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2. Water storage - Wikipedia

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   Water storage. Water storage is a broad term referring to storage of both potable water for consumption, and non potable water for use in agriculture. In both developing countries and some developed countries found in tropical climates, there is a need to store potable drinking water during the dry season. In agriculture water storage, water is ...

3. History of water supply and sanitation - Wikipedia

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   The history of water supply and sanitation is one of a logistical challenge to provide clean water and sanitation systems since the dawn of civilization. Where water resources, infrastructure or sanitation systems were insufficient, diseases spread and people fell sick or died prematurely. Astronaut Jack Lousma taking a shower in space, 1974.

4. United States Bureau of Reclamation - Wikipedia

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   The Bureau of Reclamation, formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant ...

5. University Heights Water Storage and Pumping Station Historic ...

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   The University Heights Water Storage and Pumping Station Historic District is in the University Heights neighborhood of the City of San Diego, California. The historic district includes the North Park Water Tower, located at the intersection of Idaho Street and Howard Avenue in central San Diego. The water tower was listed on the National ...

6. Microsoft PowerPoint - Wikipedia

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   Microsoft Producer for PowerPoint 2003" was a free plug-in from Microsoft, using a video camera, "that creates Web page presentations, with talking head narration, coordinated and timed to your existing PowerPoint presentation" for delivery over the web. [244]

7. Helms Pumped Storage Plant - Wikipedia

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   The Helms Pumped Storage Plant is located 50 mi (80 km) east of Fresno, California in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range's Sierra National Forest. It is a power station that uses Helms Creek canyon on the North Fork of the Kings River for off-river water storage [ 1] and the pumped-storage hydroelectric method to generate electricity.

8. Water conservation - Wikipedia

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   Water conservation aims to sustainably manage the natural resource of fresh water, protect the hydrosphere, and meet current and future human demand. Water conservation makes it possible to avoid water scarcity. It covers all the policies, strategies and activities to reach these aims. Population, household size and growth and affluence all ...

9. Water resources - Wikipedia

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   Water resources are natural resources of water that are potentially useful for humans, for example as a source of drinking water supply or irrigation water. These resources can be either freshwater from natural sources, or water produced artificially from other sources, such as from reclaimed water or desalinated water (). 97% of the water on Earth is salt water and only three percent is fresh ...