With rivers flowing weakly, the tide pushed sea-water in, both cutting fish catches and preventing irrigation.
And in Guyana and Suriname, coastal farmers irrigating with water from river estuaries have had to stop: because of the rivers' weak flow, it was sea-water.
But some investors and tech companies see lucrative and long-term opportunities in technologies for taking salt out of sea water, treating wastewater for re-use and other applications because water precise because water so indispensable for human health and economic growth.
The hepatitis A virus can survive in sea water for a number of weeks - meaning these people could contract the disease if the local sea water has been contaminated.
This meant replacing the 14-pound-per-gallon mud that was in the wellbore with 8.5-pound-per-gallon sea water.
The all-pervasive sea water still left its mark, seeping into the frames and discoloring them with salt stains and algae.
In Lagos, there is sea water everywhere - but little to drink.
Bar: fully or partially submerged mound of sand, gravel or other unconsolidated material built on the sea-bottom in shallow water by waves and currents.
Use the electricity generated to desalinate and de-ionize sea water. 3.
Since sea-ice is already in the water, its melting has little effect on sea levels.
The latest sea-surface height measurements reveal unusually cool water (shown as blue and purple) and sea levels that are two to seven inches below normal, extending from the Gulf of Alaska along the coast of North America.
But unlike other alternative energy sources, such as sun or wind power, there's nothing fickle about the availability of the key raw ingredients--fresh water and sea water.
When snow or ice melt, they are replaced by darker melt-water pools, land or sea.
Sea water is pumped into the oil-bearing rocks deep below the seabed.
Sediment-carrying rivers have been diverted, sea level has risen (increasing the volume of water in the lagoon), a deep-water channel has been dredged for shipping, and turbid waters are killing the eel grass that stabilises mud flats.
One risk is that the mining operations could generate huge plumes of sediment that could drift through the sea - choking any marine life that feeds by ingesting water and filtering out its food sources.
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The exhibition - Dartmoor Water and Light- also marks the release of Mark's first CD album, Sea of Grass, which features 12 tracks of multi-instrumental music inspired by the moor.
The effect of these strengthened winds whipping across the sea surface is to bring deeper, more carbon-rich water up from below, thus reducing the surface layer's capacity to absorb more CO2 from the air.
The device is a hinged flap connected to the sea-bed which uses wave power to deliver high-pressure water to an onshore turbine.
Sea water will be pumped in via underground tunnels 2-3km (1.2 to 1.8 miles) in length to cool the two nuclear reactors and then back to the Bristol Channel.
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That said, many of the newly identified deposits are located in the central North Sea or to the west of Scotland, and will require deep-water drilling which is expensive.
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Meanwhile, engineers are continuing to pump some 11, 500 tonnes of low-level radioactive seawater into the sea so the more highly contaminated water from reactor No 2 can be stored in waste buildings.
The world's deepest significant sub-sea oil production is currently in the Gulf of Mexico, at water depths of 1, 200 metres.
Nearby bodies of water -- including the Gulf of Oman, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Aden and Red Sea -- are labeled.
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The closeness of the main coral beds to the shores, combined with the water's float-friendly salinity, make the sea around Perhentian Besar and nearby Kecil excellent for snorkelling.
"It was a raging sea in here, " he said, pointing to 3-foot-high water marks, a broken door.
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That means more melting ice in the Arctic, dumping fresh water into the salty sea and making a mess of the all-important Gulf jet stream, which makes northern U.S. habitable.
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Deep water: area where surface waves are not influenced by the sea-bottom.
Step off the floatplane here and you are plunged into a towering landscape with broad, glinting sweeps of water alive with orcas, sea lions, otters, dolphins, and salmon--lots of salmon.
And now the Arctic's upper layers are getting less dense, for several reasons: melting Arctic glaciers, rising surface-water temperatures, increased precipitation and an absence of salt concentrations resulting from sea-ice formation.
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