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  • 21Pit sword — The pit sword (also known as a rodmeter) is a blade of metal or plastic that extends into the water beneath the hull of a nautical vessel.cite web url = http://www.bowfin.org/website/bowfin/bowfin systems/log sys/log sys.htm title = Underwater… …

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  • 22Water supply and sanitation in Bangladesh — Even though the water supply and sanitation sector in Bangladesh is expanding its coverage, it is difficult to keep pace with the rapid population growth. The country used to rely mainly on groundwater, which is why the discovery of arsenic in… …

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  • 23Water fluoridation — Fluoridation does not affect the appearance, taste or smell of drinking water.[1] Water fluoridation is the controlled addition of fluoride to a public water supply to reduce tooth decay. Fluoridated water has flu …

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  • 24Water supply and sanitation in Guyana — Source: [http://www.statisticsguyana.gov.gy/pubs/Chapter7 Housing LivingArrangements.pdf Guyana 2002 Census] , p. 129Other sources of water supply for non potable uses include rainwater catchment (5%); public standpipes or pumps (3%); private… …

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  • 25Water supply and sanitation in South Africa — After the end of Apartheid South Africa s newly elected government inherited huge services backlogs with respect to access to water supply and sanitation. About 15 million people were without safe water supply and over 20 million without adequate …

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  • 26Water well — Village pump redirects here. For information on Wikipedia project related discussions see Wikipedia:Village pump. Water well at the Wald monastery in Germany. A water well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving,… …

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  • 27pit viper — any of numerous venomous snakes of the family Crotalidae, of the New World, Asia, and the Malay Archipelago, as the rattlesnake, water moccasin, and copperhead, having a heat sensitive pit on each side of the head between the eye and nostril.… …

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  • 28pit viper — noun New World vipers with hollow fangs and a heat sensitive pit on each side of the head • Hypernyms: ↑viper • Hyponyms: ↑copperhead, ↑Agkistrodon contortrix, ↑water moccasin, ↑cottonmouth, ↑cottonmouth moccasin, ↑ …

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  • 29water moccasin — noun 1. venomous semiaquatic snake of swamps in southern United States • Syn: ↑cottonmouth, ↑cottonmouth moccasin, ↑Agkistrodon piscivorus • Hypernyms: ↑pit viper • Member Holonyms: ↑Agkistrodon, ↑ …

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  • 30water moccasin — noun Date: circa 1821 1. a venomous semiaquatic pit viper (Agkistrodon piscivorus) chiefly of the southeastern United States that is closely related to the copperhead called also cottonmouth, cottonmouth moccasin 2. a harmless American colubrid… …

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