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5 things to know about Virginia Raggi, Rome's first woman mayor

Edit CNN 20 Jun 2016
(CNN)The Eternal City has its first female mayor in its almost 2,800-year history after a 37-year-old lawyer from an anti-establishment party won a landslide victory in the Italian capital ... 1. She's Rome's youngest mayor, too ... 2. She says equality is 'still a pipe dream' ... At a time "in which equal opportunities are still a pipe dream," she hailed the result as "the first sign of the profound change that we are bringing to this country." ... ....

NASA's 'Maxwell' is a plane that runs on electricity

Edit Canberra Times 20 Jun 2016
An experimental plane being built by NASA could help push electric-powered aviation from a technical curiosity and pipe dream into something that might become commercially viable for small aircraft ... ....

Asbestos: $80m bill for council

Edit Otago Daily Times 20 Jun 2016
The legacy of asbestos includes an $80 million bill for the Dunedin City Council as it works to replace a network of ageing asbestos water pipes across the city. Documents released to the Otago Daily Times, as part of an ODT Insight investigation, show the council expects to spread the cost over the next 50 years, as it works to replace the old asbestos pipes.  A multimillion-dollar menace  ....

Home Fix: Low water pressure may cause sudden shower temperature changes

Edit The Miami Herald 20 Jun 2016
Many residential plumbing systems are configured with a main pipe that has a larger diameter than the branch pipes that go to each fixture such as the toilet, sink or shower. The larger diameter pipe carries a larger volume of water available when multiple fixtures are on at the same time, thus reducing the effect of scalding and low water pressure ... Water volume in older homes is often reduced if the home has galvanized water pipes....

Pipe burst: water supply disrupted at PTP Nagar

Edit The Hindu 20 Jun 2016
Drinking water supply to PTP Nagar and surrounding areas was disrupted on Sunday following a pipe burst near Maruthankuzhy around midnight on Saturday ... Old pipe ... It could have happened because the pipe was old....

At Dwarka, 2,004 flats at the mercy of nature and thieves

Edit Indian Express 20 Jun 2016
Electrical fittings from the flats built in Pocket 3 of Dwarka Sector 16 have been wrenched out over the years ... They assure, the allotment will be made by the end of 2016 ... Related Article. 39 new night shelters this winter, 11 for women Dream home a far cry, allottees still slum it out for EWS houses DDA sits on policy,2,300 EWS housesSoon ... “People nearby have been stealing pipe fittings ... It is not only the pipes which have been stolen ... ....

Govt should stop ‘tantalising’ in Lalit Modi, Vijay Mallya issues: Salman Khurshid

Edit Indian Express 20 Jun 2016
Salman Khurshid said that the Centre should avoid giving ‘tantalising’ news and should come out clear that by when will these be brought back and made answerable ... Share This Article. Related Article. Vijay Mallya a Congress baby; UPA forced bank to give him loans ... Khurshid Salman Khurshid. Rahul our consensus leader; Modi trying to be larger-than-life Kejriwal has pipe dream of taking on big parties ... 6, slideMargin. 3 }); }); ... ....

Old valves, new leaks - not changing a kitchen sink washer here (Upper Hunter Shire Council)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Jun 2016
Every day in the Upper Hunter workers are digging muddy trenches, replacing heavy pipes, valves and fittings, to keep clean water flowing to homes and businesses. In just one example this week, Upper Hunter Shire Council is undertaking excavation and valve replacement on the water pipes at the corner of Seaward Avenue and Satur Road (from Monday 20 June 2016)....

Commentary: Philly is on course for cleaner waters, greener city

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 20 Jun 2016
In areas with "combined sewers," these pollutants mix with sewage from homes and businesses and travel through one pipe. When pipe capacity is exceeded, pollution ......

Tesla Model S can be used as a boat for short periods of time, Elon ...

Edit Ars Technica 20 Jun 2016
Most conventional ICE cars have an exhaust pipe that's low to the ground and quickly becomes flooded if you drive through deep water. Battery-powered vehicles, on the other hand, don't have an exhaust pipe ... Read 3 remaining paragraphs ....

Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S: Transactions in Connection with Share Buy-back Programme (Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Jun 2016
Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S with its subsidiaries (the "Group") is a world leading producer of cigars and traditional pipe tobacco ... The Group produces and sells 3 billion cigars and 5,000 tonnes of pipe and fine-cut tobacco annually ... Pipe tobacco brands include Captain Black, Erinmore, Borkum Riff and W.Ø....

​LNG back on Iran’s energy agenda

Edit Press TV 20 Jun 2016
Iran is also at the same time pursuing an ambitious plan to pipe natural gas to Oman and turn it into LNG for exports to international markets. . Talks between the two countries over the project appear to be progressing well and officials have already announced that a deal that would envisage piping gas from Iran to Oman’s Qalhat plant is ......

Inauguration of Fenchikhola-Kamigoan Irrigation Scheme in Samtse (MOAF - Ministry of Agriculture and Forests of Bhutan)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Jun 2016
(Source ... The 9.8 km long irrigation scheme (piped) will benefit 150 households of Halhaley, Beteni, Gondaygaon, Lepcha gaon, Beachgaon, Mukhunigaon and Kamigaon villages ... Nu. 35.84 million was spent on the construction of 9.8 km long pipe irrigation channel and was completed in 10 months ... Submitted by. DoA....
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