Sentences with phrase «alleviate storm water»

The project also included the development of an initiative that collects water to help alleviate storm water runoff.

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The long - term drinking - water issues for cities in the area could be alleviated by a proposal for a regional drinking water reservoir that captures storm runoff currently lost, Jurado said.

«There is a bright side to this conclusion» according to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies» James Hansen, lead author on the study, «by following a path that leads to a lower CO2 amount we can alleviate a number of problems that had begun to seem inevitable, such as increased storm intensities, expanded desertification, loss of coral reefs, and loss of mountain glaciers that supply fresh water to hundreds of millions of people.»