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People in her village, Bakau Serip, were now depending on tanker trucks that dispensed "dirty, cloudy and smelly" water, she said.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
While electricity powers the centres, the water keeps the servers from frying - engineers deploy elaborate cooling systems, which consume a lot of water.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
The state has since tried to regulate how much water and electricity data centres consume.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
But the island routinely faces water shortages, and the levels are worse this year, possibly because of a historic "super" El Niño.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
In our time, we read about hypothermia killing mountain climbers, or sailors who fall into cold water.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
"It also allowed us to gain valuable experience operating a South Korean container ship in polar waters and to collect navigational data," Lee said on X.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
Officials had to rescue people in vehicles that were submerged by flood waters.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
The investigation found that more than 2,400 ships tied to fishmeal production, operating in the waters of at least 30 countries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
The U.S. currently has about a dozen Navy ships in the waters of the Middle East to enforce the blockade and carry out other missions, according to a Navy official.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
The crew decided to recover as many of the artifacts that lay beneath the waters off Antikythera as they could.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
"How are survivors in Huddersfield supposed to have confidence that our experiences will not simply be absorbed into a much bigger national picture and effectively watered down?"
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
During the brief return, Jose Luis watered the plants and grabbed his electric razor.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
My eyes watered as the camera panned over his arm-in-arm players as they shouted the line, “Think, o beloved homeland! That heaven/gave you a soldier in each son.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026
If it did pay dividends on watered stock, the public assumed it was being overcharged.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
The last overly watered lush golf course gives way to rock and scrub and desert brush.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
Yet the notion of a working gardener suggests continuous activity, watering down the image of a man slowing down.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Perrin then assembled a makeshift watering squad—one person to drive the tractor and four others to trail with hoses—at a cost of about €1,500, or $1,750, a day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Black-and-white news footage shows volunteer firefighters swatting flames with tree branches and dousing flare-ups with flower-pot watering cans.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
At Chiswick, staff were watering drooping camellias and lilacs, shrubs that normally thrive in sun.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
“I think it’s time to give up,” I said as Mom and I worked in the garden, weeding and watering.
From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller
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