Sentences with phrase «rainwater cisterns»

private and communal rainwater cisterns will provide irrigation for edible green roofs, community and private edible gardens, fruit bearing vegetation, and vertical gardens that will inhabit the facades, laneway, and yards and spaces between buildings.

The water supplies are exclusively sourced from rainwater cisterns.

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Like most of our Caribbean neighbors, our Cruzan Rum operation in St. Croix collects rainwater in roof catchments and cisterns for use as a source of fresh water.

The park district will demonstrate environmental sustainability by using photovoltaic panels, a partial «green» roof and a cistern to capture and reuse rainwater.

«The cistern is planned to be above ground to capture roof rainwater as well as the water from the splash pad during summer use.

The underground cistern captures rainwater and then repurposes it to irrigate the Elsie Jacobsen Discovery Garden.

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

Wells are one of the most common private water sources, but depending on your location you may also encounter springs, cisterns or rainwater catchment systems in use.

Cenotes are formed when the limestone that makes up the Yucatan Peninsula is eroded over thousands of years by rainwater, resulting in large «sinkholes» that appear on the surface, exposing hollowed - out caverns below that act as natural cisterns for water.

State of the art green roof technology has been modified to support the spiralling plants, and rainwater is collected from an adjacent roof to be stored in a cistern to irrigate the plants and trees.

Traditional Mountaintop Cisterns Sabrina Faber, a longtime resident of Yemen, noticed while trekking in the countryside that rural residents still employed a traditional way of coping with the country's frequent water shortages: collecting rainwater on mountaintop cCisterns Sabrina Faber, a longtime resident of Yemen, noticed while trekking in the countryside that rural residents still employed a traditional way of coping with the country's frequent water shortages: collecting rainwater on mountaintop cisternscisterns.

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.

A rooftop parapet hides the solar panels above, while a gutter and site drainage system directs rainwater into an irrigation cistern and dry wells that recharge the groundwater.

Standard metal roofing panels enable Lucas to catch rainwater and store it in a 1700 - gallon cistern buried on the northern exposure of the house.

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.

Three cisterns have been constructed underneath the parking lot to store one million litres of the harvested rainwater.

Also consider for rainwater collection for small farms that uses rock cisterns, pits lined with clays, graded gravel to ballast rock and capped with clays to reduce evaporation; these don't need concrete & steel, ballast rock is 40 % voids for capacity.

However they are all supplied by rainwater harvesting, collected from the big roof and stored in two large above - grade cisterns.

Many of these centuries - old subterranean structures — originally built as large - scale water cisterns to store monsoon rainwaters for later use — have fallen into disuse and disrepair, due to water tables being over-pumped to depletion, and the introduction of modern plumbing.

If you make it here to Berlin, you will enjoy games in the stadium with the largest rainwater collection cistern, 1400 cubic meters (368,000 gallons), in Europe; Nuremberg is a close second.

The residences collect rainwater from the rooftops and courtyard areas, which is then directed into a large cistern in the underground parking garage.

Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools designed a circular structure which includes solar panels that produce electricity and a cistern to collect rainwater for the school garden.

The Wharf also has a cistern system to collect and recycle rainwater.