New Zealand

Milford Sound, New Zealand (Enlarge)

Lake Wanaka - New Zealand (Enlarge)

"It's a life-or-death situation"

“You're going to do what you have to do to get water back on in your home,” said Valerie Blakely, a community organiser and mother of five whose overdue bill stands at more than $1,000. “As far as I'm concerned, what the city is doing is the illegal activity. You're not going to come and put us in a life-or-death situation and not have us act like we are fighting for our own survival.”

“There are severe consequences,” said Bill Johnson, a spokesman for Detroit's water and sewerage department. “People are making things worse for themselves. The penalties may be more than the actual bill." (read more)

The Gulf of Alaska

The Gulf of Alaska, where the two oceans meet, but do not mix.. pic.twitter.com/Icu227hS89
— Planet Earth (@planetepics) May 5, 2014

water, bodies of

Pond

Atlantic Ocean

Cross the pond

Cross the ocean

This information is provided by hydrology. You are welcome. 

CBS Sacramento: "Illegal Pot Grows Adding To California’s Water Woes"

"Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman has a new mission: catching illegal marijuana growers for stealing water."

“We’re now becoming the water police,” Allman said.

He estimates thieves will use up to five million gallons of water a day in the fall — and that’s water Mendocino County simply doesn’t have.

“People will just be taking water out of the shared, you know, out of a creek or other water source so it’s having a really negative impact on our forest lands, on our streams,” said Willits Mayor Holly Madrigal.

In Calaveras County more than four hours away, one rancher told CB13 that he’s got pot growers with cartel ties living on his property – stealing water. He’s discovered a half-dozen grows on his vast land by looking for the signs.

“Yup there’s a scale in here.”

Mineral Waters

Here's an advertisement I found in the front of The Useful Family Herbal by John Hill, M.D., printed in 1770. Mineral Waters! If you're interested in any of these esoteric waters, you can read a contemporary account, The Methodical Synopsis Of Mineral Waters, by John Rutty, M.D. You can also read "Dr. Russel's Dissertation on the Use of the Sea-Water, with Dr. Speed's Commentary" that's mentioned in the ad. A few of the waters are still bottled and sold.

Interestingly, William Owen, bookseller and mineral water salesman, was also the publisher of Mr Hill's book in which this advertisement appears. This is the only time I can recall a publisher of that era advertising his side business in one of his own publications.

Further research into William Owen reveals that he was charged with libel against the House of Commons and the King's Bench in 1752, for printing a pamphlet which the attorney-general called "wicked, false, scandalous, seditious, and malicious libel".

An account of two trials, including William Owen's trial, was published in 1765 by J. Almon. The Owen section of the pamphlet begins with this:

and to what, you may ask, does that asterisk refer? To this, at the bottom of the page:

 Well played. A toast, to Mr William Owen, with the mineral water of your choice.