In Hangzhou, gondolas glide through the man-made canals of Venice Water Town, which boasts its own Piazza San Marco and Doge's Palace.
Droitwich Spa became the only salt water spa town in Britain when John Corbett created the first spa, St Andrew's Brine Baths, in 1887 as part of the Raven Hotel.
With the backing of the local salt 'magnate', John Corbett, the town became the only salt-water spa-town in Britain.
Gorges and karst plateaux feature 700 caves, hundreds of sinkholes, a 9-km-long thermal-water maze under a town and more than 1, 600 clear-water springs.
The aim is to reduce the amount of flood water reaching the town during periods of heavy rainfall.
He settles in an old cowboy bunkhouse without electricity or running water near the town of Woolybucket where he proves a poor salesman of pig hell and an even worse liar.
Canadian accounts go back a year earlier, to 1858, when a businessman named James Miller Williams decided to dig a well for drinking water outside the town of Bear Creek, Ontario.
The Japanese government now says that levels of radioactive contamination beyond the legal health limits have been found in tap water in a town nearly 30-miles (46-kilometers) northwest of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
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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.
The entire sub-district of Sujawal was severely hit during the floods in 2010 and the town itself was completely evacuated as the river water started surging to the town.
For places like Plaquemines Parish, the wall of water overtopped levees, flooded the town of Braithwaite with 12 feet of water, and killed two people.
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Bedford's Olympic champion, Etienne Stott, is to have a white water arena in the town named after him.
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Chairman of Braunton Parish Council Liz Spear said newly-built flood defences were overwhelmed by the volume of water that hit the town.
Mega Event Catalonia 2011 (8 to 9 October): On the water in the beautiful town of Calella, in Catalonia, Spain, several geocaching activities are being planned.
The international community in the U.S. - one of the things we've seen is the way that the city is flooded is there is some form of machinery, some form of equipment that they could bring in, similar to like FEMA, to help get a lot of the water out of the town and back into the river.
The participating pupils enthusiastically found the pH of a sample of water from Intaka Island (a wetland in Cape Town) and thereafter filtered and purified the water.
"The whole beach area and most of the town were under water, " he said.
Part of a Powys town left without water after a mains burst has had its supply restored.
"This is enough to provide water for a village or town of 2, 000 to 3, 000 people, " he adds.
In Texas, the Fort Worth suburb of Southlake banned fracking during the hot summer months because it drains the town's water supply.
After that, it will be able to concentrate entirely on its original mission, planned long before Clementine made water the talk of the town.
As temperatures soared to the triple-digits for the 37th consecutive day Sunday, city officials made an emergency decision to shut off the town's water supply.
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The Balkerne Tower Trust said it was set up to preserve for the benefit of the people of Colchester the historical, architectural and constructional heritage associated with the town's water supply.
Northampton MPs Sally Keeble and Brian Binley have called for a full investigation by the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) into the pollution of the town's water supply.
On 22 March the Global Water Experiment was launched in Cape Town, South Africa, with a big splash.
Earley Town Council said Thames Water had scheduled the repair for 18 February, but no work had taken place.
This is a cyberspace equivalent of the fairytale about stone soup, in which two men set up a big pot full of water over a fire in a town square, drop in a stone, and start stirring.
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