Any attempt to lower the water level behind the dams would cut the amount of water available for both manufacturers and farmers.
Pipes have now been put in place in Lake Nyos and nearby Lake Monoun to siphon water from the lower layers up to the surface and allow the CO2 at the bottom of the lake to slowly bubble out, preventing a repeat of 1986 tragedy.
It also has a lower tendency to absorb water from the atmosphere.
To make matters worse, once the streets finally dried out, Hurricane Rita sent more water in to the Lower 9th.
To further complicate matters, the Endangered Species Act requires the Corps to release enough water to maintain dwindling populations of rare mussels and sturgeon in the lower reaches of the two rivers.
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Lower the heat to medium and add enough water to cover the meat.
The idea of using a liquid with a lower boiling point than water to drive a turbine is nothing new it has simply not proved worthwhile in the past.
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As you walk across the plank that connects Brooklyn to lower Manhattan, you are transported from a world of electricity, hot water, and street life, to one that feels like a dark movie set.
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"We think something on the line of 3 inches over six hours would probably put 2 to 4 feet of water in the lower-lying sections of the city, " said Lt.
Flooding throughout the city was extensive, especially in Manhattan, with areas from the Lower East Side to the Battery under significant amounts of water, though it was receding from high-tide levels.
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"A lot people - even though the numbers here are lower - are going across the water to universities in England or Scotland and getting their qualifications and coming home and there are simply no jobs for them, " Ms Allen said.
The accusations state they have expert witness testimony and the suit involves 10 beers including Budweiser and Michelob, claiming consumers have been cheated out of the alcohol content stated on the labels because A-B InBev added additional water to produce beers with significantly lower alcohol contents.
The complaint claimed that "Anheuser-Busch employs some of most sophisticated process control technology in the world to precisely monitor the alcohol content at the final stages of production, and then adds additional water to produce beers with significantly lower alcohol contents than is represented on the the labels".
Water experts applaud the new policy, saying it puts a proper emphasis on conservation: lower-basin states must now pay attention to the water they have, instead of plotting to get still more from the upper-basin states.
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Nongfu Spring, one of the China's biggest water producers, is suing Beijing Times for alleging that its bottled water did not meet national water quality standards, but instead adhered to a lower provincial standard.
But you can use the water to to hit balloons and the occasional paddlewheel to lower a bridge or rotate a crane.
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Well, the magical moisture-absorbing material may get even better, as the plan is to increase the amount of water the material can hold and lower the temperature threshold for its release.
Syria contends that the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin agreed during lower-level peace talks that stalled in 1996 to return the Golan, a water-rich region that overlooks the upper Jordan River valley.
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Using less electricity, using less oil or using less water helps keep operating costs lower which allows Wal-Mart to keep prices down.
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The backwater levee is designed to keep water from backing into the Yazoo River delta and is designed lower than the mainline levee so that water can flow over it.
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Kentucky is said to have more miles of navigable water than any other state in the lower 48, so there is certainly no shortage of adventure opportunities for water enthusiasts.
"Because water is cheaper than alcohol, AB adds extra water to its finished products to produce malt beverages that consistently have lower alcohol content than the percentage displayed on its labels, " the suit said.
But eventually, each atom encounters a plate at a temperature lower than its boiling point, at which point it sticks to the plate, just as water freezes when poured on to dry-ice.
While the need for fresh, clean water creates enormous challenges, it also creates opportunities to develop and implement new technologies that can improve the efficacy and lower the cost of treating water.
We welcomed increasing regional cooperation under the U.S.-Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) in the areas of energy security, health, agriculture and food security, education, connectivity, environment and water, which significantly contributes to quality of life and capacity building among the Lower Mekong Basin countries, and supports ASEAN's aim of narrowing the development gap among its Member States and addressing the common challenges.
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The BBC's Barbara Plett says Pier 11 in Lower Manhattan has not closed as a result of the collision, avoiding a major disruption to water traffic.
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Kay Boycott, director of policy and campaigns at Shelter, said many tenants at the lower end of the private rented sector faced a "daily battle" to "keep their heads above water".
Along with the benefits of urbanization, including lower environmental impact, come challenges such as how to provide large, dense and growing populations with clean water for a growing middle-class with corresponding expectations.
But it clearly occurred to some of these displaced farmers that the slow-moving waters of the lower Tigris and Euphrates, near sea level, could be diverted using canals and used to water crops.
The basic idea behind the Littoral Combat Ship is to build a fast and survivable warship that can operate at much lower costs in the shallow-water areas near enemy coastlines where frigates traditionally have been used.
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