The Year will highlight the history of successful water cooperation initiatives, as well as identify burning issues on water education, water diplomacy, transboundary water management, financing cooperation, national and international legal frameworks, and the linkages with the Millennium Development Goals.
Buildings smoldered from fire and gas leaks bubbled up through brackish floodwater, occasionally catching fire and burning on the water surface.
Environmental experts say birds and animals are more likely to escape a burning patch of water than an oil slick, although toxic fumes could endanger wildlife.
Hydrogen has a high energy density and is clean - burning to leave only water vapour.
Because of our efforts, millions of gallons of oil have already been removed from the water through burning, skimming and other collection methods.
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The log cabin-style main home features a stone wood-burning fireplace, hardwood floors and extensive water and mountain views.
Carbon dioxide, the result of burning fuel, is, together with water and sunlight, the raw material of photosynthesis.
Her husband Ken Davies, who was in an upstairs room, rushed to help and had to throw water over her and the burning chair.
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Two TEPCO workers were rushed to the hospital yesterday after radioactive water penetrated their radiation suits, burning their skin.
Within the passages, his Shamanistic figures stalk burning landscapes, levitate in air or float in water.
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Every year on the Feast of St Michael, the townspeople propitiate the sea spirits by solemnly burning a boat and scattering its ashes on the water.
The Surbiton-based Croatian Scot that is our Orlo has gone to douse his burning fingers into a bath of ice-cold water so I'll take you through England v Scotland.
Soak bamboo skewers in water for 15-30 minutes to keep them from burning when grilled.
Engineers have built a contraption of water heater size that strips hydrogen out of natural gas while burning the carbon to provide heat for the home.
Riot police used tear gas and water cannon to break up demonstrations in Valparaiso where fishermen erected barricades of burning tires.
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Then it cuts to a police motorcycle burning in a street and shows the crowd protecting the fallen police officer, offering him water.
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Hydroelectric dams are under assault for killing fish, biomass burning produces greenhouse gases just as fossils do, and geothermal power releases toxic ground and water contaminates.
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The Lake Yellowstone Hotel overlooks a vast and placid body of moonlit water, its distant east shore smudged with the glow of a long-burning forest fire.
An array of state and federal agencies are on the scene, skimming up oily water, installing thousands of feet of boom in an attempt to contain the oil, and burning off some of the slick.
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