That's what happens to a city more than a mile above sea level, no matter how close to the desert it might be.
Poseidon wants to build its desalination project adjacent to this power plant, a plant that cools its generators by piping in seawater from half a mile out at sea.
In the longer term, the project, named The Northern Gateway, will involve dredging a channel 14.5m deep a mile out to sea, to allow 300m long deep sea container vessels to dock at a new quayside, opening the North East up to new markets in the far east.
Previously, National Geographic Traveler included a 300-mile (483km) sea kayaking expedition along Scotland's west coast as the only UK entry in its list of 50 Tours of a Lifetime.
The Hawaiian company Kona Blue raises a type of yellowtail from eggs to harvest in 3, 000 cubic-meter cages tethered to the sea floor, one-half mile off the coast of Kona.
China claims a U-shaped swathe of the sea that extends well into what UNCLOS (UN Convention on the Law of the Sea) recognises as the 200-mile-from-shore Exclusive Economic Zones of other claimants.
The Coast Guard's efforts to come to grips with what was happening almost one mile below the surface of the sea were complicated by conflicting reports from remotely operated vehicles.
The China National project included construction of a 932-mile pipeline from Sudan to the Red Sea.
From what I've seen of both reefs, Iwould guess that the 150-mile-long Ningaloo has a greater variety of sea life.
To the north, hopes are pinned to the construction of a 12km (7.4 mile) dam between the two sections of the sea.
China's claim includes almost the entire South China Sea, well into what UNCLOS recognises as the 200-mile-from-shore Exclusive Economic Zones of other claimants.
Head to Chinook's at Salmon Bay, about a mile from Ballard Locks, for everything under the sea: Dungeness crab, prawns, oysters, mussels, calamari, clams, and of course, salmon.
The vineyard is on a quarter-square-mile of leased land 4, 300 feet above sea level, east of the Rio Grande near Truth or Consequences, a two-and-a-half-hour drive south from Albuquerque.
It is being loaded onto a huge sea-going barge for a five-day, 600-mile journey to Rosyth, where the carrier sections will be assembled.
The 1, 800km (1, 100-mile) fence is set to run from the Red Sea coast in the west to the edge of Oman in the east.
The Egyptian army has beefed up patrols of the 200-mile Sumed pipeline, which carries crude oil from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean.
By comparison, China's 36 kilometer (22 mile) Hangzhou Bay Bridge, the world's longest sea-crossing bridge, over seven times the length of the Mumbai bridge, took four years to get completed.
About half of the existing 70-mile (110km) route around the island is diverted away from the sea.
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Within a thirty mile stretch of where I am writing the rocks jutting up from the sea are green.
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The effort, called a "top kill, " involved plugging the ruptured deep-sea well by pumping heavy drilling fluid into it from the surface, nearly a mile above.
First, most of the resources in the Arctic 88% by one Chinese estimate and 95% by a Danish one will fall within the 200-mile exclusive economic zones enjoyed under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) by the five coastal countries, notably Russia.
The Big Sea Survey was launched in 2010 by Newcastle University to record flora and fauna along a 150-mile stretch of coastline from St Abbs to Saltburn.
Tricky and ever-changing conditions keep the course fraught with danger, and during the 5, 000-mile competition, an Italian racer on a competing boat fell overboard and was lost at sea.
Oil from the mile-deep well may be collecting in underwater clouds, potentially endangering a cornucopia of life from the sea floor to the surface, preliminary sampling by university researchers suggests.
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