It is wider than any of its chief rivals, Angel's Falls, Victoria Falls and Niagara, which it is second to in sheer water volume.
With that stroke of his pen, Governor Perry made Texas the first state in the country to require by statute the well-by-well public disclosure of all the constituent chemicals, compounds and water volume contained in frac fluids.
He understood that the volume of the water displaced was equal to the volume of his body parts in the water.
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Ships displace a volume of water that greatly exceeds the volume of the vessel itself.
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When ready to eat, the pod is soaked in water to reconstitute its volume and blended with water and spices to make a red chile sauce.
As part of the work water storage areas will be created to channel excess water on to Enfield Golf Course and Montagu Recreation Ground, slowing the speed and volume of water travelling down the brook.
China produces twice as much rice per hectare as India with the same volume of water.
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The agency said it would continue to monitor the volume and water quality.
It will also reduce flood risk in the area by increasing the volume of water that can safely flow through the river.
The total volume of water on Earth is about 1.4 billion km3.
Chairman of Braunton Parish Council Liz Spear said newly-built flood defences were overwhelmed by the volume of water that hit the town.
So, compared with a regular vessel and a cloak of the same size, the latter needs to push a much smaller volume of water.
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The volume of water flowing into the Murray and its main tributary, the Darling, between January and March was the lowest in 117 years.
United Utilities said it was hampered by "the sheer volume of water and by the amount of damage that was caused to the road surface".
The second session was initially stopped after Force India's Tonio Liuzzi careered of the track because of aquaplaning caused by the huge volume of water on the circuit.
This has enabled scientists to estimate the volume of water in the ice cap and speculate that much of the planet's original water is either hidden below the surface or missing.
At one construction on a river in Charsadda, built by the British colonial government, more than twice the volume of water of the previous record flood, in 1929, gushed in, snapping off its gates.
Sediment-carrying rivers have been diverted, sea level has risen (increasing the volume of water in the lagoon), a deep-water channel has been dredged for shipping, and turbid waters are killing the eel grass that stabilises mud flats.
The shape of the polar cap indicates that it is composed primarily of water ice, with a volume of 1.2 million cubic kilometres.
And although they cannot compete with aeroplanes for speed, or with water-borne shipping for volume, they could cover in a few days a distance equivalent to a six-week journey by ship.
After all, 10% of its volume is typically above water and the other 90% is below the surface.
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Firefighters have used two high volume pumps to clear water from the A34 in Staffordshire which had been closed for two days due to flooding.
In that same year, Cultiba was the only producer and distributor of beverages in Mexico with nationwide operations and was the country's second-largest beverage company based on combined sales volume of soft drinks and water.
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High-volume pumps were deployed to remove water from a flooded beck close to the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton at 10:30 GMT.
By volume, 85% of bottled water in Mexico is sold in 10- to 20-liter jugs commonly delivered to homes, says Jose Martinez, an analyst with Beverage Marketing Corp.
Donor countries should increase the volume of aid flows going to water and sanitation programs and target it to the least developed countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
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That came alongside news that the volume of the reactor's cooling water had declined sharply.
Maybe it was a great hank of river weed turning below in the cold current, maybe it was just the way gravity works in water, but it felt like something that matched me exactly, the same shape and weight and volume, and it always seemed as if that something came to life the moment I stepped into the water.
Satellites have long been used to track ice extent (area), but calculating the thickness of the marine floes requires the overflying spacecraft to gauge the difference between the top of the ice surface and the top of the water - a relatively simple calculation then gives the overall volume.
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