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• Water Meters

  
  UrbanWorkbench — Authority: 413
  Where I grew up, water meters were a fact of life. I remember sitting under the Liquidambar tree in the front yard playing in the dirt listening to the tick-tick-tick of the water meter down by the front fence. My parents had paid for water in this way since before I was born. Despite this fact, and the knowledge ...
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• Peter Garrett rejects Traveston Dam

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 574
  Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett has declined to give Anna Bligh’s Traveston Dam the tick of approval. Bligh inherited this project from Peter Beattie, and I, and a lot of others, always thought its conception in the first place had been as a political wedge. It had a lot more to do with Beattie’s ...
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• There are materials that have more than you

  
  Atomsantics.com — Authority: 161
  There are materials that have more natural ways to relieve asthma than you ever imagined. It’s tough enough dealing with the pollen, dust, and other natural substances that push our allergy buttons. Add to that the fact that the world around us is becoming more polluted, our water supply is being loaded with more ...
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• South Africa, Cape Town: objections raised against ‘water cuts’ probe

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 126
  Mayor Dan Plato and Western Cape premier Helen Zille both object to a planned government investigation into water cuts in Cape Town. The Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Sicelo Shiceka, set up a task team in October 2009 to investigate alleged water cuts after he visited Mitchells Plain and ...
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• How to Install a Kitchen Sink

  
  Handy Man Fix Home Repair — Authority: 476
  If youre sick and tired of your old kitchen sink, replacing it with a new one is not all that difficult. If youre working with an entirely new surface, the steps for installation will be the same as provided below, but you will need to add the steps of measuring the sink and cutting in a new hole in your countertop. ...
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• Getting China Clean Water

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 643
  China is the largest importer of soybeans and has been since 2000. China was once the largest exporter of soybeans, but flipped to a net importer in 1995. It may well be impossible for China to meet its demands for soybeans by producing more of its own. Passport Capital, an astute hedge fund, estimates that in order ...
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• thumping or knocking pipes?

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 158
  We have some noisy pipes in our house. We hear it/them when we turn off the water to one of the two showers or flush one of the two toilets. I think we sometimes hear them when we turn off the fausets at one of the bathroom sinks but now that I think about it, [...]
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• Indonesia: WASH concerns a month after Sumatra quake

  
  WASH news Asia & Pacific — Authority: 130
  Thousands of survivors of an earthquake that devastated Indonesia’s West Sumatra Province are still grappling with a lack of clean water and adequate sanitation more than a month after the disaster, relief workers say. Aid agencies are delivering clean water to survivors by truck, but it is insufficient unless ...
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• Ghana: Ghana Water Company under fire

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 126
  The Ghana Water Company Limited (GWCL) is under fire from both the allAfrica.com”>government and anti-privatisation activists for poor service delivery and corruption. In the wake of this criticism, Aqua Vitens Rand Limited (AVRL), the private operator which supports GWCL since 2006 as part of a World ...
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• Narendra Modi reshuffles Gujarat administration

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Gandhinagar, Nov 8 (IANS) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi reshuffled the top brass of the state administration, transferring 80 bureaucrats and 19 police officers in one sweep late Saturday.The transfers came within a day of chief minister resuming office Friday.Among those transferred were 36 officers of the ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  3 days ago

• What does “Rough-in” mean?

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 158
  My clawfoot tub supply leans refer to the term “rough in” in the installation instructions. Under the specifications, it says “Rough in 2″ behind waste and overflow.” The installations instructions say “Rough In 1/2″ IPS Female fitting in the floor.”Google says that it means to do the part of the work ...
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• Badal asks centre for additional power for Punjab

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Chandigarh, Nov 7 (IANS) Faced with power shortage in the state, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Saturday urged the central government to allot at least 250 MW of additional power to Punjab during the Rabi (winter) season, officials said.Badal Saturday wrote a letter to Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde and ...
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• Streaming in from the blogosphere

  
  L.A. Creek Freak — Authority: 415
  A couple of updates from the blogosphere: Meredith McKenzie posts an update at ArroyoLover from two meetings pertinent to the Arroyo Seco:  news of Congressional funding for the Army Corps feasibility study and a report on the Station Fire damage within the Arroyo.  The Army Corps study follows up on several ...
  4 days ago

• Swaziland: more boreholes, no water

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 126
  In Swaziland over 3,000 boreholes have been drilled in the country since 1986, but over 40 per cent of the population have no access clean water and about 90 percent of the community water projects are not functioning. Many boreholes have broken down and the communities, who were supposed to maintain them, lack the ...
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• Kenya: water ministry has lost millions

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 126
  The Water ministry may have lost millions of shillings through unexplained payments to water drilling contractors. The ministry is hard put to explain the debts, which now exceed Sh930 million [US$ 13 million] and is suspected to have been lost at the National Water and Pipeline Corporation. In a report obtained ...
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• Kenya: Coast water firms to be amalgamated to two

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 126
  Water and Irrigation Minister, Charity Ngilu. Photo: Business Daily Are women less corrupt than men? Kenya’s water minister Charity Ngilu seems to think so.  In the controversy surrounding the Mombasa Water and Sewerage Company, she said she would only approve a new board “if it was gender balanced and that the ...
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• Zimababwe: water wars hit rural Zimbabwe

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 126
  When water experts warned at the turn of the millennium that soon wars will be fought not over oil anymore but over water, little did Zimbabweans know that they would be some of the first people affected by this dire prediction. There is increasing competition for water due to a combination of numerous environmental ...
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• Mozambique: remote villages out of sight, out of mind?

  
  WASH news Africa — Authority: 126
  Mcondece village in northwest Mozambique has a population of around 400; its original inhabitants moved here many generations in search of fertile land. It is one of several settlements in the region which lacks a borehole or water pump, and therefore has no access to clean and safe drinking water. “The major ...
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• Hot water supply- change from 3/4 to 1/2?

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 158
  We have hot water supplied from a coil in our boiler and it has to travel 50 or so feet through 3/4 copper to reach taps.The outside supply line is plastic with a shallow well pump set at 30/50 and a pressure increaser that ups peak pressure to 90.My elderly father complains about the time [...]
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