Sentences with phrase «when rainwater»

When rainwater can't soak into the ground, it runs along streets and parking lots and picks up pollutants.

This type of pollution occurs when rainwater or snow melt flows over the landscape and picks up pollutants from farmlands and city streets before entering rivers.

Look for the giant wooden barrels behind the buildings, relics of a time when rainwater was fastidiously collected for household use.

Underground, an extensive root system of prairie plants helps to filter pollutants when rainwater percolates through the soil.

When rainwater is introduced to this kind of rock, either seeping in through tiny pores in the rock surface, or, more typically, dribbling in through larger cracks, the rock will begin to dissolve.

When the rainwater is absorbed by the shallow roots of pine trees, the low oxygen - 18 signal is locked in the cellulose that forms rings.

Formed when rainwater collects deep below the Earth's rocky crust and is heated by molten magma, the springs are rich in minerals that many feel have beneficial health effects.

Not exact matches

Never hose, unless from the rainwater tank, and that's for doggy - washes, and occasional car - wash when the tank is full.

When it comes to rainwater harvesting, the underlying proposition is very simple — the essential idea is collection of rainwater and then subsequently filtering and pumping it for further selective use.

Plants and grass actually do better when fed rainwater instead of tap water, which is usually treated with softeners that actually inhibit plant growth.

«Locals claim that the black and white monkey is very easy to find when it is raining because the monkeys often get rainwater in their upturned noses causing them to sneeze,» the WWF report reads.

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.

When we arrive in Klaipeda, large puddles of rainwater prove that we've missed the worst part of the rain.

Cenotes are formed when the limestone that makes up the Yucatan Peninsula is eroded over thousands of years by rainwater, resulting in large «sinkholes» that appear on the surface, exposing hollowed - out caverns below that act as natural cisterns for water.

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

When the cabin is finished, it will run on solar power, use rainwater catchment and a greywater system, be heated with a combination of solar and wood from our land, and use very little energy overall.

He's also well - known for his green touring habits — which includes all the backstage stuff and is a fan of collecting rainwater with rain barrels when it comes to eco-actions in the home.

Other architects contested Demirkan's theory, saying there were severe floods in the area before the coastal highway was constructed, and that the road's effect on rainwater drainage had been considered when it was being built.

Eroding mountains can trap CO2 when it is dissolved in rainwater (I over-simplify).

Most of us are directly tied into the local water supply, which is great when it works well, and horrible when it doesn't (as evidenced by the recent and ongoing travesties in communities such as Flint, Michigan), and although some homes may capture rainwater for irrigation, or have their own well, there aren't a lot of alternative choices for getting clean drinking water, other than purchasing bottled water.

I thought I could ignore the rainwater dripping into every room in the house but, when I woke up one morning and found my head completely wet thanks to a new hole, I knew I couldn't postpone the repairs any longer.

When you catch rainwater instead of sending it down the storm drain, it prevents pollutants like fertilizer, pet waste and roadway grime from dumping into local waterways.