Get a device (personal emergency response system) your parent can use to call for help if needed.

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Mr. Catsimatidis has since repeated the idea, coupling it with a proposal to link the emergency response system to global-positioning-system trackers that police would carry to improve response times.

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Given the current risks of disasters, the growing threat to water systems from climatic changes, and the high stakes of water-system failures, innovative emergency response plans should be aggressively pursued.

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In response, an Inland Revenue spokesperson told BBC News Online that such emergency measures were short lived and the system was now on an even keel.

BBC: Inland Revenue office