• Water tables are falling across the north of the country and as aquifers drop, irrigation wells go dry.

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  • The innovation is in the engineering of a racking system and floating structure that can accommodate water rising and falling.

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  • But UN figures show investment in water infrastructure is falling, as governments struggle to provide adequate health care and education facilities.

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  • The stream showed clear and smooth-looking in the glasses and, below the curl of the falling water, the spray from the dam was blowing in the wind.

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  • There was a stream alongside the road and far down the pass he saw a mill beside the stream and the falling water of the dam, white in the summer sunlight.

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  • There's a standard set of stories about Niagara, recounted in tourist guidebooks and scholarly tomes, and trotted out every few years in an educational documentary that begins and ends with sweeping helicopter shots of falling water.

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  • Once you enter the dark space where a dramatic spotlight shines on a 100sqm patch of falling water, the sound of the shower and the feeling of moisture in the air immediately gives the familiar impression of being caught in a downpour.

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  • Rebecca Mark, the head of Azurix, an offshoot of Enron, an energy company, believes that the increased variability in temperatures, the rising intensity of storms and especially falling water levels across the country are prompting Americans to press their politicians to reform water subsidies.

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  • And there is no indication that the reason why decaying dams are found at each point where the town brook falls ten feet is because there used to be a dozen factories on its banks using the gravity power of falling water to turn out a variety of industrial products.

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  • The HighDro Power system works by harnessing the considerable energy from falling waste water in the soil pipes of high-rises, converting it to electricity.

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  • You hear water rushing softly, falling steadily, a kind of background music that stays with you as clearly as the image of the building.

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  • Mrs Khan wants action will be taken to stop another child from falling in the water.

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  • It was an image of one of the explorers falling into icy water.

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  • So large a quantity of them enters into this river that at night one is unable to sleep, so great is the noise they make in falling upon the water.

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  • The four-year-old swivelled around several times before falling backwards into the water in his enclosure.

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  • After all, how can one prove beyond doubt that a water filter prevented a child from falling sick?

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  • Now Shell is falling behind BP in water depths exceeding 600 meters.

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  • His sister, who Barthel identified as 16-year-old Madison Wallace, at one point went in after him and ended up falling into the surging water.

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  • Some of Argentina's privatisations of the 1990s were flawed by corruption and monopoly, but electricity and water were successful, with tariffs falling and coverage expanding under arms-length regulation.

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  • "This is a really significant event and we need to learn from it, not just in Washington but around the country, " Hersman said after taking a boat ride on the Skagit River below the dramatic scene where a truck bumped against the steel framework, collapsing the bridge and sending two vehicles and three people falling into the chilly water.

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  • Tide: periodic rising and falling of large bodies of water resulting from the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun acting on the rotating earth.

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  • Four men are critically ill after falling from a ship into the water during an exercise drill at the Royal Portbury Dock near Bristol.

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  • His comments come as ground water levels are reported to be low and still falling, despite an increase in reservoir depths.

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  • Elsewhere, water levels in Shrewsbury peaked on Monday and are now falling slowly.

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  • He loves the idea of the waves but he hates falling over and he really hates getting salt water in his eyes.

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  • Tidal current: movement of water in a constant direction caused by the periodic rising and falling of the tide.

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  • But he was afraid of falling asleep and dropping into the gator-filled water, so he duct taped himself to a branch.

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  • Ebb-tide: the falling tide, part of the tidal cycle between high water and the next low water.

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  • Now that shares are falling, once-valuable stock options have gone under water.

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  • If you sweat a lot, neither coconut water or typical sports drinks will have enough sodium, potassium or sugar to keep you from falling behind the curve.

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