Sentences with phrase «rainwater so»

It might be your window sill dip grooves — designed to shed rainwater so it doesn't run down the house wall — are blocked and need to be reformed.

The researchers built large shelters over plots and irrigated them with rainwater so they received either more or less rain than the 100 - year regional average.

Not exact matches

The Rainforest Alliance also taught us how to conserve water, and so I bought a tank for harvesting rainwater.

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.

In order to achieve this goal, landscape architects have developed so - called «green roofs,» which utilize living plant matter and soil on top of a building in order to absorb, collect and reuse rainwater while preventing run - off.

The clinching evidence for this was that cracks in Lajia created by the quake were filled with flood - related sediment, not the fine silt sediment deposited by annual rainwater runoff at the same site each year, showing that the flood sediment got there first, and so must have arrived within a year of the quake.

According to Nembrini, the people of Monrovia had to survive on rainwater and a hundred or so hand - dug wells, most of which were dug by the Red Cross.

So if rainwater carved the valleys, one would expect to see valleys cutting through the ejecta layer.

Soon enough it's clear that Mac has mere hours left (despite eating captured fish and drinking precious rainwater), and when he asks Louie if he's «going to die tonight,» the sudden response of «maybe,» however casually delivered, feels jarring in a genre wherein so many characters would have smiled and lied to their ailing cohorts.

To encourage sustainable thinking in its occupants, the «eco» features of the building are visible to the eye; its rainwater harvesting pipes are transparent and the ceilings show its sprinkler channels and acoustic cushions, so that pupils can see how things go together and work.

The mirror housings are designed so that any rainwater hitting them flows outwards in a narrow groove running around the outside so that it can drip off at a precisely defined point.

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.

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

The premise of the story is a psychopath who drowns his victims in rainwater — so naturally, rain is falling the entire time.

And the fact that these guys are growing local produce and fish using rainwater and other sustainable inputs to do so should no doubt be applauded.

So the rainwater collected serves as a buffer for during the dry season and when the municipal water system is down.

It gets power from an RV - style hookup as standard, but those who want to cut the cord and run off - the - grid can do so with extras like a rainwater collection system, solar power, and composting toilet.

So he launched the nonprofit Reflo to build rainwater collection systems that could irrigate the lots.

Why does something as simple as harvesting run - off rainwater from your roof have to be so pricey?

Lastly, make the system even more efficient by placing the rainwater collection container on a raised platform so as to receive the added benefit of gravity.

The floating roof on an oil storage tank collected so much rainwater that the sheer weight caused it to partially collapse, resulting in a large volume of toxic air emissions.

However Professor Brian Gulson, head of the Technical Advisory Board of the LEAD Group had this to say on the matter: «Water filter systems can be helpful in removing lead from water, so if people are concerned about lead in rainwater they may wish to consider a filtration system rather than discarding their tanks.»

A quiet but sure revolution in sustainable development has been underway for the last 35 years in India's desert state of Rajasthan, where a new model of rural empowerment and education has taken form in the so - called Barefoot College, an alternative, community - based learning centre that trains rural citizens in the practical training programs for solar engineering, rainwater harvesting, computer programming, midwifery and even photography.

So far, six households in the neighborhood are engaged in the experiment to live more consciously through a variety of low (er)- tech practices such as organic gardening, rainwater harvesting, greywater recycling, renewable energy generation and even cleaning polluted well water with a living machine.

You are supposed to meet water needs from rainwater capture, but that's not allowed for health reasons, so the building is being connected to the City water supply until it can prove that its collected water is safe.

The bush location beside a river embodies these principles via permaculture gardens, solar power, solar hot water rainwater collection, greywater recycling, reuse of secondhand materials, habitat restoration, and so much more.

During re-roofing works at my house, rainwater caused extensive damage to a bedroom ceiling, so I have still not made the final payment to the roofing company.

On rainy days, I try to tip my chairs over so the rainwater won't sit for long.

Just in time, too, since Texas's water woes are really getting serious — so much so that the city could ban watering altogether in the relatively near future (with an exception for rainwater).