Sentences with phrase «runoff water back»

In addition, water collection systems channel rain and irrigation runoff water back into the ground.
In addition, water collection systems channel rain and irrigation runoff water back into the ground.

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«A sort of grand problem in Earth science is to understand the water cycle — evaporation from the ocean, clouds, rain, the formation of ice, the runoff from the land back into the sea,» said Eric Lindstrom, Aquarius program scientist at NASA.
As I read reports about the release of more than 11,000 tons of radiation - laced water into the sea from the damaged nuclear plant in Japan, I recalled reporting I did more than a decade ago on the many uses of silt barriers — essentially curtains suspended in water — to hold back everything from oil slicks to the bursts of polluted runoff flowing into coastal waters from city storm drains after heavy storms (the water can be pumped and treated once the system is not overloaded).
They grow tomatoes, potatoes and papaya in holes designed to slow rainy runoff and percolate water back into the river.
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