• So at the moment you got no road access into Gonaives, you've got cities, 300, 000 people, all the water supplies have been contaminated with flood waters.

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  • What makes this prosecution particularly senseless is that the Safe Drinking Water Act was adopted to prevent the pollution of water supplies, yet the evidence at trial convincingly demonstrated (and the trial judge so held) that the water King injected into his irrigation wells contained absolutely no contaminants.

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  • As such, Obama says that the Environmental Protection Agency has the authority to monitor certain aspects of shale gas production such as the disposal of waste water and the assurance of clean water supplies.

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  • Conservation group WWF says the extensive use of cannons drains the water and electricity supplies, and the building of the pipes disfigures the mountain landscape for many years.

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  • Various Y2K experts predict that some of the nation's water supplies will fail when the clock strikes midnight because of computer problems, but the water utility industry strongly disagrees.

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  • For example, a great deal of foreign money and effort has been poured into sorting out the region's water supplies over the past decade without much to show for it.

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  • Dealing with pollution in cities, the depletion and deterioration of water supplies, or the destruction of forests and precious biodiversity is urgent and can make a big difference.

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  • Liverpool and Manchester have been squabbling since the industrial revolution led to fights over water supplies from the Lake District.

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  • The water company says supplies should be back to normal by Wednesday morning.

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  • The prosecution said the fire service had many systemic failings, including the distribution of information about buildings and water supplies and also the training of firefighters.

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  • The development of alternative water supplies was repeatedly thwarted because counties and cities could not agree how to share the cost.

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  • He said that "means worrying about the way in which the drilling takes places, it means worrying about making sure the methane is captured rather than discharged to the air and it means making sure that none of the contaminated water gets into the ground water that sometimes can fill our water supplies".

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  • The on-going loss of tropical forests, and the implications that has for climate change, biodiversity, rural livelihoods and water supplies illustrates the reason why environmental groups are still very much needed, despite the successes of the past.

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  • The first minister also answered questions on water supplies to Wales, lowering the voting age to sixteen and ensuring that the Welsh Language Commissioner has operational and financial independence.

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  • Uzbekistan fears the dam will restrict water supplies to its main cash crop, cotton.

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  • The shortage of fresh water supplies is a danger to human health and an impediment to economic progress.

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  • Guernsey Water is investigating whether or not pollution laws have been breached because of the potential risk to the island's water supplies.

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  • But the federal government now quietly supplies electricity and water to the villages the Zapatistas still control, according to Xavier Abreu, an official at the federal government's agency for indigenous people.

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  • And while the extra water from the melting glacier may be increasing the fertility of adjacent lowland areas in the short-term, water supplies would become critically low if it disappears.

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  • Environmentalists strongly oppose shale-gas extraction due to fears that fracking may contaminate water supplies, the oil-sands industry because it is energy-intensive and dirty, and deep-water drilling because of the risk of oil spills like last year's Gulf of Mexico disaster.

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  • Couldn't it be argued that the extra water would have a positive, rather than adverse effect on English water supplies and therefore the Secretary of State's power might not be exercisable?

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  • Not satisfied with these results, the green lobby has prompted the National Marine Fisheries Service to further cut water supplies, in part to improve the conditions for whales and other species out in the ocean.

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  • On Sunday, the pace of assistance picked up as three U.S. Marine KC-130J cargo planes carrying water and supplies became the first flights to land at Sendai airport since it closed after the earthquake struck.

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  • In light of the calls by the National Farmers Union to set up grid to ferry water supplies from Wales to parts of the UK, Mr George called for the minister's views on the idea of a national water grid.

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  • California's Department of Water Resources says it would like ocean water desalination to add 500, 000 acre-feet a year of water to the Golden State's supplies, a modest amount compared with California's overall water consumption.

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  • Despite the British army bringing in supplies of bottled water and fitting a pipeline, Save the Children was told that water is being sold to the local people at a price few can afford.

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  • The bug infests most elements of everyday life: electricity, gas and water supplies, telephone services, the banking system, health services, transport and industry are all at risk if it is not caught in time.

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  • The capital, Kinshasa, is getting back on its feet after the rebels' seizure of Matadi, the country's main port, in August and their severance of food, water and electricity supplies to the capital.

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  • But the government warns that private water supplies should be closely monitored to avoid contamination.

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  • She said teams had been working round the clock to repair the water pipe and to maintain supplies.

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