Scientists are using biotechnology as well as traditional breeding methods to develop water-saving crops to feed a growing world.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

Researchers say the water availability in some of the areas has dropped well below the internationally recognized standard.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

The simple mechanical pump draws water from a shallow well or nearby stream or river for use in irrigation.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

"There are different ways of evaluating how well stormwater practices clean water things like ponds and wetlands and permeable pavement."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

There is an urgent need for medical personnel to attend to their needs, as well as drinking water."

VOA: standard.2009.09.06

Remnants of its 74 stone locks, as well as brick aqueducts that brought it water from the river,remain.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

There are few neighbors and the distances to the water well,to the clinic, to the school are long.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

A new underwater video - released as the latest hearings began - shows oil continuing to spill from the deep water well.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

Norma Fiorentino's water well blew up on New Year's Day 2009, throwing cement slabs into the air.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

It says many are in urgent need of health and educational services, nutritional support, access to clean water and sanitation, as well as protection.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

For the thousands who live in Bulo Bacley, the nearest water well is three kilometers away.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

But nature plays a role as well. As for climate change, severe water shortages are predicted to affect between 75 and 250 million people by 2020.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

The foundation put in this basketball court and a well for water.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

They allege that the company's drilling polluted their water with chemicals,metals and methane, the main constituent of natural gas, causing explosions as well as gastrointestinal and neurological illness.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

And a well for water was recently drilled.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

And they think, cause there was a study once, which said that all included tourism is the best thing for a third world country, and so they said,well, that is what they want, and they want to have a water source, and they want to have golf,and a marina,".

VOA: standard.2009.06.04