Sentences with phrase «uses rain water»

The Conservatives, meanwhile, are reportedly considering plans to use rain water - so - called grey water - in toilets and washing machines as a way of solving shortages.

While the drip irrigation systems demonstrated in the video are impressive, it's hard to ignore the fact that the project is reliant on volunteer labor from abroad — while the volunteers describe how the local population has a hard time understanding the idea of saving and using rain water.

Not exact matches

While exhorting us to contemplate nature, the Qur» an says, «In the creation of skies and the earth, the difference between night and day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which is useful for mankind, the rain water which Allah sends down from the sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement of winds and clouds between sky and earth, in all those things there are evidences (for the existence of God) for those who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164).

Regarding food and drink water, the required calculated numbers would be around 15 % for food and 10 % for water (even less if rain is used) Regarding predators: the ark had a huge volume, about 500 American railroad cars, each of them able to carry 240 sheep.

The required food and drink water was calculated to be around 15 % (volume of ark) for food and 10 % for water (even less if rain is used)

The creation that used to rejoice with us and to remind us of the beauty and bounty of God now groans with us as rain and snow do not come to feed our crops and as the earth grumbles and the waters spit out death.

My husband used to go up on the roof and slowly pour that sealer stuff all around - he theorized that it would drip and seep into the exact places that the rain water would go!

The venue is committed to operating in a sustainable and environmentally - friendly way and has a number of initiatives in place to achieve this including serving Fairtrade teas and coffees, using recycled office materials and harvesting rain water to flush a proportion of the toilets.

The plants are watered by a drip irrigation system using rain and condensate water collected in re-purposed storage containers.

«So the rain water that hits the site, will be stored in a 680,000 - gallon cistern, and we'll use that water for make - up water for our cooling tank and to irrigate the landscaping.»

«We'll use about 47 percent less water, through our design of the building and our capture and re-use of rain water,» Jenkins said.

I just got a rain barrel (reused giant food container) to put the bath water in so I can use a hose to distribute it.

The kids then use pipettes to drip liquid water color onto the clouds until it eventually works it's way through and begins to «rain» on the underside in fabulous rainbow - y swirls.

Hat, sunscreen, bug repellent, warms clothes / pj's for chilly nights, smores makins» (yes this is a must have), sleeping bags & blankets to make one big family bed in your tent, life jacket that fits really well, diapers (we still cloth diaper if we are camping near laundry facilites), swim diapers (or we just use a pocket diaper without an insert and find that it works really well to contain what it needs to and doesn't bring on lots of water), first aid kit, flashlight, rain gear, a way to get clean water (filtering it yourself or access to water at the campground), snacks, and a good campsite.

Some of our favorite sensory bins that inspire imagination and creativity are our indoor sand where my son sat inside the bin, with «snow» raining down on him, belting out «Let It Go», our indoor cranberry bog where my kids pretended to harvest the cranberries in some cool fall weather using a variety of kitchen tools as real harvesting tools, and our «Inside Out» edible water bead bin where we used our imagination to act out and discuss a variety of emotions.

You can find this spring's cutest rain boot styles from Igor (who uses the tagline «Just Add Water!»)

We collect rain water and use that to water our garden and plants.

We're using the old baby bath (it's our indoor water play area for when we've had enough of cold and rain outside but still want to play with water) and some of the bean bags that I made.

It's so hot and dry in Kansas that the Baptists are starting to baptize by sprinkling, the Methodists are using wet - wipes, the Presbyterians are giving out rain - checks & the Catholics are praying for the wine to turn back into water.»)

This is also unnecessary since the tidal Thames effectively complies with the EU Directives on water quality and there are options, proven in several US cities and on the continent, not only to reduce the occasional storm water flows into the Thames, enough to collect perhaps 5 % sewage on the way, but also retain rain water for other greener uses.

Though the amount of water processed through the system isn't troublesome — 600,000 gallons per day is permitted, and they usually use around 130,000, Mayor Gregory Martin said — the village pipes are old, and whenever it rains, inflow to their wastewater system poses possible threats.

Erie County, in partnership with the City of Buffalo and the WNY Stormwater Coalition, is offering rain barrels and compost bins to encourage households to reduce their environmental footprint through water conservation and reduced fertilizer use.

