"We make water out of light and air," the company says.
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It is time to make water infrastructure a national priority. Sen.
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Leave it to Missy Elliott to make water aerobics look impossibly cool.
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The properties of fluid dynamics make water difficult to control or predict.
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And water releases from the Amistad Dam can make water levels rise significantly.
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Together we can make water the source of health and life -- for all.
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And we make water and waste choices daily, which often adversely impact the poor.
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And climate change is projected to make water availability, rain, and drought more variable.
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Many companies make water-resistant earbuds that are of similar quality to Galaxy Buds.
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There are many existing ways to make water safe to drink, but each has drawbacks.
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Climate change can make water scarcity worse because of declines in water quantity and quality.
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Yet the prospect of shortages in the years ahead could make water a precious commodity.
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"We need to help people understand that for every purchase they make, water is used," Guli says.
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The purifier takes up a lot of counter space and uses reverse osmosis to make water clean.
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Smith Colette ChromaPop Sunglasses for $101 ($68 off): Smith's ChromaPop lenses make water look especially clear and colorful.
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However, the LifeStraw, a portable filter designed to make water safe to drink, is new to the list.
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And aren't you basically trying to make water flow uphill by interfering with the laws of economics on that?
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To combat this, researchers at MIT have found a way to make water-repellant surfaces better shed a soaking.
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Feinstein's bill doesn't dictate volumes, but gives federal officials more flexibility in how they make water and species decisions.
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The best way to make water safer is by boiling it, which will kill disease-causing bacteria and parasites.
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Get the Light-Up Chop Sabers See Details Make water more exciting with these Star Wars ice or candy molds.
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Unlike solar panels, which require sunlight, the hydropanels can make water even with cloud cover, but sunlight increases the output.
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Higher temperatures can also make air pollution worse, make water scarce and cause crops to fail, leading to malnutrition and starvation.
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"Technology today offers unprecedented means to make water usage more efficient, but technology s not the answer to everything," he added.
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The device is also compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant, so users can tell it to make water from another room.
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A growing population means that India's water needs will only increase, even as climate change will most likely make water scarcer.
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Seres suggests a DIY alternative to bottled products or expensive ionizers, since you can make water less acidic with baking soda.
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What's for sure is that someone needs to pay to make water safe, and that they will need to do so for decades.
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Experts say the rain will not immediately make water levels rise within the cave, but it greatly increases the urgency of the operation.
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"Day Zero," the point at which the taps run dry, has been deferred until 2019, but businesses continue to make water-saving efforts.
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The awkwardness of their task — to make water policy a natural organ of the social media culture — isn't lost on either of them.
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If you can make water from thin air, a non-profit organization is willing to pay you more than a million dollars for it.
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As bottled water's sales growth flattens, the world's largest bottled-water maker is betting on new products to try to make water exciting again.
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Turning these urban springs of fresh water into tiny altars of awareness can make water access top of mind—and provide a better public service.
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"The most important thing the government was supposed to do for us was to make water available for our crop," said farmer Imtiyaz Ahmad Bhat.
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Water-gen also has big plans for Africa once it starts mass production of its devices to make water from the air later this year.
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Policies to ease that financial pressure include putting in stand-pipes shared by several households, and designing tariffs and giving rebates to make water more affordable.
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Prakash and his team have discovered how certain insects walk on water and how small traces of chemicals can make water droplets move like living creatures.
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You can use it to drink out of puddles, rivers, and other bodies of water, and it filters out anything that may make water non-potable.
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To make water levitate, it blasts opposing ultrasonic waves back and forth so that they combine into a standing wave, which has points that remain perfectly still.
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The plan to make water from sunlight is still at an early stage and similar grand designs in the past have foundered on the rocks of reality.
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Mega cities like Tokyo, Mexico City, Shanghai, Beijing and Karachi are already under water stress, and population demands will continue to make water shortage crises very real.
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There, other bacteria — the same kind as on the bottom, but employing a different metabolic reaction — use the electrons to combine oxygen and hydrogen and make water.
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Image: Ryan F. MandelbaumAs a reminder, if you're really excited about any of those purported benefits, you can make water more basic by adding baking soda to it.
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Weeklong trips to the north shore of the Dominican Republic include four days on the island with opportunities to farm, teach English or make water filters (from $974).
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The next day, I'm on a bus with Trumble and 25 other volunteers en route to a small factory to make water filters out of clay and sawdust.
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Those heavy rains, coupled with the overflowing of Houston's bayous, could make water levels surge to about 50 inches in some areas over the next few days, the National Weather Service said.
