1.  A water softener must be fitted after the supply to the drinking water so that this is left providing hard water for drinking.

2.  If saving lives is your aim, providing clean water should be a higher priority still.

3.  Irrigation projects provide water for large commercial farms, not smallholders.

4.  The water in these lakes can water farmland and provide water for cities.

5.  The rain would meanwhile be desalinated by evaporation and filtration, providing fresh water as a bonus.

6.  By piping water from the perennial spring, this project will provide drinkable water to over fifty thousand people in the region.

7.  An inch each week provides water at the right depth and quantity for most trees, shrubs and other plants.

8.  And then, of course, it is important to provide some water, because birds can die of dehydration.

9.  As upstream diversions increase, environmentalists contend, wells near Yuma that now pump water to Mexico will not provide enough water.

10.  At the same time, the practice of providing cheap water through government subsidies will have to be curtailed, Serageldin said.