The drain in the washbasin is blocked.

The earliest sewer systems are from the Yayoi period (300 BC to A.D. 250).

By the year 2000, 60 of the population was connected to a sewer system.

He adds that the limited number of sewer systems has resulted in destruction of ancient mosques.

Drain is a city in Douglas County, Oregon, United States.

All these costs are a serious drain on the economy.

Turning brain drain into brain gain The case of Pakistan

For example, sewer and water connections increased from 75 of households in 1988 to 98 in 1997.

For the countries they leave, migrants often represent a brain drain.

Africa's heavy debt burden remains a major drain on its development potential.

Gasoline costs are a tremendous drain on the American economy, but they're also a drain on individual families and it's kind of terrifying to think about what happens when prices get higher.

This drain America first policy will leave America more vulnerable in the future.

For Iraq, this is a brain drain that will be hard to repair.

Drainback systems drain the transfer fluid from the system when the pump stops.

Where sanitation fees are separate from water tariffs, progressive fee structures could support cross subsidization of sewer connections for the poor.

The brain drain to the Anglo Saxon countries, the US in particular, is astounding.

This provoked a brain drain as experienced FEMA personnel moved into the private sector

All the rivers drain into the Caspian Sea in the east of the country.

As a result, in May 1840 men started to drain and reclaim the Haarlemmermeer.

The use of modern sewage systems began in 1884, with the installation of the first brick and ceramic sewer in Kanda, Tokyo.

Some older industrial cities, particularly in the Northeast and Midwest of the United States, use a combined sewer system to handle waste.

Issues relating to gender, information and communication technologies and brain drain will receive priority attention.

See also An Action Plan to Prevent Brain Drain Building Equitable Health Systems in Africa.

Those investments will drain most of the country s domestic savings and sustain high demand for imports.

But it would be good if Obama remembered that we dwell not in the Republic of Plato, but in the Roman sewer of Romulus.

Since its inception in 1980, it has helped 2 million people improve their sanitation by installing underground sewer pipes and indoor toilets across Pakistan.

Sewage connections that are connected to storm drain pipes can also allow human sewage into surface waters.

About a week ago, a Chicago newspaper, The Colombus Dispatch, published a cartoon that depicts Iran as a sewer with cockroaches crawling out of it.

Where charges for sanitation services are included in water charges, services for poor households, including sewer connections, could be cross subsidized from progressive water charges.

This talent drain is likely to be exacerbated as pay regulations impose a one size fits all regime.

That means ending trade deficits that drain spending and jobs, and restoring the link between wages and productivity.

And the eventual drain of all that capital that had accumulated in the country in the past 8 years.

Outsourcing to developing countries is also a viable solution for the creation of jobs without causing a brain drain.

You would choose to continue to make as much money as possible, while the consumers of your products use the atmosphere as a sewer, with no sewerage charge.

The state government's plan is only this to drain the reservoirs until the last drop and to pray it will rain.

And even when and if insurance is available, the cost represents a major drain on most small island developing State economies.

The Indian Ex President Abdul Kalam was one of the many Indian scientists who stayed back and wanted this reverse brain drain.

Today s brain drain is not only from emerging and developing countries to richer countries, but also from European countries to the US.

The very high cost of maintaining the roads and the vehicles that ply them is a drain on the currently available resources.

The nonrequired writes about the success story that is continuing education in some African nations and how it can prevent the brain drain.

I agree that it is in the interests of the USA to try and retain the Brain Drain advantages it has been receiving.

To take another example, the East worried about a brain drain of professionals to the West, where opportunities seemed to be more plentiful.

The crisis of the 1990s led to the drastic reduction of the state support for science and a brain drain migration from Russia.

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Taking note with great concern of the debt burden of many African countries, as debt servicing continues to drain the limited resources for development,