Now ok, the water won't come from Welsh reservoirs - rather from boreholes beneath Birmingham - but, so the argument goes, without the Welsh water, they wouldn't have 30 million litres a day to spare for Anglian.
Unlike tap water suppliers, bottled water companies don't have to have their water tested by a certified laboratory, and they aren't required to notify customers within 24 hours if they find elevated levels of contaminants.
While municipal water utilities are required to provide public reports of test results, bottled-water makers are not. (On the other hand, well water, which is found in many rural areas, isn't regulated as water provided by towns and cities is.) So although you may fork over a pretty penny for bottled water, that doesn't mean it's any better than what's coming out of your faucet.
People in rural areas and small towns don't pay for water, and it's only in the bigger cities that residents--those who are on the meter and aren't stealing water--pay for what they use.
The only caveat here is that you gotta keep Top Tag-enabled pets from swimming in the ocean: fresh water shouldn't do any damage, but salt water can totally own this device.
When you don't have water, when you don't have food - these are things you fight for everyday just to survive.
"I haven't been down to the water so I don't know if the River Wye is flooded, " she said.
Use alcohol-based hand sanitizers as an alternative to hand washing when soap and water aren't available.
"There are some customers whose water hasn't returned to the quality we would normally expect, " she added.
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Allison Spitz, 16, brandished a sign reading "Oil and Water Don't Mix" as she attended her first political demonstration.
"I just thought at the minute a move across the water wasn't the right move, " Allen told the Linfield website.
Businesses are developing products such as advanced filtration systems for sale in countries where water isn't just scarce, but also polluted.
But state tests showed the water wasn't contaminated by drilling, and even more confusingly, many of their neighbors reported no problems.
Storm surges of 15 feet caused entire homes to be swept off their foundations when water couldn't flow underneath, as properties built on pilings allow.
The parts of the body that mustn't dissolve--cell membranes, for instance--are made of oily molecules, and even a child knows that oil and water don't mix.
So, saying all is well when the, you know, the bow of the Titanic seems to be going under water isn't necessarily the most reassuring message.
But on a recent winter afternoon Yasin's younger sibling was himself toiling over a vat of indigo dye in which the water hasn't been changed in a generation.
Cities on the water don't heat up and cool down as extremely as landlocked areas do, and the relatively calmer waters of the left coast means less volatility.
Just because March's consumer credit figures blew Wall Street's forecasts out of the water doesn't mean the fact that U.S. consumers are borrowing more is all bad news.
He held his pipes, high over his head at first to keep them from the wet (for while whisky was said to be good for the bag, salt water wasn't), then cradled in his arms to play.
But water isn't the main savings.
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There was always gossip at the water cooler about what office people wouldn't change the water cooler when it was empty horrible people who would pretend not to notice and skulk away, like they'd just doored a Benz in the parking lot.
You might ask, 'Why can't the water company just go into tick-over mode now and let us have bills that don't go up any more?
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If people in Baghdad don't have electricity or water, which many, many don't, how can we expect a political process to take a real stronghold if these basic services are not restored?
Large commercial aircraft aren't designed for landings into water and most flight crews aren't trained for such scenarios given their rarity, experts say.
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All local supermarkets and garages have sold out of bottled water and there doesn't appear to be any supplies available here from NI Water like there is in other towns.
Until then, bottled water had mainly been sold in "big jugs and coolers" for people who didn't trust their water supply, said John Sicher, publisher of Beverage Digest.
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