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As the future of the traditional Berber region by Mount Boutmezguida floundered, a mathematician whose family came from the area had a eureka moment gleaned from living overseas - using fog to make water.
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The bathroom is essentially a shrine to that brilliant invention, where you literally have water at your fingertips, or — just as easily — can make water disappear with a simple flip of the wrist.
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Entering a market where it competes against huge industrial units costing upwards of $25,2600, the company is launching a Kickstarter campaign to make water jet cutters accessible to creative souls, hackers and engineers everywhere.
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Canada is helping its citizens avoid the dangers of dairy products by urging them to make water their "drink of choice" in its new food guide and dietary guidelines that were released earlier this week.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indonesia is exacerbating the effects of climate change by swapping its rainforest for palm plantations in a switch that could make water more scarce and wildfires more common, scientists said on Wednesday.
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The rule's goal is to make water less corrosive and prevent the leaching of lead and copper from plumbing and drinking water distribution system components, including piping that feeds into homes and the taps from which the water flows.
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Paris itself has ended its outsourcing contracts with Veolia and Suez and in 20173 started running its own water service, setting an example for other places to either make water management public again or put pressure on their suppliers.
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Unlike all other drinking water laws in the US, which make water utilities the sole responsible party for taking care of a contaminant, the Lead and Copper Rule, created in 1991, treats lead as a shared responsibility between water utilities and consumers.
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To help manage competing demands for freshwater - whether to quench human thirst, water crops or produce electricity - the report recommended "working with nature, rather than against it" in a bid to make water use more efficient, cost-effective and healthier for people and the environment.
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Scientist think that comets might have been one of the main delivery systems for water to Earth, and by studying the outgassed hydrogen as comets approach, they can try to figure out if the objects had enough hydrogen to make water in the first place.
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At his lab at Stanford, Prakash tries to make sense of the physics of the microscopic world: He and his team have discovered the secrets of how certain insects walk on water and how small traces of chemicals can make water droplets move like living creatures.
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"We are supporting parents who want less sugar in their kids' diets by creating more drinks than ever before with less or no sugar, as well as smaller portion sizes, and by backing efforts to make water, milk or 100 percent juice the default beverages restaurants serve with children's meals," he added.
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Their efforts come as food and beverage companies are not only looking for biodegradable containers — Nestlé Waters and Danone recently announced a joint project to make water bottles from wood — but also joining in the growing effort by governments, restaurateurs and consumers to reduce waste, which contributes to the greenhouse gases enveloping the planet.
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Consecutive droughts would make water a rare resource, and greatly reduce biodiversity.
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"Making water" is using the bathroom, specifically with reference to urination. One would say, "I need to go make water." It's mostly used in New Orleans.
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Suffixes creating a transitive verb: e.g. -, which turns a static or intransitive verb or a noun into a transitive verb: cf. ' "water- tight" and ' "to make water-tight"; and ' "tallow" and ' "to put tallow on". 7\.
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Mark III containments have hydrogen igniters and hydrogen mixers which are designed to prevent the buildup of hydrogen through either pre-ignition prior to exceeding the lower explosive limit of 4%, or through recombination with Oxygen to make water.
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Local and international law, commercial interests, environmental concerns, and human rights questions make water disputes complicated to solve – combined with the sheer number of potential parties, a single dispute can leave a large list of demands to be met by courts and lawmakers.
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537x537px Initiation is the step in which a fatty acid radical is produced. The most notable initiators in living cells are reactive oxygen species (ROS), such as OH· and HOO·, which combines with a hydrogen atom to make water and a fatty acid radical.
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Deep River is quite muddy and moves very slowly, usually less than one mile per hour. Some of the river is choked with a series of log jams making navigation difficult. Best canoeing levels occur in the spring. Summer may make water levels too low for canoeing.
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In the process, it binds four protons from the inner aqueous phase to make water and in addition translocates four protons across the membrane. This enzyme helps to establish a transmembrane difference of proton electrochemical potential that the ATP synthase of mitochondria then uses to synthesize ATP.
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To make water pots of copper and brass is the hereditary business of this community. Over time the artisans refocused their business on making fancy designer showpieces of copper and brass. The primary religion of Twashta Kasar is Hindu. The community worships Kalika as a guardian deity (Palak Devta).
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Baka people use many things to make instruments. The earth to make an earth bow, the river to make water drums. Most of the instruments used by the Baka people come from the Bantu people. These instruments include the cylindrical drums, the arched harp, the harp-zither, lamellaphones, and some rattles.
