"After the drought, we realized the importance of harvesting the rainwater, and local schools are also harvesting rainwater for their own uses," he said.
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But, despite tens of thousands of fines levied, less than 10% of Bangalore's rainwater is harvested, according to Ammanaghatta Rudrappa Shivakumar, a rainwater harvesting expert at the Indian Institute of Science.
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Instead they collect rainwater, often from gutters in their roofs.
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It flows with the rainwater, causing floods and droughts simultaneously.
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Upstream wetlands once slowed the release of rainwater to rivers.
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The city's old sewers carry both rainwater and household effluent.
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They are there to drain rainwater away after it storms.
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Rainwater had deteriorated much of the mortar over the centuries.
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Others have external rainwater catchment cisterns with an attached faucet.
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Others were building water tanks to collect rainwater during droughts.
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The toroid glass of the roof curves scientifically to shed rainwater.
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Filled with rainwater, they are a boon for malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
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We're told the alleged beatdown left Rainwater with a dislocated hip.
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Rainwater converters that feed into pipes cost upward of £1,876 [$2,450].
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Last November, they built a rock catchment system to harvest rainwater.
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They will also have sewage plants, solar panels and rainwater harvesting.
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There were holes in the museum's roof that let rainwater through.
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We catch our own rainwater, septic tanks and the whole bit.
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Crystal's ankle was fractured, and her hair was damp with rainwater.
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Typically, about 245 percent of that combined overflow is rainwater runoff.
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Flying buttresses had been darkened by pollution and eroded by rainwater.
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Chennai's natural rainwater collection systems and aquifers have been completely neglected.
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In springtime, their contents are sprayed with rainwater on the land.
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Last winter, some of his favorite shirts were soaked by rainwater.
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When it rains, they use rainwater collected in large plastic tanks.
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Rainwater erosion and recent seismic activity may have loosened the wall's stones.
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Placid seas reared up in giant waves and rainwater coursed through streets.
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"We have made a lot of strides in rainwater harvesting," Matongo said.
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At the time I thought the rainwater had seeped into his brain.
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Swales on the home's periphery capture rainwater for lawn plants and toilets.
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Some channel rainwater off their roof into buckets via corrugated iron sheets.
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"We ate banana palms, and drank rainwater from the leaves," he said.
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We are trying to collect rainwater, but we don't have enough buckets.
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Prairie dogs would dig tunnels that channeled rainwater into the water table.
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We have greenery all around us, irrigated through a rainwater harvesting system.
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The Wharf also has a cistern system to collect and recycle rainwater.
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Rainwater, meanwhile, is harvested and used in the stadium's pitch irrigation system.
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Outside the Arg, mayorless Kabul was inundated with rainwater and uncollected garbage.
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This hotel, however, had drained its pool and left it to collect rainwater.
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Hotel employees sop up rainwater as it leaks in through the front door.
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Credit: Seattle Municipal ArchivesFour cities could exclusively use rainwater to flush their toilets.
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Soak in water (preferably rainwater or distilled water) for 3-24 hours. 3.
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They also gathered rainwater in a large plastic kiddie pool on the roof.
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A rainwater retention pond outside Google's data center in Berkeley County, South Carolina.
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Some survivors, Gupta said, have reported drinking rainwater seeping in through the rubble.
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That includes rooftop rainwater-catchment systems that Hawaii residents use for drinking water.
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Sailors told people not to eat the island coconuts or drink any rainwater.
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It still stops rainwater from pounding the soil and running off into sewers.
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After his big win in South Carolina, Biden is catching endorsements like rainwater.
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Half of the gardens will be irrigated with rainwater runoff from the building.
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This output is supplemented by separate, large cisterns to capture rainwater for drinking.
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Most people get their water from cisterns that collect rainwater under their homes.
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A sustainable development project will feature green roofs and the reuse of rainwater.
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The hole soon filled with rainwater and groundwater, creating a mile-wide lake.
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High winds blew out the windows as rainwater poured in, ruining her furniture.
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There's a reason you'll never see rainwater dripping off Spaceship Earth at Epcot.
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Calcite forms when rainwater seeps through limestone, dissolving a small amount of uranium.
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A heat exchanger transfers the heat to the rainwater collected in the cisterns.
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Developers are aiming to conserve rainwater, generate solar energy and reuse building materials.
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Rainwater manages Dallas-based rapper Mo3 ... who has a history of beefing with Yella.
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This year farmers are running a lottery to determine who can draw stored rainwater.
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We were on a 22nd floor and still rainwater got in, flooding the apartment.
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In most other cities, gravity does the work of moving rainwater into drainage basins.
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The Honduran government is planning to build hundreds of rainwater harvesting systems each year.
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"I knocked doors until rainwater came through my soles," she tweeted back in June.
