Five European countries have sent water-dumping aircraft to help.

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"There's not a lot of ground water here and we had no interest in dumping water on a giant lawn, " Mr. Holmes says.

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And abuses, such as dumping flowback water into rivers and streams, have occurred.

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That means more melting ice in the Arctic, dumping fresh water into the salty sea and making a mess of the all-important Gulf jet stream, which makes northern U.S. habitable.

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And while oysters regionwide remained 17% below 2007-09 figures, the company says that the flooding that hit the region in 2011 has been blamed for some of that downturn, again by dumping more fresh water into the coastal estuaries.

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Some of her misdeeds include dumping a full bottle of water on my laptop and frequently escaping from home and school.

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Tokyo Electric is now grappling with where to put the stuff, even dumping thousands of tons of less-radioactive water into the Pacific to make room for it in a reservoir for low-level waste.

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The dumping, they said, was having a detrimental effect on the ability of EU manufacturers to stay above water.

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