Newmont is making all efforts to mend fences with the local communities by focusing on building water reservoirs first before resuming mining activities.
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Regarding water consumption, the company is now building a water footprint management system along similar lines to what they have done for carbon.
"Everyone is building close to the water, building in vulnerable areas, " NOAA's Auer says.
Low-flow fixtures inside the building cut water consumption by 42% and GE eliminated outside landscape irrigation, accoding to the company.
Glasgow City Council said heavy rain seeped into a water pump building, affecting toilets and fresh water.
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The problems, of course, include the expense of building platforms in deep water, servicing them and building underwater transmission to bring the power to land.
At the head office building there was no water in our 18-storey building and the toilets were in a mess.
Just north of San Diego, on a site overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Poseidon Resources is building the biggest water desalination plant in the United States.
Iran has a large embassy in Nicaragua and plans on building a deep water port on Nicaraguas Caribbean coast to be connected by dry canal to the Atlantic coast.
The 4-by-6-foot color photograph of a wintry outdoor scene portrays a woman in a fur coat staring up at an apartment building where a water leak has cascaded down the cement facade and hardened into a frozen waterfall.
When we're going into a build of dehumidifiers or water coolers, we then run a picking list to say, right, we are building 1, 000 water coolers and this is all of the parts that we need for this product to be made.
The new building will reuse rain water to flush the toilets and a solar electric generating system will be installed on the roof.
An approach to integrated catchment management by building a framework for water law and policy experts, water resource managers and water scientists to work together on water-related problems.
She is also trying to pursue an "asset-light" strategy to avoid the burden of supporting the capital investment needs of building and owning huge water projects.
Yeang's designs use walls of plants, scallop-shaped sunshades, solar panels, advanced ventilation and the structure and of the building itself to collect water and catch cooling air currents.
"We found beautiful new spaces, but being below the building means you dig into water, " Pijbes says.
It may begin winding down because some combination of fuels, ores, building materials, soils, water, or food be- comes depleted.
Another businessman, Bartley Murphy of Murphy's Bar, said he arrived to find 2ft (60 cm) of water in the building.
Further, even if there were a few that could be built, it is not as if simply building a dam creates new water resources.
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The scheme was discovered because the building did not have mains water and Lewsey was seen repeatedly taking in quantities of water for the plants.
Lincoln Crown Court heard Paul Lewsey, 50, of Church Lane, North Carlton, was seen taking large amounts of water into a building off the A631 at Hemswell.
For decades environmentalists have begged governments and business to take account of disappearing forests and the dwindling global water supply when building roads, apartment complexes and shopping malls.
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Earlier this year, details released under the Freedom of Information Act revealed "snagging" issues holding up the move included incomplete work to the building's roof and water damage to other areas.
Despite, his concerns, Mr Mittal said some countries were performing strongly in regard to their spending on infrastructure, covering everything from electricity generation and distribution, to road building and provision of fresh water.
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For citizens of these targeted states, it will mean long delays and much higher costs in the planning and building of highway projects, water projects and any other kind of municipal or state infrastructure development.
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Government, regulators and the water industry were urged to make concrete plans for new supply networks in advance of house building, to ensure there are adequate water resources for the future.
Water may have trickled to the building's basement, where Reshma was found, from recent rains and from water sprayed by rescuers.
Ma Jun, a water specialist in Beijing, says that since the 1950s China has been digging ever deeper wells, and building ever more dams, canals, and water diversion projects.
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It has let in water intermittently since the building was built in 1860, staff said.
Television footage showed shattered windows in a nearby building and flooding from a burst water pipe.
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