Pakistan has only 150 cubic metres (33,000 gallons) of water storage per person compared with over 5,000 cubic metres in America and Australia and 2,200 in China.Many Pakistanis criticise General Musharraf for making his own life difficult by picking fights on so many controversial fronts.
It has also built over 200 dams and reservoirs (34 billion gallons of water storage capacity), invested in Israel's first commercial solar field and and established more than 1,000 parks.
In one of the Energy Department's most infamous examples, which is far from unique, it began a program in 1985 to clean radioactive waste from 34 million gallons of liquids in storage in South Carolina.
A series of rainstorms — one of which was powerful and destructive for residents statewide — helped deposit needed moisture to California, but it's going to take 11 trillion gallons of water in storage to recover from the drought, NASA scientists said this week.
In 1994, Northville Industries of Melville, N.Y. agreed in a consent order to pay $15 million to the state and $10 million to the Suffolk County Water Authority for a huge leak of more than a million gallons of gasoline from a storage-tank terminal in East Setauket.
"After the rehabilitation of the water tanks with funds provided by UNICEF and the construction of a new tank with the capacity of 100,000 gallons, the overall storage capacity of water in Muslim Bagh has been increased from 250,000 to 350,000 gallons," says Mohammad Azam Zarkoon, the Executive Engineer Qilla Saifullah.
An additional 20000 gallons of petrol were in bulk storage.
Now the energy company Crestwood plans to convert depleted salt caverns beneath the lake's banks into storage for eighty-eight milliof gallons of propane.
In the Pacific alone they built, in the midst of war, 111 major airstrips and 441 piers, tanks for the storage of 100m gallons of fuel, housing for 1.5m men and hospitals for 70,000 patients.
