One possibility is the widespread advance deployment of fabric bags capable of storing and moving bulk water supplies.
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These bags have been tested in the past, and even used for a time to tow bulk water through the Mediterranean to water-short areas.
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While there has been some talk about using these bags on a regular basis for long-distance bulk water deliveries, they seem to have a clear role to play in emergencies.
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Ahead of this week's ministerial meeting, the federal government announced changes it wanted made to the Boundary Waters Treaty in order to prevent bulk water exports, and referred the Lake Superior case to the International Joint Commission, which deals with boundary waters.
For most of the past century, agriculture has been the winner of the water wars, receiving the great bulk of water from the Colorado River and its two large reservoirs at Lake Mead and Lake Powell.
In June, the governors of eight American states and the premiers of Ontario and Quebec signed an accord setting out principles for controlling bulk-water exports.
The dipole moment of a hexamer of water molecules turns out to be almost identical to the dipole moment of bulk quantities of water indicating that liquid water is made up of cage-shaped hexamers.
So the federal government has now invited the provinces to sign a deal to ban, for environmental reasons, the bulk withdrawal of water at its source an attempt at an export ban by other means.
For a while Duffy's presence is reassuring, but when we are already deep within the field he warns us to hurry along: These behemoths, with only 15% of their bulk visible above water, are shifting constantly.
The bulk of the conversation around water today focuses on the scope of the problem, governance, and policy.
It has an independent water utility, which charges for the water it sells in bulk.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators who returned to the crash site Sunday aim to retrieve the bulk of the wreckage from the water over the next few days, said agency spokesman Eric Weiss.
The bulk of methane use today is to heat buildings and water.
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Instead of draining away waste water, the workers on duty somehow flushed out thousands of litres of bulk whisky.
Other projects included a method for detecting toxins in water using glowing bacteria and studying the effect of nano particles on other bulk particles.
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