Its subsidiary, Aker Wirth, has construction projects in Iran, including a water tunnel in Ghomroud.
He breached the Assyrian siege by digging his famous water tunnel under the city.
Even on a dry day, the MTA's 300 pumping rooms remove an estimated 13 million gallons of water from the tunnel network, just to keep the system dry enough to run.
But operations were later suspended after a rock fall in a tunnel carrying water to the facility from a reservoir.
Thames Water said the new tunnel is needed to stop increasing amounts of sewage being discharged into the Thames from the Victorian sewers.
Already in the planning stages: a 37-km tunnel to channel water from the Benus river in water-rich Pahang state to drought-stricken Selangor state, and a pipe to link the Gombak river in KL to the Wangsa Maju water treatment plant.
The Hugh L. Carey Tunnel is flooded from end to end and the Queens Midtown Tunnel also took on water and was closed.
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Forty-three million gallons of water poured into the Brooklyn Battery tunnel.
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Engineers have now pumped out the water and can now get to the tunnel beneath and renovate the tunnels.
Intensely radioactive water from reactor Unit 2 is filling a nearby tunnel faster than workers can empty it, and radioactive levels of seawater near the plant increased sixfold following an aftershock on Saturday.
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United Utilities is building a huge sewage tunnel beneath the city centre to improve drainage and water quality.
As the surge invaded this square-mile that comprises the southern tip of Manhattan and the oldest part of the island water swept through the Ground Zero construction site and it completely filled the Battery Park Tunnel.
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Murray said Thursday that if the miners survived the collapse, they could continue to live on fresh air, food and water supplied through the holes until crews can remove tons of coal and rock that clogged a collapsed tunnel.
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At certain moments the air streamed against the ship as if sucked through a tunnel with a concentrated solid force of impact that seemed to lift her clean out of the water and keep her up for an instant with only a quiver running through her from end to end.
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