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Tribonet: Rare earth oxides make water repellent surfaces that last The intrinsic hydrophobicity of rare earth oxides depends on surface orientation and oxygen vacancy levels, and is naturally more robust than coatings or surface treatments, having potential applications in condensers and catalysts that can operate at high temperatures or corrosive environments.
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These particles can be sedimentary or biological in origin and are responsible for the color of the water. Decaying plant matter, for instance, may be responsible for a yellow or brown color, while algae may cause greenish water. In very shallow water bodies, iron oxides make water reddish brown. Biological particles include algae and detritus.
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ZrCl4 is the most common precursor for chemical vapor deposition of zirconium dioxide and zirconium diboride. In organic synthesis zirconium tetrachloride is used as a weak Lewis acid for the Friedel-Crafts reaction, the Diels-Alder reaction and intramolecular cyclisation reactions. It is also used to make water-repellent treatment of textiles and other fibrous materials.
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The electron transport chain pulls H+ ions through the chain. From the electron transport chain, the released hydrogen ions make ADP for an end result of 32 ATP. O2 provides most of the energy for the process and combines with protons and the electrons to make water. Lastly, ATP leaves through the ATP channel and out of the mitochondria.
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Borax alone does not have a high affinity for the hardness cations, although it has been used for water- softening. Its chemical equation for water-softening is given below: : Ca + NaBO → Ca BO↓ + 2 Na : Mg + NaBO → Mg BO↓ + 2 Na The sodium ions introduced do not make water ‘hard’. This method is suitable for removing both temporary and permanent types of hardness.
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According to Blombery & Rodd [1982] people eat the unexpanded leaves of apical buds in some regions. Fallen fruits are fed to pigs, and palm trunks are often used in construction, frequently hollowed out to make water pipes or aqueducts for irrigation. In 1920s Argentina it was cultivated as a crop. The young buds are consumed as vegetables, pickled or preserved in oil.
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At 45 µg/dL, chelation therapy is considered. Among the many ways lead can enter a modern American's bloodstream is through lead plumbing. Acidic water makes it easier for the lead found in pipes, leaded solder, and brass faucets to dissolve and to enter a home's drinking water. Therefore, public water treatment systems are legally required to use control measures to make water less acidic.
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That gives new opportunities to make water-soluble derivatives [5]. These hexacyclic CPT become more active when electron-withdrawing groups are put in position 11 and methyl or amino groups at 10. Exatecan is an example of hexacyclic CPT that has a 6 membered ring over position 7 and 9, and is 10-methyl, 11-fluoro substituted [4]. It is water-soluble and more potent than topotecan.
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She quickly tells Blue she is on a mission to rescue Kaminari, and takes Blue to the basement where Kaminari was. It turns out the drought was the result of the Silver Company holding Kaminari prisoner and forcing him to make water for them to sell. With Kaminari free, he proceeds to make up for lost time and produces rain. Unfortunately, he goes overboard and the manga ends with the land being completely flooded.
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In the U.S., the Clean Water Act of 1972 mandated elimination of the discharge of untreated waste from municipal and industrial sources to make water safe for fishing and recreation. The US federal government provided billions of dollars in grants for building sewage treatment plants around the country. Modern treatment plants, usually using oxidation and/or chlorination in addition to primary and secondary treatment, were required to meet certain standards.33 Usc 1251 seq.
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Simple supply and demand Water is not a homogeneous commodity for several reasons which include sensitivity to location, time of use, form of the water, and administrative responses. The use of groundwater banking can make water a more homogenous commodity. This can create a market value which will enhance private investment increasing the benefits. It will also align marginal benefit with marginal cost causing the market to come to an economically-efficient level.
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In 2006, ACWF transferred the coordination of the event to the Water Environment Federation (WEF) and the International Water Association (IWA). The collective goal was to expand participation to one million people in 100 countries by 2012. In January 2015 the management of World Water Monitoring Day was transferred to EarthEcho International. 2008 saw students from IndonesiaStudents take part in water monitoring, The Jakarta Post, November, 2008 to ArkansasEnvironmental concerns make water protection necessary, The Cabin.
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The drawback to using water is the short length of time it can hold off the voltage, typically in the microsecond to ten microsecond (μs) range. Deionized water is relatively inexpensive and is environmentally safe. These characteristics, along with the high dielectric constant, make water an excellent choice for building large capacitors. If a way can be found to reliably increase the hold off time for a given field strength, then there will be more applications for water capacitors.
