The water mains burst due to the earthquake.

But if you've got mains as well, it will charge the batteries in there.

Our journey did not, in fact, begin at Hercules Inlet, where frozen ocean meets the land of Antarctica.

And in the process, I became the first person in history to make the entire 650 mile journey, from Hercules Inlet to South Pole, solely on feet, without skis.

Now if you don't have power, or, God forbid, the power cuts out in the middle of surgery, this machine transitions automatically, without even having to touch it, to drawing in room air from this inlet.

The team learned of a European Commission and World Bank initiative to fund the repair of parts of the existing water treatment installation and the rehabilitation of the trunk mains, as well as to invest in groundwater production infrastructure.

More than half a billion roubles in capital investments was allocated and spent on these tasks in 2003 2004, thanks to which approximately 20,000 square metres of housing space and 84 kilometres of gas mains, two schools catering for 477 pupils and other sites were returned to use in the Bryansk, Kaluga, Orël and Tula regions in two years.