:* Widespread casualties, water shortages, and destruction of infrastructure because of the 1992-95 civil strife

In recent decades the Cyclades islands have become popular with European and other tourists, and as a result there have been problems with erosion, pollution, and water shortages.

About 35 % of its population is unemployed and live below the poverty line, suffering from shortages of housing, clean drinking water, electricity and employment.

There are water shortages, particularly in the north.

Some areas, however, especially rural districts, still suffer from water shortages.

There were shortages of essential items ; the water and electricity supplies were systematically suspended for two or three days a week.

Ecological concerns and water shortages have increased interest in graywater recovery and treatment systems.

It rose to a height of 138 feet above the Yangtze, but environmental and technical factors left it with chronic water shortages until it was re-engineered in 1411 by Song Li of the Ming.

Most of the three billion people projected to be added worldwide by mid-century will be born in countries already experiencing water shortages.

Apart from the economic devastation, there were food shortages and outbreaks of disease due to the pollution of the water supply.

Because cotton is the world's biggest nonfood crop, and water shortages are a growing global trend, some jean companies are looking into ways to reduce the amount of water needed in their production of jeans-from field to factory.

As a result of the above mechanisms, the average adult DKA patient has a total body water shortage of about 6 liters ( or 100 mL / kg ), in addition to substantial shortages in sodium, potassium, chloride, phosphate, magnesium and calcium.

With the highest point of four metres above sea level, the threat of severe cyclones is extremely disturbing, and severe water shortages will further threaten the livelihoods of people in many islands.

* In 2006, Sichuan Province China experienced its worst drought in modern times with nearly 8 million people and over 7 million cattle facing water shortages.

many people are landless and forced to live on and cultivate flood-prone land ; limited access to potable water ; water-borne diseases prevalent ; water pollution especially of fishing areas results from the use of commercial pesticides ; ground water contaminated by naturally occurring arsenic ; intermittent water shortages because of falling water tables in the northern and central parts of the country ; soil degradation and erosion ; deforestation ; severe overpopulation

By February, all Queen Mary's other supporters had surrendered to the Regent, but Grange resolved to resist, despite water shortages within the castle.

Asian glacial melting could lead to water shortages and floods for the hundreds of millions of people who live downstream.

Every river system has been dammed causing fresh water shortages in nearby desert communities.

Ships often became becalmed in mid-ocean in this latitude, thus severely prolonging the voyage ; the resulting water shortages made it impossible for the crew to keep the horses alive, and they would throw the dead or dying animals overboard.

Crowded cities were facing problems such as high crime rates, traffic jams, severely overcrowded schools, and overtaxed public services ; the report noted that water shortages were ironic, given the of rain the region received annually.

He examined the water marks on the iron tires when the animals were finished.

Now, the next morning, they were anchored at The Elbow and the boat was riding directly over the underwater ledge where the green water turned to deepest blue and the cliff dropped straight down 600 fathoms, with the weighted line beside it ; ;

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.

Travelers entering from the desert were confounded by what must have seemed an illusion: a great garden filled with nightingales and roses, cut by canals and terraced promenades, studded with water tanks of turquoise tile in which were reflected the glistening blue curves of a hundred domes.

As warmer temperatures were encountered Ann and Harriet were introduced to the pleasures of bathing daily in salt water.

There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.

Both abolition of war and new techniques of production, particularly robot factories, greatly increase the world's wealth, a situation described in the following passage, which has the true utopian ring: `` Everything was so cheap that the necessities of life were free, provided as a public service by the community, as roads, water, street lighting and drainage had once been.

`` And Jesus, when he was baptized went up straightway out of the water: and lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him ''.

When something unexpected happened, one always asked for water if one were a woman, brandy if one were a man.

and then I was adding my own voice to the crescendo of sound, hurling more vile language than I ever thought I knew, sobbing and shouting, and aware that if I had passed water before, it was not enough, for my pants were soaking wet.

A dozen cows mooed sadly and regarded us as if we were insane, as perhaps we were at that moment, with the crazy excitement of our first encounter, the yelling and shooting still continuing up at the road, and the thirst of some of the men, which was so great that they waded into the muddy water and scooped up handfuls of it.

The dust clogged their throats, and the heat parched them, so that the women were always making ice water.

The doctor's wits had not left him, however, for all his sixty-eight years, and the wails were almost immediately lost in the sound of water rushing out from the showerhead.

At one time, to most Americans, unless they were fortunate enough to live near a body of navigable water, boats were considered the sole concern of fishermen, rich people, and the United States Navy.

