Shiny new buildings even in provincial towns, along with new roads and water projects, signal optimism.
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Federally supported water projects fill swimming pools in Beverly Hills and flood citrus groves in Fresno.
In China Hyflux now has water projects in 20 cities, including Beijing and Shanghai.
He spends much of his book itemizing the globe's botched water projects, and a depressing litany it is.
Byrd is chairman of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, which often dispenses federal money for rural water projects.
Last summer, we started over 100 clean water and drinking water projects nationwide.
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Even with all current deep-water projects going forward full blast, the oil market is anticipated to be extremely tight.
Or getting the Carnegie Corp. to give money to a Zimbabwean nonprofit that funds education and clean water projects.
The white settlers who moved into these vast spaces benefited from the water projects, but the Indians usually did not.
But deep-water projects take a long time to turn from a prospect that a geologist has identified into a producing asset.
This summer, we will have underway 3, 000 additional clean water projects.
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's chief executive said last week that he expects to add new barrels of oil to its reserves from "several major deep-water projects" in future years.
As a new business, Belu is yet to post a profit but when it does, it plans to put all of it into clean water projects.
She is also trying to pursue an "asset-light" strategy to avoid the burden of supporting the capital investment needs of building and owning huge water projects.
Most projects are small, taking one week or less to complete, and are geared toward installing or improving infrastructure for basic human needs, such as water projects.
It provides design and construction management services on large projects, including ports, toll roads, subways, and water projects, as well as providing maintenance of schools and airports.
LONDON, England (CNN) -- A water company that puts all of its profits into clean water projects in developing countries has created an environmentally friendly bottle out of biodegradable plastic.
Chris Graff, of the Environmental Defence Fund in Oakland, notes that advocates of new water projects become much less enthusiastic if it is proposed that the users pay for it.
For citizens of these targeted states, it will mean long delays and much higher costs in the planning and building of highway projects, water projects and any other kind of municipal or state infrastructure development.
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Continued efforts by these groups represent a long-term threat not just to the oil and natural gas industry, but to any project that must turn dirt to be completed, including highway projects, water projects, housing developments, etc.
Despite this, it has already set aside money from sales to fund water projects, including one in a village of 10, 000 people in the Tamil Nadu region of India, where Belu has created four sources of water for the town, sanitation blocks for children and hygiene education.
Paget says Belu -- derived from the word blue and the Italian word for beautiful, "bella" -- takes a three-pronged approach to its clean water projects, by not only providing a clean water source for drinking but water for washing hands and education about the importance of hygiene.
Among the eclectic choices: a computer game that solves scientific problems, a nonprofit co-founded by actor Matt Damon that leverages donor funds to provide microloans to clean water projects and a venture by Japanese technology giant Mitsubishi that makes ships move more efficiently through the ocean, cutting down on CO2 emissions.
President Obama also announced a moratorium on all deep-water drilling projects.
Ma Jun, a water specialist in Beijing, says that since the 1950s China has been digging ever deeper wells, and building ever more dams, canals, and water diversion projects.
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An administration spokeswoman said the government had told companies seeking permits to drill in shallow water to wait "a day or two" until regulators issued guidelines for new permit requirements for shallow-water drilling projects.
Lawson said the pre-arranged financing and a focus on customer service (Ygrene opened a physical storefront at 2600 Capitol Avenue to offer one-stop service for property owners and contractors) are intended to speed completion of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and water efficiency projects undertaken by qualifying property owners.
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The company is now growing its portfolio from municipal wastewater projects to include industrial contracts, desalination and water-reuse projects.
Water and conservation projects undertaken in the agricultural heartland precipitated a revolution in productivity that has fed much of the world.
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