The widespread adoption of water mills on a scale never seen in Roman times led not only to a wider range of uses for water power, but an increase in other forms of mechanisation.
Now, rural regeneration agency Cadwyn Clwyd has launched a project to revive small-scale hydro-electric power production in rural Denbighshire, launching feasibility studies for using water power on the Dee at Llangollen, and on the Alyn at Llandegla and Loggerheads.
As well as the more well known mills using water wheels, such as the one that stands as an ornamental feature at Llangollen restaurant, the Corn Mill, and the historic Rossett Mill, there are clues that water power has been harnessed elsewhere.
Technical advances that helped self-sufficient farming communities to be more productive became more widely adopted across Europe and this led to the development of the horse-collar, allowing more efficient haulage and plowing, the horse shoe, the mouldboard plough, allowing the cultivation of heavier northern European soils and a widespread adoption of water power in the form of water mills and tidal mills.
Mr Ashraf denies accepting bribes when approving power generation projects as minister for water and power in 2010.
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The former requires a greater amount of water for power generation while the latter still needs water but for washing solar panels periodically.
"There is almost no regulation concerning water or power use, no minimum standards for water-consuming appliances ... and very few energy requirements for buildings, " he laments.
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Mr Faisal had been helping lead the investigation into alleged bribes paid by power firms when Mr Ashraf was minister for water and power in 2010.
Areas of the north San Fernando Valley experienced outages as tree branches tangled with power lines in at least two areas, said Michelle Vargas, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
Hospitals in Iraq are in desperate need of basic medical supplies, clean water, power and medicine.
"Now we don't have any drinking water or power, " Longquan villager Yang Yiyun, 58, told The Associated Press.
The Uber NYC office is currently closed and some of our team members are without water and power.
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We need to invest in basic infrastructure, like water, power, roads and airports.
Many Oregon communities will be left without water, power, heat and telephone service.
Four utility companies have revealed a multi-billion pound investment in water and power networks across Yorkshire and the North East.
Use the latest technologies like wind and solar for water and power.
Suez, a French water and power company, took over the 49.9% of Electrabel, a Belgian electricity company, it did not already own.
Stick with AA-rated, general obligation bonds, or bonds that are backed by services that are crucial to the municipality like water or power bonds.
NWFP, now minister of water and power in the federal government.
There are Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) bonds.
Garcetti's commercials labeled Greuel "DWP's mayor, " a reference to the Department of Water and Power, whose workers financed ads to help install her at City Hall.
FuelCell Energy also installed a 1MW unit at California State University, Northridge, in 2007 in partnership with Southern California Gas Company and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
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After all, if five days with no water, power, or heat sounds better to you than your day job, it might be time to seriously examine what you do for a living.
Al-Tunisi's group is also planning the water, power, logistics and safety backups for an industrial park adjacent to the plant, where manufacturers will be lured in to transform raw plastics into the likes of PVC pipe, injection-molded automotive parts, packaging and carpets.
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) agreed to purchase all of the electricity generated by the K Road Moapa Solar plant, a 250-megawatt project slated to be built on the Moapa River Paiute Reservation, located northeast of Las Vegas.
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The rebuilding effort also represented a chance to create infrastructure improvements that would have helped the economy directly, such as investments in transportation, water and power systems, according to Arthur Levner-Lam, director of the hazard center at the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
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