1.   As an energy reserve, the city utility also agreed to pump enough water into its Castaic Pumping Station -- at a cost borne by the state.

2.   A Houston Industries unit controls the city utility in La Plata, Argentina, and is involved in a electricity project generated by steam in that country.

3.   Connell said the proposal was designed to ensure that the city utilities and the state are repaid.

4.   Though ambitious, Goss believes the city can turn reused wastewater into a third city utility that provides water to local golf courses and other irrigators.

5.   When the city utility turned power back on, the surge through the wires blew up his TV.

6.   Fearing such leaks, the city utility had turned off the gas in most districts after the quake but began turning it back on Sunday.

7.   Just hours after city utility Mercury Energy brought the new cable on line and declared the five-week electricity shortage over, the power went out.

8.   Liu said plans call for more funding for irrigation in rural areas, energy, highways and railways, city utilities, high-tech industries and residential housing.

9.   When the strained cables started failing, the city power utility, Mercury Energy, had no backup system.

10.   When the strained cables started failing, the city power utility, Mercury Energy had no backup system.