Sentences with phrase «water pipes on»

In a Ghanaian town called Savelugu, for example, a public water company supplies bulk water to the community, which takes care of pricing, distribution, and maintenance of water pipes on its own.

A flood from a broken water pipe on the top floor and an electricity shutoff added to the damage, says developmental biologist Miguel Allende.

Well he & his merry band of incompetent trades (excluding one man) have made a dogs breakfast of the finishes & left us with a hot water pipe on the outside of the house!

Well, I moved in to a brand new apartment on April 15th and on May 5th my apartment got flooded from a water pipe on the roof.

If you want hard work, go dig a ditch for a water pipe on a golf course in a steady rain on a cold day.

Not exact matches

One orchard relies on irrigation from an overdrawn aquifer, while the other is kept alive using expensive water piped in from the distant Sierra Nevada mountains.

Major cities still rely on water pipes and sewers more than a century old that regularly leak and burst, and would certainly not fare well in a major earthquake.

I spoke with the emergency - management specialist for the City of Beaumont, who told me that beginning on September 1, there was limited water supply flowing through the pipes, and that water (though there was a boil notice on it) was available to the prison.

Acid / chelant treatment for scale buildup on the inside of boiler pipes and tubes or cooling water service

A handful of citizen volunteers digging up the correct information and piping it through blogs, social media, letters to the editor and conversations at coffee shops and on door steps to protect what we value — drinking water, schools, parks, key natural habitat and recreational areas.

The hand of one fell on the trunk, and to him the creature was like a water pipe.

Looking for root causes or solutions only within the religious sphere is like the man who, faced with a flooded basement, looks for the leak in his own pipes, not realizing that the water main has broken and every house on the block is flooded.

For a cross, mix flour and water and use the back of a spoon or piping bag to mark a cross on before you bake them.

After all the «yucky cross» comments by others I decided to make up my own so I winged it with 2 parts flour, 1 part caster sugar and a little water to make a runny paste then put it in a freezer bag, peirced the corner with a skewer and piped on my crosses - occassionally a little lump blocked the hole I just pinched it out and kept going - they turned out really well.

When a Clean Recipe is run on the required FT - 3000 Oven Controller, water is pumped from the CIP Skid tank to the mixing pipe, where cleaning or sanitation chemical agents are metered into the fresh water stream to obtain the precise mixture you require.

Measures pressure (elevation of the water) in the tank and the piping and displays on the oven controller.

Plus, a paste of equal parts flour and water is piped on them after they've risen, but before they're baked, to give them their iconic look featuring a cross.

And here's the important part: We let the pints sit on the counter for 5 or 10 minutes to soften, then fill a glass with piping - hot water.

His accomplishments in his island paradise service to the crown (1846 - 54) range from establishing the postal system, creating the first library and public education system on the island, to having piped water delivered to Port of Spain, the capital.

But at least we are out of that very long and very cold snap that had us up through the night, running water to avoid frozen pipes, filling the stove to stay warm, and checking on the animals out in the barn.

Chicago consumers are advised to flush their pipes just once for three to five minutes after their water is turned back on following renovation work.

They're also flushing pipes during construction on water mains to reduce risks for consumers.

A study in Malaysia6 found that formula feeding had a much stronger effect on mortality in infants living in households without piped water or a toilet than in households with toilets.

It's the cost of replacing all 550 miles of underground water pipes, based on an industry average of $ 1.32 million a mile.

In fact, the license renewal process is limited, focusing on environmental effects, such as endangered species, the effects of cooling water systems on fish and ground water quality; and, physical plant safety, such as the long term maintenance of coolant system piping or steam generators, as well as motors, diesel generators, and batteries.

A city spokesman on Friday said there was no threat to the drinking water «at this time» because the algae blooms were near the shore and the intake pipes are out toward the middle of the lake.

Then there's the havoc that the frozen water pipes and lines would wreak on the nearby sidewalk and street.

Syracuse has tried to cut down on the number of water main breaks by developing a predictive analytics model to determine where breaks are most likely to occur based on the age of pipes and the frequency of breaks in the area.

The churctons said to channel the water via septic pipes to different locations on the camp ground for bathing and washing.

Most voters, however, agreed on the areas where Syracuse is failing: An overwhelming 84 percent rated the conditions of city roads, water pipes and infrastructure as fair or poor.

