Credit controls were lifted in October and banks have been quick to turn on the tap.

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Residents, or their weary employees, set their alarm clocks to turn on the tap before the flow dribbles away to nothing.

ECONOMIST: It must also be clean

Can we afford to turn on the tap?

WHITEHOUSE: Adaptation Summit to Address Impacts of Climate Change, May 25-27 | The White House

They, I mean I don't want to get in to oil economics, but the idea that one can sort of turn the tap on and off like this, in the quantities that Gordon Brown suggests, I think is unrealistic.

BBC: Nick Clegg interview

Every time we turn on a tap or buy food we are responsible for a small element of the much larger water management cycle.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

When we skimmed through live TV listings, we simply had to tap the large "Watch Now" button next to a listing for the show to turn up on screen a few seconds later.

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