Now, the banks are in hot water with regulators and face hundreds of civil suits--a fine mess all around.
That was when Wal-Mart got into some hot water with regulators.
Engineering solutions like fish ladders, water-velocity regulators, and careful site design can mitigate many of these concerns.
"We spent hundreds of millions of dollars to prove to the regulators that water indeed flows downhill, " says Candris.
We are all water managers, not just the water companies or government regulators.
The results come as environment secretary David Miliband holds a drought summit with regulators, water firms and consumer groups.
This is where recognition of the fundamental ecological functions of wetlands as regulators of water regimes comes into its own.
The parts included "brakes, brake pads, brake shoes, ignition coils, water pumps, window regulators, suspension sway bar links, wheel hubs, anti-lock braking sensors, control arm bushings, transmission filters, pitman arms, tie rod ends, and suspension air springs, " the papers add.
Government, regulators and the water industry were urged to make concrete plans for new supply networks in advance of house building, to ensure there are adequate water resources for the future.
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.
Wetlands deliver essential ecosystem services, or the benefits people obtain from nature, including acting as regulators and providers of water.
The railways were privatised along similar lines to the water, energy and telephone markets and similar regulators exist in each industry.
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In some places, the practice has been blamed for air pollution and gas leaks that have ruined well water, but the Obama administration and many state regulators say the practice is safe when done properly.
Environmentalists have loudly worried that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, may threaten water and air, though the Obama administration and many state regulators say the practice is safe when done properly.
Another way in which regulators have tried to keep banks' heads above water is to force them to match a proportion of their risky assets (ie, loans) with capital, in the form of equity or retained earnings.
In some places, the practice has been blamed for air pollution and gas leaks that have ruined well water, but President Barack Obama's administration and many state regulators say the practice is safe when done properly.
Many federal and state regulators say hydraulic fracturing, which injects a mix of water and chemicals thousands of feet underground to crack open shale and release natural gas, is safe when done properly and thousands of sites have few complaints of pollution.
Last year, federal regulators blamed heavy tube wear in the generators on a botched computer analysis that they said badly misjudged how water and steam would flow in the reactors, along with manufacturing problems.
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