Water in all wrong places in world's wettest spot
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As the fog closes in, the waterfalls and the vast plains of Bangladesh gradually disappear from view. The people of Cherrapunjee hunker down for another inhospitable night in the world's wettest spot.
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Flood waters caused misery, cut essential services and forced evacuations in widely spaced parts of the globe today.
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Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop pristine, might be the lament of today's Ancient Mariner. Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the planet, and every single spot has been affected by people in some way.
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Yet this summer, as every summer, tales of water shortages are leaking out up and down the Italian peninsula as people talk of badly maintained reservoirs, faulty distribution networks, high tourist demand and ...
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Despite poor conditions in some of the waterways surrounding Manhattan, demand far outstrips the number of spots available in the annual Manhattan Island Marathon Swim.
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Ed Hackett bathed with a bucket of rainwater. Ed Walker tried to get home. Hans Thorne searched a crumpled marina for a friend&#39;s boat.
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ATLANTA - After one of the driest springs in recent history, and looking  ahead to a parched weather forecast, Georgia farmers, environmental  officials and local authorities face some tough decisions about using water.
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Shhh. Don&#39;t tell anyone, but I have a bird bath in my back yard. Worse, it&#39;s filled with water. Standing water, if you know what I mean.
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People in the Gulf Coast city of Pensacola, Fla., emerged to find backyards flooded and light posts bent at right angles. Still, many said it could have been worse.
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There is a warning that some of Australia's major cities could run out of drinking water.
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PARIS -- The weather was nippy and overcast and the water just chest-high, but a new scuba-diving pool in Paris has something Bali, Belize, and other diving hotspots don't: a terrific view of the Eiffel Tower.
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An oil slick adds to flood problems for thousands of people in the US states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
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The water level in Lake Okeechobee, a reservoir for millions in parched south Florida, dropped to a record low Thursday, the local water district said.  The lake water level was 8.94 feet Thursday, breaking a record low of 8.97 feet set in a 2001 drought.
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The 225m-long `Selendang Ayu&#39; ran aground near the Aleutian islands in the Bering Sea. The environment is at threat, but bad weather is preventing a clean-up.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - The lush vegetation is shredded, the power lines broken like matchsticks and the swimming pool is filled with thick brown mud which cannot hide the bobbing and bloated bodies.
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With drought conditions intensifying across the Southeast, efforts to conserve water are popping up everywhere Â even at the aquarium.
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Blog: Some wet areas of earth will get wetter with climate change.