Well, the oncoming water crisis is going to make water shortage, cleanliness and access regular headlines.
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The water shortage comes just months after hundreds of properties were flooded in Cumbria following severe storms.
This phenomenon can best be understood by thinking about what would happen if there were a water shortage.
Most offices, businesses like bars and restaurants, and playgrounds were closed because of the water shortage, reports say.
The union alleges that problems with the introduction of a new computer system have helped exacerbate the water shortage.
Maharashtra faces a severe water shortage after erratic monsoon rains last year.
The worst water shortage in more than a century has hit the country's southwest, in Guizhou and Sichuan provinces in addition to Yunnan and Guangxi.
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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During a water shortage that Venezuela suffered in 2009, he took to the airwaves to encourage Venezuelans to take showers that lasted only three minutes.
What would happen if people believed there was a water shortage?
These demographic trends, combined with the water shortage, are causing worry.
The protesters from the nearby community of Mareniyoc blame the mining company for a worsening water shortage and demand the firm supply them with drinking water.
The Water Resources (Scotland) Bill includes plans to extend Scottish Water's functions, to enable water shortage orders to be made and to protect the public sewerage network from harm.
Beijing has about 100 cubic meters of water available per person, well below the U.N. standard of 1, 000 cubic meters per person, a threshold used to measure chronic water shortage.
More information on the water shortage is available from the NI Water website, or telephone hot line on 08457 440088, on Ceefax page 169 and BBC News Online.
At home I remember the cyclists, one of them in their eighties, who I met on a very windy Saturday morning riding around a twenty mile course in New Longton to help people living in the developing world overcome their water shortage.
"It's really a struggle to manage those evacuation centres, there's a shortage of water and a shortage of food, " he said.
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.
China's efforts have been encouraged by an increasingly desperate shortage of water in the north.
There, the shortage of water mattered far more to most voters than the latest call-centre.
He has applied far more money and know-how to issues far less important than the shortage of water.
China has a different sort of problem: a shortage of water, of which millions of gallons can be required to frack a single well.
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Yemen is the poorest country in the Middle East, with a severe shortage of water and rising levels of malnutrition among its population of about 25 million.
Whatever power structure emerges, Yemen's next leaders will face daunting tasks as they inherit a state where oil revenues have declined and the economy is in ruins, where poverty is endemic and a young and rapidly growing population faces a chronic shortage of water.
Kentucky is said to have more miles of navigable water than any other state in the lower 48, so there is certainly no shortage of adventure opportunities for water enthusiasts.
The shortage of fresh water supplies is a danger to human health and an impediment to economic progress.
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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.
Yet there is a shortage of safe water for drinking and sanitation in many places, not least in the cities to which so many people are now flocking.
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.
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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