Issues with running water, scarce electricity and more contributed to headaches big and small, according to passengers and their loved ones.
When he was in grade school, his father, a civil engineer, bought him and his older brother a plastic model river with running water.
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Peter York, a writer on posh London, notes that a previous generation built shockingly ostentatious houses in Mayfair, with running water and lots of marble.
There are issues with running water, electricity and food, with reports of open sewage and passengers being asked to defecate in bags and urinate in showers.
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When you woke up this morning, chances are you turned on a light, took a shower in your bathroom, brushed your teeth with running water and checked the Internet.
With no running water in the house, it was difficult to wash or dry laundry in the winter.
The homes of ordinary residents are one-story, mud-brick structures with no running water.
Along with five other families they are still lodged in these three small schoolrooms, with no running water or sanitation.
With no running water or toilets and not many berries, some have been trying to leave but cannot afford to go.
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When police raided an illegal traveller camp they were living in at Hamble in Hampshire in June 2011, the men were found living in tents with no running water.
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For Wak offers something rare: intact homes with electricity and running water.
It has long been argued by housing experts that public money is better spent on improving shacks in the favelas, and by providing them with electricity, running water, sewerage and street lighting.
One can draw the analogy with current electricity and running-water systems, where end-users can use services from providers with ease, without being concerned with the technical complexity behind those systems.
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She shut her eyes tight because it hurt very badly and also because she didn't realize that with all the water running down her face he couldn't tell she was crying so she was safe.
His mute and illiterate mother, and her extended family, raised her two sons in a small flat in Algiers with neither a lavatory nor running water.
We arrived on the banks of the Comoue and the spot is idyllic - green, sunny, with the gentle noise of running water, basically the perfect breeding site for black flies.
The project challenged inventors to come up with a toilet that operated without running water, electricity or a septic system.
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Reservoirs on the neighbouring isle of Coll were also running low - with only enough water for about another 50 days.
He added the "luxury allotments" came with a shed, a green house and running water.
She kept her back to us, but I associated the water running into the dishpan with her tears.
And in China, thousands of hectares of hills have been rehabilitated with small earth dams, to slow down running water.
But many cities are still without running water, and the country with the second-largest oil reserves in the world is importing gasoline.
Having completed the wrapping rituals, they deliver it to the people of Fin outside, who rinse the carpet in running water, and sprinkle rosewater drops with neatly cut and beautifully decorated wooden sticks.
Despite the privations that come with squatting in buildings that often have no electricity or running water, Kern says she would do it again -- although she wants to try out the many other alternative lifestyles out there first.
With the help of other Americans she's also provided Otuam with its first ambulance, as well as access to clean, running water.
With parts of the country in an epic drought, water levels were also running low in the Mississippi River south of New Orleans, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
At certain moments the air streamed against the ship as if sucked through a tunnel with a concentrated solid force of impact that seemed to lift her clean out of the water and keep her up for an instant with only a quiver running through her from end to end.
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And because of this legislation, Frank, along with 80, 000 others in the Navajo Nation, will have access to clean running water for the very first time.
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One problem with urban kayaking is that the people running the tours are often the only ones in the group with any real experience on the water.
Hydrolysis--running an electric current through water to produce hydrogen--yields fuel that is usually not economically competitive with other forms of energy.
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