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Steven Armes Using polymerisation techniques such as reversible addition−fragmentation chain-transfer polymerization (RAFT) and atom-transfer radical-polymerization (ATRP) his laboratory synthesises a wide range of polymers. His research focuses on the synthesis and application of polymers – long-chain molecules formed from many repeating units known as monomers. In particular, Steven's research group has developed new ways to make water-soluble or water-dispersible polymers based on methacrylic monomers. A powerful approach is to use polymerisation-induced self-assembly (PISA).
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In a direct elimination, a player uses a fake weapon to touch their target. Darts made by such companies as NERF or Buzzbee are frequently used for ranged eliminations The most common ranged weapons are water pistols, NERF-type weapons, and rubber band guns. Other weapons include tennis balls, balled-up socks, blue pens, or rubber bands fired by hand. Some rule sets simply make "water" a weapon, whether splashed with bare hands, conveyed by water balloon, or fired from a water gun.
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In developed countries, tariffs are usually the same for different categories of users and for different levels of consumption. In developing countries, the situation is often characterized by cross-subsidies with the intent to make water more affordable for residential low-volume users that are assumed to be poor. For example, industrial and commercial users are often charged higher tariffs than public or residential users. Also, metered users are often charged higher tariffs for higher levels of consumption (increasing-block tariffs).
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Only 46% of the urban population has access to safe water, and in 2012 only 55% of people in urban areas had "improved sanitation", which consisted of using a latrine. Natural disasters make water sanitation even worse, as latrines and channels on the side of the road often overflow with large amounts of rain. A 2012 study after hurricane season found that less than 10% of households were drinking treated water a week after a storm.Kolbe, A., Puccio, M., & Muggah, R. (2012, December).
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There measures will not only conserve biota, but also render more effective the natural water cycle flushing and transport that make water systems more healthy for humans. A range of local, low-tech solutions are being pursued by a number of companies. These efforts center around the use of solar power to distill water at temperatures slightly beneath that at which water boils. By developing the capability to purify any available water source, local business models could be built around the new technologies, accelerating their uptake.
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During WW2 he assisted in a national survey of seaweed resources and researched algae used to make water- soluble silk for parachutes to drop mines at sea. He also worked on pest control for Pest Control Ltd at Harston. In 1945 he was appointed Assistant Lecturer, then Lecturer, and then Reader in Botany at University College, London (until 1960). He was then made Professor of Botany at Westfield College, London (1960–1971) and then Professor of Marine Biology, University College of North Wales (1971–1985).
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With coal mining, waste materials are piled at the surface of the mine, creating aboveground runoff that pollutes and alters the flow of regional streams. As rain percolates through waste piles, soluble components are dissolved in the runoff and cause elevated total dissolved solids (TDS) levels in local water bodies. Sulfates, calcium, carbonates and bicarbonates – the typical runoff products of coalmine waste materials – make water unusable for industry or agriculture and undrinkable for humans. Acid mine wastewater can drain into groundwater, causing significant contamination.
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Right ventricle (on left side) Micrograph showing arteries in pulmonary hypertensive with marked thickening of the walls. The pathogenesis of pulmonary arterial hypertension (WHO Group I) involves the narrowing of blood vessels connected to and within the lungs. This makes it harder for the heart to pump blood through the lungs, as it is much harder to make water flow through a narrow pipe as opposed to a wide one. Over time, the affected blood vessels become stiffer and thicker, in a process known as fibrosis.
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Oasis Day Spa was founded in 1998 by Bruce Schoenberg. Bruce spent over twenty years in the event marketing and trade show industry. When starting the business, Bruce noticed that many spas were only offering massage and skin care services. However, practice of spa-going dates back thousands of years to when people would visit “the waters” for healing.“A Brief History of Spa” SpaFinder Wellness. Bruce wanted Oasis to be a true “spa,” and thus decided to make water-based treatments a focal point of his business.
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Lead gooseneck connected to a steel pipe Lead service line connected to residential plumbing Lead had been associated with plumbing since the ancient times. The chemical symbol of lead (Pb) was derived from the Latin word plumbum which means waterworks or plumbing as lead was used to make water pipes. In modern times, lead was still widely used in water distribution systems and plumbing hardware before the early 20th century, including lead pipes, leaded solder and leaded alloys. One part of the systems is the connections between the water mains and the water user locations.
