• Tourists camp along the fresh-water streams that flow between the dunes, and swim off the nearby Ras Irsal peninsula.

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  • These had included cutting off some of Singapore's fresh-water supply and withdrawing the large numbers of Malaysian workers from the country.

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  • The seven-line course zigzags down to a base camp, where Backcountry Adventures provides lunch and a chance to cool down in a nearby fresh-water swimming hole.

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  • Sequential optical images of high spatial resolution were used for the first time to derive surface ice velocities of Glaciar Upsala, a fast-moving fresh-water calving glacier in southern Patagonia.

    UNESCO: Dublin Core

  • "We see the sport as being where NASCAR was 15 to 20 years ago, " says Coca-Cola spokeswoman Susan McDermott, whose company sponsors fresh-water angler Aaron Martins with Vault, its soda-energy drink hybrid.

    FORBES: Reeling In Sponsors

  • Food and Agriculture Organization based in Rome, over 50 billion vertebrates are consumed by humans every year, a number that does not account for fish or marine and fresh-water invertebrates, or for biomedical victims of experimentation, from dogs to hamsters to rats and mice.

    FORBES: "A Memorial Day for the Environment"

  • Would insurance money fresh from water-logged artwork burn pockets and spur a spending bonanza?

    FORBES: Peter Brant And Nate Lowman Throw A Party With OJ Simpson's Ford Bronco

  • But unlike other alternative energy sources, such as sun or wind power, there's nothing fickle about the availability of the key raw ingredients--fresh water and sea water.

    FORBES: Getting Power From Salty Water

  • The salt lakes fill with fresh water, and millions of water birds - pelicans, stilts, shags and gulls - can be seen feeding on the superabundant fish and insect life.

    BBC: Watching Australia's wildlife

  • In the center of the ocean, wind-driven currents bring fresh water to the surface, so stirring the ocean could transform it into a well-organized storage depot.

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  • The 16th Century hull was first sprayed with chilled fresh water to remove salt and later with a water-soluble wax which prevents shrinkage of the timbers.

    BBC: Mary Rose protective jets switched off for first time

  • Because they are preserved in the Gale crater still today, it implies that the water there had relatively little acidity -- that is, it was fresh water, like the water you'd find in most ponds or lakes on Earth today.

    CNN: Have a drink on Mars

  • But whether you're a fresh water economist or a salt water one, empirical analysis - working out what's actually going on in the economy - depends on knowing the facts.

    BBC: The Nobel prize, and the ONS

  • At the same time, drilling companies use up to 5 million gallons of fresh water for every natural-gas well they frack.

    WSJ: Pa. pushes drillers to frack with coal mine water

  • Discover the beauty of Reach Falls during your included waterfall tour and take a dip in the teal-coloured pools of fresh mountain water.

    BBC: Daily deal: Four nights in Jamaica

  • Coca-Cola, for instance, is investing in preserving healthy watersheds to ensure the long-term availability of fresh water for its business and the communities in which it operates.

    FORBES: The Next Global Debt Crisis

  • The salt of the seawater draws the fresh water across the membrane, leading to a build-up of pressure which forces water through the turbine, generating electricity.

    FORBES: Getting Power From Salty Water

  • Nearly three-fourths of all the fresh water in the world is in Canada.

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  • Rather, I state a new maxim: How does America decide between the above, the BRAIN Initiative, bio-engineered human gills, one-wheeled SegWays and getting fresh water?

    FORBES: Barack Obama's BRAIN Initiative Vs. Bioengineered Gills And One-Wheeled SegWays

  • Its idea was to move the point at which salt and fresh water mix in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to a place that they opined was ideal for the smelt.

    FORBES: Let Them Drink Dust!

  • The implications of discovering evidence for fresh water are exciting for macro-organisms as well: Rover chief scientist John Grotzinger of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has speculated that we would have been able to drink that ancient water, had we been there some 2, 3, or 4 billion years ago to witness glorious Lake Gale.

    CNN: Have a drink on Mars

  • Brian figured that if he could solve the technology and logistics problems required to anchor a fish farm 10 or 20 miles offshore, where swift currents carry away and disperse the waste produced by concentrated fish stocks, it would allow the farmed fish to swim in the same fresh water as their wild cousins-the best of both worlds.

    FORBES: Regulatory Uncertainty Drives A Fish Farmer To Foreign Waters

  • Keyser said the area figures it has about a 60-year supply of crisp, fresh water for its residents.

    CNN: Best-testing water in U.S.: White Salmon, Washington

  • It can be modified by mixing it with fresh water and a small amount of phenol-based surfactant.

    FORBES: An Indian Consortium Shows Interest In ConocoPhillips' Alberta Oil Sands Assets

  • The refined cocktails incorporate traditional spirits, fresh-squeezed juices and aromatics, such as rose water, to stimulate your sense of smell.

    BBC: Philadelphia��s revived speakeasy scene

  • Four-fifths of the world's fresh water is frozen.

    ECONOMIST: Low temperatures

  • In addition to creating the sill, officials are planning to take 2.5 million gallons of fresh water from farther north in the river -- past mile marker 100 -- then carry it by barge southward "and suck it into our water treatment facilities, " Laigast said.

    CNN: Salt creeping up the Mississippi River

  • When a receiver will generate about 25kW of energy while costing less to make through cheaper mirrors and structures, a fully developed solar array could be an affordable replacement for coal power that delivers greater independence -- picture remote towns that need a fresh water supply.

    ENGADGET

  • Glaciers, ice fields, and snowpack store an immense amount of fresh water and gradually release it to meet year-round needs for irrigation, drinking, sanitation, industrial processing, clean energy, and food production.

    FORBES: Should Countries With No Water Be Pushing for Growth?

  • The wave breaks at the river mouth so you can rinse off in a fresh water pool with a view of light green pyramid-shaped mountains in the valley.

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