Sentences with phrase «filtered runoff water»

You could even use the naturally filtered runoff water as drinking water for your dog.

Both «cooled conservatories» run on energy generated by the Supertrees and capture and filter runoff water.

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Decades of runoff and pollution have decimated the local shellfish population and hurt the environment's ability to filter the water, Cuomo said.

AbTech is a small Arizona company that sells sponge - like filters that remove pollutants from water and can be used in sewers and on stormwater runoff.

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.

Manning says the report also ignores other services grasslands provide, such as absorbing flood water and filtering runoff.

Toxic industrial runoffs, heavy metals, and pharmaceutical drugs are the bigger categories to watch out for,» says William Cole, D.C. «Carbon filters can do a great job at filtering, and certain brands have filters that focus more on certain pollutants, allowing you to pinpoint your water's particular problem.

They provide essential breeding grounds and nurseries for commercially important fish; mangroves and the adjacent seagrass beds retain and filter sediment from river runoff, increasing the clarity of water on the reefs; they are the first line of storm defence, absorbing the power of the wind.

Her groundbreaking, remediative sculptural environments were designed as ecological filters to cleanse gray water, urban storm water and agricultural runoff.

Green roofs reduce stormwater runoff, filter out water and air pollutants, moderate the urban heat - island effect, add green space to the built environment, shade and insulate rooftops to improve buildings» thermal performance (thereby reducing energy use and costs), and extend the service life of structural roof systems.

SITES - certified landscapes additionally help reduce water demand, filter and reduce stormwater runoff, provide wildlife habitat, reduce energy consumption, improve air quality, improve human health and increase outdoor recreation opportunities.

One of the benefits of constructing these artificial wetlands was thought to be in cleaning and filtering polluted water, including mitigating the effects of excess fertilizer runoff, which has been contributing to hypoxic zones in the ocean.

They also supply essential services — for example, they filter water, control water runoff, protect soil, regulate climate, cycle and store nutrients, and provide habitat for countless animal species and space for recreation.