Fifteen years on, Malaysia has built 20 new dams and introduced a system of escalating tariffs in an effort to force people to save water.
They quickly learned that they needed to scale back too everything from taking shorter showers to save on water, to holding off on new clothes to using their own money if they wanted extras (like a trip to the drive-thru).
In the Syrian city of Busra, a video shows a man gathering snow in a bucket to save as drinking water.
The game could be played either online or offline with teams made up of individuals or departments who compete to save the most water.
He ran for the California assembly and scored an upset victory, and then successfully led the charge to overhaul that state's chaotically corrupt regulation of the liquor industry, to reform its inefficient, labyrinthine water system and to save San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts.
Chimps overcome their fear of water to save a drowning chimp.
It invests in businesses dedicated to making social change, like the drip irrigation company MicroDrip, which intends to save farmers money by enabling them to use less water to irrigate their crops.
Firefighters said they had to save a dog from freezing water this week after the ice gave way beneath it.
The devices include "leak alarms" which the company hopes will eventually help to save five million litres of water a day.
Levi's has spent the past 18 months redesigning processes to save 45 million gallons of water, along with the energy that would have heated that water.
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This irrigation-efficient system, Khodpe was told, could double crop yields and save up to 60% of the water that flood irrigation methods consume.
Another lesson learnt from this film is that all you need to save the world is a bucket of water, a few masked men and an American lady with a work-station in Islamabad.
Despite the British army bringing in supplies of bottled water and fitting a pipeline, Save the Children was told that water is being sold to the local people at a price few can afford.
The court heard that despite efforts by both parents who jumped in to save him, he had disappeared beneath the water.
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He also reached out with one hand and grabbed another man, trying to save him, but the force of the water made him let the man go.
Mr Allan, a delivery driver, had got out of the water but went back in to save the teenager, probably exhausting himself in the process, the inquest in Colburn, North Yorkshire, heard.
Access for everyone to water, sanitation and hygiene would also save around 2.5 million lives every year.
It is doubtful whether Kenya's government is strong enough to save the Mau forest on which Nairobi depends for water and hydroelectric power.
But if ever an issue called for some creative formulaic solution, probably with an international ingredient, to save Syrian honour while calming Israel's fears about its water, this was it.
The bill also removes the dedicated funding for green infrastructure, water efficiency, and environmentally innovative projects that communities used to implement forward-thinking water management solutions that protect clean water and save them money.
It starts right here, in the reborn neighborhoods of New Orleans. (Applause.) It begins with the men and women who waded into deep water or climbed onto rooftops and risked their own lives to save people they'd never met before.
Instead, I heard a lot about the science of water use and dissipation and how Pat put science to work to literally save Las Vegas from going dry.
Hoping to save yearly operating costs by combining utilities, the city shifted control of its water and sewer system to a not-for-profit trust that also runs the local natural gas.
In private, some Kazakhstan officials say that, although much could be done to save the southern section, the Uzbeks seem determined to continue diverting vast quantities of water to their cotton fields.
The lack of progress has led a number of Baltic countries to consider technological interventions, or so-called "geoengineering" ideas (large-scale solutions to environmental problems), such as pumping oxygen into the water, and using chemicals to bind pollutants in sediments, in a bid to save the Baltic.
Despite finding water on the third, the 33-year-old pitched to three feet to save par and birdied three of the next four holes to move into pole position.
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