Sentences with phrase «keep rainwater»

Rain barrels keep the rainwater from going down into the groundwater.

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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.

The water doesn't come from a treatment plant, instead it is pure rainwater and the only thing to keep nasties out is citric acid.

Keep the pile covered and protected from rainwater, for the water will leach out potassium and nitrogen.

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

They tell how they caught fish and birds and drank rainwater to survive, and how they read the Bible and sang to keep their spirits up.

In just one example, I used the calculations found in the Grow Your Own Groceries CD set to figure out how much rainwater I could collect from my house roof — and how much water I might need to keep my garden alive.

Most important, the city is aware of the problem, which is the result of an antique sewage system that relies on rainwater to keep it moving.

The A-pillars likewise help to keep dirt away from the side windows as they feature special water guides where the rainwater hitting the windscreen is collected before being blown downwards and across the roof by the airflow.

The white cement wash compound of the roofs not only sanitizes the rainwater but also keeps the houses cooler.

One thing I learned that is land need rainwater penetrate it at community in order to keep undergrand water and ecosystem.

In Tilwari, for example, water from a natural source was piped to a place in the village more accessible than hiking up a steep slope carrying a bucket of water — but the project also supported a rainwater harvesting initiative, where a family that is too far to benefit from the piped water has installed gutters on the roof of the house that direct water into a cistern that they keep underground behind the house.

Keeping soil water, surface run - off and rainwater out of the cellar needs serious consideration and some leakage may have to be tollerated.

The environmental engineers also blamed the city's poor system for dealing with sewage and rainwater, which are collected together, not separately, as needs to be done to keep pipes from overflowing; a lack of emergency plans and adequate warnings; and the municipality's failure to complete promised stream - reclamation works.

According to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the benefits of harvested rainwater include that it typically has fewer contaminants, it is kept at a luke warm temperature and thus doesn't shock plant roots as tap water can, and it also is not treated with chlorine, a chemical which may destroy soil microbes and inhibit plant growth.

A combination of a rainwater head and handheld fittings mean you have all the showering options you need, plus it makes it easy to keep a large enclosure like this clean.