The very few that exist are simple structures, often without water or even electricity, built by villages that have no means or access to put in the equipment or provide the supplies for a proper clinic.
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Bottled water often comes from the same source as tap water, where that is available (sometimes at a hundredth of the price), though it should at least be clean.
In arid regions, in places feeling a need for the lack of water, underground water resources are often the only source of fresh water.
In the developing world they do it because that is often the only water fit to drink, and for the poor it is usually a significant expense.
While the source of water currently received by the Hubli-Dharwad Municipal Corporation is filtered, sewage leakage and the poor management of waste often contaminates drinking water on its way into the homes.
Communities around the world are affected by the manufacturing of these products, not only because they are growing ever fatter as a result of so much sugar in their lives, but also because the use of water for sugar drinks means communities often go without clean drinking water (which Coke and other companies then sells to them as bottled water).
In places like Syria and southern Iraq that are now being dried out by the Turkish dams, irrigation is primitive - often involving nothing more than water trucks pumping water out of the Euphrates and driving it over to fields that are often less than a kilometer away.
Nor do they have to pay for sanitation, because latrines are often provided by the aid agencies, or clean water, since that is often supplied by the agencies or by the government.
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Bagged produce is often precut, releasing water and nutrients that feed bacteria.
Wash your hands often with soap and water to get rid of germs, and use hand sanitizer when a sink is not available.
Water coming up from below will often have a lower pH than the surface water, because at depth there is no photosynthesis but plenty of respiration.
This rule is not always respected, but when it is, children and women often bathe in the water and even carry it back to their homes for use.
Not only food but often liquid, including water, was off-limits.
It would arrive late more often, yield less water, become more sporadic, or dump rain in shorter, more destructive bursts (which happened two years ago in Pakistan, where the Indus basin disastrously flooded).
That would apply not only to a huge number of geothermal sites, but also to many oil wells, which often bring up warm water from great depths along with their more valuable output.
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Farming fish close to shore often causes contamination of water and seabeds, so the company has partnered with fish producers to devise a remotely-controlled fish pen that can drift with currents in the open sea.
Some things are OK. Corn starch is often used to get water off a coat, and that helped on a rainy Monday as dogs piled into the halls on the Hudson piers for early judging.
Water landings often have fatalities.
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Since then, he has won plenty of plaudits but his riding style has also often landed him in hot water with the stewards.
The challenge is that often these donated wells and water systems go into a state of disrepair if there is no sense of ownership.
Often swimming in dirty black water to rescue the old and the sick, people were forced to climb skyscrapers in the crippling heat and carry the helpless down numerous flights of steps.
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Byrd is chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, which often dispenses federal money for rural water projects.
Akris's wind- and water-resistant textiles often emerge wrinkle-free from suitcases, and thus are a big factor in the label's success in catering to female executives.
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Aid agencies Plan International Cameroon and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) fear infectious diseases - in particular cholera and malaria - could spread with the water, as is often the case.
However, the researchers did find that flamingoes prefer to stand on one leg far more often when they are standing in water than when standing on land, they report in the journal Zoo Biology.
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