Last month, with power supplies cut to six hours a day, kindergartens closing and water supplies disrupted, the provincial capital, Vladivostok, declared a state of emergency.

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Nationwide, 250, 000 water lines burst a year, or about one every two minutes, flooding and closing streets, interrupting water service, and requiring residents to boil water for safety, wrote New York Times reporter Charles Duhigg in a special series on water issues.

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Water-saving devices such as self-closing taps are mandatory.

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As stated by the Director of the Water Resources National Institute (INDRHI), Mr. Frank Rodriguez, at the closing of the event, the seminar was aimed at raising awareness on the fact that water is a finite resource and is the commitment of the whole society to preserve it, so INDRHI will keep a close link with the journalists to face water problem in the Dominican Republic.

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Many co-working spaces offer free coffee, tea, and water, some offer free wine and beer around closing time, and others are stocked with free snacks.

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For over a week now while Israel was closing all it's borders, stopping all shipments of food, water, supplies, medicine, fuel and the list goes on to shutting down power plants so that the Palestians would have no power.

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Roberts' incredible success inside the Beijing Water Cube in September was rewarded with the honour of carrying the Great Britain flag at the Paralympics closing ceremony.

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