The quantity and quality of water sources is often a big factor in site selection.

While accounts of the progress of the tsunami came in from various points in the Pacific ( Midway reported it was covered with nine feet of water ), the Hawaiian station made its calculations and notified the military services and the police that the first big wave would arrive at Honolulu at 23:30 Greenwich time.

-- Paradise lost to the alleged water needs of Texas' big cities Thursday.

Rep. James Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water development bill passed by the Texas House of Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort Worth to cover up places like Paradise, a Wise County hamlet of 250 people.

Keller's big breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of " water "; she then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.

The Niger is called Jeliba or Joliba " great river " in Manding ; Orimiri or Orimili " great water " in Igbo ; Egerew n-Igerewen " river of rivers " in Tuareg ; Isa Ber " big river " in Songhay ; Kwara in Hausa ; and Oya in Yoruba.

In tow-in surfing ( most often, but not exclusively, associated with big wave surfing ), a motorized water vehicle, such as a personal watercraft, tows the surfer into the wave front, helping the surfer match a large wave's higher speed, which is generally a higher speed than a self-propelled surfer can obtain.

Since 1960, when the big pumps at the head of the California Aqueduct in the Delta began their operation, the outflow of fresh water into the Pacific has been reduced to a trickle leaving the fish confused as to where to go, resulting in many generations dying off because they have not been able to find their way upstream.

Adult ducks are fast fliers, but may be caught on the water by large aquatic predators including big fish such as the North American muskie and the European pike.

Galen observed that fish had multitudes of openings ( foramina ), big enough to admit gases, but too fine to give passage to water.

In 2005, a big pool of greenish water stretched most of the way across the valley floor.

Back-or butt-rests can also be used with modern fishing rods to make it easier to pull big fish off the water.

The name " Iguazu " comes from the Guarani or Tupi words " y ", meaning " water ", and " ûasú ", meaning " big ".

Gas and water pipes were first installed in the big cities ; small villages were connected only much later.

* If a wave is too big for the depth of water, it splits into two, one big and one small.

Some were even big enough to eat small tetrapods, but the land was free from dangers common in the water.

It was named for the Lake Okeechobee, which was itself named for Hitchiti words oka ( water ) and chobi ( big ).

The Sumerians claimed that their civilization had been brought, fully formed, to the city of Eridu by their god Enki or by his advisor ( or Abgallu from ab = water, gal = big, lu = man ), Adapa U-an ( the Oannes of Berossus ).

Antimony is capable of displacing hydrogen from water, when heated: 2Sb + 3H < sub > 2 </ sub > O < big >→</ big > Sb < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 3 </ sub > + 3H < sub > 2 </ sub >.

Five out of the twenty big celebrations in the native calendar were dedicated to Tlaloc and his wife Chalchiutlicue ( the one having skirt of green stones ), which symbolized waving water, floods and rivers.

We lived on a farm in Hubbard, Ohio, which had a big water pump, and I was climbing up on it.

To relieve the itch and sweat galls, the men got into the water whenever they could and since each sizable stream was generally the dividing line between the armies the pickets declared a private truce while the men went swimming.

He's crazy about water skiing and swimming and this vigorous exercise in conjunction with the added food supplements packed pounds of solid muscle on his skinny frame.

Henri has always had shapely legs from swimming and water skiing and really doesn't have to work them very much.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

Puhvel supported the “ Hand and the Child ” theory through such motifs as “ the more powerful giant mother, the mysterious light in the cave, the melting of the sword in blood, the phenomenon of battle rage, swimming prowess, combat with water monsters, underwater adventures, and the bear-hug style of wrestling .”

They are known for their alarm signal: when startled or frightened, a swimming beaver will rapidly dive while forcefully slapping the water with its broad tail, audible over great distances above and below water.

The water in the inner harbour is clean and safe for swimming.

In general, pelagic species must keep swimming to keep oxygenated water moving through their gills whilst demersal species can actively pump water in through their spiracles and out through their gills.

Caltech has athletic teams in baseball, men's and women's basketball, cross country, fencing, men's soccer, swimming and diving, men's and women's tennis, track and field, women's volleyball, and men's and women's water polo.

* Cyan colored tiles are often used to pave swimming pools to make the water within them seem more intensely colored, and therefore more inviting.

In this test rats learn to escape from a pool by swimming toward a platform submerged just below the surface of the water.

The global governing body of diving is FINA, which also governs swimming, synchronized swimming, water polo and open water swimming.

Entering water from a height is an enjoyable leisure activity, as is underwater swimming.

Filters cleanse water to various extents for irrigation, drinking water, aquariums, and swimming pools

Alternatively, in engineering applications, such as swimming pool water treatment plants, they may be cleaned by backwashing.

The Emperor survived by swimming the Ganges using an air filled " water skin ," and quietly returned to Agra.

And when this was gone, he hadn't even a little bitter tablet to purify other water if he were to discover some stagnant jungle pool.

There might have been a pool of cool water behind any of these tree-clumps: only -- there was not.

We tumbled to a stop in Deacon Gordon's cow hole, a low-lying bit of pasture with a muddy pool of water in its middle.

I didn't want to touch him and I hoped Ma would do it but she kept looking at the kid's clothes piled on the floor and the pool of water by them and didn't make any move to.

If your pool is located on or near sloping ground, it may have natural drainage which is certainly more desirable than to be faced with the annual expense and labor of first pumping out the water and then scooping out all the debris.

He went through a gate to stand at the edge of the water and gazed at the two thin falls which dropped from large spigots high at the back of the pool.

When the eggs hatch, he transports the tadpoles on his back, stuck there by a mucous secretion, to a temporary pool where he dips himself into the water and the tadpoles drop off.

In the new Exodus, God will " make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water " ( Isa 41: 18 ).

It is believed to remain today as the sacred pool at Mosques, or as the holy water font in Catholic or Eastern Orthodox churches.

A series of Kelvin waves — relatively warm subsurface waves of water a few centimetres high and hundreds of kilometres wide — cross the Pacific along the equator and create a pool of warm water near South America, where ocean temperatures are normally cold due to upwelling.

Equatorial winds gather warm water pool toward west.

Warm water pool approaches South American coast.

Sadamasa Arikawa ( center ) gives instructions to Godzilla ( Haruo Nakajima ), and Ebirah ( Hiroshi Sekita ) during filming in the Toho water pool.

* Gelatin is used by synchronized swimmers to hold their hair in place during their routines as it will not dissolve in the cold water of the pool.

In Svich's play, Ophelia is resurrected and rises from a pool of water, after her death in Hamlet.

In this mode the water in the pool absorbs the radiation.

An incident in Decatur, Georgia where water soluble caesium-137 leaked into the source storage pool requiring NRC intervention has led to near elimination of this radioisotope ; it has been replaced by the more costly, non-water soluble cobalt-60.

However, according to VH1's Behind the Music, Moon broke his tooth diving into the pool, which was empty of water at the time.