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At other times, prolonged droughts in the area could make water scarce and difficult to find. The most feared section of the journey was the crossing of the Jornada del Muerto beyond El Paso del Norte: nearly of expansive, barren desert without any water sources to hydrate the men and beasts. Beyond the sustenance needs, the greatest danger to the caravan was that of local assaults. Groups of bandits roamed throughout the territory and threatened the caravan from the current state of Mexico to the state of Querétaro, seeking articles of value.
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" In an online interview, Mustehsan stated that she had donated all of her earnings of 2016 to make water-wells in the Thar desert of Sindh. Mustehsan is planning a distant education program for children in rural Pakistan along with a polio campaign. In a chat show, she said, "I plan introducing distant education plans for children in rural areas where there are no schools or a learning environment. We'll introduce learning videos which, along with projectors, would be provided to the mosques in different areas to enable children to learn.
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A peak in , accompanied by fluctuations in other isotope concentrations, is often associated with mass extinctions. Some workers have attempted to explain this event in terms of climate or sea level change – perhaps arising due to a build-up of glaciers; however, such factors alone do not appear to be sufficient to explain the events. An alternative hypothesis is that changes in ocean mixing were responsible. An increase in density is required to make water downwell; the cause of this densification may have changed from hypersalinity (due to ice formation and evaporation) to temperature (due to water cooling).
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Water ionizers are often marketed on the basis of health claims which are normally focused on their putative ability to make water more alkaline. A wide variety of benefits have been claimed, including the ability to slow aging, prevent disease, offer protection from nuclear fallout, give the body more energy, and offset the effects of acidic foods. There is no empirical evidence to support these claims, nor the claims that drinking ionized water will have a noticeable effect on the body. Drinking ionized water or alkaline water does not alter the body's pH due to acid-base homeostasis.
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Hospitality was limited, for any legitimate guests at dinner were to pay a sum set by the warden "as the dearth or plenty of victuals then requires". Tranquillity was also important, for there was to be no noise in minor canons' residences after 9 pm. Sanitation was a constant concern, with a ha’penny fine for any minor canon who did "cast filth . . . [or] make water within the gates except it be in the place appointed for that purpose". These statutes of 1396 were confirmed by successive monarchs, as by Henry VII in 1487 and Elizabeth I in 1566.
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Byers's death received much publicity and it heightened awareness of the dangers of radioactive "cures". The Federal Trade Commission issued an order against Bailey's business to "cease and desist from various representations theretofore made by them as to the therapeutic value of Radithor and from representing that the product Radithor is harmless". He later founded the "Radium Institute" in New York and marketed a radioactive belt-clip, a radioactive paperweight, and a mechanism which purported to make water radioactive. After exhuming Byers's body in 1965, MIT physicist Robley Evans estimated Byers' total radium intake as about 1000 μCi.
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Caesium-137 is not widely used for industrial radiography because it is hard to obtain a very high specific activity material with a well defined (and small shape) as caesium from used nuclear fuel contains stable cesium and also long lived Cs-135. Also the higher specific activity caesium sources tend to be made from caesium chloride, as a result if a radiography source was damaged it would increase the spread of the contamination. It is possible to make water insoluble caesium sources but their specific activity will be much lower. A large emitting volume will harm the image quality in radiography.
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Indeed, the XUV stripping of a very thick hydrogen and helium primary atmosphere might actually be required for habitability. The high levels of XUV would also be expected to make water retention on planet d less likely than predicted by Bolmont et al., though even on highly irradiated planets it might remain in cold traps at the poles or on the night sides of tidally locked planets. If a dense atmosphere like Earth's, with a protective ozone layer, exists on planets in the habitable zone of TRAPPIST-1, UV surface environments would be similar to present-day Earth.
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At one point he engages in drug smuggling from his new base in Star City, where he is opposed by a returning Green Arrow and Aquaman. In a later confrontation, Aquaman, sporting the Lady of the Lake's Healing Hand, reverses Neron's alterations to Black Manta and rewires Manta's afflicted brain, making him normal for the first time in his life. Unfortunately, Manta remains a violent criminal, lulling Aquaman into a false sense of partnership and almost killing the Sea King in the process. In later events, Black Manta is used as a genetic manipulation test subject to make water breathers.
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The Kansas City District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manages Wilson Dam, Wilson Lake, and of land surrounding the reservoir for the purposes of flood control, recreation, fish and wildlife management, and downstream water quality improvement. Corps staff maintain the dam and outlet works, conduct dam safety inspections, and make water release changes to the Saline River outflow in accordance with the Kansas City Water District Control Section. They also provide visitor assistance, conduct park maintenance and patrolling, and perform wildlife food plot management. Operations such as trash removal, fee collection, and facility cleaning are outsourced to private contractors.
