Some water providers are discussing accelerating a slow shift from chlorine disinfection to other methods that avoid the use of the deadly chlorine gas, which in scattered accidents over the years has forced evacuations of small towns.
The plan also calls for the evacuation of three small settlements in the northern West Bank.
Tristan da Cunha, South Atlantic 6,758 2,060 1961 The only recorded eruption of this remote island-volcano occurred in 1961, forcing the evacuation of its small population for two years.
JERUSALEM — A West Bank mosque was burned and vandalized early on Tuesday, with graffiti warning in Hebrew of a "war" over the impending evacuation of the small, disputed Jewish settlement of Ulpana.
A siege of hot weather and electrical storms have produced the worst wildfires of the year in the West, leading to the closing of Yosemite National Park and the evacuation of many small communities.
In a day punctuated by exchanges of gunfire and the evacuation of a small number of Palestinian men at the Church of the Nativity, Palestinian and Israeli negotiators failed today to reach terms to end a three-week-long siege but agreed to interim steps toward a settlement.
A train loaded with crude oil derailed and burst into flames on Friday in Oregon, forcing the evacuation of a small town and spilling oil into the Columbia River.
This led to the evacuation of the small resort village of Garibaldi nearby, and the relocation of residents to new recreational subdivisions away from the hazard zone.
Generally, the results showed that sand content increased when converting natural forest to cropland, and this is most likely resulting from the preferential removal of clay and silt and residual accumulation of sand in soil surface resulting from preferential segregation and evacuation of the smaller silt and clay particles, by accelerated water erosion.
In what appeared to be a modest breakthrough, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Friday that the Syrian Red Crescent had begun evacuations of a small number of people from a ravaged Homs neighborhood after three weeks of constant bombardment that had left the city with many wounded and shortages of food and medicine.
