Sentences with phrase «as cisterns»

To be more specific, it is planning to use the basements of abandoned, foreclosed homes as cisterns.

Water supplied for irrigation, is captured primarily from clean wastewater from baths, sinks, and other household appliances, as well as cisterns.

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«33 The reason is attributed to the availability of adequate soil coverage and water systems in Nazareth that make agriculture possible even at the hilltop.34 Archaeological digs at Nazareth by Bagatti has shown that the artifacts recovered under the shrines of Nazareth, among others, include silos, olive - pressing and wine - pressing installations, cisterns, and holes for storage jars, some of which coming from a period as early as the Iron Age.35 This led Meyers and Strange to conclude that Nazareth was a peasant village since «the principal activity of these villagers was agriculture.

I also remember discovering during one Easter vigil the almost physical distress of some Eastern Rite Palestinians among us who, as refugees driven from their homeland, were affronted by our incessant imagery of the people of Israel despoiling the Egyptians, and seizing vines and trees they never planted and cisterns others had dug.

Like most of our Caribbean neighbors, our Cruzan Rum operation in St. Croix collects rainwater in roof catchments and cisterns for use as a source of fresh water.

The facility will feature outdoor exhibit stations as well as indoor educational space that includes classrooms, a river aquarium, an interactive wall map of the DuPage River watershed and a focal point cistern where roof water is recycled for use in the nature center's restrooms.

«The cistern is planned to be above ground to capture roof rainwater as well as the water from the splash pad during summer use.

Last summer, the park board approved the installation of a cistern at Longfellow Park as part of the park district's 2016 Capital Improvement Plan.

While Gibson stresses that it is again too early to draw conclusions about these items, he and the other researchers are considering these items as a possible indication that the emptied cistern was used as a refuge by Jewish residents hiding from Roman soldiers during the siege of 70 CE.

Water harvesting by collecting excess rain run - off for instance in cisterns — for supplementary irrigation during dry spells — is a common traditional approach in some regions such as the Sahel region in Africa, but is under - used in many other semi-arid regions such as Asia and North America.

Low - impact, environmentally friendly storm - water management options, such as rain gardens, permeable concrete, cisterns, and green roofs, are designed to mimic the way things function in the absence of development.

Mehmet II swept away the Byzantine Empire in 1453, capturing Constantinople, renamed as Istanbul where surviving Byzantine monuments include St. Sophia, founded by Emperor Justinian in the 6th century, the city walls and Basilica Cistern.

Cenotes are formed when the limestone that makes up the Yucatan Peninsula is eroded over thousands of years by rainwater, resulting in large «sinkholes» that appear on the surface, exposing hollowed - out caverns below that act as natural cisterns for water.

The «Cisterne» building, once used as storage space for brandy and whisky cisterns, usually accommodates an exhibition project entitled Trittico, conceived by Shumon Basar, Cédric Libert, Elvira Dyagani Ose, and Dieter Roelstraete, which features three major works from the Prada collection, periodically rotating.

Their vigil is suddenly interrupted by a premonition as the younger woman turns abruptly and stares at the cistern, watching in disbelief as a young man's head appears.

In addition, he co-curated the DMA exhibitions All the World's a Stage: Celebrating Performance in the Visual Arts (2009), There and Back Again: Selections from the Graham D. Williford Collection of American Art (2005), and Imperial Taste: Chinese Porcelain for the Western Trade (2005); curated Ten for Tea (2007) and Through the Needle's Eye: American Quilts from the Permanent Collection of the Dallas Museum of Art (2004); reinstalled the Museum's American decorative arts holdings, including the creation of galleries dedicated to 19th - century American silver and 20th - century design; and was responsible for numerous major acquisitions, including the Huntingdon Wine Cistern, a pair of Louis Comfort Tiffany «undersea» windows, a rare Gustav Stickley linen chest, Viktor Schreckengost's Jazz Bowl, and a variety of American silver works such as a «Viking» vase for the 1901 Buffalo Exposition, a Tiffany & Co..

It draws up vapours from the sea and land, retains them dissolved in itself, or suspended in cisterns of clouds, and throws them down again as rain or dew when they are required....

If young and fresh H5N1 contaminated water from low local wells, cisterns, tanks, rain barrels or rice fields is used for water supply the water temperature for infection may be higher (at 24 °C the virulence of influenza viruses amount to 2 days) as in temperate climates (for «older» water from central water supplies cold water is decisive to virulence of viruses: at 7 °C the virulence of influenza viruses amount to 14 days).

This can simply be done by building a relatively inexpensive rain barrel, or incorporating a cistern or tank as a sustainable building feature in a new home's construction.

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.

Dan hired local contractors to excavate the trench for his foundation, as well as his 1400 gallon cistern.

If the device has a DoP for Class 2 conformance, this device must be accepted by a water undertaking as complying with the law without further attestation by the Water Regulations Advisory Service (WRAS) except for those materials of construction prior to the air - gap within the cistern and compliance of the float operated valve to BS 1212 the relevant current British standard.

Install a cistern to collect water to use for plants, washing clothes, bathing and other non-potable uses, as local ordinances allow.

In the event there were not any visible clues of the cistern existence, it may have been difficult for an average Practitioner to discover it, on their own, as part of any Full - Agency duties, perceived or real.

These shelves built into the wall not only act as vital storage space, but also disguise the cistern.

If you are daring enough, look in antique shops as a Victorian style pull cistern will truly fit the part.

Essentially, a merry - go - round works as a pump to bring water to an above ground gravity - fed cistern, and the overflow system takes it back to the aquifer.

The freestanding roll - top bath in this bathroom sets the tone for a truly traditional look and, these days, a classic chain toilet flush can be installed to be just as water - efficient as a modern cistern.

For a classic traditional bathroom feel, opt for a WC pan with a high level cistern and chrome piping, such as this one, from our fabulous Bloomsbury sanitaryware collection.