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Rainwater can be "harvested" or may seep into the ground to replenish an aquifer.
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Go out after a storm, because rainwater can scour the landscape, dislodging your quarry.
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Decades of development have also paved over land that used to soak up rainwater.
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The gardens subsist off of rainwater—even though there's been so little of it.
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There were potholes in the cart path filled with rainwater from a morning storm.
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Mr. Rainwater was a private man known for his erudition, wit and indefatigable energy.
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National League of Cities official Brooks Rainwater said in the premier episode of Hill.
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That's not to say cities don't have to contend with pollution captured by rainwater.
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Sinkholes can be caused by natural erosion or acidic rainwater that weakens sedimentary rock.
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How else are we going to use all those leftover oak galls and rainwater?
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Also, rainwater drains away more quickly and is not stored in the Alps' glaciers.
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The outbreak picked up speed in April, after dirty rainwater further polluted the wells.
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They scrambled to safety as they watched the Honda disappear into hole filled with rainwater.
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The upper floors of many houses are unfinished, providing ample crevices for rainwater to collect.
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The rainwater would have quickly run off over the surface, shaping the network of valleys.
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They said they had exhausted their food supplies and were relying on rainwater to drink.
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For the next 20133 days, he survived on fish and rainwater across 22013,22012 nautical miles.
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The asylum seekers said they had exhausted their food supplies and were relying on rainwater.
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Catchment tanks for rainwater should be covered to prevent slugs and snails from gaining access.
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Like small creeks, they drain rainwater, and much of the city's refuse, out to sea.
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Culverts are essentially large pipes that allow streams and excess rainwater to flow underneath roads.
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They collect rainwater from the roof and power a small battery with a car engine.
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Green vats that once held rainwater from the roof now lie broken on the floor.
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Eagle Scouts know how to collect rainwater in case other drinking water supplies run out.
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We have a roof that is designed to capture rainwater and connect to rain barrels.
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Robert Gordon Rainwater, universally known as Bobby, was interested in art from an early age.
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In 280, around 215 cm (21 inches) of rainwater fell in Ayacucho, according to SUNASS.
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In 280, around 215 cm (21 inches) of rainwater fell in Ayacucho, according to SUNASS.
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He drinks rainwater caught from the sky and eats avocados from trees in his backyard.
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The smallest ones showered it with sand and dirt and then sprinkled it with rainwater.
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Some residents gather drinking water from local springs or collect rainwater in inflatable paddling pools.
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Subsisting on apples from an orchard and rainwater, she wrote constantly, spiraling into religious reveries.
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The rainwater of the future has been abundant in the last 30 or 40 years.
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That the rainwater of the future, which is abundant, is hoarded by the very fortunate.
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We're able to collect rainwater and approximately 3/4 of our outdoor water use is covered.
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"As a result we've reduced the amount of nitrogen that falls out in rainwater," he said.
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Rock catchment systems use naturally occurring rock outcrops to divert rainwater to a central collection area.
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A 32-year-old woman died after falling into a drain filled with rainwater in Kalwa.
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Big cities had sewers for both rainwater and human waste, but they flowed into rivers unfiltered.
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They brought three large siloes to fill with rainwater which they recycle for use on-site.
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"So we encourage farmers to harvest rainwater from their rooftops or from the ground," he said.
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The center teaches the community here to create "rain gardens" that capture rainwater for re-use.
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Among its contents: packaged foods, weed, video footage of Houston, and a glass vial of rainwater.
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But the study theorizes that some escaped their leafy tombs by being flushed out with rainwater.
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A 40,000-gallon underground tank will collect rainwater for use in plumbing, cooling and irrigation systems.
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In addition to extremely turbulent waters, Dorian brought a surge of rainwater that changed sea salinity.
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Every house seemed to have at least one -- often more -- tanks to catch and store rainwater.
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Check out the white sand dunes and rainwater lagoons at Parque Nacional Dos Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil.
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The long rainy nights—how high a concentration of smart-fungus nanospores in rainwater is too much?
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Schemes for harvesting rainwater, by collecting it in tanks rather than letting it run away, are commonplace.
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It breeds in small containers of water, such as flower pots, cans and tires that collect rainwater.
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After cutting it down, rainwater wouldn't pool in the remaining pit: instead, it would swirl and disappear.
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The structures use concrete walls built across river beds to capture and hold rainwater in sand deposits.
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We didn't have potable water, so we would collect rainwater to clean the house and to shower.
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It also collects rainwater, and it can desalinate and purify the brackish river water if need be.
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But technologies like sunken bed farming and irrigation enable them to use stored rainwater to cultivate crops.
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"They must be able to tolerate up to eight inches of rainwater for just a few hours".
