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.
Thus was born Women, Water, and Wells, a selection of sixty-two striking photographs from his book, Water is Key (Balcony Press).
Back in 1983, when Gurmit Singh was president of the Environmental Protection Society, he released a press statement attributing water shortages to official neglect and myopia.
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, an independent journalist who was one of the investigators, says a lobby of big publishers pushed the Press Council to water down the report.
He was able to pull Krymzen up onto the ice, but the current was carrying Samara downstream, about 4 or 5 feet from the edge of the ice, her head going in and out of the water, Shaw told a press conference Monday.
In press Journal of the American Water Works Association August 2003 issue.
As The Economist went to press, helicopters were dropping water to douse overheating nuclear fuel stored at the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant, where there have been explosions, fires and releases of radiation greater, it seems, than the Japanese authorities had admitted.
Fill a bottle with cool water, screw it into the carbonator, press the fizz button five or six times, add the mix to the bottle (I recommend doing this over a sink), close the bottle and shake a few times.
Inventables' most recent shipment included a self-heating can that contains calcium oxide and water, which mix and heat up when users press a button on the can.
Bereciartua, P. (2005), Vulnerability to Global Environmental Changes in Argentina: Opportunities for upgrading regional water resources management strategies, IHP Technical document, in press.
Rescue workers on rubber boats could not reach them because of narrow alleyways, and two air force helicopters were deployed to drop water and food packs to the marooned villagers, the Associated Press reports.
Bush also is expected to press his case in a speech later Tuesday at a water treatment plant in Kansas City, Missouri.
From corporate disclosures which are quite vague, one gets the sense that they are trying to disclose the minimum that will keep them out of hot water with the SEC but immune to the prying eyes of the press and investors.
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"A portion of the building was also constructed on land which had been a body of water before and was filled with rubbish, " he told the Associated Press news agency.
Independent news agency Turan reporter Aziz Kerimov told The Associated Press by telephone from Ismayilli that police fired tear gas and water cannons at half-hour intervals as the crowd refused to disperse.
The Lebanese press is busy dusting off old charges that Israel is diverting Lebanese water for its own use, while other reports claim that Israel uses the zone as an artillery and air-strike training range.
"Now we don't have any drinking water or power, " Longquan villager Yang Yiyun, 58, told The Associated Press.
He was less than impressed, for example, when the moderator of the press conference - who was sitting beside Reeves - accepted a glass of water the actor had intended for the film's director, Scott Derrickson.
Would a study showing that the Danes or Portuguese, say, washed less than their neighbours have had the same gleeful reception from the foreign press that greeted a report this past autumn about French frugality with hot water?
Grupo Fantasma may have won a passel of Univision Music Awards and been the talk of its Austin hometown, but "Gimme Some" reminds listeners that good press and industry accolades don't pay the phone bill, keep the water running or fill the refrigerator.
The amended document, obtained by the Associated Press news agency, also says the circumstances of how she ended up in the water are "not clearly established".
Spokeswoman Terri Nisich told the Associated Press that firefighters had begun an aggressive operation from dawn on Friday, using nine water-dropping helicopters to try to quell the flames.
Brazilian oil major Petrobras (PBR) said in a press release late Thursday that it has found the equivalent of 700 million barrels of oil in deep water Gulf of Mexico at the Keathley Canyon bloc it runs together with ExxonMobil (XOM) and Italian oil firm Eni.
Even China's state-controlled press has aired complaints, many of them directed at the public hearings held in various cities to discuss water-price proposals.
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