed in exchange for promises not to rob again.
Some hooksters claim that the water-pipes are healthier than cigarettes: even though hookah also involves puffing on flavoured tobacco, the water acts as a filter.
Six thousand homes across Northern Ireland are still without running water after pipes burst in the recent thaw.
The recent years of drought, millions of gallons of water lost through leaky pipes and rising rates of water consumption are all problems faced by the water companies.
The latest cooling tricks, including big copper heat sinks and water-filled pipes, are not keeping up.
Poseidon wants to piggyback its plant onto the power plant so that it could draw water from these pipes.
Urban China loses up to 20 percent of its water through leaky pipes.
And I just met with folks from a local company, RedZone Robotics, who make robots that explore water and sewer pipes.
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