In my home state, there used to be saying: At any given time, half of Louisiana was said to be half under water, and the other half is under indictment.
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New York City gets roughly half its water from the Delaware River Basin, a key area for hydraulic fracturing.
In Spain, however, half the water is supplied by private firms, the biggest being Aguas de Barcelona, controlled by Suez.
Recent downpours from the remnants of Tropical Storm Fay left a foot and a half of water on some streets.
To describe simplistically, the researchers said they took a vessel and filled it with about a liter and a half of water.
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Police Chief Scott Keithley said some homes were half under water, and abandoned cars were sent floating in the torrent of water.
In Manila, for instance, the World Bank had thrice lent money to the municipal utility, only to find that universal coverage remained a distant goal, much of the cash was siphoned off and half the water was still disappearing through leaks or theft.
They now use about half as much water per gallon of ethanol as they did a decade ago.
They retooled their factories to sell new front-loading washers, which use half as much water as their top-loading counterparts.
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The process requires a lot of energy, and only desalinates about half of the water flowing into the system.
Milesi estimates that in many parts of the U.S., more than half of all water distributed by municipalities is used for lawn care.
But it took crews more than an hour to reach the second who was half submerged in water, reported affiliate WCCO.
Singapore relies on neighbouring Malaysia for about half of its water supply.
Milesi estimates that in many parts of the United States, more than half of all water distributed by municipalities is used for lawn care.
Engineers like to point out that it takes just one-and-a-half gallons of water--one toilet flush--to create enough hydrogen for an average day's driving, 30 miles.
Nearly half of that water came from taps, including drinking fountains.
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Ruddock was more dismissive of criticism in Thomas' book that he had not clamped down on players' personal standards, with dressing rooms left in a mess, bar bills going unpaid and half-full water bottles being discarded.
The latest addition to Toshiba's popular CAMILEO line, the BW10 camcorder offers versatility and resilience for consumers leading active lives by recording full HD 1080p video resolution up to six and a half feet under water and offering a 10x digital zoom to capture images from afar.
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The State Geologist has the testimony of old residents of Long Branch, who state that they farmed on land which is now a half mile out in the water, showing a tremendous eating away of the beach in half a century.
Two communities either side of a Devon river have joined together for a Jubilee Party on a boat half way across the water.
Groundwater is the source for nearly half of all drinking water in the world and around 43% of all water effectively consumed in irrigation.
Members of one were told to drink half a litre of water (a bit more than an American pint) shortly before each of three daily meals.
Woods had to take off his shoes and socks to play a ball half submerged in the water hazard at the sixth, his 15th, but it paid off.
D. student Roxana Leontie developed a program that would allow the robot to carry items without stable centers of gravity say, bottles of water or half-filled bags of pet kibble.
As I settled into the car, a battered Toyota Solara, Lanier apologized for the condition of the front seat, the footwell of which was cluttered with old magazines, half-empty plastic water bottles, and a squashed box of tissues.
The cards can take the kinds of punishment that we often associate with rugged gear, such as temperatures from -13F to 185F, immersion in 3.3 feet of water for half an hour and the usual steep drops.
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We had been in our rented, deceptively spacious houseboat in Amsterdam for about the same amount of time, and we were given a first-hand glimpse of what living half-submerged in water was like during the moderate yet wet Dutch winters.
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As his career took him around the world, he discovered youth entrepreneurs like a 19-year-old in Kenya who is bottling water and selling it at half the cost of importers, giving access to drinking water to more people than ever.
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