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 2009 an estimated 20, 000 spectators watched 6, 000 swimmers brave the one-mile, open-water course.
Reno has found the money to spruce up parts of downtown and has turned its river into a white-water canoeing course.
This exclusive 450 acre country club community in South Florida, has 700 estates, many on deep-water and golf course lots.
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All told, Baha Mar is to include 200, 000 square feet of conference rooms, a big casino, a 20-acre water park and an 18-hole golf course on 1, 000 acres.
Organisers have taken out the 10th fence, a drop hedge before the water, on the cross-country course, as a safety precaution in wet conditions.
The Boat Race is unique because it takes place over a course that not only twists and turns - unlike the 2, 000m Olympic course - but does so on tidal water, where the pace of the stream varies, and conditions are never the same from one day to the next.
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"I think the most challenging part of the course is the water crossings -- they're terrifying, " says Jen Weiss, who has been part of several kinetic teams who met a watery demise in past races.
And then they send down a very high-speed injection of water into the well casing, and of course that flows into the rock and it puts little - tiny little hairline cracks in the rock, opens it up.
's attitude toward plants that have been genetically improved to conserve water--a commodity which is, of course, critical for agriculture--is illustrative.
Fortunately, the namesake three private lakes don't present too much of a water hazard on this USGA-rated 18-hole course.
"I am going to have farmers plant sweet potato and water spinach at Malacanang's nine-hole golf course, " he says.
Last summer's event featured a high-ropes course, two zip lines, a water slide, and a lumberjack show.
Once frozen, the material was placed in a freeze-dryer that removed all the water from it over the course of four days.
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Of course, the most efficacious solution to living in a water-poor region is simply to move, which is what de Villiers himself did.
Of course, a clean water source isn't always waiting for you between booths -- when that happens, there's no beating a well-placed bottle of hand sanitizer.
The event is held every Memorial Day weekend in Ferndale, California, as artists race their bizarre wares across a 42-mile course over three days, including sections on land, sand, mud and water.
His laundry list of bad judgment includes: a failed drug test, bankruptcy, Ron Mexico, flipping the bird at fans, getting stopped at the airport with a water bottle containing a hidden compartment that launched a classic SNL skit and of course operating an illegal dog-fighting operation.
Participants on a 10-to-12 mile Tough Mudder course wade through waist-deep mud, crawl under barbed wire, submerge themselves in ice water and jump through fire.
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