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They live in concrete pits that are meant to drain rainwater from the city after a storm.
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The drought exposed a key problem in the city's water supply: its near-total reliance on rainwater.
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Additionally, permeable walkways allow rainwater to seep into the ground instead of being routed to the gutter.
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Eagle Scouts collect rainwater by stretching out a shirt and using it to gather drops of rain.
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Mr. Rainwater became the librarian of the newly formed Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division in 1985.
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Most of these pipes also do double duty, collecting rainwater runoff from rooftops as well as streets.
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Washbins and buckets for rainwater, the only freshwater available, lined the island's pathways, thirsty for a storm.
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Turquoise forms near the surface as a product of copper weathering, typically caused by rainwater or groundwater.
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The indoor farms are irrigated with rainwater, and some of the energy is generated from solar panels.
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Of those, eight were confirmed as being triggered by rainwater and the rest were still being investigated.
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The scheme, which also helps to harvest rainwater, is the first of its kind in the tropics.
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A Smart Water Challenge encouraged behavioral change among students, including bringing water to school and harvesting rainwater.
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There are scattered government initiatives to increase the water supply, such as collecting rainwater in rooftop cisterns.
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As in any true earthship, rainwater collects in cisterns and is filtered and pumped into the house.
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The storm also brought rainwater that altered sea salinity and changed water temperature, possibly shocking coral reefs.
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They also have limited water conservation infrastructure -- rainwater harvesting systems, water reuse and recycling, and waste water treatment.
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Fatima Bibi has even built a water tank in the ground next to her house to collect rainwater.
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By taking a statistical approach to the features, a trio of researchers now argue for rivers of rainwater.
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Rainwater says he was taken to the hospital that night and is undergoing physical therapy following the assault.
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Rainwater washes away all of the chemicals away into the water bodies and the water bodies get polluted.
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The program redirects rainwater from street runoff and "plants the rain" in the soil to water native trees.
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Jordan chalked up his survival to the same trinity as several other survivors: Fish, rainwater and the Bible.
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In January 2014, about 50,000 gallons of rainwater leaked into the St Lucie plant after a heavy downpour.
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He also lost about two pounds and was dehydrated, but was apparently able to sustain himself on rainwater.
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Near a pond dug into his fields to trap rainwater, chilis, tomatoes, cauliflower and other vegetables now sprout.
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Leaving Pyongyang, we passed through a checkpoint, and smooth asphalt eventually gave way to potholes brimming with rainwater.
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The boat contains a rainwater purification system, a composting toilet, a bathtub, a library and edible perennial plants.
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No amount of regulation will properly absorb or confine a year's-worth of rainwater falling in five days.
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Two little boys in long white khamis chased a third over uneven ground, leaping pools of gray rainwater.
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Now she's trying to keep her two grandchildren alive on a ration of crackers and survive on rainwater.
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He caught additional rainwater along the way, so he never had a shortage of drinking or cooking fluid.
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The obituary also misstated the name of the club in Manhattan where Mr. Rainwater celebrated Christmas with friends.
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They drank rainwater from puddles to cool down during the day and shivered in the sand at night.
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Cons: Seats must be removed to put on the cover, cover can hold rainwater if not sloped correctly.
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The first flood, in 2005, devastated Suter, who was convinced that the muddy rainwater had destroyed her paintings.
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Outside, the roof has been fitted with solar panels and a rainwater collection system for irrigation and flushing.
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Cover crops fix nitrogen in the soil and sequester rainwater, preventing runoff and holding the topsoil in place.
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Much of the planet's rainwater, drinking water, food and weather systems are provided or regulated by the sea.
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The roof garden also contains water tanks to store rainwater, used to flush the toilets and irrigate the plants.
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Behind the restaurant are giant tanks to catch rainwater, and a filtration system to turn it into usable water.
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Many farmers say they struggle to build rainwater harvesting ponds, use groundwater or adopt the latest efficient irrigation technologies.
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Citified siblings Jamie Dutton (Wes Bentley) and Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly); Gil Birmingham as Broken Rock chair Thomas Rainwater.
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"Three to four years ago families wanted to participate in rainwater harvesting but they weren't able to," she says.
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These feature a flushing system that will harvest rainwater to the tune of more than 750,000 gallons a year.
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There are solar panels on the roof and Bob is installing an apparatus to filter rainwater into drinking water.
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She said she's been buying water to drink but collecting rainwater for bathing and other uses in her home.
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Timothy Smeeding is the Lee Rainwater professor of public affairs and economics at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
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They had no money or possessions, and complained that the food was lousy and the tents let in rainwater.
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The circles then allow rainwater to collect in them, which supplies more nutrients, which benefits everybody, including the termites.
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The tulips are washed with rainwater and stored in large cooling halls until it's time for distillation to begin.
