The Environment Agency said 80% of river flows were now above normal or higher, with reservoirs showing a good recovery and just 11 groundwater sites below normal water levels - and two "exceptionally low".
Berm crest: ridge of sand or gravel deposited by wave action on the shore just above the normal high water mark.
Water from Hurricane Sandy rose almost 7 feet above normal, threatening the water intake structure that pumps cooling water through the plant.
He also said it was a "normal part of water management" to put people "on a rotation of supply".
Fishermen and surfer instructors have told the BBC they were unable to work as normal as the water was too cold.
Monad Shoal is classified as an intermediate dive, and most shops require divers to have advanced open water or deep dive certifications since the depth surpasses the normal 18m limit for open water divers.
That's 100 times the normal count found in water runoff from storms, the company said.
The loans, of about 100, 000 rupees, 20 times the Friends' normal credits, financed water-pumps, seeds and tools and were all paid back within a year.
Louisiana's--and America's--energy logistics depend heavily on humble Louisiana Highway 1, which is the only land-based way to access the coastal port and runs less than two feet above water under normal conditions.
Meanwhile, in Jiangxi, water supplies "return to normal" after a fuel spill in Lake Poyang cut off tap water for 60, 000 residents, China Central Television reports.
South East Water said it was adjusting the bill to normal usage and investigations were ongoing about the wasted water.
Organisers installed four run-through showers along the route and added an extra 2, 600 bottles of water to the normal stock of 25, 000 bottles at each station to help runners deal with the high temperatures.
"You have to get the recirculation system up and functioning so they can cool that water in the normal way, " said Gary Was, a nuclear engineering professor at the University of Michigan and a CNN consultant.
Unlike the normal gas extraction, chemically treated water is forced upon the rock underground to fracture it releasing the gas in the process.
The spill on or around 16 June affected wildlife over several days before water quality returned to normal and fish were no longer being affected.
The cause of this cold lurch was seemingly settled some time ago when Wallace Broecker, a Columbia University geochemist, suggested that a North American ice sheet collapsed, flooding the Atlantic with fresh water, which interrupted the normal circulation of the Gulf Stream.
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The agency said water quality had almost returned to normal and fish were no longer being affected.
The fountain, located in the market square, was switched off last week after "higher than normal" levels of legionella were found in the water.
In Sirte itself the complaints are rife as its people try to get back to normal - from a lack of electricity and clean water, to a critical shortage of bank notes.
The water company says supplies should be back to normal by Wednesday morning.
Water behind the Cutzamala dam system is below normal levels after a lack of rain in 2008, according to officials.
Considering normal New York January highs hover just above freezing, with water temperatures not much warmer, staying in for any amount of time is no small feat.
Normal cooling systems don't require the massive amounts of water -- around 7 metric tons (1, 850 gallons) per hour -- now being poured into the reactors.
Based on a clever novel by Gregory Maguire, the musical is an exercise in high camp a universe turned topsy-turvy, where good is bad, normal is abnormal, and the purest well yields the sourest water.
Pesticides and other chemicals that could mimic estrogen and disrupt the normal development of salmon are present in the Columbia's water, Nagler said, but at very low concentrations - far below those used in laboratory experiments.
Meanwhile, the California Department of Water Resources found the water content in the snowpack was just 17 percent of normal.
And it's perfectly normal to snack on fried insects in Thailand, where fried giant water bugs, crickets, bamboo worms and grasshoppers are ubiquitous and served in scoops for snacking whole.
According to research published in the most recent issue of Physical Review Letters, ships can be made vastly more efficient by tricking the surrounding water into staying still using a metamaterial that can alter the normal forces of nature.
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Ernesto will cause a surge when it reaches the coast, increasing water levels by as much as 2 to 4 feet above normal tide levels in the area near and north of where the storm makes landfall, the hurricane center said.
Ernesto will cause a surge when it reaches the coast, increasing water levels by as much as 1 to 3 feet above normal tide levels in the area near and north of where the storm makes landfall, the hurricane center said.
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