Sentence examples for longstanding water from inspiring English sources

LOS ANGELES — In a sign that a deal addressing California's longstanding water supply problems may be near, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger convened a special session of the Legislature on Monday to revisit a package of water bills.

Now, in the latest chapter of this persistent quest, a small flotilla of spacecraft is en route to Mars to search for chemical signatures of life or for evidence of longstanding water that could sustain life as we know it, past or present.

On paper they're in a lot of trouble, they're squeezed between Syria and Iraq, they have longstanding water problems, a huge number of refugees.

In Santa Fe, where the reservoir is little more than a damp bowl, the community is trying to adapt to the longstanding absence of water.

The "superflood" has reopened longstanding disputes over water management all along the Indus River, which runs the length of Pakistan, and many of the poorer victims fear that they will once again be ignored in favor of rich and powerful interests.

This pitch was prompted by the village as a solution to the longstanding problem of brown water as a result of corrosion of cast iron pipes.

In the Darfur region of Sudan, competition over land and water underlies longstanding tensions between Arab camel herders and black African subsistence farmers.

With the Big Dry upon us, the longstanding fight over the water percolating under the surface in Texas' 9 major and 20 minor aquifers was bound to get contentious before the end of the 82nd legislative session.

Scientists have solved a longstanding mystery about the water repellency of lotus leaves, and in doing so might have discovered a way to make better self-cleaning and low-drag materials.

It's a bit different if you are in Spain, and living just a few miles across the water".This longstanding European fear that an American-led crusade for democracy in the Middle East could end up replacing bad regimes with worse ones, or just with violent anarchy, has been reinforced by the war in Iraq.

In between Bangladesh and India, such tensions will add with the ongoing longstanding conflicting issues diversion of water by the Farakka and Teesta barrages, Tipaimukh dam and future river linking project.