Sentences with phrase «captured rain water»

Capturing rain water for landscaping irrigation.

Buy a Water Cistern If you don't know, a water cistern is a device that captures rain water and stores it for you to use to water your garden or lawn, to wash your car, etc..

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Koch recommends offering to buy water from neighbors or teaching them how to capture water in rain barrels.

Halter Ranch conserves water, resulting in over a 50 % reduction in irrigation; captures rain and winery water bringing over two million gallons back to irrigation ponds; and farms 281 acres of vines without removing oak trees or displacing existing wildlife and plant life.

«We'll use about 47 percent less water, through our design of the building and our capture and re-use of rain water,» Jenkins said.

Their videos (use the link below) capture varying scales of water nucleation occurring in the nano - structures and the absorption of the majority of an impacting rain droplet with little or no splashing.

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.

Christopher Miles With our white roof, our townhome is (relatively) cool - also have plenty of water in rain capture barrel to pour over the head.

Unlike the water captured inside your home, which flows to the sewer and into waste treatment facilities, rain travels through storm drains to creeks, rivers, and eventually to the ocean.

Assigned to a rickety plane to conduct a search - and - rescue mission, he survived a crash in the south Pacific and spent the next 46 days in a life raft with two others, living on rain water, captured sea birds and raw fish.

[1] In Bon's vision, water that would otherwise bypass the city via the river (which is the catch for the rain) en route to the ocean (which is the catch for the river) will be captured for the benefit of Los Angeles's arid landscape.

Alertnet: No - till farming is a response to climate change that fits well with the needs of the Caribbean: it increases the ability to capture water, while withstanding both drought and excessive rains, says expert Theodor Friedrich, representative of the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Cuba.

We could see from horizon to horizon from the Buddha tower and watched the massive black cloud appearing in the far distance being driven by the wind towards us, which on reaching us poured rain into all the ingenious levels of gutters and channels designed to capture it as it passed over the city abandoned from lack of water.

Power plant emissions that cause acid rain, water pollution and destruction of the ozone layer may actually be made worse by capturing the CO2 and pumping it deep underground, a new study reported online and in an upcoming International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control suggests.

«Five proposed schoolyards in Brooklyn and Queens are undergoing soil tests, and if selected they will be transformed into public playgrounds with storm water - capture features such as rain barrels, raised gardens, porous pavers and an under - layer of gravel that holds water during a storm, before allowing it to seep gradually into the ground below, city DEP Commissioner Carter Strickland said.»

Cisterns or rain barrels, which capture and stores rain water, are footprint - friendly alternatives.

A rain barrel, which captures and stores rain water, can be used as a source of irrigation water.

«We had to install a «rain garden» in the back yard to capture the first 1 % of rain water run - off from the structure; this is a new requirement in Atlanta, and as far as I know, we're one of the first residential projects that's been subject to this requirement.»