Sentences with phrase «streams of water into»

Three preschoolers from the 270 - student academy in San Francisco's Bernal Heights District watch as Miller directs a stream of water into a pail, the crucial first step in building a sand castle.

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The Interior Department said in announcing the rule in December that it would protect 6,000 miles of streams and 52,000 acres of forests, preventing coal mining debris from being dumped into nearby waters.
Something about the chemicals in the pill passing into the water stream and food supply and now maybe causing the up - tick in prostate cancers» So where can one read the Church's oncology study of this?
There is even the fantastic genre,» with «a wild boar, a hermit, several tombs, and a boat which detached itself alone from the shore, to lead you into a boudoir, where jets of water streamed over you as you lay on the sofa.»
Yes, when late autumn comes, even the flower can speak the wisdom of the years and say with truthfulness, «All has its time, there is «a time to be born and a time to die»; there is a time to jest lightheartedly in the spring breeze, and a time to break under the autumn storm; there is a time to burst forth into blossom, beside the running water, beloved by the stream, and a time to wither and be forgotten; a time to be sought out for one's beauty, and a time to be unnoticed in one's wretchedness; there is a time to be nursed with care, and a time to be cast out with contempt; there is a time to delight in the warmth of the morning sun and a time to perish in the night's cold.
Shrinking looked they like those who wade through a stream in winter; irresolute like those who are afraid of all around them; grave like a guest (in awe of his host); evanescent like ice that is melting away; unpretentious like wood that has not been fashioned into anything; vacant like a valley, and dull like muddy water.
To make white pepper, ripe and semi-ripe berries are harvested and tightly packed into gunny sacks and immersed in water (preferably a clean, flowing stream) for between one and two weeks depending upon the ripeness of the fruit.
This water is usually released, untreated, into nearby streams, where its acidity kills aquatic life and the breakdown of its organic material not only fosters the production of bacteria that are harmful to humans but also starves aquatic fauna of oxygen.
I just drain the can into a colander, and then rinse the potatoes under a gentle stream of tap water for a minute or two.
Our goal is to «rehydrate the landscape» by increasing the amount of rainfall that is absorbed into the ground to recharge water supplies and feed headwater streams
Polluted water from roads and parking lots gets washed into streams and ponds, and municipalities on tight budgets are facing millions of dollars in stormwater improvements.
In a housing community, the amount of water released into streams must be carefully controlled so as to equal the natural flow of water.
The stabilization project started after officials found that storm water runoff was eroding the banks of the stream and depositing pollutants into existing wetlands, according to the Park District.
As part of the Spring Big Sweep, local soil and water conservation districts sponsor numerous clean - up days at creeks, lakes, streams and wetlands that flow into area rivers.
You'll need to plug this fountain into an outdoor electrical outlet to enjoy the stream of water... MORE trickling from the top tier to the lower tier.
When nitrogen gets into streams, ponds, the Long Island Sound and the Peconic Bay, it causes an overgrowth of algae, which sucks up oxygen in the water.
They then headed into the only stream serving as the source of drinking water for the community.
Commandeering streams, growers divert the water into high - tech greenhouses, to the detriment of the aquatic life lower in the drainage, including the threatened coho salmon.
So she and her team collected samples of water trickling out of seven Alaskan thermokarst failures into nearby lakes and streams.
The separation into two chambers means there are two separate flue gas streams to deal with too: air with a reduced concentration of oxygen is discharged from one chamber, water vapour and CO2 from the other.
The wasted earth and other materials are either put back onto the mountaintop in an approximation of their original contours, wreaking havoc on local ecosystems and biodiversity, or dumped into neighboring valleys, polluting lakes and streams and jeopardizing water quality for humans and wildlife.
But before the water gets more than a few miles off the mountain, much of this stream is diverted into dirt ditches used by ranchers along the Ohio Creek Valley.
«During a flooding event, water flows out of streams and into the floodplains where it is retained and it doesn't end up in your basement,» said scientist Dianna Hogan, during the symposium.
