Water Crisis After Blowout; Taps Off As Hawera Reservoirs Run Low
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By WOODD, Richard  HAWERA and its surrounding communities are on emergency water supplies after a major blowout in the supply line from the Kapuni Stream intake.
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By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun  Jun. 7--Grappling with an ever-tightening water supply, the growing town of Mount Airy has given up on tapping nearby rivers in favor of a renewed search for wells that can produce enough water so that homes already approved there can be built.
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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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By Kevin McKenzie mckenzie@yourappealcom  The driest spring on record may soon take its toll on lawns and has already extinguished open burning in Munford and Atoka.  The city of Munford is asking its water customers in Munford and Atoka to conserve water.
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By Zheng Lifei in Wuxi and Zhao Huanxin in Beijing  The worst of the Wuxi water crisis appears to be over, authorities said Friday night.
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By Murray Kelso  Yet another hapless driver has been caught out by rising tides at Holy Island causeway - less than a week after shock signs were put up to stop it happening.
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Dramatic flooding replaced relentless drought in parts of eastern Australia Thursday, as Prime Minister John Howard expressed hopes that the country&#39;s worst drought in a century may be coming to an end.
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Water release eases drinking water shortages in SW China city    WUHAN, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Three hydropower dams on a major tributary of the Yangtze River have been ordered to discharge water to help drought-stricken residents in southwest China's Chongqing municipality.
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A clear-up operation is under way after severe flooding hits a County Antrim village.
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The dam's governing authority is getting ready to decide what to do if there's not enough water for the future.Photos: Losing water at Hoover Dam
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Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited the scene of Britain&#39;s worst flooding in 60 years Monday as thousands of people remained cut off, many without access to clean water or electricity.
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Thousands of people in southwest  England had electricity and water supplies cut on Monday after  torrential rain deluged whole towns with water in some of the  worst flooding for more than 50 years.
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M1 closed as firefighters trying to drain Yorkshire reservoir less than a mile from motorway and near power station.
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By Beck Eleven  Scarce Canterbury water is under threat after a decision to allow applications in a hotly disputed irrigation zone.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald  Mar. 7--With Lake Okeechobee rapidly receding and no rain on the radar, regional water managers said Tuesday they were being forced to install pumps to keep water flowing -- to farms for now and possibly to South Florida's suburbs in the near future.
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An intense rainfall has forced evacuations, threatened water supplies and caused expensive flood damage in parts of Britain, which struggled to recover Sunday.
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An outbreak of blue algae in a Chinese reservoir has left nearly 25,000 people without water and 100,000 others with reduced supplies, state media said on Wednesday of the latest in a series of water pollution scares.