Sentences with phrase «filter rainwater»

Rooftop farms may be stealing the lime light from green roofs, but there's still a lot to be said for putting plants on rooftops to filter rainwater, regulate building temperatures, promote biodiversity and counter the urban heat island effect.

The company's model 1080 not only produces renewable electricity from the sun (and stores it in integrated batteries), but it can also collect and filter rainwater.

-- «Bioswale» landscape features and plantings that filter rainwater runoff before it enters storm drains

Look out for a way to filter the rainwater.

The sand filters the rainwater and makes it clean and drinkable.

The grass - covered, curved roof that filters rainwater offers travelers a sneak preview of the unique eco-friendly design found at H2H Hotel in Healdsburg, California.

Not exact matches

Rainforests act as natural water filters, keeping pollution and debris from flowing into water supplies; they also slow down rainwater, sending it into underground reserves.

When it comes to rainwater harvesting, the underlying proposition is very simple — the essential idea is collection of rainwater and then subsequently filtering and pumping it for further selective use.

Florverde standards include minimized water use via drip irrigation and rainwater collection, boilers with air pollution filters, integrated pest control to reduce pesticide use, and environmentally sensitive waste disposal.

The lush canopy not only serves as a good insulator but also collects rainwater, which the plants and soil filter and bamboo pipes deliver straight into the dog's water bowl.

Underground, an extensive root system of prairie plants helps to filter pollutants when rainwater percolates through the soil.

Consider using bottled water, a water filter, or even collecting rainwater.

The shape is somehow optimized for rainwater collection, which is then filtered for use.

One might think that green roofs and rainwater harvesting were made for each other, that the sand, soil and filter cloth would help clean the water as it made it's way to the drain.

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

It features some energy - efficient design too, including rainwater collection and on - site filtering, hybrid heat - pump heating systems and energy - efficient appliances and lighting.

Other eco-friendly design elements include stormwater detention bioswales where plants will filter pollutants from rainwater that rinses the roadways and parking areas and will clean the water before it leaves the site.

However Professor Brian Gulson, head of the Technical Advisory Board of the LEAD Group had this to say on the matter: «Water filter systems can be helpful in removing lead from water, so if people are concerned about lead in rainwater they may wish to consider a filtration system rather than discarding their tanks.»

A wall - mounted Dickinson woodstove and Envi unit provides heat; a four - panel, 940 - watt solar panel array provides power; there's the requisite composting toilet; and there's a rainwater harvesting and storage system that provides filtered water for bathing and washing.

Soda and beer cans can also be used to collect rainwater to drink or as a receptacle for your sock - filtered water.

Also, their porous surface functions as a filter to remove some pollutants from rainwater.

In undisturbed landscapes, such as woods and open field, there is very little stormwater runoff because rainwater filters through soil or evaporates into the atmosphere.