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Lemoore, California has declared a State of Emergency following the deadly explosion of a 1.5 million gallon city water tank. Surveillance video shows the moment of explosion from several angles. VIDEO AT LINK..............................

The body of an aspiring actress has been found in the water tank in the Mexico City apartment block where she lived, one year after she disappeared. Psychology graduate Carmen Yarira Noriega Esparza, 27, vanished in February last year, and friends and family feared she had been kidnapped by human traffickers and sold as a sex slave. Ms Esparza's severely decayed body was discovered in the tank after residents in the building complained that the drinking water tasted funny.

Fukushima to get 370 tanks for radioactive water (AFP) – 2 hours ago TOKYO — Hundreds of water tanks are to be sent to Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to hold thousands of tons of water contaminated in the effort to keep its reactors cool, the operator said Sunday. Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has sourced 370 tanks with a total capacity for more than 40,000 tons of radioactive water, a company spokeswoman said. "Two of the tanks got on the way to the plant late Saturday," said TEPCO spokeswoman Ai Tanaka, adding that they would reach the site in...

BLACKSTONE - The water scare that recently left worried Blackstone residents high and dry is being blamed on vandals urinating in a giant water tank. “It sounds kind of stupid” but true, Selectman Chairman Charles Sawyer said yesterday. Sawyer said the two teenage boys who broke into the water supply told police there was nothing in a suspicious bucket found near the tank, but admitted to relieving themselves in the tank. “It’s a serious, serious crime. A lesson has to be learned from this,” Sawyer added. The two 15-year-olds broke into a Blackstone water tank March 27, forcing a two-day...