Sentences with phrase «capturing rainwater»

Everything was custom - designed, and Wolfe's home is entirely off the grid, capturing rainwater and solar energy to run her home.

In a study published in the journal Functional Ecology, researchers warn that people capturing rainwater in drought - ridden areas are also providing breeding grounds for disease - carrying insects.

The underground cistern captures rainwater and then repurposes it to irrigate the Elsie Jacobsen Discovery Garden.

In Cabeza Prieta, DHS has paid for water catchments for pronghorn — shallow troughs that capture rainwater for drinking — and has also contributed funds to the captive breeding program.

Cisterns and reservoirs captured rainwater and kept it separate from springwater, which was brought to the city via terra - cotta pipes.

The building is completely self - sustaining: it generates its own electricity using solar panels, captures rainwater for use, and recycles its own waste.

Green roofs also capture rainwater runoff, and support the life of insects and birds.

Cultivating With Cardboard Next, following the contour of the land, the group dug out a pair of swales, or channels, and piled up the topsoil to create a raised bed surrounded by what looked like a small moat that would help capture rainwater runoff.

There will be systems to reuse waste heat, irrigate with captured rainwater, and compost wood waste.

The building also captures rainwater: the rain is in a 7,000 - gallon tank below a staircase.

Most of us are directly tied into the local water supply, which is great when it works well, and horrible when it doesn't (as evidenced by the recent and ongoing travesties in communities such as Flint, Michigan), and although some homes may capture rainwater for irrigation, or have their own well, there aren't a lot of alternative choices for getting clean drinking water, other than purchasing bottled water.

Chapter volunteers achieve this by promoting sustainable landscaping techniques that capture rainwater and remove pollutants from runoff.

The captured rainwater is used to irrigate the native Texas plants that make up our campus landscape.

Not exact matches

Page doesn't make a lot of splashy purchases, but the alternative - energy advocate does own an eco-friendly mansion in Palo Alto that uses geothermal energy and rainwater capture.

«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.

He has also initiated several eco-conscious improvements to the buildings and farm equipment, including over 50Kw of solar panels that provide much of the farm's electricity; the conversion of cooking oil into biodiesel to power the tractors and other vehicles; and a rainwater capture system that feeds a pond, which provides irrigation for the apple orchard and other landscaping.

The park district will demonstrate environmental sustainability by using photovoltaic panels, a partial «green» roof and a cistern to capture and reuse rainwater.

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

One big culprit is rainwater that is captured in roof gutters that then flows through a downspout that is connected into a drain leading to a sanitary sewer.

Soon enough it's clear that Mac has mere hours left (despite eating captured fish and drinking precious rainwater), and when he asks Louie if he's «going to die tonight,» the sudden response of «maybe,» however casually delivered, feels jarring in a genre wherein so many characters would have smiled and lied to their ailing cohorts.

The Guest House is powered totally by solar roof panels, with fresh water captured in two huge rainwater tanks beneath the house.

You may not notice the passive solar system, rainwater capture or LED lights, but you'll be stunned by the floor plan, designed to make the most of the ocean views, and the extensive use of native woods, including in a helix - like central staircase in the airy great room.

Sustainable technologies (off grid solar, rainwater capture / treatment, etc) and micro-furnishing options are on display, as well as an organic garden.

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

The Gregory Elementary OFG is now a beautiful example of how gardens can be maintained to capture and soak up rainwater and prevent stormwater runoff from occurring.

Any excess rainwater not captured by the roof is then soaked up by the surrounding native plants.

An ideal rainwater harvesting system does not capture more water than a landscape can use because water surpluses can become a nuisance if water is not utilized within three to four months (think stagnant water).

Its Sacramento facility will also have a number of water - saving features, including the ability to capture nearly all its rainwater runoff for landscaping, its cooling towers, and bathroom fixtures.

They're developing a system that will capture and recycle rainwater for irrigation.

The owners graze their animals rotationally, capture and use rainwater, and do not plow their fields in order to avoid further evaporation and disturbance to the land.

You are supposed to meet water needs from rainwater capture, but that's not allowed for health reasons, so the building is being connected to the City water supply until it can prove that its collected water is safe.

Two rectangular modules form the house, and it is capped by a split - butterfly roof, which is well suited to capturing and using sunlight and rainwater.

Still, without financial incentives from the state or local water agencies, it's not likely that rainwater capture will pay for itself in most homeowners» lifetimes.

More than 11 million gallons of water will be collected per year through our rainwater capture system installed at our headquarters campus in Plano, TX.