There will be a new generation of equipment to control the flow between treatment facilities, pumping stations and tanks; there is a system to alert customers and large institutions, such as hospitals, to interruptions in service; old pipes are replaced more rapidly to limit leaks; and officials are working toward a system to move water from north to south, so the Southtowns can rely on the Van De Water treatment plant on the Niagara River should the Sturgeon Point plant on Lake Erie fail or lose its links to customers, like when a 42 - inch main failed last suwater from north to south, so the Southtowns can rely on the Van De Water treatment plant on the Niagara River should the Sturgeon Point plant on Lake Erie fail or lose its links to customers, like when a 42 - inch main failed last suWater treatment plant on the Niagara River should the Sturgeon Point plant on Lake Erie fail or lose its links to customers, like when a 42 - inch main failed last summer.

In the North Country, with 3,000 lakes and 30,000 miles of rivers and streams, U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R - Willsboro, recalled how she witnessed the fouling of Lake Champlain by zebra mussels — a migrant from the Caspian Sea that clogs water pipes, sucks nutrients away from other fish, and yields sharp shells that cut tender feet on beaches.

Last year, the team directed the installation of sensors on pipes to predict water main breaks and established a methodical system of identifying and repairing patchy roads.

«They appear wondering whether the votes they delivered yesterday would restore light, revive dead industries, complete the uncompleted ones, give hundreds of thousands of unemployed graduates employment, pay arrears of salary to workers and guarantee regular payment of salary; whether their votes will make water to flow again in their unused and rusted water pipes, reduce dust on our roads, revive our education and health sectors and so on,» he stated.

The biggest earthquake ever recorded in Oklahoma struck on November 5, a magnitude 5.6 temblor that buckled a highway and ruptured water pipes.

To understand what was going on, Lardner and Maklarin installed a plastic pipe in the forest, filled it halfway with water, and added a male tree hole frog.

But these can also be a burden on those who use them, so the hope would be to eventually have water piped much closer to home — if not in the actual premises.

As the development community continues to focus on installing new pipes and drilling new wells for the large number of people with unimproved water sources, those whose infrastructures had been improved but are now failing often fail to get as much aid and attention.

The species, native to the Caspian and Black Sea basins, was well known on that side of the Atlantic for its ability to fuse to any hard surface, growing in wickedly sharp clusters that can bloody boaters» hands and swimmers» feet, plug pipes, foul boat bottoms and suck the plankton — the life — out of the waters they invade.

The researchers say strategies such as replacing old water pipes, updating salt - spreading equipment, and using brine instead of granulated salts on roadways could help alleviate the problem.

Additionally, the city is testing duck bill - shaped valves on drainage pipes near the ocean that prevent ocean water during high tides from flowing backward into basements and parking lots.

If Ketterhagen piped every ditch on the ranch he runs, the pipes might not even carry enough water for the owners to be able to take their full allotment out of Ohio Creek.

A seven - inch - wide pipe on display at the exhibit resembles modern - day conduits and probably carried about four gallons of water a minute.

«There are no obligations on schools, hospitals, restaurants, pubs or similar establishments to remove lead water pipes,» Monck wrote.

(They are able to shed most of their naturally occurring minerals as the water flows through the thousands of miles of pipes, aqueducts and tunnels on its way to the city's taps.)

The ancient inhabitants of the mighty Indus Valley, in present - day Pakistan, had privies above channels of running water, whereas King Minos's palace on Crete, 4,000 years ago, fed rainwater through terra - cotta pipes to flush privies below.

In a bid to resolve this problem, Libya is spending billions of dollars of its oil revenues on the Great Manmade River project, which is pumping ancient «fossil» waters from beneath the Sahara and piping it hundreds of kilometres north to farms on the coast, where aquifers have become exhausted and salty.

This massive development has led to more than 3,900 brine spills, mostly coming from faulty pipes built to transport fracked wells» flowback water from on - site holding containers to nearby injection wells where it will be disposed underground.»

July 19, 2016 — Ten miles south of Tel Aviv, I stand on a catwalk over two concrete reservoirs the size of football fields and watch water pour into them from a massive pipe emerging from the sand.

West Virginia officials said Thursday they have lifted a ban on drinking tap water for two - thirds of the customers affected by a chemical spill, but warned pregnant women to avoid it until the chemical is completely flushed from the pipes.