Mr. DAVID SANDAHL (Deputy Mayor, Hopewell Township): If you want water here, you drill a well.
There is literally something about the water here that has reeled in one particular industry.
It is hard to picture now, but between 1887 and 1911 a rollercoaster looped out over the water here as part of an amusement park.
"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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My 6-year-old daughter, the fourth generation in our family to come to this place, learned to love the water here the same way that my sister and I did more than 30 years ago.
Three bodies of water meet here: the Golden Horn, Bosphorus Strait and Sea of Marmara.
And water is plentiful here, something I believe will be more important in the future.
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When the levee gave way, the water came in here with a vengeance.
Doug Boykin, the state forester for Catron County, said water is scarce here, as many find out who try to dig a well.
There really should be a way to denote whether a spot is metered, covered by some wacky city permit law or submerged in a foot of water -- here's hoping the next update will enable comments.
All local supermarkets and garages have sold out of bottled water and there doesn't appear to be any supplies available here from NI Water like there is in other towns.
In addition, "having some access to water must have happened here, " he noted.
"What we want done is new drains put in, or a pump to pump out all the water that is lying here at the moment, " he said.
And most of the water in this region right here is on this private ranch.
The people are long gone, the water has receded, and here it all sits.
You can sit here by the water and feel connected and homesick at the same time.
"There should be a big peace garden here, with water features and benches, " said James, a British tourist.
Is it the one we see before us here, simple water and soap, the angelic St Maria Goretti?
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Here and there, water buffalo stumble about rice paddies, chomping on foliage and occasionally looking up to offer gormless looks to passers by.
The scene was blissfully beautiful: a placid expanse of water with patches of lotuses floating here and there, birds swooping and settling, children splashing, adults wading with fishing nets.
"The sheer amount of concrete and Tarmac here now means the water has nowhere to go, it's much, much harder for the water to run away or soak into the ground, " he added.
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Water, something we take for granted here in the U.S., is a life-or-death necessity in some disadvantaged countries in the world.
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Here to throw some cold water on the fiery Mr. Smith - uh, Mr. Walz, who's about to go to Washington.
"They need green grass like we have here, and they like water where they can roost at night, " explains countryside management adviser Patrick McGurn.
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"When my parents were my age, their parents were dead and they were having fun white-water rafting down the Snake River and here I sit -- two houses down, " said Jones.
This is what you see here: a large pool of water left behind by the sea.
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