In November 2010, the Company acquired the controlling interest of 60.4% in United Runtong Water Co.
It provides almost a third of all irrigation water in the United States and over 80% of the drinking water to 35 million United States citizens.
Jordan is moving towards increased reliance on groundwater as an alternative to surface water and according to the 4th United Nations World Water Development Report 2012 co-authored by UNESCO, it is the fourth most water scarce country in the world.
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Billions of dollars worth of water infrastructure upgrades are needed in the United States to stop major water losses each year.
FORBES: How Scarce Does Water Need to Get Before It's Valuable?
UN-Water is the United Nations inter-agency coordination mechanism for all issues related to water and sanitation.
The angling campaign group Fish Legal is bringing an appeal in a case involving three private water companies, Southern Water, Yorkshire Water and United Utilities.
While EU officials say the deal offered to the United States would not water down the role of the ICC, it nevertheless has failed to bridge the rift with America.
By declaring 2013 the International Year of Water Cooperation, the United Nations General Assembly recognizes the broad benefits of cooperation in the water domain for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and other internationally agreed goals, and calls Members States and all concerned stakeholders to strengthen dialogue and partnerships.
Hydroelectric power uses about 39% of all fresh water in the United States annually.
Ensure the effective participation of the Division in UN-Water, the United Nations system coordinating mechanism on freshwater issues.
Sales of bottled water in the United States rose by nearly 7% in 2012, according to the Beverage Marketing Corporation.
Severn Trent claims that WPD, the winner of the four-month takeover battle, plans to contract out some of Hyder's water services to United Utilities.
The National Energy Renewable Laboratory has reported that the United States alone withdraws fresh water to the tune of nearly 1, 500 gallons per capita each day.
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During years of discussions and five weeks of intensive talks in Rome, the United States had sought to water down a treaty setting up an international criminal court.
The industrial sector uses an estimated 45% of water in the United States, agriculture accounts for 42% and domestic uses, like drinking and sanitation, account for a mere 13%.
Others may try to ply their trade in an alternative league, treading water in the United Football League, the Canadian Football League (whose season has already begun) or one of the various indoor leagues.
How water cooperation can best contribute to the Global Agenda on Sustainable Development for the post-2015 era so as to fulfill the needs of all societies was the subject of Monday's kick-off events for the United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation.
The United Nations General Assembly declared 2013 as the ??United Nations International Year of Water Cooperation?. The objective of this International Year is to raise awareness on the potential for increased cooperation, and on the challenges facing water management in light of the increase in demand for water access, allocation and services.
Ensure enabling conditions for the preparation of the flagship output of WWAP as well as timely production, launching and dissemination of the triennial World Water Development Report, including the appropriate coordination with other collaborating United Nations agencies within the framework of UN-Water.
In 2010, the United Nations recognized the right to water as a fundamental human right.
Stuart Atkinson, regional water network manager for United Utilities, apologised for the disruption caused.
We also talk with Cynthia Barnett, author of Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern United States.
The scheme will see United Utilities decommission a number of water intakes along the two rivers, refurbish those that remain and open two new abstraction plants.
But Zafar Adeel of the United Nations University International Network on Water, Environment and Health, an expert on water management and a leading author of the report, warned that more needed to be done to combat desertification.
Most private well owners in the United States have not tested their water for arsenic levels, according to Jeff Lackovic, a graduate student majoring in environmental engineering, who has worked with Nikolaidis on the project since they began analyzing how arsenic moves in groundwater in 1994.
Coordinated by the World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP), the report is the result of a joint effort by the 24 United Nations agencies and entities that make up UN-Water.
It is believed that WPD plans to keep the SWALEC electricity distribution system and pass on Welsh Water to the English company United Utilities.
Just north of San Diego, on a site overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Poseidon Resources is building the biggest water desalination plant in the United States.
Meanwhile, more than 750 million people (more than 10% of the world's population) still don't have adequate access to drinking water, according to the United Nations.
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