Drowning Deaths Grim Reminder of Importance of Water Safety
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By Mike Archbold, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  May 30--A forecast of hot weather this week and two cold river drowning deaths over Memorial Day weekend are a cautionary tale for swimmers and boaters.
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Three weeks after the Asian tsunami, people near and far paused to remember the dead but hundreds of bodies rotting by the sea showed how much still has to be done to make life bearable for survivors.
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BANGKOK - With the staggering numbers of dead and injured from the tsunami that struck South and Southeast Asia last weekend continuing to rise, the tragedy is quickly turning into one of the worst natural disasters in modern history.
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By CLAIRE SMITH  THREE young men drowned while paddling at a Lake District beauty spot at the weekend.   When one of the group got into difficulties, his two friends tried to help.
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By Jennifer Mooney Piedra, The Miami Herald  Sep. 13--A construction worker who fell 20 feet into a tank at a water treatment plant in Pompano Beach is being treated at the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, the Broward Sheriff's Office said.
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Â· 26Â· Official says 57 seen last week presumed drowned
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Two state divers who died while inspecting an aqueduct that supplies water to millions of people relied on recreational equipment that is considered unsafe for the conditions they faced, industry and diving experts said Thursday.
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By SAMANTHA YOUNG  SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Underwater inspections of an aqueduct that supplies water to millions in Southern California have been suspended following the deaths of two state divers, a state official said Friday.
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It is safe to say that a world without safe, abundant and easily accessible water is hard for most Americans to imagine. The same goes for life without private, relatively clean places in which to go to the toilet.
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By Michele Steinbacher, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Jun. 15--DANVERS -- A Central Illinois woman is dead after an apparent drowning at Spin Lake outside Danvers. Another woman was treated for heat exhaustion after trying to help the victim and rescuers.
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Pyres of victims who were killed by tidal waves burn on the beach at Alappad, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2004.
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A 2-year-old girl drowned after slipping from her mother's grip and falling into the raging floodwaters. A passer-by pulled a 5-year-old stuck in neck-high mud to safety. A man was swept two miles down a swollen, icy river before being rescued.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- A day after a tsunami killed at least 24,500 people in 10 countries, governments of nations along the Indian Ocean began to consider a comprehensive warning system Monday so that lives can be saved in future natural disasters.
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Move follows series of suspicious deaths.
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By Minderjeet Kaur; Heidi Foo; Regina Lee; R. Shakuntala; Adeline Lau;  KUALA LUMPUR: When the warning siren went off on Sunday night, the hearts of residents in Kampung Periuk here sank.  But there was no time to waste.
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People in flood-hit areas are urged not to panic as massive efforts begin to get drinking water to those stranded.
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Reports of four more deaths have brought to 12 the number of people who have died since the rains began.