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Make-up waters from ground water supplies (such as wells) are usually higher in minerals, and tend to be scaling (deposit minerals). Increasing the amount of minerals present in the water by cycling can make water less aggressive to piping; however, excessive levels of minerals can cause scaling problems. Relationship between cycles of concentration and flow rates in a cooling tower As the cycles of concentration increase, the water may not be able to hold the minerals in solution. When the solubility of these minerals have been exceeded they can precipitate out as mineral solids and cause fouling and heat exchange problems in the cooling tower or the heat exchangers.
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Originally, titleholders were winners and contestants of rival pageants Miss Commonwealth Nigeria (Vanessa Ibene Ekeke) and Miss Nigeria (Ewemade Ogbebor), until Miss Earth Nigeria became a pageant in its own right in 2004. The winner is expected to work in collaboration with environmentalist and state parastatals on how to make water safe, check erosion, pollution among others.Ibinabo Fiberesima searches for Miss Earth Nigeria 2013 The pageant also conducts road shows to educate people on the three R's (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle).Green pageants: Beauty and the Earth Nigeria produced its first Miss Earth finalist when Susan Modupe Garland entered in the top 10 in 2019.
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The residents that lived in the region during the Byzantine and Roman periods developed a system to bring water from vast, extensive terrain to the cities, towns, and villages and their buildings. The system is what we would now call a watershed. And the studies performed by the Department of Antiquities in the al-Qatraneh region reveal that they made channels to make water flow from the region of Wadi al- Hasa to the other nearby wadis and the nearby lake. The urgent need for the daily use of water and other uses has been the driver of the creation and design of these prominent water systems.
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Environmentalists, residents of Utah and California and local ranchers fear negative consequences of Coyote Springs water usage, summarized by Las Vegas investigative reporter George Knapp as "pumping water in the teeth of a drought for golf courses." Water rights issues initially interfered with Coyote Springs progress, but agreements were reached. In coverage by Bloomberg, water rights attorney Greg James stated, "You need a large amount of money and some very powerful people to make water projects happen". Bloomberg notes that Harry Reid's son Rory is an employee of Whittemore's law firm and was the vice-chairman of the Southern Nevada Water Authority from 2003 to 2008.
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David Cameron chaired another emergency meeting of COBRA, mid-morning. In a statement at 11:05, Cameron announced that plastic bullets were available to the police for use in response to the riots if necessary, and put contingency plans in place to make water cannons available at 24 hours notice. The remains of the House of Reeves shop in Croydon The leader of Hounslow Council, Councillor Jagdish Sharma, urged local residents to "continue to refrain" from taking part in the London riots that had so far not hit the London Borough of Hounslow. The Acting Scotland Yard Commissioner Tim Godwin condemned the "gratuitous" violence by the rioters.
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Clifton seen from the Rocks during a sunset. An interesting feature of Clifton's 4 beaches involves the water temperatures and annual denudation and re-deposit of the bay's sugar- white sands, although for the most part protected in the 'wind shadow' of Lion's Head mountain that stands behind Clifton (on its eastern side). The strong prevailing south-east wind of summer (October to April), being off- shore, moves the warmer top layer of water out of the bay – with the result that a compensating strong inflow of icy cold water is set up into the bay. This tends to make water temperatures in summer dip to their lowest levels – sometimes below 10 °C.
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The ancient Egyptians had ingenious systems for hoisting water up from the Nile for drinking and irrigation, but without a higher source of water it was not possible to make water flow by gravity, and no Egyptian fountains or pictures of fountains have been found. The ancient Greeks used aqueducts and gravity-powered fountains to distribute water. According to ancient historians, fountains existed in Athens, Corinth, and other ancient Greek cities in the 6th century BC as the terminating points of aqueducts which brought water from springs and rivers into the cities. In the 6th century BC, the Athenian ruler Peisistratos built the main fountain of Athens, the Enneacrounos, in the Agora, or main square.
