Meanwhile, several logistics and information technology start-ups like PurFresh and Nova Analytics are implementing new systems to help executives manage potential water-shortage crises more effectively.
Like many maternity clinics in rural parts of Africa, the health center in Atitiri is lacking several necessary resources -- shortage of running water, electricity challenges, broken beds and scarcity of medicines all make Madudu's job very difficult.
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Makers of plastic bottles for water and milk, for example, have faced a shortage of high-density polyethylene since the hurricanes.
There, the shortage of water mattered far more to most voters than the latest call-centre.
Earlier this month, as U.S. newspapers warned of a drought-induced bacon shortage, international scientists cautioned that pending water shortages could result in food shortages of all kinds, urging people to eat fewer water-intensive foods (namely, meat).
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He has applied far more money and know-how to issues far less important than the shortage of water.
Regulations to protect smelt from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta water pumps have created a California water shortage, which is particularly acute in the Valley.
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Kathmandu's residents have learned to live with much more deprivation than fuel rationing--four- to eight-hour power outages daily and an acute shortage of drinking water.
In Sirte itself the complaints are rife as its people try to get back to normal - from a lack of electricity and clean water, to a critical shortage of bank notes.
The more optimistic interpretations do not quite hold water either, especially in Chechnya, where Mr Putin unfortunately shows no shortage of decisiveness along with ill-disguised contempt for European peacemongers.
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