By using harvested rainwater for watering lawns, watering gardens and potted plants, and for washing cars, rain barrels conserve water.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — The Westchester County Department of Health is reminding residents to dump out standing water on their property after it rains, and to use insect repellents when outdoors in the early morning and late afternoon to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes that could carry West Nile Virus.

«Using rain barrels is an excellent strategy for homeowners to conserve water and control runoff.»

«Using rain barrels is a great way to help prevent storm water runoff and preserve this precious natural resource for better use and as we saw today these colorful and creative entries will eventually be welcome additions to anyone's backyard,» said Deputy Erie County Executive Maria R. Whyte.

Greenport Village Mayor George Hubbard is hoping to use some of the $ 1.3 million the village received from the Long Island Power Authority and PSEG - Long Island to do drainage projects at numerous road - ends in the village, in hopes of preventing contaminants from being carried into surface water when it rains.

Items that collect rain water on your property, such as house gutters, cans, garden pots, used tires, rain barrels, and children's pools, are ideal receptacles for breeding,» said Peter Tripi, Senior Public Health Sanitarian.

One provides ornamental rain showers, and the other is used to increase the oxygen content of water accessories.

No more worrying about wasting water on your lawn when it just rained yesterday, or not using enough water during a dry spell.

Waterproof headphones can be used for swimming, while water resistant headphones can withstand rain and splashes.

Did You Know... NOT DIRT: Installers rarely use soil for the growing medium because it is heavy and because it packs tight after repeated rains, reducing water retention and aeration for plant roots.

The snow and rain that comes in the cold season runs off into reservoirs, where it is stored for drinking water, agriculture, hydropower and other uses.

Using direct measurements and computer models, oceanographer Scott Doney of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and his colleagues calculated that acid rain causes as much as 50 percent of the acidification of coastal waters, where the pH can be as low as 7.6.

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.

Whether the plant gets buckets of rain or only the occasional passing fog, the awn of S. caninervis can exploit any available water resource using four specialized tools.

Their videos (use the link below) capture varying scales of water nucleation occurring in the nano - structures and the absorption of the majority of an impacting rain droplet with little or no splashing.

An alligator uses its mouth and claws to uproot vegetation to clear out a space; then, shoving with its body and slashing with its powerful tail, it wallows out a depression that stays full of water in the wet season and holds water after the rains stop.

Water harvesting by collecting excess rain run - off for instance in cisterns — for supplementary irrigation during dry spells — is a common traditional approach in some regions such as the Sahel region in Africa, but is under - used in many other semi-arid regions such as Asia and North America.

Scientists used to suspect that methane would behave like water on Earth — evaporating from oceans on Titan, then raining back down.

As supplies dwindle, they say, they can channel water from the highlands, where rain falls between October and April, or divert rivers that flow east to Amazonia, which receives more precipitation than its sparse population uses.

Using a pipette full of water, fresh volcanic ash and mathematical modelling, Sanjoy Som at the University of Washington in Seattle worked out how the size of imprints related to the speed at which the rain fell through the ancient atmosphere.

That makes sense, since the university's new research focus for Biosphere 2 is water: not just rain but runoff, absorption by soil, use by plants, and evaporation.

To find out, Hu's team used high - speed cameras to film the insects flying in a specially constructed «rain box» — a small container with a mesh roof through which water can be sprayed to simulate a rain shower.

Any water, including rain and snow, that comes in contact with mining activities is sent to a $ 10 - million water treatment plant that will use a cleansing technology called reverse osmosis, said Daniel Blondeau, communications and media relations advisor at Rio Tinto, the London - based mining company that owns Kennecott.

(These chemicals are related to additives that manufacturers sometimes use to make rain gear repel water.)

It was used to study 6 - cm radio waves coming from water in the atmosphere, vapor clouds, and rain.

I also use it for Dry eye syndrome every night and in the morning I use a pinch of himalayan salt in boiled rain water as an eye bath.

Some of the first rain coats were made in the Victorian era when they used a rubberised or wax coated material to make some of the first water resistant coats.

Allow for rug to dry completely before use after exposure to excessive water from a hose or heavy rain.