Sentences with word «cistern»

Earlier, standing in the Basilica Cistern with my travel companion, our tour guide had pointed to the big Medusa head.

Using smart thermostats, water cisterns for the lawn and things like that can help mitigate building expenses.»

There's already a high level of self - sufficiency in St. Croix — many homes rely almost entirely on rainwater cisterns for their freshwater supply.

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....

Hoyer also cut his water bill by installing a rainwater cistern in his backyard to supply his toilets.

The dungeon design was clever throughout (see the Ancient Cistern for a wonderful water temple challenge).

This unique event will take place at Kinsterna Restaurant, right beside the Byzantine cistern from which the hotel takes its name, surrounded by the mansion's majestic courtyard with views to the endless blue of Myrtoo Sea and the imposing medieval castle - town of Monemvasia.

In England and Wales, it's possible to get totally free water - saving gadgets from your water company year - round, including # 20 shower heads (which help regulate water usage), tap inserts (to regulate the flow of water from your tap, worth # 5) and Save - A-Flush bags (bags you place into your toilet cistern so each flush uses less water, worth # 2).

Get the look: A vintage wall - hung basin by Royal Doulton and Victorian - stylee high - level cistern toilet by Burlington Bathrooms are teamed with the Jinsique design wallpaper in the Garden colour way, # 125 a roll, from Rockett St George.

Standard metal roofing panels enable Lucas to catch rainwater and store it in a 1700 - gallon cistern buried on the northern exposure of the house.

But when Cubby listened to the fountain, it only made her think of the broken cistern in the toilets under the gym, mossy and dank and smelling like a dead body mixed up with old cartons of rotting milk.

31 Do not listen to Hezekiah; for thus says the king of Assyria: «Make your peace with me and come out to me; then every one of you will eat of his own vine, and every one of his own fig tree, and every one of you will drink the water of his own cistern; 32 until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and honey, that you may live, and not die.

Some places still rely on cisterns.

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

An auto - flushing cistern used in conjunction with a Marnic Urinal Flush Controller can provide water savings of up to 90 %, meaning the initial outlay can be recovered within months.

and houses full of all that is good, which you did not fill, and cisterns hewn out, which your did not hew, vineyards and olive - trees, which your did not plant, and you shall eat and be satisfied

Reveter designed a project to get local restaurant chains to change to water - saving faucets (up to 50 percent water savings), installing cisterns, and educating employees on water conservation.

But laudable though it is to take a shower rather than a bath, put a brick in the lavatory cistern and turn off the tap while brushing our teeth, we shouldn't get hold of the idea that regular domestic water use is what is really emptying the world's rivers.

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

The owners of Casa Monte have eradicated such problems by equipping the house with TWO large hot water services and a large cistern of water that is pumped evenly to each floor.)

Rainwater is collected off the roof and stored in above grade cisterns for landscape irrigation, located below the front and back decks.

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.

Cisterns capture nearly all the stormwater from the site and roof surfaces.

Surveyed from 30 meters above using drones and specialized image analysis software, the site shows the unmistakable outlines of check dams, irrigation canals and cisterns feeding a patchwork of small farm fields.

Hanks hits his marks like the pro he is, and Howard and his production team give us a nice armchair tour of Italian museums, the Hagia Sophia, in Istanbul, and the gloomy waters of the Basilica Cistern beneath it.

Rainwater collected on rooftops and in cisterns helps provide domestic water, but many people must drink and cook with brackish water.

Water is supplied from a rain collection system which stores water in a large in - ground cistern.

Jennifer Steinkamp at Lehmann Maupin By Lilly Wei Los Angeles - based Jennifer Steinkamp, a new - media artist of great technical finesse, has reprised and refined the dancing trees she projected so spectacularly onto the historic walls of the sixth - century Yerebatan Cistern at last year \'s Istanbul Biennial.

Samara Scott Backwater (broken glass, cistern bloo, milk, sandwich bags, necklace, clingfilm, bedroom floor sweepings, hair gel, bingo chips, sellotape, noodles), 2017 Photographic print Edition of 40 45 x 33 cm

Water collection cisterns on roofs help with both flooding and droughts.

It also allows for hidden losses — evaporation from towels needs heat, cold water in WC cisterns also absorbs heat.

To complete your Pavilion back to wall pan & cistern choose from our collection of stylsih toilet seats

The Oak Park Conservatory already has a 400 - gallon cistern which was installed as part of the overall renovation project.

At the bottom of the residence's large, 30 - foot deep cistern, the excavators found cooking pots and the remains of an oven.

The reservoirs and cisterns went dry.

All the amenities are present to increase your comfort, including on - site rain cisterns for the freshest drinking water.

(He had seen James Turrell's sky space, the Buffalo Bayou Cistern, the Ship Channel and Project Row Houses, eaten out a lot and noticed all the greenspace.)

The whole buying side of this transaction has been one giant «cluster f# < -RCB-»... From listing sales reps not disclosing on properties that we viewed: underground oil tanks, under house cisterns, fences around pool areas being shorter than allowed by law, knob & tube wiring, leaking foundations, asbestos....

The name given to these basement cisterns by the ReFresh Milwaukee crew is «BaseTerns.»

Since its founding in 1939, Norwesco has been North America's leading manufacturer of proprietary, rotationally - molded polyethylene tanks for agricultural, water, closed - top industrial and below ground septic and cistern applications.

RainGrid Network's smart cisterns catch rooftop runoff to prevent sewage overflows, flooded basements and pollution of our rivers and beaches, at half the cost of conventional infrastructure.

And while we may throw away our early, ignorant ideas of prayer, we may not throw away prayer, the flowing of internal fountains that keep their freshness when all the superficial cisterns peter out [The Power to See It Through (Harper & Brothers, 1935), p. 133].

Because his message was unpopular, he was put in the stocks, thrown into a miry cistern, imprisoned, had his writings burned, and in general was persecuted by the king, the people, and the false prophets who said what the rulers wanted to hear.

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.

Forgive me for simply laying out a sequence of random thoughts (on a single theme) that occurred to me a few hours ago, as I was swimming around in my morning cistern of coffee; but it seems to be all I'm fit for just at the moment.

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.

Where it would normally store refrigerant in 2,000 - pound cisterns, now it uses dozens of 11 - pound cells.