The chemical, used to treat cloudy water, went straight into the main water supply.
Two rivers, the Ama Dariya and the Syr Dariya, served as the sea's main water supply.
Already the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada, the main water storage for the Delta, is shrinking.
The report, Gaza's Children: Falling Behind, says that high levels of nitrates and other contaminants have been found in the main water supply.
Strathclyde Fire and Rescue Service teams wearing breathing apparatus fought the blaze inside the building, while crews tackled the fire from the outside using large main water jets.
The effects of these demented policies have been exacerbated in recent years by Turkey's diversion of Syria's main water source, the Euphrates River, through the construction of dams upstream, and by two years of unrelenting drought.
In Part 3 , we look at how the main water source for most of this region, the Colorado River, has been affected by drought, and how that may affect the water politics in the upcoming decades.
Ms. MANGONES: It's a very critical place because the water main that brings drinkable water to Port-au-Prince goes through that property.
Scores of homes and businesses were evacuated in Merseyside after a water main burst, sending a plume of water 40ft (12m) into the air.
Sharp water-course rising and flooding are among the main threats of water-produced disasters in the Region of Latin America and the Caribbean.
In Houston last summer, there were 700 water main breaks every day due to aging pipes and pressure from increased water use and dry soil.
The fields flooded when the 68cm (27in) water main burst next to the Rushmere Road site.
Water was sent shooting high up in the air after a water main burst in "spectacular" style.
Its main business provides water and sewerage services to 2.6 million people in Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, County Durham and parts of North Yorkshire.
In Kennedale, a large water main broke, and several people were injured, said city spokeswoman Amethyst Cirmo, though she could not immediately confirm how many.
But to that list must now be added events at The Oval on Thursday, when play was delayed 90 minutes by a burst water main - five miles away.
Purves is very concerned about the glaciers in the Himalayan mountains that are the main source of water for irrigation and drinking in China and India, well over 2 billion people.
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Rolls-Royce was throwing a brunch for a few VIPs (owners and seriously prospective wanna bes) at a stucco place just off the main path in Water Mill, so we roared up the road to have a bite.
As the analogy goes, a viral media process unfolds like an episode of 24: unscrupulous characters gleefully break a vial into the water main, a few unsuspecting citizens drink from the tap, sneeze onto their colleagues, and soon the entire town has gone crazy.
Thames Water has also been working on a surface water sewer main in the street.
Livestock and arable farmer, Andrew Brown, 46, of Fairchild Lodge, Rutland, said his main problem was getting water to the animals.
One of his neighbours, Muhammad Idris, complains that cow carcasses are poisoning the river that is their main source of drinking water.
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Latest court ordered PZ expansion shows new flows moving north east, toward the main Ann Arbor drinking water source at Barton Pond on the Huron River.
The capital's main surgical hospitals and water treatment plants now rely solely on back-up generators because the normal power supply has been cut, an untenable situation, Doumani said.
Oriental Daily News says authorities are investigating after more than 200, 000 tonnes of rubbish was dumped illegally near a reservoir that will become Shenzhen's main source of drinking water next year.
Of greatest concern initially, the Keystone XL pipeline was designed to run through Nebraska's Sandhills, which lie above the Ogallala Aquifer, the main source of drinking water and irrigation for millions of people.
No wonder, either, that every so often the private sector makes a mistake, as anyone can: this new water-main or sewer is not built on time, or lack of rainfall means that a reservoir is dry.
The Greater London Authority, which is being advised by Deloitte Real Estate, said on its website the regeneration project will "make use of the docks' main feature - the water - in a floating commercial and leisure development".
Installing water meters at a hundred of the local authority's main buildings have reduced emissions linked to water consumption by 51% since 2007-08.
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