"Good architecture has always used water, " says Charles Sieger, a Miami-based architect who specializes in luxury high-rises.
Police used water cannon on rioters to push them away from the interface with the Short Strand.
Coastguard officers attended to the man while a specialist fire service mud rescue team used water lances to free him.
Roughly 1, 200 years later, the Greeks used water dripping through holes in stone vessels to measure the passage of hours.
President Thein Sein's office said in a statement that police had used water cannon, tear gas and smoke bombs to disperse the crowds.
On Wednesday, security forces used water cannon against loyalists after being attacked with a blast bomb at an Eleventh Night bonfire in Portadown.
Used water is treated and then either safely disposed of, reused for industrial purposes or air-conditioning, or mixed with reservoir water for drinking.
Riot police in the Turkish city of Istanbul have used water cannon and tear gas to prevent leftist May Day marchers reaching the main square.
Police said officers were attacked with petrol bombs and stones at the east Belfast interface and in response they used water cannon "due to the extent of the disorder".
It said some of the gas - which is used in the site's cooling systems - may have turned into liquid as the fire service used water to prevent it dispersing.
One witness, Molaole Montsho, of the South African news agency Sapa, said police had first used water cannon, tear gas and stun grenades in an attempt to break up the protest.
On at least two occasions last summer, the Bonneville Power Administration - the federal agency responsible for marketing power from dams in the Pacific Northwest - used water meant to aid migrating juvenile salmon to supply California with hydroelctricity.
Dr. FRED CERISE (Louisiana Health Department): We can tell you how to be safe with the water and boil it before you ingest it, used bottled water, but to the extent that people ingest the water anyway, they're going to be at risk.
Virtual water is a term used for the water involved in producing a commodity or a service.
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Police fired tear gas and then used a water cannon to disperse the strikers congregating atop a hill.
Mr Adair used underground water to soak the area for miles around and then laid explosives, with which he blew out the fire.
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 American Cancer Society is pushing to make New York the first state to enact a comprehensive restriction on the sale of candy- and fruit-flavored cigarillos, chewing tobacco and tobacco used in water pipes.
One of the Rice University scientists conducted experiments in which flakes of rust were made into nanoparticles by heating them in coconut or olive oil at 350C and could then be used in water purification.
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Reports of water cannons and helicopters being used to spray water on overheating nuclear reactors in Japan may have also cooled down tension in markets.
Ivanpah is a solar concentrator project, using fields of mirrors, known as heliostats, to concentrate sunlight onto a solar receiver on top of a tower. (This project when finished will include 173, 000 heliostats.) The concentrated sunlight is used to heat water, generating steam which is used to turn a traditional turbine and generator to produce electricity.
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And while much of the water used for energy can be somewhat recycled, scarcity has already spawned informal water markets in parts of Texas and Mexico.
In Guernsey, salt can only be used outside the water catchment area because it can contaminate the water supply, so the de-icer CMA needs to be used.
Instead of being stored in batteries, the electricity made by solar panels can be used to split water into oxygen and hydrogen molecules, the latter of which can be used as a fuel with high energy density.
On Thursday I reported from the CEH on the latest findings about how much water has soaked into the ground - and saw a bore-hole used for measuring water levels actually spouting out water because the ground was so saturated.
Accordingly, Dr Lin and his colleagues tried to build up covalent bonds between the layers of a water-repellent, or hydrophobic, material called cellulose acetate butyrate, which is used to make water-resistant fabrics.
As well as being used to generate hydroelectricity, the dammed water was also used to irrigate three crops a year instead of just one.
In short, energy is required to generate clean water and loads of water is used to generate energy (almost 40% of all fresh water withdrawals in the U.S., according to NREL).
Water used to fight the flames leaked through five or six floors, damaging some historic items.
This means it can be used in the water for as long as necessary.
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