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...The party is structured into a series of state, district and local-level units in a strategy designed to deploy its manpower with such granularity that each grassroots worker can target as few as 30 voters...
...Extended rooftops allow for more shade and effective drainage during the rainy season....
...I'm in one of the fragile bogs of northern England's Lake District. A damp and difficult task is under way here; rewetting a landscape which for centuries was deliberately drained of its water....
...Residents of the Flexais district, which is outside the evacuation zones, say they have become isolated because of the surrounding desertion....
...In just a few hours, the river rose 14.5 metres above its normal level — smashing the previous record by 2 metres — and flooded the town up to the eaves of roofs.Lismore’s central business district lies...
...“Yes, now there is a certain lull in Kyiv Oblast [district] but not for the military,” he said....
...The Zhengzhou government planned in 2018 to spend Rmb53bn by 2020 to limit flooding by creating a “sponge” urban district capable of absorbing heavy rainfall with waterways and drainage infrastructure....
...“The drainage system still needs improving,” said Liu Zitong, 36, who lives in Beijing’s traditional hutongs or alleyway districts....
...The beck — a former drainage ditch currently being turned into a waterway that will run through the whole farm — is Rebanks’s favourite spot on his land....
...In the Tenderloin district, one start-up rents out bunk beds in shared dorm rooms for $1,200 per month....
...Surrounded by hundreds of police, the industrial-style complex in Hong Kong’s Kowloon district has been under siege since last Sunday ....
...“Wuhan has invested a lot into its infrastructure but in the early stage of new urban district building they reclaimed too much land from the lakes,” said Cheng Xiaotao, flood defence expert at the China...
...As a further flood defence measure, the city-state’s authorities are upgrading the drainage system serving the terminal and the airport’s runways, building canals to divert floodwater and installing CCTV...
...She does the most fantastic manual lymphatic drainage, which helps me rediscover my cheekbones, and all her products are natural and organic....
...Despite its location, it falls behind its neighbouring prime central districts in value....
...At the station, the officers directed us further up the road to a Café Coffee Day, where the barista sent us to a district on the other side of the stadium....
...An alligator lounges in a drainage ditch....
...DC Water hired Vigeo, a Paris-based ethical rating agency, to opine on the environmental credentials of its drainage project....
...“The roads are very bad, cleanliness is totally zero, water is contaminated because drainage gets mixed up in drinking water.”...
...But in the Waterbuurt there are as many residents per hectare as in the Jordaan, a pleasant if cramped Amsterdam inner-city district....
...Lord Smith added in a separate interview: “I will apologise for probably not having done enough to twist arms with county councils, district councils, drainage boards and others in order to come to the table...
...Without reverting to excessive theory, Simpson, an anthropologist at London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, explores the history of the most affected district of Kutch (with comparisons, perhaps...
...Even the underground drainage tunnels that run under the motorways and connect the islands have been put to use, as exhibition spaces for art and educational installations....
...This week’s muni offerings also include sales by redevelopment housing authorities, school districts as well as sewer and drainage systems....
...“It’s simply not possible to sustain the level of reserve drainage beyond another two years at the current rate,” said Mr Werner, pointing out that reserves have now dropped below $35bn....
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