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At the end of 2007, Dylan recorded a new version of "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" exclusively for Expo Zaragoza 2008 world fair, scheduled to open on June 8, 2008, to highlight the Expo theme of "water and sustainable development". As well as choosing local-band Amaral to record a version of the song in Spanish, Dylan's new version ended with a few spoken words about his "being proud to be a part of the mission to make water safe and clean for every human being living in this world." Patti Smith performed the song with orchestral accompaniment at the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony on December 10, 2016, to commemorate Dylan receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Lundström, H. & Hagström, E. A field study in Kenya of insolation parameters to make water drinkable in the household water treatment unit SOLVATTEN. Uppsala University, Sweden Under optimal conditions, the device can eliminate all pathogenic material in 10-litres of water within 2 hours,Jönsson, J., Wikman, A. & Wätthammar, T. (2011) Social Return on Investment, SROI, the value added for families before and after using Solvatten in the Bungoma district in Western Kenya. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala allowing for multiple batches of water to be treated in a given day. The device is typically used in situations where water resources are scarce and prone to contamination, but it has also been applied in disaster relief scenarios.
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It was able to import its coal by sea, making use of the already extensive coastal coal carrying trade. In this respect, it was well ahead of its time. Very little remains of the BTCIC. The plant was broken up and sold in 1883 and 1885. The casing of the blast furnace was used to make water tanks for the Main Line Railway, which were supported on cast-iron columns that were originally part of the blast furnace’s elevator. The company’s little locomotive was sold in 1879 and went to N.S.W.; first to the Hartley Vale Shale Mine, then the Wongawilli Colliery and finally to a blue-metal quarry at Berrima, where it was scrapped in 1942.
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Theories have decreased significantly since the early 1960s, when spacecraft began studying the planet and it became clear that its environment is extreme compared to Earth's. However, there is ongoing study as to whether life could have existed on the Venusian surface before a runaway greenhouse effect took hold, and related study as to whether a relict biosphere could persist high in the modern Venusian atmosphere. With extreme surface temperatures reaching nearly and an atmospheric pressure 90 times that of Earth, the conditions on Venus make water-based life as we know it unlikely on the surface of the planet. However, a few scientists have speculated that thermoacidophilic extremophile microorganisms might exist in the temperate, acidic upper layers of the Venusian atmosphere.
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This and another aircraft of the same type were completely mechanically constructed monoplanes, the engines of which had to be modified to efficiently operate in the climate of the country. There were nine aircraft in the fleet with a total range of which could carry up to four passengers and two crewmen. Due to the topographic characteristics of the country and the lack of airports at the time, floats were adapted for two of the Junkers aircraft to make water landings in the rivers near different towns. Using these floats, Helmuth von Krohn was able to perform the first inland flight over Colombia on 20 October 1920, following the course of the Magdalena River; the flight took eight hours and required four emergency landings in the water.
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A National Strategy aims to increase access to clean water in rural Vietnam, such as here in the Mekong Delta where water in canals is abundant, but not drinkable without treatment. The government aims at providing 90% of the urban population with access to safe drinking water and at collecting and treating 100% of the urban wastewater by 2020. The latter goal had been set for 2010 as part of the Vietnam Development Goals, but only 10% of urban wastewater was treated as of 2008 according to the Ministry of Construction. Furthermore, the government aims at reducing non- revenue water to 15% by 2020, to provide 120–-150 liters of water per capita per day, and to make water companies financially self-sustaining by 2025.
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The protests only grew and the entire world began to watch forcing Bechtel to leave its contract and return SEMAPA to the public. Bechtel as well tried to sue the Bolivian government for $50 million but it withdrew its claim shortly after. This event was soon labeled as the Water Wars and became a driving force for anti-globalization projects such as the UN's decision to make water sanitation a human right and privatization of water as unethical in 2010. Additionally, the Water Wars would help spark the next revolt against the privatization of natural gases in 2003 to 2005 that would lead to the removal of two presidents, Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada and Carlos Mesa, and the rise of President Evo Morales in 2006.
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Speculation on the possibility of life on Venus's surface decreased significantly after the early 1960s, when it became clear that the conditions are extreme compared to those on Earth. Venus's extreme temperature and atmospheric pressure make water- based life as currently known unlikely. Some scientists have speculated that thermoacidophilic extremophile microorganisms might exist in the cooler, acidic upper layers of the Venusian atmosphere. Such speculations go back to 1967, when Carl Sagan and Harold J. Morowitz suggested in a Nature article that tiny objects detected in Venus's clouds might be organisms similar to Earth's bacteria (which are of approximately the same size): :While the surface conditions of Venus make the hypothesis of life there implausible, the clouds of Venus are a different story altogether.
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Directed by Malayalam filmmaker M. A. Nishad, the story revolves around a water dispute that crops up between the people of Tamil Nadu and Kerala on account of a well, with the film taking place in 1965 when Kerala was formed as a separate state. Jayaprada revealed that her political experience of seeing people through problems of water scarcity motivated her to sign the film and play the lead role. Portraying the widow of a geologist, who wants to fulfil her husband’s desire to make water available to all, she stated the story "fell in the category of ‘meaningful cinema’" and that she was keen to be a part of such attempts. Revathy was signed to portray a collector of the Tamil Nadu village of Thirunelveli, which faces a water shortage every year.
