However, Mike Pocock, water resources manager at Veolia Water Central, struck a note of caution and urged customers to continue to use water wisely.
So our journey times might get slightly shorter in central London but water bills will increase.
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The participants stressed the central role of water in ensuring sustainable development, public health, poverty alleviation and combating the effects of climate change.
Water is central to sustainable development, including the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals and post-2015 objectives.
Two weeks after Katrina slammed into the central Gulf Coast and water filled the city from breaches in the levees that were supposed to protect it, 40 percent of New Orleans is still underwater.
An advice and response unit is being set up in Northampton's central Market Square where Anglian Water experts and customer service staff will be available to answer any concerns of residents, she said.
Mr Mimlitz said he met the FBI and DHS last week to explain that he had taken a call on his mobile phone while on holiday and had been asked to check data held by a water district in central Illinois.
Up in Napa Valley the wine industry is worried by a troublesome insect, the glassy-winged sharp shooter, and the water on which the Central Valley's farmers depend looks likely to be in short supply for the next few years.
If glacier wastage continues at the present trend as observed during the last 2 decades, it will severely affect the water resources in the arid central Andes of Argentina.
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Climatic changes of the 20th century have altered the water cycle in the Andean basins of central Argentina.
They play a central role in sustainable development by supplying all our fresh water.
The countryside is where 85% of all water is used in Africa, Asia and Central America.
While the spillways will divert water away from Louisiana cities, low-lying central parts of the state will be flooded.
Central government has to have reserves of fuel, food and water that can be transported to affected areas quickly.
Meanwhile, in Jiangxi, water supplies "return to normal" after a fuel spill in Lake Poyang cut off tap water for 60, 000 residents, China Central Television reports.
In Asia it accounts for 86% of total annual water withdrawal, compared with 49% in North and Central America and 38% in Europe.
There is no oil disaster to speak of in the body of water separating the U.K. and northern and central Europe, but BP 's outgoing chief executive Tony Hayward will nevertheless come under extra pressure from lawmaker Wednesday following a report that the oil giant had not been in full compliance with safety regulations for its North Sea operations.
In Brisbane, which was paralysed by flooding two years ago, water has been creeping into low-lying parts of the central business district.
Related problems were evidenced by the closures of central power plants across Europe during the heat wave of 2003 because river water temperatures rose to levels where cooling was not possible or environmentally acceptable.
Eight small boats exploring stretches of the Hudson opening to canoeists in the central Adirondacks all made it through seven moderate rapids interspersed with long flat-water stretches on a 7.3-mile trip through deep forests of evergreens and hardwoods.
That said, many of the newly identified deposits are located in the central North Sea or to the west of Scotland, and will require deep-water drilling which is expensive.
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Central electric power plants, in particular, are highly dependent on vast quantities of cooling water that will become scarcer under climate change.
Throughout central and southern Texas swimmers are being turned away from lakes and pools: the dwindling water supply is for drinking, not splashing around in.
The facility's central booking facility, where inmates are brought in, was under about six feet of water at midday Saturday, according to Escambia County Sheriff's Office spokesman Mike Ward.
The home is built around a central atrium, and includes a large master suite and a second-story loggia overlooking the water.
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The unevenly matched contenders verbally thrust and parry on a central, Plexiglass-walled bullring designed by Soutra Gilmour, complete with carpeting and an innocuous water cooler.
Indeed anyone who bought silver since March 18 when the central banks engaged in coordinated intervention to stem the rising Japanese yen, is not only under water facing capital losses, it is also costing them much more to remain long.
Generally people want to buy near the financial and commercial areas, and popular developments and central neighbourhoods such as Damacor, Mahaai, Van Engelen, Jan Sofat and the areas of Spanish Water Bay and Jan Thiel Bay.
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