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Nearly 4,000 households said their crops were damaged and flood waters contaminated springs, bore-holes and wells for thousands of Ugandans.
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At risk of contracting it are people using untreated water from rivers, streams, bore-holes and wells.
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However, the reliability of different types of proxies might be obtained by comparing the results of different types: bore-holes, sediments, corals, tree-rings etc.
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However, the reliability of different types of proxies might be obtained by comparing the results of different types: bore-holes, sediments, corals, tree-rings etc.
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These sites, trees and bore-holes both, should be subject to locale-dependent phenomena.
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Eventually the “consensus” will come to the conclusion that tree-rings, ice-cores, and bore-holes are not good proxies for temperature.
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In the former method electrodes are conveyed through two bore-holes, and the latter method is totally unbloody.
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Acting community water and sanitation manager Mike Muller said the drilling of bore-holes for rural communities had already begun and nine rigs had been deployed.
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The countersunk-head screws are put into the bore-holes by applying pressure with the thumb (do not use a hammer!) and screwed clock-wise into the wood with a suitable screw driver by applying light pressure.
4. Nailing and Screwing Techniques Harald Stelzer 1993
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But it has water in it nevertheless; and at fixed and charted spots are to be found bore-holes and wells for the convenience of dwellers in the profitless wilderness.
With Botha in the Field Eric Moore Ritchie
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