Sentences with phrase «of rain water harvesting»

It focuses on the benefits of rain water harvesting.

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The venue is committed to operating in a sustainable and environmentally - friendly way and has a number of initiatives in place to achieve this including serving Fairtrade teas and coffees, using recycled office materials and harvesting rain water to flush a proportion of the toilets.

Some of our favorite sensory bins that inspire imagination and creativity are our indoor sand where my son sat inside the bin, with «snow» raining down on him, belting out «Let It Go», our indoor cranberry bog where my kids pretended to harvest the cranberries in some cool fall weather using a variety of kitchen tools as real harvesting tools, and our «Inside Out» edible water bead bin where we used our imagination to act out and discuss a variety of emotions.

The Member of Parliament for Adentan Constituency, Yaw Buaben Asamoah, has called on the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources to commence the consideration of rain harvesting in the country.

And since an inch of rain falling on a 2,000 - square - foot roof produces some 1,200 gallons of runoff, one can harvest enough to supply all the water needs of a family of four for about two weeks.

Features of the buildings include rain water harvesting and solar panels.

For every inch of rain, we harvest and store 200 gallons of water, and limit the contamination of our Codornices Creek Watershed and the San Francisco Bay.

Abhaneri is situated on the Jaipur - Agra highway and is famous for its step wells, one of the unique inventions by the local farmers to harvest rain water.

He was an entrepreneur from a young age, harvesting Allspice from the Allpice trees, bottling rain water, recollection of Xate palm fronds leaves for export, chicken farming.

However, with me at least, a bit part of the deal is the increased acidity reducing fish harvests, water shortages, droughts severely reducing crops (sure — more rain, but more over the ocean, less on land — and with greater evaporation before the water trickles to a dry stream bed), increased heat reducing rice production and other heat sensative crops, the heat waves, etc..

Part 2 introduced the idea of harvesting rain water for such purposes as landscape care and more.

We decided to do a medium size rain water harvesting project by collecting water off the roof of our outbuilding shop / garage / barn.

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Enhanced resilience to future periods of drought stress may also be supported by improvements in existing rain - fed farming systems (Rockström, 2003), such as water - harvesting systems to supplement irrigation practices in semi-arid farming systems («more crop per drop» strategies, see Table 9.2).

«I, on behalf of my NGO, engaged in climate change practically by developing wastelands through activities e.g. planting trees, stabilizing sand dunes, checking soil erosion, combating the march of desert, harvesting rain water etc.» Read more

Energy efficiency is a prime concern and the institute is 100 % self sufficient in terms of captive power and water supply and promotes rain water harvesting and waste water re-cycling.

Lakhs and lakhs of bus shelter can be converted into a rain water harvesting point.

Strategies: Maintain effective representation in Aboriginal Housing Authority; promote employment / business development opportunities through established Indigenous building companies to manage Indigenous efforts; encourage private home ownership by removing constraints to housing finance on Aboriginal land; promoting use of alternative energy and rain water harvesting; develop committed plans to replace asbestos within housing occupied by Indigenous people.

«The cities that will achieve flood and drought climate resilience, as well as fiscal sustainability in the face of unrelenting climate change challenges, are going to be those that transform their water, wastewater and storm water services into intelligent distributed infrastructure networks of real - time rain harvesting and reuse.

Efforts are made to include natural building materials like wood and stone, and each home will make use of rain and grey water harvesting systems.