As his great career starts winding down, it is only fitting that his greatest legacy is being built in the heart of the country's biggest city on the water where he has watched so many sunsets.
Across the Bosporus, on the city's less-developed Asian side, the sleek Sumahan--on the Water is like a vacation in the country, away from the European side's frenzy and traffic.
The city council said on Saturday that a chemical-clean of the water system was taking longer than the expected 36 hours, and that bottled drinking water and alternative bathing facilities were being provided.
Still, the implications of the Rutgers project unnerve residents of Surf City, on Long Beach Island, where the map shows water pouring over nearly all of the barrier island's six municipalities with a 6-foot increase in sea levels.
Gabriel Taussig, the chief of the city's administrative law division, pointed to two Board of Health decisions that were challenged in courts and remain on the books today: window guards on buildings with children in them and fluoridation of the city's water supply.
That is, if anything, less dismissive than the last time the MTA threw cold water on the notion of sending the subway system across city and state borders for the first time.
Just 17 years ago, Adelaide relied on the Murray for only 10% of its water: regular rains filling dams in the city's hills provided the rest.
KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Two men on a motorcycle used water pistols to spray acid on girls walking to school Wednesday in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, blinding at least two of them, military spokesmen said.
Mexico City's Mayor Marcelo Ebrard said on Twitter that the capital's water and other essential services worked normally.
Water held in the reservoir, upstream of the city on the River Laver at Birkby Nab farm, will gradually drain away downstream.
The council said it also wanted to develop sporting action plans for sport across the city, focusing on young people, as well as promoting Olympic water sports in schools.
Over the course of several weeks, CNN spoke with staff members from Memorial, who recounted the dismal situation inside the hospital after levees protecting New Orleans were breached on Monday, August 29, and most of the city filled up with water.
This neighborhood on Ninth Avenue is nowhere near as hard hit as parts of the city nearer to water.
My father was a blue collar city worker at the water filtration plant, and my family lived in a teeny little apartment on the South Side of Chicago.
As Chicago prepares to replace its aging sewer and water systems, and routine construction continues on roads and public spaces, the city now wants to grant low or no cost access for private companies to expand networks right along side that construction.
Taking on a golden hue in autumn, the strip of parkland is now the connector between the city and the water.
In the early 1990s, when privatisation was still heresy in Brazil, Mr Palocci, then mayor of Ribeirao Preto, a city in Sao Paulo's farmbelt, sold the municipal telephone company and called on private investors to build a water-treatment system.
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