But during the last several years boats were launched in areas where, a short time ago, the only water to be found was in wells and watering troughs for livestock.

In this design the anode holder is water cooled and the heat losses by conduction from the anode were determined by measuring the temperature rise of the coolant.

Over in Barre the streets had been deep in swirling water, and bridges were crumpled and gone.

Nearly twenty-five years before, Captain John Davis had noted, as he sailed near the Arctic Circle, `` a very great gulf, the water whirling and roaring, as it were the meeting of tides ''.

These 1750 cases were carted off in a one-night operation by the O'Banion men, who left in their stead the same number of barrels filled with water.

Bed slats were washed in alum water, legs of beds were placed in cups of kerosene, and all woodwork was treated liberally with corrosive sublimate, applied with a feather.

alt = Map displaying a looping line with arrows indicating that water flows eastward in the far Southern ocean, angling north east of Australia, turning sough after passing Alaska, then crossing the mid-Pacific to flow north of Australia, continuing west below Africa, then turning northwest until reaching eastern Canada, then angling east to southern Europe, then finally turning south just below Greenland and flowing down the Americas ' eastern coast, and resuming its flow eastward to complete the circle

In 1860 the Thorndon Park reservoir was opened, finally providing an alternative water source to the now turbid River Torrens.

The water system starts with rain water, processed for drinking, then washing, then plant watering, then toilet flushing, and finally black water is recycled again for more plant watering.

Culloden especially required assistance: having finally dragged his ship off the shoal at 02: 00, Troubridge found that he had lost his rudder and was taking on over of water an hour.

Many ships had only jury masts and it took a full day for the convoy to reach the mouth of the bay, finally sailing into open water on 15 August.

Osmotic power finally is another possibility at places where salt and sweet water merges ( e. g. deltas, ...)

From the interior to the outlet at the St. Lawrence River, water flows from Superior to Huron and Michigan, southward to Erie, and finally northward to Lake Ontario.

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Newton awoke in the middle of the night and finally called out to God as the ship filled with water.

Finding conditions no better there, they finally migrated north to Kuwait where they found water and consequently settled.

At the temple of Mendes, figures of Osiris were made from wheat and paste placed in a trough on the day of the murder, then water was added for several days, until finally the mixture was kneaded into a mold of Osiris and taken to the temple to be buried ( the sacred grain for these cakes were grown only in the temple fields ).

The deadlock was finally broken when the citizens of Viterbo, where the Cardinals were assembled, removed the roof from the building they were meeting in and locked them in, only allowing them bread and water.

They were finally discontinued during the 1970s because vegetation blocked waterways, particularly the fast-growing water hyacinth.

The sake is allowed to rest and mature and then usually diluted with water to lower the alcohol content from around 20 % to 15 % or so, before finally being bottled.

After begging and pleading, the hippos were finally allowed to live in the water on the conditions that they would eat grass instead of fish and would fling their dung so that it can be inspected for fish bones.

Using his trademark extreme slow motion, Viola's pieces used actors to portray the metaphorical story behind Wagner's story, seeing for example the first act as an extended ritual of purification in which the characters disrobe and wash themselves before finally plunging headlong into water together ( in Wagner's story, the two characters maintain the facade of being indifferent to each other ( necessary because Isolde is betrothed to Tristan's uncle ) before, mistakenly believing they are going to die anyway, and reveal their true feelings ).

Its name changed over the centuries from Wimares through Wimari to Wimar and finally Weimar ; it is probably derived from Old High German wih ' holy ' + mari ' standing water, swamp '.

His grandson Oscar threatens him if does not bring water for Diarmuid, but when Fionn finally returns it is too late ; Diarmuid has died.

The town was nevertheless finally conquered by Frederik Hendrik of Orange in 1629 in a typically Dutch stratagem: he diverted the rivers Dommel and Aa, created a polder by constructing a forty-kilometre dyke and then pumped out the water by mills.

The French garrison of Fort Vaux, led by a Major Raynal, finally surrendered on 7 June when the defenders had run out of water.

In Chinese cuisine, particularly tea brewing, one distinguishes five stages of boiling: " shrimp eyes, the first tiny bubbles that start to appear on the surface of the kettle water, crab eyes, the secondary, larger bubbles, then fish eyes, followed by rope of pearls, and finally raging torrent boil ".

This water will slide up in the spiral tube, until it finally pours out from the top of the tube and feeds the irrigation systems.

Bart's actions resulted in frequent beatings by Nelson and his gang, but finally ended when Bart received help from Herman, who came up with the idea of standing up to Nelson and his gang by pelting them with water balloons.