Sentences with phrase «of rainwater»

For this reason, this type of rainwater harvesting system is particularly recommendable in districts with high population densities, such as (in Barcelona) Sants, Verdun, Sagrada Família, Sant Antoni or el Guinardó, whose consumption of resources per m3 is up to 40 % lower than that of districts like Pedralbes, Sarrià, la Clota, el Bon Pastor, Vall d'Hebron or Vallvidrera.

The Rev. Nebraski Carter stands next to a puddle of rainwater in the parking lot of the Living Water Church of God in Christ.

One of the main sustainable design strategies was the collection and reuse of rainwater in order to minimize city water usage.

Features of this landscape include the use of rainwater collected in downspouts and rain barrels for plant irrigation and fountain sculptures.

The big puffs of foam that form on the surface of the water aren't evidence of agricultural runoff, but rather the result of rainwater leeching through the forest floor.

My 100,000 - square - foot roof produces two million gallons of rainwater per year and as the first solar array farm in the world, I will have no electric, water or gas bill.»

The 2.5 acres of living roof will absorb nearly two million gallons of rainwater per year that would otherwise go down the drain.

Against an excavation contractor for their failure to properly close a manhole prior to an extremely heavy rain, allowing massive amounts of rainwater to enter...

The hydroelectric resource potential depends on a combination of rainwater draining directly into waterways and the level of accumulated snowpack in mountainous regions that eventually melts and becomes run - off.

«IBC found that rain barrels, if emptied regularly, could divert 4.5 - million litres of rainwater runoff away from a municipality's sewer system and out of homes, which is great news,» said Ralph Palumbo, vice president of Ontario at IBC.

More than 620,000 - square - feet of landscaped area has been irrigated by our three storm management cisterns that harvest up to one million liters of rainwater at a time.

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.

That more normal monsoon pattern arrived just in time to catch the record volumes of rainwater streaming down the Indus river system from the heavily hit northwest.

Lately, her work «suggests more subtly vaporous reaches, say, of rainwater streaming down and beading up on walls or windowpanes.

In rainwater, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide convert to sulfuric acid and nitric acid, which increase the acidity of rainwater.

Ponding of rainwater can often occur on flat roofs.

Infiltration of rainwater declines, runoff and erosion increase with more flash flooding.

Her rough white slab could represent the glacial, volcanic landscape of her native Iceland — or the slow accretion of rainwater through the rails.

Photos and videos or other reliable records: These can be homemade or media based records of rainwater inundating your area and / or your house.

Water tanks installed at the facility can store up to 240,000 l of rainwater.

FIJI water is collected in a natural aquifer, the result of rainwater trickling down through layers of volcanic rock.

They then compared the oxygen isotope ratio in Yonderup dripwater with that predicted by a model (which simulated the dripwater δ18O based on measurements of rainwater δ18O), as well as that measured at a different cave in the region.

Basically, they added three quantities: the consumption of rainwater (the so - called green water footprint); the use of ground - and surface water (blue); and the volume of gray water polluted (and therefore depleted).

Larvae can grow in mere bottle - capfuls of rainwater, so saucers under potted plants or puddles in a crumpled tarp can become a public health menace.

Other benefits, says the EPA, include: providing amenity space for tenants (in effect replacing a yard or patio); reducing building heating and cooling costs due to the buffering effect of the plant matter and soil; filtering pollutants like carbon dioxide out of the air and heavy metals out of rainwater; and increasing bird habitat in otherwise built - up areas.

Biology textbooks claim that the male moss mates by shedding sperm into a surrounding film of rainwater or dew — a haphazard strategy that arose in ancestral aquatic algae.

In order to increase the sulphur concentration of rainwater sufficiently in the Archean eon, basaltic volcanism of gigantic proportions was required at the same time.

The findings show that for every m3 of rainwater used to wash clothes (the equivalent of 11 wash cycles) there is a saving of 5.68 Euros on detergent, and that large rainwater tanks for resident communities, or even for parts of neighbourhoods, is more economical and energy - efficient than individual installations.

«These practices can improve understanding of rainwater harvesting and landscape management,» he said.

But instead of reaching out to her family, she wandered ten miles down the road, broke into an abandoned farmhouse, and lived off of rainwater and apples for the next four months during one of the coldest New Hampshire winters on record.

There is an active hatch vent and box that provides a one way path for air flow out of a pressurized cabin but does not allow the entry of rainwater spray and / or fumes.

We finally sat down at the end with big bowls of stew and lumps of rough bread and a cup of rainwater and about twenty cats mewling about our legs.

And by spending so much effort trying to collecting a few drops of rainwater, many investors are ignoring much bigger leaks in their financial lives.

When we arrive in Klaipeda, large puddles of rainwater prove that we've missed the worst part of the rain.

Bonaire rose above sea level 60 — 70 million years ago revealing limestone formations that have dissolved under the action of rainwater forming numerous caves.

The island infrastructure is comprised of rainwater collection reservoirs and Reverse Osmosis systems, three generators, telephone with fax, satellite television in the bar lounge, and free Wi - Fi internet.

Also, it's very easy to step into a pool of rainwater or onto a pile of sheep poo, so be careful!

Evidently, the villagers here are familiar with the concept of rainwater harvesting.

Rainwater harvesting just so you know is the accumulating and storing of rainwater.

From cascading falls to tropical gardens, the hot springs are the result of rainwater heated by magma in the Earth's interior.

This is very true, but this aspect of rainwater harvesting isn't as beneficial as making other, much larger and more expensive yet important changes - making LA's surfaces more permeable so that rainwater can filter back down to the groundwater table.

But going the route of rainwater harvesting and diversion is a much better solution than launching a new energy intensive desalination plant.

The top level acts like a rain forest's canopy — hence the name — by collecting 95 % of all solar energy and 30 % of rainwater for the tower.

As described by Fasullo (2013), GRACE satellite observations detected increased groundwater storage caused by higher rates of rainwater falling on endorheic basins, primarily in Australia.

Although satellite observations suggested much of the rainwater remained in the Australian basin, sea level resumed its unabated rise as groundwater base flow contribution would predict.

Just remember to empty the containers of rainwater frequently — since standing water attracts mosquitoes.

Reduced vegetation eliminates the cooling effect of transpiration, and prevents the recycling of rainwater that sinks deeper into the ground.

Landscape irrigation that takes advantage of rainwater can reduce overall water usage by 30 % to 50 % per year.

Studies of rainwater run - off from different green roofs are being researched.