High demand for water amid the heat wave and problems with soil shrinking as the ground warms has resulted in burst pipes and low water pressure in Oklahoma City, prompting officials to issue mandatory water-use restrictions for the first time in at least a decade, according to utilities department spokeswoman Debbie Ragan.
The OPSIS data raises the critical question of how the dam is experiencing one of its all-time highs in water intake when no significant rainfall has been reported.
But what's happening is businesses, either because they can't find financing or because they're still just dipping their toe in the water, have been hesitant to hire full-time workers.
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Carson has a civil-engineering degree and spent time in Honduras working as a water and sanitation engineer.
We got Marines and aid workers and helicopters and food and clean water facilities -- we got those down in record time.
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Once emitted, it persists in the environment for a long time - circulating through air, water, soil and living organisms - and can be dispersed over vast distances.
He works part-time in a plant that filters arsenic out of drinking water.
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Many Brazilian mansions have no hot water in the kitchen, and there are paulistanos who time-share helicopters but do not own a dishwasher.
In the Para sport 50m freestyle S9 it was Du Toit, who competed at the Beijing Olympics alongside able-bodied swimmers in the 10km open water event, who won gold in a time of 29.17 seconds.
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Aside from the sweltering daytime heat and the freezing night-time temperatures, the biggest problem for folks living in desert regions is finding sources of water.
The researchers looked at the different types, or isotopes, of oxygen atoms trapped in the samples and, using a well-established technique, were able to infer water temperatures at the time the organisms built their shelly parts.
These bags have been tested in the past, and even used for a time to tow bulk water through the Mediterranean to water-short areas.
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Trading in water rights may one day bring order to the 20m well-users in India, but not in time to feed the 1.4 billion Indian mouths expected by 2025.
Jenn Suhr wanted to spend their short vacation time in Florida riding roller-coasters at Disney World, while her husband preferred to visit some water parks.
The ball ended up in the water, and by the time he walked off the green his one shot lead had become a one-shot deficit.
The big idea: putting sensors everywhere that communicate in a mesh network and allow real-time tracking and optimization of everything from traffic to the power grid to the water supply.
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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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