Sentences with phrase «storing rainwater»

Locally known as baori, stepwells were tiered stone structures used to collect and store rainwater in arid climates.»

Her scheme proposes the modification of the existing structures in Sana'a to capture, filter, and store rainwater.

The house also has extensive green roofs, and a 1000 litre tank that stores rainwater for toilets and gardening.

A rain barrel is a small, above - ground tank that collects and stores rainwater for later use.

For one thing, saving large open spaces protects the local aquifer, the underground layer of rock that stores rainwater and melting snow, and our prime source of drinking water.

Not exact matches

Today's product range covers in addition to storing and transport containers also plastic pallets, industrial tanks, heating oil tanks, rainwater tanks and Industrial Bulk Containers (IBCs).

Water tanks installed at the facility can store up to 240,000 l of rainwater.

«We're also committed to ecological efficiency in store landscaping, using drought - resistant native plants and, where possible, rainwater tanks to capture runoff and provide irrigation for landscaped areas,» says Mr Ward.

They formed the sides of a channel that carried rainwater into a complex system of stepped pools, where it was stored for drinking and agriculture.

Today many proven techniques for «rainwater harvesting» can collect and store rain for later use by people, livestock and crops.

Or charter a local boat to take you to Nusa penida island and see the strange sight of hundreds of concrete dishes that catch rainwater to be stored in huge underground tanks, visit Tanglad with it's ancient carved throne to the sun god Surya, or go to the local handicrafts market famous for weavings

State of the art green roof technology has been modified to support the spiralling plants, and rainwater is collected from an adjacent roof to be stored in a cistern to irrigate the plants and trees.

There's a car battery here that stores the solar power, an 80 - litre water tank, gas tank for cooking, and piping for the rainwater harvesting system that collects water in the 1000 - litre tanks outside and waters the exterior living wall, which shades and cools the structure.

Standard metal roofing panels enable Lucas to catch rainwater and store it in a 1700 - gallon cistern buried on the northern exposure of the house.

Three cisterns have been constructed underneath the parking lot to store one million litres of the harvested rainwater.

The «living roof» will help to control rainwater runoff on the site and will help cool the convenience store during the summer.

However they are all supplied by rainwater harvesting, collected from the big roof and stored in two large above - grade cisterns.

Many of these centuries - old subterranean structures — originally built as large - scale water cisterns to store monsoon rainwaters for later use — have fallen into disuse and disrepair, due to water tables being over-pumped to depletion, and the introduction of modern plumbing.

The company's model 1080 not only produces renewable electricity from the sun (and stores it in integrated batteries), but it can also collect and filter rainwater.

The smaller units appear to only have enough solar capacity to run the LED lighting, with shade and rainwater catchment being the primary benefits of the devices, but the tops of the higher capacity units look to be virtually covered in solar panels, which would generate electricity that could be stored for later use.

The bees are one of the many initiatives at the new store, which also features rainwater harvesting for use in toilets and irrigation, and reflective pipes in the roof for natural cooling,

For example, their massive store in Logan, Queensland won environmental design awards, due to the fact that it flushes it toilets and waters it's landscaping from harvested rainwater stored in two 300,000 litre tanks.

It is designed as a» hassle free self - sufficient system» in which rainwater runs down the specially angled roof into a water tank that can store up to 300 litres of water.

On the engineering side, their developments included rainwater cropping, filtration and storage; the construction of surface and underground irrigation channels, including devices to measure the quantity of water stored (Figure 13.4)(Treacy, 1994; Wright and Valencia Zegarra, 2000; Caran and Nelly, 2006).