Since most property was far from streams and there was little rain, officials then gave settlers formal rights to take water out of rivers and move it across dry land where it could be used to mine minerals or turn rocky fields into farms.
As water streams past a submarine's hull, the flow splits into many pairs of current called streaks.
In scale, they were akin to a tight stream of water shot five miles into the sky by a garden hose.
This water will rush beneath the ice towards the sea and feed into the hydrological catchment of the MacAyeal Ice Stream, one of several major ice streams draining ice from Marie Byrd Land into the Ross Ice Shelf.
Once oxidized, the lead dissolves into the water stream instead of sticking to the pipe.
This water - soluble form of nitrogen is a source of food for plants, but it makes a Jekyll - and - Hyde - like transformation when excess leaks into lakes and streams or groundwater.
«When the elevation of the water table is higher than the elevation of the stream, water flows from the water table into the stream and it maintains water in that stream,» Gido said.
This suggests that urban run - off and the below - surface movement of water could be important contributors to the flow of drugs into streams.
Watersheds are areas of land with streams and rivers that all drain into a larger body of water, such as a bigger river, a lake or an ocean.
«When the elevation of that water table drops below the elevation of the stream, then the water moves from the stream into the ground.
When water is poured into a glass, flowing in a stream or breaking in waves on rocks at the shore, the characteristic sounds it makes come from the vibration of air bubbles, says Moss.
To test their sound generator, they simulated the noise of a stream, a block being dropped into water, fast - flowing water filling a bath, a dam bursting and even a rubber duck being pushed around in a bath.
These fish have one - of - a-kind glands behind their gills that spray a bioluminescent stream into the water: what Compton calls «a stream of yeller from his shoulder pouch... [that] busts loose into sparklers.»
This would alter the toxicity of chemicals such as pharmaceuticals, which make their way into these streams when they are excreted into waster water and flushed down the toilet.
The goal is to do a complete accounting of the movement of water from the time it hit the surface of a plant and passed through moss and soil, until it flowed out of the basin and into the network of high forest streams on its way to the lowlands.
Incessant mountain rain, snow and melting glaciers in a comparatively small region of land that hugs the southern Alaska coast and empties fresh water into the Gulf of Alaska would create the sixth largest coastal river in the world if it emerged as a single stream, a recent study shows.
The records showed that precipitation and temperature patterns had hardly fluctuated during the period, meaning that the amount of water flowing into the lake from nearby streams is likely the same today as it was in 1847.
The jets collide with the surrounding gas and dust and clear vast spaces, like a stream of water plowing into a hill of sand.
Researchers at University of California, Riverside have measured the mobility of graphene oxide (GO) in water and have determined that it could move around easily if it were released into lakes and streams.
Then a large eruption shot the crystals in a stream of water or ice out into space, where they picked up their striking blue color.
Now, Dixson released the sharks — one at a time — into a pool with two side - by - side streams of flowing water.
The other reason is the processing of water molecules in your body as they pass through your digestive system that delivers it to the liver, from where it goes into your blood stream that transfers it to the cells and to your kidneys before it is finally excreted.
Keep a steady stream of water going into your system, savor the sips and find gratitude.
Basically, it is a sprayer that hooks into the clean water supply on your toilet (before it goes into the toilet) and uses a high - powered stream of water to clean the diaper without having to touch any poop.
Fiber that absorbs water can reduce the re-absorption of cholesterol through the intestines and into the blood stream.
Then I put one limb at a time into the stream of cold water, usually with that silly children's song going through my head.
Forgetting to set your alarm and waking up to sunlight streaming in through your bedroom window, the feeling of soft green grass on the soles of my bare feet, crisp cool morning air before a hot summer day, steel cut oats with sweet granules of melted brown sugar, the glittery reflection of sunbeams as they softly touch the water, the smell of the forest after it has rained, mornings spent curled up in a hammock loosing yourself in a book, walking everywhere because it's sunny and you can, teaching a first grader how to do a cartwheel, watching the sunrise with someone you love, skinny dipping in the ocean, braiding daisy chains into your hair prior to discovering a spider!
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