Across the great water is another city, another crop of modern-day skyscrapers.
For most of the past century, agriculture has been the winner of the water wars, receiving the great bulk of water from the Colorado River and its two large reservoirs at Lake Mead and Lake Powell.
Still, they acknowledge the need for a framework of protections for the Great Lakes water system and see the rules as a good first step.
White Salmon, Washington -- population 2, 143 -- won top honors Tuesday at the Great American Water Taste Test.
Mr. DEREK SCHEER (Clean Wisconsin): Because it's such a large portion of the world's freshwater and it is a thirsty world, there is more and more concern that folks will be coming after the Great Lakes as a source of drinking water outside of the Great Lakes basin.
"The greens are not great because of all the water, " Hansen said.
They fear a pipeline burst would allow oil to seep into the Ogallala Aquifer, a massive water table beneath the Great Plains and one of the largest in the world.
Will the lower flood-season flow affect the seasonal highs and lows of the water levels of the Great Lake in Cambodia?
The Duckmill Weir White Water Arena on the River Great Ouse in Bedford opened in May 2012 after permanent slalom uprights, lines and gates were added to the Duck Mill weir.
With oil prices rising and offshore production looking unattractive, we turn our attention to the great frozen north where water is sparse and oil sand abounds.
Ontario is already one of the top regions globally for producing innovative water technology, said venture capitalist David Henderson, managing director of XPV Capital in Toronto, thanks to the Great Lakes historically attracting water-intensive industries.
Peru's Pacific coastline is at the confluence of the Humboldt and Equatorial Counter currents, with warm water in the north and cold water in the south, a recipe for great marine diversity.
The project would like to raise water levels across the old Great Fen area to bring back the reeds, grasslands and rare plants, such as insect-eating bladderwort, which are now confined to the Woodwalton and Holme reserves.
The sacred carp accumulated in a great heap below the surface of the water, their gaping circular mouths angled upward.
But if yacht hire is beyond your means then the public ferry to Staten Island also provides great views of Manhattan from the water.
Climate change is likely to cut rainfall in the Great Lakes basin, while ever more water will be drawn from the lakes by a rising urban population.
Garden centers, nurseries, local native plant societies, county extension service offices, books and the Internet can all be great resources for researching the best, most water-efficient plants.
The Great Lakes site has a long industrial history, previously being used to produce bromine from sea water by the company Associated Octel and then Great Lakes Chemicals.
But if it's necessary to have clean water in the Great Lakes in the 21st century, it's worth looking at.
Poland is affected by periodic flood events and pays great attention to the issue of water quality.
Aggar dedicated much of his time last winter to getting fit for the World Championship selection trials and the hard work on land and on the water paid off with a place in the Great Britain squad for the World Championships in Munich.
Since the drag on a human body is approximately seven hundred and eighty times as great in water as in air, swimmers wearing the suits were able to post faster times.
Not so much because of all the social and technology shifts since then, but because that year is so close to the high-water mark of U.S. predominance as the only great power to come out of World War II more or less intact.
However, in the midst of the worst recession since the Great Depression, this argument holds no water whatsoever.
Many cities in the Northeast and Great Lakes region collect storm water to clean it in wastewater treatment centers.
If those in this house survived the Panic of 1893 or the Great Depression, or bathed with cold water and used an outhouse, then surely I know I can weather high gas prices.
There is the best land based whale watching anywhere, and plenty of opportunities to get out on the water, including diving with Great White sharks, something people come from all around the world to do and can easily be done as a day activity in Cape Town (though cage diving remains controversial).
It is one of the largest in the world with eleven amusement parks, six water parks, four hotels and a marina on the Great Lakes.
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They are a pretty basic technology, they are a one hit, while if we develop lagoons, if we develop other forms of tidal and wave and other ways of extracting the energy from the water and the wind then I think we've got a great potential export trade.
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