Sentences with phrase «by rain water»

This means that if your home is damaged by rain water from a broken roof, your plaster walls will be covered for the replacement costs of drywall (not plaster).

But, instances of damage caused by rain water are not covered by the insurance company unless the authorities deem them as floods.

Not exact matches

Bible cosmology imagines that the «sky» is actually surrounded by a hard «firmament» where the stars are stuck and where holes let out the rain from a water layer outside of it.

We believe rain is caused by the Earth's water cycle.

It is customary to give one - tenth of the product of the land if it is watered by rain and one - twentieth if it is irrigated by human effort; two and one - half per cent of savings is suggested, with equal proportions of the increase in cattle or in trade in goods.

We want to be firmly planted in the Word, like a tree by streams of living water, that bears fruit in season, it's leaves don't whither in the drought, it doesn't blow over with all kinds of trends and false teachings, it is there through thick and thin, when the sun is shining and the rain is pouring, that is the kind of church we want to be.»

When he gave to the wind its weight, and meted out the waters by measure; when he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of thunder; then he saw it and declared it; he established it and searched it out.

If they could only have cast their minds further back, perhaps they might have recalled a lost paradise: green and yellow meadows stirred by tender winds, umbrageous forests and emerald groves, glass - blue mountain peaks melting into azure skies, glittering bays whose diamond waters break in jade and turquoise surges on sands like powdered alabaster — where the rain falls gently, and is transformed by the setting sun into shimmering curtains of gold — where, beyond verdant valleys and limestone caves, lies a palace filled with every delight the senses can endure, enclosing garden courtyards where crystal fountains splash in porphyry basins, intoxicating perfumes hang upon the breezes, undying flowers of every hue shine out amid the greenery's blue shadows...

They are taken up by plants again with such efficiency that the water that runs from the undisturbed Amazonian rain - forest is virtually the same as distilled water in composition.

Talking Rain Beverage Company ®, the maker of Sparkling Ice ® flavored sparkling waters, today announces sponsorship of the NHRA Top Fuel Dragster driven by Leah Pritchett.

Pollination of the hermaphrodite flowers, a genetic characteristic of the most commonly cultivated varieties, is assisted by rain, which increases the efficiency of pollen distribution as water flows down the flower cluster.

Preston, Wash. - based Talking Rain Beverage Co., the maker of Sparkling Ice flavored sparkling waters, announced the brand's sponsorship of the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) Top Fuel Dragster driven by Leah Pritchett.

The plants are watered by a drip irrigation system using rain and condensate water collected in re-purposed storage containers.

Occasionally Chichester is obliged to turn to the classics to piece out the narrative with passages from Conrad and Richard Henry Dana, but for the most part he draws on the solitary venturers in small craft — Joshua Slocum, the first man to sail alone around the world; Ann Davison, the first woman to sail alone across the Atlantic; Alain Bombard, the French physician who sailed a 15 - foot rubber dinghy 2,750 miles in 65 days to see if it was possible for a man to survive on the ocean without food or water except that provided by fish and rain.

I'm happily taking a bit of a break from the garden today while the rain comes down (saving me from all that time spent watering by hand - hooray for rain!).

Our Outdoor Classroom is a green building designed by local green architecht Frank Harmon and features sustainable building options, rain - water harvesting, and dual - flush toilets.

It's so hot and dry in Kansas that the Baptists are starting to baptize by sprinkling, the Methodists are using wet - wipes, the Presbyterians are giving out rain - checks & the Catholics are praying for the wine to turn back into water.»)

It was actually from April of 2016 and by July, water levels in the system were below average, mostly because of a lack of rain.

Rochester, NY — With the possibility of heavy rain and flooding as Tropical Storm Lee bears down on the Northeast, NYSEG encourages customers in flood - prone areas — and even customers who experience persistent basement flooding — to consider how their electricity and natural gas services could be affected by high water.

On if the improvement of power supply in the country is as a result of raining season or improvement on the part of Discos, Fashola said, «what is interesting is that for the first time in a long time, our gas fired plants and our hydro power plants driven by water have converged together, and when you factor that to the improvement that the Gencos investors have made into their plants and are still making, it explains the improved power supply that you have.»

A Two - and - a-half-year-old baby girl has reportedly been swept away by flood waters as heavy rain engulfed parts of the Greater Accra region Thursday morning.