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Documents released under the British government's 30-year rule in 2011 revealed that in the wake of the Toxteth riots in Liverpool in 1981 Howe had warned Thatcher "not to overcommit scarce resources to Liverpool", writing that "It would be even more regrettable if some of the brighter ideas for renewing economic activity were to be sown only on relatively stony ground on the banks of the Mersey. I cannot help feeling that the option of managed decline is one which we should not forget altogether. We must not expend all our limited resources in trying to make water flow uphill". Howe later stated that he had not advocated the "managed decline" policy and that he had merely been warning of the danger of concentrating excessive resources on one area of need.
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Combined with the construction of a well to make water more accessible, the population of Clarion continued to grow, and the colony as a whole started to show signs of stability. However, through the Summer and Fall, severe weather frequently challenged living and planting conditions, as well as the stamina of the colonists, which, combined with a water shortage, devastated the 1914 harvest. By 1915, the population of Clarion had decreased by almost two- thirds, and a second consecutive poor harvest during the year led to even more residents leaving in the pursuit of industrial labor opportunities in major cities such as New York and Chicago. Ultimately, a state order terminated the colony’s title on November 25, 1915. Shortly thereafter, in January 1916, the state of Utah began to auction off the colony’s land.
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It was hoped that this would preserve power for the areas that needed it most, prevent more blackouts, and make water, oil, and food more accessible as a result – the water lines were also out of service, whilst oil refineries, food production plants, and refrigeration shut down. Part of the power rationing plan was to end the workday at 2 pm. In a tweet, the National Assembly President and Interim President of Venezuela Juan Guaidó said that rationing wasn't actually happening, and suggested that power was being diverted from smaller cities in Venezuela to Caracas to give the illusion that Maduro had fixed the problem after the fourth blackout. Guaidó also said that "anti-Maduro leaders" had made deals to import power through Colombia and Brazil to temporarily solve the problem, because there wasn't enough power even to ration.
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The runaway greenhouse effect is used in astronomical circles to refer to a greenhouse effect that is so extreme that oceans boil away and render a planet uninhabitable, an irreversible climate state that happened on Venus. The IPCC Fifth Assessment Report states that "a 'runaway greenhouse effect' —analogous to Venus— appears to have virtually no chance of being induced by anthropogenic activities." Venus-like conditions on the Earth require a large long-term forcing that is unlikely to occur until the sun brightens by a few tens of percents, which will take a few billion years. While a runaway greenhouse effect on Earth is virtually impossible, there are indications that Earth could enter a moist greenhouse state that renders large parts of Earth uninhabitable if the climate forcing is large enough to make water vapour (H2O) a major atmospheric constituent.
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There is disagreement on the point. Traditional Scottish accounts dating from the 1370s state that during the battle, Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray commanded the vanguard, the left wing though nominally led by the young Walter Stewart was commanded by his cousin Douglas, Edward Bruce took the right wing, and King Robert the rearguard.Ross, David R., The Black Douglas, pp 61-83Scott, Ronald McNair, Robert the Bruce, pp 146-165 However, contemporary English accounts state that the Scottish army consisted of three units, so the idea that Douglas and Stewart commanded a unit could be a later invention or the English account is simply mistaken.Traquair, Peter Freedom's Sword Once the English army was defeated, Douglas requested the honour of pursuing the fleeing Edward and his party of knights, a task carried out with such relentless vigour that the fugitives, according to Barbour, "had not even leisure to make water".
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On New Year's Day 1900 Prins van Oranje broke her propeller shaft while steaming west of Sumatra at The current was at first S.W. then S.. later S.S.E. and E.N.E. Therefore Prins van Oranje drifted as far south as 0°13' S and as far west as 90° E. On 4 January 2 officer H. Smitt proposed to send a well equipped boat to Padang to get help. Captain Potjer reasoned that there was no reason to do so, because the ship did not make water and had provisions that would last for months (she was a freighter at the time). Nevertheless, starboard boat I was provisioned with much food, high quality fresh water, double sails etc. etc. In the afternoon of 4 January it left with H. Smitt, second engineer T. Zuidema, 3rd officer H. Harms, 3rd engineer J. Ages, midshipman C.G.H. Keipin, and sailors C. Kort and A.W. Reekers.
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