The world faces a wide range of serious, complex, and long-term water challenges, from shortages to contamination to local and regional disputes over water to long-term climate changes.
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Gorges and karst plateaux feature 700 caves, hundreds of sinkholes, a 9-km-long thermal-water maze under a town and more than 1, 600 clear-water springs.
The idea is simple: propel yourself down two narrow 120-metre-long bog water-filled trenches using only your feet (no swimming strokes allowed) and the first to past the peaty post is the winner.
This bill assesses how growth and climate change will affect our access to water resources, especially in the West and Southwest, and it includes solutions to complex and long-simmering water disputes.
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The 787 was designed for long over-water routes between midsize cities that couldn't profitably accommodate a larger jet with more seats.
Eight small boats exploring stretches of the Hudson opening to canoeists in the central Adirondacks all made it through seven moderate rapids interspersed with long flat-water stretches on a 7.3-mile trip through deep forests of evergreens and hardwoods.
"The Tory-led government is out of touch with the pressures facing families - the fact that it has postponed its long-awaited Water Bill means that there will be no action to tackle unsustainable water usage or to help households facing rising water bills for at least another two years, " she said.
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Moreover, in order to be successful and long-lasting, water co-operation needs a common understanding of what the needs and challenges are around water.
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While there has been some talk about using these bags on a regular basis for long-distance bulk water deliveries, they seem to have a clear role to play in emergencies.
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The purpose of the Award is to promote efforts to fulfil international commitments made on water and water-related issues by 2015 through recognition of outstanding best practices that can ensure the long-term sustainable management of water resources and contribute to the achievement of internationally agreed goals and targets contained in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Agenda 21 and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation.
She traveled to Seville and overcame a life-long fear of water.
"Unfortunately, the condition in which we're finding our individuals eliminates any chance of a visual identification because of the condition in which they've been for so long -- ... in the water ... in their houses ... in the horrible muck, " Louis Cataldie, Louisiana's emergency medical response director, said recently.
One, much of the stimulus money for infrastructure is going into repaving roads instead of long-term projects such as water infrastructure, which is in woeful shape.
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.
The Deputy Chief Minister of India's Maharashtra state Ajit Pawar has apologised for ridiculing a farmer who has been on a 55-day-long protest fast demanding water for his farm.
The software company hopes to prove that its data collection and analysis technology so that it could win a long-term contract with the water district and perhaps other utilities as well.
Additional key priorities in her role included organizing aggressive cleanups of hazardous waste sites with a goal of redevelopment, new jobs and urban revitalization as well as ensuring the long-term protection of drinking water supplies.
The challenge of the Decade is to focus attention on action-oriented activities and policies that ensure the long-term sustainable management of water resources, in terms of both quantity and quality, and include measures to improve sanitation.
From there, it is a relatively easy, mile-long hike, following the rumbling sounds of gushing water, to the 100ft-tall Secret Falls.
In recent months, the USGA has declared long-term environmental sustainability, particularly water usage, to be one of its top policy issues.
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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.
Try out one of the longest marble runs in Britain -- laid out straight it would be 60m long -- and marvel at a two tonne giant marble floating on water.
The District on Apache, a 1, 200-bed student-housing community set to open within walking distance of Arizona State next year, will feature an oversize outdoor movie screen, steam rooms and a 300-foot-long "lazy river" water feature, according to architect Mark Humphreys, whose firm designed University House.
Now Major Peake, as he waits to be assigned a space mission, is in an ongoing programme of spacesuit training, zero-g flights to "practice weightlessness" and 12-day stints 20m (65ft) under water to research "crew behaviour for long-duration missions".
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Such an approach can help use less water, eliminating the needs for capital-heavy investment such as desalination projects or long water pipelines.
Then the bat detectors - which can be set to the frequency of pipistrelle, Daubenton's water bats and the impressive long eared bat - burst into life.
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Yet fruits and vegetables typically have high water content, making long-lasting crispiness a challenge.
One of the biggest barriers to China's long-term growth is access to clean water.
Damage to the liver and kidneys has been observed in rats chronically (long-term) exposed in their drinking water.
But deep-water projects take a long time to turn from a prospect that a geologist has identified into a producing asset.
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