The tents they live in are small, covered by tarps and plastic sheeting to keep water out.
In Narberth, Pembrokeshire, residents are reported to be battling to keep water out of their homes, and roads in the area are flooded.
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Kevin Breslin, 54 years old in Rockaway Beach, said he bought 30 50-pound sandbags to keep water out of the basement of his beachfront home.
The backwater levee is designed to keep water from backing into the Yazoo River delta and is designed lower than the mainline levee so that water can flow over it.
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With them dispersing some 70, 000 gallons a day of the chemicals, she says the EPA wasn't comfortable that the science was there to keep water quality safe with that much toxicity.
The pioneer in bringing peace of mind to family or neighbours is Zojirushi, Japan's biggest maker of rice cookers and electric kettles, which in Japan keep water hot all day for tea or miso soup.
The highways that ring Manhattan along the water sit atop a series of tide gates that are designed to drain water from the road and keep water from gurgling up from below, said Sam Schwartz, a former city transportation commissioner who now works as a consultant.
And so the first order of business -- and this appears to be at least now under control -- is that you keep the water in the spent fuel ponds and you keep cooling the reactors.
Singapore's hawker centres started partly for hygiene reasons, and to keep our water pollution in control.
Over the years she and her husband and neighbours have tried various methods to keep the water out.
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Plan for the end of 2010 assuming the latest announcements will end in a signed law or keep treading water?
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In the meeting, residents were urged to keep waste water to a minimum as concerns about the village's sewage system were raised.
By Monday night a temporary barrier around the substation was completed and pumps had been installed to keep ground water from rising.
Last summer someone in another West Virginia mine punched a hole in an embankment, apparently to keep black water from rising near a piece of equipment needed to continue digging.
Two pumps were put in their boat to keep the water out as it was towed back to Baiter Park, where a 6in (15cm) hole was found in the hull during an examination.
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Government are teachers in the classroom. (Applause.) Government are our firefighters and our police officers, and the folks who keep our water clean and our air clean to breathe, and our agricultural workers.
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What we do is we get every quilting circle and church group in America to start making Mylar screens and sewing them together like quilt, and then we put them into the ocean, where they reflect the sun's rays and keep the water underneath cooler.
Dip them into water -- keep a bucket of water near you -- shake off the excess water and rub that over the upholstery, and the hair will collect on the rubber gloves.
As a result, Caleta's 350 villagers have had to rely on truckloads of water from elsewhere to keep them going water that comes at too high a price for most of the farmers who are trying to eke out a living from the place.
' I wanted to keep testing the water ... and we got to a point where he said, 'Sure.
More worrying still, the Ministry of International Trade and Industry has warned makers of 24-hour baths, which keep supposedly purified water hot all day, that their products may harbour Legionnaires' disease.
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The 9.0 earthquake that struck two years ago appears to have severely damaged the foundations of the plant - creating large cracks in the underground walls that are supposed to keep the plant water tight.
Just as we are all water managers, we all need to take responsibility for the wise use of wetlands in order to keep humankind supplied with water.
Between now and 2040, fresh water availability will not keep up with demand absent more effective management of water resources.
They've just got to keep their hands above water until the big boys come back.
Freeman, with his immense dignity and authority, manages to keep his head above water, but Pitt goes under.
Rainfall helps keep it clean: water seeps through the rubber and drains into pipes just below the surface.
Floats were put under its neck to help keep its head above water.
Oh, and they'll keep screening for bottled water, yogurt, cream cheese, toothpaste, shampoos and conditioners in containers larger than 3.4 ounces.
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