Lugging a 13-pound water purifier, they knock on each apartment door until they finally get invited inside.
Four utility companies have revealed a multi-billion pound investment in water and power networks across Yorkshire and the North East.
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.
After two years of tinkering he created a 16-pound version of the ultraviolet water sterilizers that are commercially available in the U.S. for home wells with contamination problems.
This meant replacing the 14-pound-per-gallon mud that was in the wellbore with 8.5-pound-per-gallon sea water.
Compare this to the 2:1 ratio for poultry and anywhere from 5:1 to 20:1 for cattle, not to mention the thousands of gallons of water it takes to grow a pound of beef.
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He's sometimes gone days without getting so much as a bite, even as 5-pound bass--considered trophies in most places--breach the water all around his boat.
In a 20-knot breeze the kite is already straining at the 500-pound test control lines with enough force to pull you halfway out of the water.
In water 20 to 25 feet deep just off the Thimble Islands, Mr. Smith has set up two, 150-foot lines of rope that are submerged about three feet below the water's surface and held into place by chains and 400-pound anchors.
And as the international markets increasingly see sterling as a 'safe haven' in uncertain times, the prospect of a strengthening pound would make it even more difficult for local exporters to sell their goods across the water.
Despite abuse from a 15-pound baby girl, an attack by a pack of feral raccoons, a chewing by an ADD-addled river otter named Sidney, a ride to the bottom of a salt water pool with a dolphin, and a stomping from a 7, 400 pound elephant named Valerie, the Casio had survived.
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At most, Kim could probably lose an additional half-pound to pound a week, "but any more than that and she would probably be losing water weight and muscle, " Jampolis said.
Borgiani says that regular washers with a 5-pound load of laundry require 2 kilowatt-hours of electricity and 80 liters to 90 liters of water.
Moreover, every pound households spend on school fees and other school charges is a pound not spent on child nutrition, health care, medicine, clothes, shelter or sanitation and clean water.
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