Power stations need to use water for cooling. Lakes, rivers and coastal areas are a ready source of water.
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Oil is clearly dominant in transport, and chemical feedstocks used to make a wide variety of products, and also important in many homes for heating. For electricity production coal is in fact dominant and oil is very little used.
Wind can be used as an energy source once converted. Since global warming has become such a concern to many people of today's generation, new sources of energy are being invented. One of which is the windmill, in which the blowing of the wind can be converted into energy that can be used to power homes.
Before Tesla contribution with his invention of alternate current, the electric monopoly was controlled by Thomas Edison. It was a direct current system and had to many problems like people getting shocked when touching the walls in their homes and many factories and homes burned by the current. Imagine if we continued increasing the use of direct current in homes all over the world.
Propane is a popular heating source in homes and businesses, particularly in rural areas. There are a estimated 14,300,000 residential homes in the US that use propane as a heat source.
Many homes are made out of adobe.
Water comes from your city system through a watermain, or on many rural homes from your domestic well.
The Tuaregs get their water source from the towns they pass through, wells in rural areas, and sometimes a river they passed by. Since their nomads, the Tuaregs have many different ways to gain water. Because they know how to find it...
I think the category you are looking for is "rural".
There is a great drinking water problem in rural areas because there are poor water piping and sewerage facilities. Many rural residents need to rely on traditional means of water collection and purification.
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There are many homes in Valencia, California. There are many websites where one can find homes there for sale. Among them are Realtor, New Home Source, and Lennar.
In an urban area, it is like a cluster of homes and people, whereas the rural area is more of the out in the country sort. For example, you may have a small yard in the urban setting, but own a large yard or even many acres in the rural areas.
There are many jobs that are available for building homes. For example, there are engineers for water and heating and constructors for building the infrastructure of the homes.
Yes, the Nile river is the major water source... necessary for survival and the Suez Canal is used for trading and transporting which creates jobs. the west side of Egypt is rural with not very many people because there is no water source or job industry.
That is where one deep well provides enough well water for many homes. I know of many such cases in British Columbia ,(where I live) - I have worked on many wells that serve 70- 100 homes.