• "In Chokwe, one of the hardest hit districts -- the normally vibrant streets now lie under water --all business brought to a standstill and social services shut down, " the United Nations said.

    CNN: Raging floodwaters kill dozens in Mozambique

  • Gorges and karst plateaux feature 700 caves, hundreds of sinkholes, a 9-km-long thermal-water maze under a town and more than 1, 600 clear-water springs.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • To put up such a structure, working largely under sand-filled water, costs three to five times what it would on land for perhaps 50 years of life.

    ECONOMIST: Musings on a favourite memento mori

  • Six people - five elderly villagers and a child who were sucked under by the water - have been confirmed dead.

    BBC: Teams start assessing tsunami-hit Solomon Islands

  • Now Major Peake, as he waits to be assigned a space mission, is in an ongoing programme of spacesuit training, zero-g flights to "practice weightlessness" and 12-day stints 20m (65ft) under water to research "crew behaviour for long-duration missions".

    BBC: Major Tim Peake says he is not too old to go into space

  • The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education: Develop enhanced collaborative activities through an active and growing scientific and professional collaboration with UNESCO-IHE Institute and with the growing network of water-related centres under the auspices of the Organization for the benefit of the Member States and the international freshwater community at large.

    UNESCO: Main Menu

  • The Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC) project is asking to extend its two-year permit to operate low-frequency sonar under the water off Kauai another five years.

    CNN: waves

  • And then one of them must have come back that night or another, because I woke up in the small hours with a hot-water bottle under my feet.

    NEWYORKER: Wakefield

  • And so the first order of business -- and this appears to be at least now under control -- is that you keep the water in the spent fuel ponds and you keep cooling the reactors.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • Credit card issuers could no longer lure co-eds with BPA-free water bottles or sleeveless t-shirts and card seekers under 21 needed a parental co-sign.

    FORBES: Credit Card Companies Want Your Kids. A Lot.

  • That means 20 million--or 40% of houses with a mortgage--are going to be under water.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • It's going to have a huge impact on mining commodities - several coal mines are under water and some won't be operational for months.

    BBC: Australia: Queensland floods spur more evacuations

  • His aunt found his brother's water-damaged diploma under some boards.

    CNN: Helping bring the music back to Joplin

  • Another key pillars of the programme are the water-related Centres under the auspices of UNESCO, called Category II, which deal with specific themes having regional and international scope, and the UNESCO Chairs devoted to specific themes involving water resources at university level.

    UNESCO: International Hydrological Programme (IHP)

  • During this session, water management under conditions of uncertainty and risk will be addressed through different perspectives - including water for urban settlements, valuation, pollution and disasters and the need for accurate information - with proper links to sustainable development.

    UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)

  • Two shots behind McIlroy's 13-under is Watson, who posts a 70 despite over-shaping balls into the water on 13 and 15.

    WSJ: The Masters: Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy Should Be in Contention on Sunday

  • This conference is another important step initiated by the International Centre on Qanats and Historic Hydraulic Structures (ICQHS) - a category 2 centre under the auspices of UNESCO - to collect and document traditional knowledge available on water resources management from around the globe while providing a forum for presenting new views on the topic.

    UNESCO: Water Portal | Water Events Worldwide

  • Now that shares are falling, once-valuable stock options have gone under water.

    ECONOMIST: Bear necessities

  • Three members of another family were also injured in the incident, including a 7-year-old girl who was trapped under water by the tree, Jordan said.

    CNN: Crews search Smoky Mountain wilderness after deadly storm

  • She researched photo restoration techniques on the Internet and spent weeks rinsing the muck-covered images and album pages under cold water and laying them to dry on paper towels.

    CNN: In Sandy's wake, help comes in unexpected ways

  • Because of the distance that low-frequency sound waves can travel under water, a set of four ships emitting sound at 235 decibels could monitor 80% of the world's oceans for submarines.

    ECONOMIST: The American navy may soon have a whale of a problem

  • The interim Secretariat of the International Drought Initiative (IDI), the Regional Centre on Urban Water Management - RCUWM (under the auspices of UNESCO), supported by the Iranian Ministry of Energy and the Iranian IHP National Committee in collaboration with a number of UN agencies, international and regional organizations and key national agencies, are organizing the Second International Drought Initiative Meeting in Tehran, Iran.

    UNESCO: Second International Drought Initiative (IDI) Meeting

  • Holding or pulling people under water, grabbing, pushing, eye-gouging or swimming trunk yanking are very common!

    BBC: Last Updated: Friday October 28 2005 17:05 GMT

  • Hurricane Katrina had turned Mars into a pile of steel spaghetti, dumped its 100-ton derrick under 3, 000 feet of water and mangled pipelines on the seafloor.

    FORBES: Shell Shocked

  • Coordinate IHP and water sciences activities in the UNESCO Cluster and National Offices of the LAC and enhance and expand the scientific programmes and activities of the water-related category II centers under the auspices of UNESCO and UNESCO chairs aimed at strengthening these institutions and permanently increase and improve their services to Member States.

    UNESCO: Main Menu

  • Some 1.5 million children under five die each year from sickness caused by water-borne diseases.

    UNESCO: World Water Day 22 March 2010: Clean Water for a Healthy World

  • On Thursday night, 33 residents from a nursing home in Shipton-under-Wychwood were forced to leave after concerns about rising water levels in a nearby river.

    BBC: Oxfordshire flood warning issued

  • Most kids who drown are under the age of 4 -- toddlers who accidentally fall into water too deep.

    CNN: Water safety expert: 'Drowning doesn't just happen'

  • "Last year these same levels that the Sentinel will look over were under water for months on end, " Mr Heriz-Smith said.

    BBC: Glastonbury carpenter has lighthouse home plan

  • That means that the 5% correction in national home prices--something that I expect--is going to put another 8 million houses under water.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

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