Posts Tagged ‘#water’

Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: No political blood in the water

Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s office revises death toll down to 24, including 7 children: http://t.co/… #tornado — @TPM via MarketMeSuite Tweet This Post

Bipartisanship on Water Projects in Senate Spurred by Freedom to Fish Act

The senior energy aide to Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader from the coal state of Kentucky, was praised last week by one of the Senate’s top environmentalists, Environment and Public Works Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. The compliment seems unusual amid the hyper-partisanship that’s now the norm in Washington, but when put into context it [...]

Senate votes to extend federal water projects law

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Wednesday put aside its partisan differences to extend the federal government’s main water resources law, which promotes investment in port improvements, flood protection, dam and levee projects and environmental restoration. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

Old Refrigerator Unable To Control When It Releases Water Anymore

ODESSA, TX—In the midst of yet another embarrassing clean-up, local woman Melissa Crosby, 43, told reporters Thursday that her old refrigerator has completely lost the ability to control when it releases water. The Onion Tweet This Post

American Voices: 2,800 Pig Carcasses Found In Chinese Drinking Water

Over 2,800 pig carcasses of unknown origin were found clogging Shanghai’s Huangpu River, the main drinking water source for the city, sparking widespread fears of contamination. The Onion Tweet This Post

Insatiable Water Droplet Barrels Down Windowpane Consuming Everything In Its Path

GOLDSBORO, NC—According to eyewitness accounts, an insatiable droplet of water charged down the windowpane of a local residence Wednesday, gluttonously consuming everything in its way as it carved a streak of watery carnage across the glass. Tweet This Post

Rubio Raises $100,000 Off Water Bottle

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., has hauled in some serious cash since his water sipping moment Tuesday during the Republican response to the State of the Union. Reclaim America, Rubio’s PAC, has raised more than $ 100,000 by selling more than 3,450 water bottles since Wednesday, a… Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post

Navajo, Hopi tribes struggle without water in Southwest cold snap

PHOENIX (Reuters) – Thousands of Navajo tribal members in the Southwest face a public health emergency, having struggled without drinking water for weeks after a long cold snap shattered pipes across the largest U.S. Indian reservation, Navajo officials said on Wednesday. The Navajo Nation, about the size of West Virginia, shivered as the temperature dipped [...]

Russia set to resume imports of Georgian wine and water

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Wine and water from Georgia should soon begin flowing back to Russia, after Moscow agreed in principle on Monday to lift an embargo in a step towards rebuilding relations shattered by their August 2008 war. Imports of Georgian mineral water and wine could resume this spring, officials from both countries said, seven [...]