21.  Even the local water utility wonders how it will pay its energy bills.

22.  Even when the local water board has been willing to extend service, lack of state and local money has created a roadblock.

23.  First, he bitterly voiced fears that the burnoff would pollute the local water and drop property values.

24.  For local water companies, the delay at the environmental agency has meant a shortage of guidance when they need it most.

25.  He said individual dike-building led to cooperative local water management councils from which Dutch democracy began to grow as early as the Middle Ages.

26.  Her only complaint about Florida gardening is local water rules.

27.  It also increases federal financial aid to states and local water agencies to help them comply.

28.  It continues today in places like South Korea, where raw sewage flows untreated from US bases into local waters.

29.  It would provide considerable new flexibility to federal officials in establishing water-quality standards and to local water suppliers in meeting them.

30.  Japanese fishing villages have long prevented overfishing in local waters by using versions of harbor gangs.