This huge cultural heritage site, became increasingly threatened with decay by exposure to harsh climatic conditions, floods from the Indus River, deterioration due to salts rising from the high water-table, and water-logging.

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Intensive irrigation especially from tube-wells, of which there are over a million in Punjab has depleted the water-table.

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Uranium is so close to the water table such that by-products like radium and radon are already in the water.

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The coastal strip includes beaches and chain dunes, alternating with forests, centenary pine trees, and complex lagoon systems interconnected by the water-table.

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But Ruckus did something last week that many of the dog-roaming, cucumber water-drinking, pool-table playing startups in Silicon Valley will never do: It went public.

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Half an hour later, room service arrived with still and sparkling Voss--"just in case you don't like that kind, " said its bearer, winning me over with his wide grin as he motioned toward the pitcher of cucumber-mint water on the table.

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Lots of pull-offs from the table, indicating to me that they were treading water.

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Most of the city is built over, so it is important that the rainwater is channelled past the built-over surfaces into the soil, where it tops up the water table.

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The glistening arc of water overruns the waiting cup, misses its mark, splashes over table and chair-the pitcher slipping from defeated fingers, striking the stone floor, shattering into jagged shards.

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