At Exeter, Network Rail is using a water-filled tube to act as a dam to protect the main railway line between London Paddington and Penzance from flooding.
It was a teaspoon of water in a test tube, not a mass of silicon, metal and plastic.
Though a great vote-grabber, the policy encourages farmers to pump water up from their tube-wells both day and night.
His device will reportedly stream damp air containing microscopic water particles through a tube, while a laser diode beams light through the vessel onto a sensor located on the opposite side.
No custom isotopes and lead syringes here, and squeamish readers can skip this part: In completely medieval fashion, a nasogastric tube is inserted through the nose, while the patient (read, victim) drinks water through a straw to ensure that the tube does not wind up in a lung.
Material is taken from a donor, mixed with water, filtered and passed down a tube into the stomach.
Each of us wore a lightweight pack, with a water supply fitted to a thin plastic tube to suck on while we ran.
Mr Simplot himself, an avowed lover of skiing, duck shooting and the great outdoors, was attacked in the 1970s for his support for new coal-fired electricity plants along the Snake river and for a scheme to generate hydro-power by diverting water from another river into a vast underground tube.
TOHL, which stands for Tubing Operations for Humanitarian Logistics, has developed a simple method to deliver fresh water for emergency relief: install a really long plastic tube with a helicopter.
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Last year, federal regulators blamed heavy tube wear in the generators on a botched computer analysis that they said badly misjudged how water and steam would flow in the reactors, along with manufacturing problems.
Intensive irrigation especially from tube-wells, of which there are over a million in Punjab has depleted the water-table.
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