Wei Di, who was head of China's Water Sports Administration, has little experience in football, having also been in charge of Chinese boxing and weightlifting.
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Many oppose the moratorium imposed on offshore deep-water drilling by the Obama administration in the wake of the spill.
In some places, the practice has been blamed for air pollution and gas leaks that have ruined well water, but the Obama administration and many state regulators say the practice is safe when done properly.
Los Angeles (CNN) -- A San Diego college student filed a legal claim Wednesday for damages suffered when he was left handcuffed and without food or water in a Drug Enforcement Administration holding cell for five days last month.
Administration support for four water rights settlements in a single Congress is unprecedented.
Environmentalists have loudly worried that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may threaten water and air, though the Obama administration and many state regulators say the practice is safe when done properly.
In some places, the practice has been blamed for air pollution and gas leaks that have ruined well water, but President Barack Obama's administration and many state regulators say the practice is safe when done properly.
Depending on which survey you believe, water supplied to communes (the lowest tier of administration) is somewhere between 16% and 44% more expensive if it comes from private companies.
It is Erdogan after all, who mediated talks aimed at convincing then-prime minister Ehud Olmert to give up the Golan Heights and it is Erdogan today who is encouraging the Obama administration to pressure Israel to surrender its water to Syria.
Whether or not the administration puts a temporary stop to deep-water drilling, we can only imagine what effect the added cost of higher premiums for drilling rig insurance and more sophisticated safety equipment is going to be in the months and years ahead.
Jeff Rooker has taken personal charge of the programme of reform following the Review of Public Administration, from local government rates to the introduction of water charges.
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The administration also insured there was food for the pilgrims, and water too - sanitation, as well as electricity.
After the BP oil spill, the administration put a moratorium on an already anemic record of approving deep-water drilling permits.
Other models, relying on the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, project that any radioactive plumes would head east and drift over water for a few days, such that the majority of the radioactive particles would gradually dissipate into the ocean.
An administration spokeswoman said the government had told companies seeking permits to drill in shallow water to wait "a day or two" until regulators issued guidelines for new permit requirements for shallow-water drilling projects.
"Usually when you see reports like this (of a dolphin trapped in low water) it means the animal is injured, " Allison McHale of the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration said Friday.
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Did it really make sense for the feds to decree (in a 1992 law supported by the first Bush Administration) that newly installed toilets use no more than 1.6 gallons of water per flush?
The next administration and the next Congress need to detoxify the conversation over clean air, clean water, protecting the health of American families, preserving our wild places, seeking energy independence, and saving endangered birds and wildlife.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration chief Jane Lubchenco echoed Allen's comments about Gulf seafood, saying that where water may still be tainted, no fishing is allowed.
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is adopting changes to its standard lease language to enhance energy and water efficiency in the more than 190 million square feet of office space the federal agency leases across the United States.
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I'm going to take a look at some of the regulatory rollbacks of the Bush administration, such as the one that lowers the limit of cancer-causing arsenic in drinking water.
Cruise lines quickly blame the passengers for not washing their hands, but the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration concluded long ago that the most likely and common source of norovirus is contaminated food or water.
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.
The Clinton administration changed the standard that had been set in 1942 from 50 parts per billion of arsenic in drinking water to 10 parts per billion.
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The SDLP's Sean Farren, Finance Minister in the suspended administration, accused Mr Pearson of "putting the cart before the horse" in terms of plans for water charges.
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