California's Department of Water Resources says it would like ocean water desalination to add 500, 000 acre-feet a year of water to the Golden State's supplies, a modest amount compared with California's overall water consumption.

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Thirteen years ago, Abramson and Griggs bought an eighteenth-century house near Long Island Sound in Madison, Connecticut, where Scout, their golden retriever, frolics in the water and they can take long walks.

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Three bodies of water meet here: the Golden Horn, Bosphorus Strait and Sea of Marmara.

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The next morning, I enjoyed a leisurely repast on my deck and then took a stroll down to the Lodge's tiny "beach" and kayak dock, marveling at the clarity of the water and the chutzpah of a golden retriever repeatedly plunging into its iciness.

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Plagued by the chytrid fungus -- which has thrived as water and air temperatures change -- the Panamanian golden frog is all but extinct in the wild.

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This is the Golden Palm Tree Resort and Spa, a luxurious Maldivian-style, over-water villa complex, just off the coast of Selangor in Malaysia.

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Taking on a golden hue in autumn, the strip of parkland is now the connector between the city and the water.

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Surfers brave walls of water on blustery Ocean Beach, runners try to keep pace with the stampeding bison in Golden Gate Park and dim sum gluttons attempt just one more round of dumplings in the Richmond or Sunset.

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In rural Quang Ngai province the authorities are seeking hoteliers to develop its golden, palm-fringed and empty beaches, and dream of building spa resorts around the hot-water springs that bubble up through the province's rice paddies.

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