Georgia seeks water disaster declaration
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With water supplies rapidly shrinking during a drought of historic proportions, Gov. Sonny Perdue declared a state of emergency Saturday for the northern third of Georgia and asked President Bush to declare it a major disaster area.
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By CAIN BURDEAU  NEW ORLEANS - A group of residents called Monday for Congress to set up an independent, bipartisan panel similar to the Sept. 11 Commission to investigate why levees failed during Hurricane Katrina.
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Sri Lanka appealed for international aid after declaring a state of disaster, as tsunamis unleashed by an undersea earthquake yesterday left more than 5,000 people dead and half-a-million homeless in the Indian Ocean island.
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By The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 20--GULFPORT -- City officials have issued at boil water notice along McCandliss Drive because of a broken water main.
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Despite plenty of warnings, critics say, Georgia never got around to developing a water management plan to handle a severe drought. Now that reservoirs already are shrinking and water supplies are threatened, lawmakers are scrambling to cope.
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By Mahalia Asanaenyi, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Dec. 9--The City of Gretna has signed on to a controversial proposal to build up to 29 dams to control storm water runoff and flooding in the Omaha metropolitan area.
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The public is urged to check if they live in areas at risk of flooding, on the anniversary of the 1947 floods.
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Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki should declare massive flooding that has killed hundreds and displaced thousands across east Africa a "national emergency", aid agency ActionAid said.
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The state of Georgia, stricken by months of drought, confirmed Friday that it will sue the Army Corps of Engineers.
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By Tim Carpenter  By Tim Carpenter  THE CAPITAL-JOURNAL  State attorneys and agriculture officials Tuesday urged legislators to prepare for expensive legal wrangling to force Nebraska and Colorado to comply with court-ordered agreements on water consumption.
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With Hurricane Ivan threatening the Gulf Coast and cleanup still under way after hurricanes Charley and Frances, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has issued 42 disaster declarations so far this year.
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Kansas officials said on  Monday they were trying to contain damage from a significant  oil refinery spill that occurred over the weekend as raging  floodwaters wreaked havoc through the southeast part of the  state.
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By Xiao Feng in Beijing and He Na in Changchun  The Ministry of Civil Affairs engaged a level-4 emergency response mechanism yesterday afternoon to deal with the damage inflicted by the heavy rains that have doused East China's Jiangxi Province.
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By Mary Landers, Savannah Morning News, Ga.  Sep. 18--When the neighbors of a proposed sewage treatment plant for Port  Wentworth got wind of its location, they got concerned.
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Fire chiefs call for a single body in charge of tackling floods as England and Wales prepare for more heavy rain.
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Floods in southern Africa have displaced thousands of people, drowned livestock and put large numbers of children at risk from life-threatening diseases, officials said on Tuesday.
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State officials today urged people to stay where they were because of the possibility of flooding, but not everyone heeded the warning.