Locals decided to act when drinks company Norlex Holdings announced plans to tap an underground reservoir in the town, truck the water up to Sydney and then send it back in bottles.

当地居民之所以采取这样的行动，是因为Norlex Holdings饮用水公司曾计划开采小镇的地下水库，然后运往悉尼，用瓶灌装后再运回来。

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In her small, rickety home town of White Castle, the tap-water often comes out “blacker than me”, she has complained.

埃尔伯塔的家乡在White Castle，一个摇摇欲坠的小地方。 那里的自来水总是“比我还黑”，她抱怨到。

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In her small, rickety home town of White Castle, the tap-water often comes out "blacker than me", she has complained.

埃尔伯塔的家乡在White Castle，一个摇摇欲坠的小地方。 那里的自来水总是“比我还黑”，她抱怨到。

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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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As the analogy goes, a viral media process unfolds like an episode of 24: unscrupulous characters gleefully break a vial into the water main, a few unsuspecting citizens drink from the tap, sneeze onto their colleagues, and soon the entire town has gone crazy.

FORBES: The Spreadable War on Viral Media

The pipeline's opening ceremony took place in the Geman town of Lubmin, where heads of state involved in the project opened a tap to release the first of the gas into the European grid.

BBC: Nord Stream gas pipeline opened by Merkel and Medvedev