If India were to openly import heavy water, it would be obliged to subject the substance to international safeguards.

Soon after the disruption, the company began importing water from surrounding sources.

Districts that import water are vulnerable to whatever problems arise for their supplier.

Economically Israel concluded that the cost of importing water would be higher than choosing the desalinization option but chose to import anyway.

Many at the workshop doubted that California needed to import water.

We have to import water from the rock rats.

The long-term situation is so serious that local officials have mused about desalinating ocean water or importing fresh water from a few hundred miles away.

"We do not import heavy water," the spokesman said.

That would eliminate the need to import heavy water, or deuterium oxide, a highly controlled substance.

They used to have to import water.