"With this increase, we can either stop drinking water, stop showering, stop doing the laundry or get out of the city, " complained a reader on CNN affiliate WBAL's website.
Billions of dollars worth of water infrastructure upgrades are needed in the United States to stop major water losses each year.
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"20, 000 Leaks" will stretch you out as you try to stop water from rushing in through cracked glass.
Engineers used plastic dams in a bid to stop water getting into signal boxes at Cowley Bridge, Devon.
Elsewhere, an extra pump has been brought in to help stop water from the old Wheal Jane tin mine overflowing.
At Wheal Jane, the extra pump is part of efforts to help stop water from the mine overflowing and polluting the Carnon valley.
Biddulph Town Council said it had installed extra drains and also boards to stop water running off Biddulph Grange gardens next door and into the cemetery.
It has been reported that landowners are preparing to stop the Ministry of Defence using their land for training, block the siting of electricity pylons and stop water companies using their land to spread sewage.
Much of the past week was dominated by the attempt to stop water laced with massive amounts of radioactive particles from pouring into the Pacific Ocean -- water that comes out of the reactors "screaming with radioactivity, " Friedlander said.
Through its Water for Life Decade (2005-2015), the United Nations is working to meet the Millennium Development Goals to reduce by half the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water by 2015 and to put a stop to the unsustainable exploitation of water resources.
But he added that the spill should not stop deep water oil drilling.
The books were then freeze-dried, a process that evaporates the ice into gas to stop further water damage or mildew.
Gordon Brown, operations manager of California Independent System Operator, the state agency that oversees the power grid, told CNN Thursday night that the declaration triggered contingency plans to stop pumping water for two hours, during the state's critical power usage hour between 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
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And in Guyana and Suriname, coastal farmers irrigating with water from river estuaries have had to stop: because of the rivers' weak flow, it was sea-water.
No matter where it starts, an economic crisis does not stop at the water's edge.
Not so long ago, there was a tradition in Washington that said politics should stop at the water's edge.
The National Transportation Safety Committee is examining the wreckage of the Boeing 737-800 that snapped in half before coming to a stop in shallow water near Bali's airport on Saturday, said Transportation Ministry spokesman Bambang Ervan.
The supply to homes had to be switched off for a short time while engineers worked at the scene in Berkshire to stop the flow of water.
He says Yemen can no longer depend on emotions or even awareness about the crisis to change the situation, that only firm policies and legislation will force farmers to stop wasting so much water.
Treatments such as diuretics (which speed up the elimination of water and salt), beta-blockers (which cause the heart to beat more slowly and less forcefully) and ACE inhibitors (which stop the production of water-attracting chemicals) have long been available.
Whether or not the administration puts a temporary stop to deep-water drilling, we can only imagine what effect the added cost of higher premiums for drilling rig insurance and more sophisticated safety equipment is going to be in the months and years ahead.
The solution to those fires (and, indeed, to all peat-related carbon-dioxide emissions) is simple and relatively cheap: stop draining wetlands and allow water to accumulate in them again.
It is spread through infected faeces and, once it enters the water supply, it is difficult to stop - especially in a country like Haiti which has almost no effective sewage disposal systems.
Partnering with Stop Hunger Now and Wine to Water, participants packaged 100K meals and built 100 water filtration units.
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Thames Water said the new tunnel is needed to stop increasing amounts of sewage being discharged into the Thames from the Victorian sewers.
For 14 hours the sub was dead in the water while Higgins and his crew worked to stop the leaks and bring the reactor back online.
These days it has managed to persuade Indians to stop boiling their otherwise undrinkable tap water and instead use a now-ubiquitous water purifier known as "Aquaguard, " which has a 75% market share.
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