In the western United States, mountain snow provides up to seventy-five percent of all surface water supplies.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

Health experts say adults should drink about two liters of water a day to replace all the water lost in liquid wastes and perspiration.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

"All what we've been able to gain in the past with the access to clean water, expanded immunization programs were totally reversed with the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa.

VOA: special.2011.07.20

All six crew members were unharmed and were rescued as the boat began taking on water near Commonwealth Bay in Antarctica.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

Mr.Ban said the needs in Haiti are huge and immediate above all medical supplies, food,water,tents,shovels and heavy equipment.

VOA: standard.2010.01.14

"There is a lack of water in all the region, especially in Jordan and for the Palestinians."

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

This man said at about five o'clock in the morning, he heard the dam collapse and all of sudden the water rushed towards the houses.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

In the end,all there will be is a giant puddle of water, the bronze skeleton and plaques a kind of testimony to the crisis of climate change.

VOA: standard.2009.12.13

"I am not worried about quality at all. Because again I count on not only on the regulatory agencies that determine the quality of the water in which these products are grown.

VOA: standard.2010.05.08

The United Nations estimates that nearly 200,000 people, half of the region's population, are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance and they may all soon be on the move in search of towns with food and water.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06