Estimates are it'll cost double what water imported from northern California or the Colorado River costs now.

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As a self-contained city state, this measure helped reduce reliance on water imported from Malaysia and is deemed an important development for national resource independence.

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To convince nine nearby water districts to sign 30-year contracts to take Poseidon's water, Maloni had to promise to never charge them more than the going price of imported water.

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Within five years Fiji was the top imported water in the U.S., selling 7 million cases a year.

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Environmentalists say the project will make Southern California less dependent on imported water and lead to less destruction of wildlife habitats.

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It is equivalent to the quantity of fresh water proposed to be imported from Turkey and the total annual production capacity of a major seawater desalination plant.

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Every single gram of food that is eaten needs to be either imported or grown with desalinated water.

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The nation's capital, Harare, has not imported adequate supplies of chemicals to treat water, resulting in citizens resorting to shallow wells and rivers for water, according to health advocates.

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The tribe has imported animals from all over the globe--water buffalo, wild boar, and Axis, fallow and red deer.

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Some fresh produce, particularly imported varieties, may be hydrated in the field or washed during processing with water contaminated with salmonella.

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