«Normally by this time this year the water level at Akosombo Dam should be between 155 - 160ft but it could not get to that level because of lack of rains this year», he explained.

The Oneida County Health Department is urging residents impacted by recent flooding conditions to take precautions when dealing with flood waters resulting from the heavy rains and overflow conditions.

By using harvested rainwater for watering lawns, watering gardens and potted plants, and for washing cars, rain barrels conserve water.

Health Department Urges Precautions in Aftermath of Flooding The Oneida County Health Department is urging residents impacted by recent flooding conditions to take precautions when dealing with flood waters resulting from the heavy rains and overflow conditions.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — The Westchester County Department of Health is reminding residents to dump out standing water on their property after it rains, and to use insect repellents when outdoors in the early morning and late afternoon to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes that could carry West Nile Virus.

Authorities believe 28 - year old Brandon Closure was swept away into the city's storm sewer system, after he accidentally stepped into an open manhole blown open by surging rain water.

A mighty atmospheric river, fueled by water vapor from the Amazon and heat from the sun, flows across South America until it reaches the Andes and condenses into rain.

We are now also able to model ice topped by melt water or rain water.»

Many clouds at mid-latitudes make rain by freezing water into ice crystals (which fall from the cloud then melt before they hit the ground), rather than by coalescing warm water droplets together.

The excessive heat increased the rate of water loss by evaporation and caused precipitation to shift from snow to rain, leaving a meager snowpack and parched reservoirs.

Strikingly, the huge tropical woods produce much of the water they need themselves by evaporating moisture which then rains back onto them.

Even without a proper accounting of overlapping water supplies, the plan warned that demand for water could «outstrip existing supplies» by 2035 unless the state pursued dramatic solutions like desalinating and piping in ocean water or artificially seeding clouds to make it rain.

When it rains, water soaks into the soil, through compacted dirt and rock, until it is blocked by an impermeable surface.

As glaciers disappear in the rain shadow of the Himalayas, one man is helping farmers irrigate their fields by storing water in an innovative way

Massive torrents of water from the Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi and Sutlej rivers fed by these monsoon rains eventually met the Indus at Rajanpur district in southern Punjab.

That sulfur dioxide market, run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has reduced sulfur dioxide levels by 40 percent since 1992 by allowing companies to buy and sell the right to emit the acid - rain forming pollution from coal - burning plants, which has increased the acidity of lake waters throughout the region.

Engorged by heavy spring rains, the river has overwhelmed both its east and west banks; a large industrial park northwest of Treasure Island is seen awash in muddy water.

The city has committed $ 1.5 billion to erecting green infrastructure — green roofs, street and sidewalk plantings, porous pavements, cisterns, rain barrels — that will control and absorb storm water and prevent polluted runoff from flowing into waterways by capturing it and filtering it naturally through the soil.

It is estimated that the country is losing some 8 percent of its wealth each year to pollution, with the toll including everything from crops destroyed by acid rain to spiraling health costs due to poor air and water quality.

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.

Rain or shine has new meaning thanks to an innovative, inexpensive and simple tactic developed by researchers at Florida Atlantic University that will really change how people think about watering their lawns.

Rain and gray water, which is not recycled by the household, flows into the «energy alley «-- a green strip with plants that thrive on moisture.

The presence of these particles helps to seed clouds by providing sites on which water droplets can condense, but very small particles, the scientists found, actually decrease the precipitating efficiency of clouds, meaning it rains less.

Clouds form when water condenses on particles of dust, and rain falls when condensed water droplets grow too heavy to be suspended by updrafts in the atmosphere.

Life there is sustained by the intermittent rain of dead organic matter from the surface waters.

Observations show when water vapour is taken up by the atmosphere through evaporation, the updraughts can either rise to 15 km to form clouds that produce heavy rains or rise just a few kilometres before returning to the surface without forming rain clouds.

That makes sense, since the university's new research focus for Biosphere 2 is water: not just rain but runoff, absorption by soil, use by plants, and evaporation.

Then the researchers took the plants out into the forest, mimicking the natural process by which young leaves are gradually colonized by fungi swirling in the air or contained in water droplets when it rains.

To make up for having their roots exposed, some lineages adopted a kind of water - saving photosynthesis called crassulacean acid metabolism that likely helped them survive only on fog and rain; it increased their diversification rate by a remarkable 20.3 %.