The canals nearby had been drained for maintenance work, so there was no water easily available when the firemen arrived.
When water is easily available, especially when it arrives through a tap, it is easy to waste by using it carelessly.
But such a large amount of unaccounted-for water is not easily explained by current models of Martian evolution.
But will British householders, not just businesses, one day choose their water suppliers as easily as they now choose their gas and electricity companies?
Water can be easily stored and consumers have less discretion over when they use it (for instance, people cannot defer going to the toilet, which uses more water than any other activity at home), so the case for smart water meters is weaker.
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When loggers cut trees in the Amazon, both local and global farmers have less easily accessible water for crops.
They easily collect water from rain, rivers and the sea, and are constantly being pumped to keep nearby communities dry.
Sun-bleached boat sheds are built into the honeycomb rock, with long slats sloping down to the water so the fishermen can easily push their way out for the early morning catch.
For many countries, though, the first booty from any newly acquired seabed will be either oil or gas, both of which can now be extracted fairly easily from deep water.
Even if the oil never hits the coast in significant quantities, it remains in the Gulf of Mexico, a body of water that cannot be as easily overlooked as Prince William Sound, Alaska.
"There's only about 18 inches between where the train is and the edge into the water, so someone could easily slip when the train comes along, and hoots, and they have to get off quickly, " he added.
But here's the catch: Clay minerals are easily dissolved in acidic water.
The process of detoxification allows the liver to convert fat solubles stored in our cells into water-soluble substances that can easily be excreted.
Death seems ever-present in the slum, where a fever or disease easily caught from unclean water in the rainy season can claim a life without much warning.
Actually, in California, there are different thresholds for different local governments, school districts can be put into receivership more easily than say a water district or a city.
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This is one of the reasons why the fate of coral reefs may be more easily assessed than open-water ecosystems.
Amazon's Web Services, which pipe applications, processing and storage over the Internet, may eventually let companies escape the confines of their data centers and pay for cheap, scalable processing and storage as easily as they pay for water or electricity.
Amazon's (nasdaq: AMZN - news - people ) Web Services, which pipe applications, processing and storage over the Internet, may eventually let companies escape the confines of their data centers and pay for cheap, scalable processing and storage as easily as they pay for water or electricity.
That doesn't make it quite as "open-air" as a true convertible, but it does let you more easily hear the roar of that water-cooled, 320-horsepower, 3.6-liter six-cylinder and get a lot of oxygen into the cabin.
Norovirus spreads easily via contaminated food or drinking water, but a more insidious route is from a person touching a surface contaminated with the residue of stool or vomit from an infected person and then touching his or her mouth before hand-washing.
Water-soluble tablets for dishwashers that can be easily adapted for laundry products also already exist.
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The team used inexpensive, environmentally friendly, easy to access materials- a commercially available polymer that can be easily processed from dilute solutions in solvents like water.
Potential investors are also being scared off by cholera, even though it can be easily prevented with good sanitation and clean drinking water (or treated by oral rehydration).
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"You can make a lot of birdies and eagles, make up a lot of ground, but there's a lot of water and trouble there that if you misstep you can easily make bogeys and double, " he added.
On the other hand, those creatures might just be too small to be caught easily by the filters used to winnow life from water for analysis in the first place.
Water footprint measurements are important, he said, but they are not easily understandable in the context of overall consumption.
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With projects such as Meixi Lake City, starting from scratch brings significant benefits not open to -- easily at least -- existing conurbations, such as combining water transport with energy production, superior flood prevention and urban agriculture.
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But if engineered right, deep water yields higher returns than many onshore projects because the fields are compact and easily drained.
Cosgrove and his team worked on altering the stickiness of regular gum by changing its water-repellent qualities, encouraging water to form a layer around the substance so that it could be more easily removed from most surfaces.
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