Power station saved as floodwaters recede
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Firefighters, soldiers and sailors prevent power station in Gloucestershire from being swamped.
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A pleasure boat which struck an object on the River Thames is saved from sinking by emergency crews.
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Helicopters delivered food to survivors and picked up the sick and injured on Friday as flash floods began to recede. More than 650 people were killed and nearly 400 are missing in the disaster, which was triggered by back-to-back storms.
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LONDON, July 23 -- Britain's worst flooding in decades left tens of thousands of families without water or electricity Monday night and forced thousands from their homes, including some dramatically rescued from rising waters by helicopters and boats.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald  Feb. 4--Two years after a mysterious chemical contamination shut down two-thirds of the pumps tapping Miami-Dade's largest source of drinking water, county engineers are preparing to put them back on line.
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By The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  May 31--Colorado Springs Utilities last week completed the Fountain Creek Recovery Project, which is intended to keep accidental wastewater spills from reaching the environment and downstream communities.
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Office staff returned to work at the Coffeyville Resources refinery in Coffeyville, Kansas, which was shut by severe flooding earlier this week, the company said in a press release.
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A massive floodcrest passed safely through the Three Gorges Dam on China&#39;s Yangtze River on Thursday as devastated communities upstream cleaned up from floods that killed at least 177 people and injured thousands.
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A week after a tsunami devastated the western end of Sumatra island,  markets are reopening, power and water are being restored to nearly half the city and a fuel shortage has been brought to an end.
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Utilities in the Central Plains have restored power to more than half of the 1.2 million customers who lost power during this week's ice storms, the electric companies reported Thursday morning.
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By JIM FREDA  Boaters finally got a chance to get back out on the water this past weekend as rain, wind and big swells had been the pattern the last two weeks, keeping many boats tied to the docks.
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Water levels in areas worst-hit by flooding are falling but may take three days to clear, firefighters say.
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BEIJING A flood crest passed safely through the Three Gorges Dam on China&#39;s Yangtze River on Thursday as devastated communities upstream cleaned up from floods that had killed at least 177 people and injured thousands.
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Thousands of homes could be spared flooding misery if a more sustainable approach is taken, campaigners say.
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Â· Thames and Severn rivers set to rise further Â· Battle to protect power supplies
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The stench of fuel fumes and rotting garbage wafted though soaked streets Wednesday and residents dragged out dripping bedding, carpets and clothing as flood waters receded from a disaster that has killed at least 50 people.
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REAL, Philippines  - Flood waters receded in the  northern Philippines on Friday in the wake of a typhoon, but  thousands of people remained cut off from help, hungry and at  risk of disease after a week of severe flooding.