Consumers can reduce the amount of water through direct action - by applying a water-saving showerhead, shutting off the tap during teeth brushing, by not disposing of medicines, paints or other pollutants down the sink etc.
The list is to be used to decide which sites of special scientific interest (SSSI) should have money spent on them to prevent over-abstraction by water-companies, which is the process of removing water for domestic or industrial use.
Ecosystems and environmental change: over the past decade it has become clear that most of the deep-water ecosystems (cold-water corals) are highly influenced by the presence of deep-water circulation.
It's a mixture of water, coconut by-products, sodium carbonate and water-soluble silicone, blended with the notion that eco-sensitive customers will gladly substitute some elbow grease for a garden hose.
They found the fish tended to avoid the water which had been scented by otters which had eaten salmon - around 85% of the time - but did not avoid water scented by non-salmon-eating otters.
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Six people - five elderly villagers and a child who were sucked under by the water - have been confirmed dead.
He added two guardhouses, a grotto, and a massive 30-foot-by-60-foot salt water swimming pool that touted fish and three accompanying diving boards.
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The students designed a progressive urban environment that can handle large amounts of storm-water runoff by using green technologies and major roadways as storm-water filtration and transport surfaces.
He heats his 1779-built 6-bedroom, 7, 000-square-foot home by pumping 51-degree water up from two wells 400 feet below Maine's winter crust.
The result is a landscape that is changing year-by-year, and week-by-week, as salt water encroaches farther inland.
Many of the papers -- some of them badly damaged by fire or water -- have undergone delicate conservation work before being added to the archive.
Michael Klein: First of all the notion that private water - water provided by private providers is somehow more expensive than state water provided that in many cases is not true, there are some cases in the world the state owned water companies that are very efficient in many other cases there are private water companies that are very efficient, so once again it's case-by-case.
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Some 1.5 million children under five die each year from sickness caused by water-borne diseases.
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When snow or ice melt, they are replaced by darker melt-water pools, land or sea.
Working out of a small office with two employees, she started by distributing water-treatment equipment.
How can we reduce the real threat to our health and ecosystems caused by ever-increasing water pollution?
Part of High Street was cut off by waist-deep water and roads in and out of the town were closed.
The conference was organized by the UN-Water Decade Programme on Advocacy and Communication (UNW-DPAC), in cooperation with UNESCO and other partners.
The coastal strip includes beaches and chain dunes, alternating with forests, centenary pine trees, and complex lagoon systems interconnected by the water-table.
Mr. Hollopeter says he got excited by water-blasting because it's so low-tech.
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The government will likely also have to store 20 million tons in makeshift spaces, covered by water-proof sheets and resting on wooden platforms erected over bricks.
There are lots of small initiatives, either at the user end -- e.g. turning off stand-by switches, drinking tap water -- or the supply end -- e.g. wind energy, tidal energy.
Speckled by ancient ruins, it even has a wine route: the Strada del Vino Costa degli Etruschi, which runs south from Livorno to Piombino and across to the island of Elba, edged by searing-blue water and with views to sigh over.
"People were driving down the middle of the (four-lane) road to avoid being swept away by the fast-moving water, " he said.
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Thus, India's Shree Cement, which has long suffered from water shortages, developed the world's most water-efficient method for making cement, in part by using air-cooling rather than water-cooling.
Secondly, when considering end-to-end efficiency, it is much less energy-intensive to heat water by direct use of natural gas on-site, rather than by using that natural gas to first make electricity that is used to heat water because of the large conversion losses at power plants.
The pilot project will include about 10, 000 households, and these residents could create an online account to not only view their reports but also browse rebates offered by the water district to buy water-efficient household items such as clothes washers and toilets or to change the landscaping of their lawns to use drought-resistant, native plants.
It sounded like a place where the teen-age years went on forever, all gray days by the water and strange-tasting sweets that fizzed in your mouth, making you think of the possibility of sex.
Several other smaller, temporary venues, including the prominent wedge-shaped water-polo arena by David Morley Architects, will vanish for good, though their individual components can be reused.
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One theory to explain what is happening is that water molecules agitated by microwaves are attracted to water-seeking areas on the surface of proteins, influencing their ability to function.
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