As an island-city-state, it has little land on which to collect enough water for its 4.8m people, and not much room to store it.
The difference, according to Harold Finkelstein, an irascible wholesaler from Long Island City, N.
Sean McKee, director of policy at London Chamber of Commerce, said London is a "global city in an island economy".
Manhattan, the heart of the city, is an island, separated from all the other boroughs by water.
"It's as if we've been a little bit behind the curve, but now we're really taking off, " said Gayle Baron, president of the Long Island City Partnership, an economic-advocacy group.
The city itself has become an island of hot pavement in a sea of green.
Having lived in and out of Singapore for 17 years, Comer now resides in an oceanfront condominium in Sentosa Cove, a gated enclave of ultra-wealthy residents on an island 20 minutes from Singapore's city-center.
"If you can afford a studio apartment in New York City, you can definitely afford an island, " says Farhad Vladi , founder of specialty brokerage Vladi Private Islands, based in Hamburg, Germany.
It occurred in a marketplace on the city's Lagos Island -- an enclave filled with highly flammable structures built with wood and iron sheets, police said.
Families look at Pok Fulam, an area outside of the city but still on the island, and the Tin Hua area, known for great restaurants and a large recreational park.
Take a break from your aquatic adventures and stroll to the island's capital city of Kralendijk for an afternoon of shopping and exploring - perfect for a girls' weekend away.
Although the council could not comment on this planning application, it said the City Pride and Island Point schemes were linked through an s106 agreement, which means that the social affordable housing provision would be shared between the two sites.
There are plans to reconnect the two city centres by moving Guben's station and developing an island in the Neisse.
There's also an engaging image of the rooftop bar at the Ravel Hotel in Long Island City, where, based on the sparse crowd, long shadows and two female servers in little black dresses chatting idly, the evening cocktail hour is just getting going.
John Azzata, chief of the Nassau County homicide squad, said he alerted Suffolk County colleagues that an as-yet unidentified body was found on Monday afternoon by a woman walking her dog in Lattingtown, an affluent community on Long Island Sound about 35 miles east of New York City.
The Nassau County district attorney's office Friday said it opened an investigation into whether 18 elementary-school teachers in the city on Long Island's North Shore had coached students during last year's state tests.
Even as Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was unveiling the federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, consumers in New York City were carting old appliances to an electronics recycling drive in Coney Island.
There is quite an argument over a proposal to build a cable-car connecting the city and the island.
They say air quality is improving, thanks to tighter emissions standards for motor-vehicles and to the moving of one the city's biggest polluters, a steel plant in the western suburbs, to an offshore island.
He was acquiring an offshore island across the Yangtze River from Shanghai meant to become the most fully energy self-sustaining eco-city in the world.
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