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To help recoup his losses, he's made his previous Drip-only EP Rainwater Coffee available to download on Bandcamp.
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Do you know what strength it takes to survive on rainwater buried under concrete -- a 5-year-old boy?
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Mopey and alone, Sam goes about his daily tasks such as washing in rainwater and soulfully playing the drums.
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When the mining tunnels soak up rainwater during typhoon season, landslides are more likely to occur, local officials say.
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The earlier version also misstated the name of the club in Manhattan where Mr. Rainwater celebrated Christmas with friends.
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They also pointed out that climate change could bring more frequent and more severe storms — and more rainwater runoff.
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The hurricane eroded key nesting beaches, washing away nests or flooding them with rainwater or seawater, Dr. Mansfield said.
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The twisted and mocking faces of the gargoyles serve as much to decorate as they do to evacuate rainwater.
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Lake Texcoco, where the Aztecs built their island capital, Tenochtitlán, once captured the rainwater hurtling down the surrounding hillsides.
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Researchers said the blackened rainwater collected by São Paulo residents was caused by the Amazon's forest fires, per WSJ.
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A 21st-century city now incorporates rainwater catchment gardens and solar parks and car-charging stations into its designs.
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It's already got a flood control system in place, a series of canals that ferry rainwater to the sea.
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There is no source of fresh water, so residents depend on rainwater or drinking water brought in from elsewhere.
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The Amazon&aposs water cycle depends on water vapor from the leaves of its trees and evaporation of rainwater.
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There is both a rainwater harvesting system and an 800-gallon water-hauling trailer to bring water to the building.
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Among the 803 landscape architects surveyed, 88 percent reported that clients seemed most interested in rainwater or graywater harvesting elements.
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The storms left behind acres of debris where rainwater can pool, creating ideal breeding grounds for disease-carrying Aedes aegypti.
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Anyway, Rainwater claims a security guard approached him with a gun in his left hand and Yella standing behind him.
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When the cloud says a storm is coming, the valve opens to drain the lake, making room for more rainwater.
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Images of fairground lights and muddy rainwater rushing down gutters, for instance, are indistinguishable from footage shot with a camera.
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Over thousands of years, acidic rainwater has eaten holes through the limestone, allowing the ocean to bubble up from below.
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Food producers can increase efficiency by implementing rainwater harvesting, using sustainable animal feed and capturing biogas from cattle, Tan said.
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The company has admitted to dumping untreated rainwater from the refinery but has pushed back against accusations of serious contamination.
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TV footage showed rainwater cascading down streets in towns such as Estepona, reaching as high as the tops of cars.
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More than 1,100 people had to be evacuated on Monday after authorities opened the dam gates of overflowing rainwater reservoirs.
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MARANGE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kuziwa Matongo's rainwater harvesting system may not look like much, but its impact is huge.
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In 2013 Xi Jinping, the president, said cities should be more like sponges, sopping up rainwater for reuse when parched.
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The dog (and another just like him) was abandoned in Victoria, Texas, tethered to a telephone pole in rising rainwater.
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He also wants to see measures like rainwater harvesting, provision of potable water, recycling, wastewater treatment and re-use technologies.
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Many residents of South Tarawa, home to half the country's people, now get their drinking water exclusively from rainwater tanks.
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"It's difficult to prepare for harvest when you cannot rely on rainwater, and you don't know its schedule," Abdulhamid said.
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The latter creates baroque and complicated serial killing scenarios attached to orchids, origami, and rising rainwater levels in the city.
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Cape Town, which has some 4 million inhabitants, gets most of its tap water from dams filled mainly with rainwater.
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Brooks Rainwater is the director of the Center for City Solutions and Applied Research at the National League of Cities.
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Different options were tried, from open wells to rainwater harvesting, he said - but they were either ineffective or too expensive.
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Plants festoon the roof, a living wall is planned for the lobby, and rainwater storage tanks supply the building's needs.
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The building was an early stab at green architecture, collecting rainwater, exploiting natural light to reduce the need for electricity.
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City officials pointed to significant progress in reducing rainwater runoff — and the resulting overflows — across the city in recent decades.
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And a game Claudius photobombs a selfie being taken by Hamlet's college chums, Rosencrantz (Ryan Spahn) and Guildenstern (Kelsey Rainwater).
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He said sandbags would be used to build a barricade near the crater to contain rainwater that might be contaminated.
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The asphalt was scattered with large holes filled with dusty rainwater, and it was a challenge for him to pass.
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The roof and moat catch rainwater to fill toilet cisterns and the roof is decorated with electricity-generating solar panels.
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Like most renters, I can't imagine convincing my landlord to install solar panels, a Tesla battery, or a rainwater tank.
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On August 215, Crissy Comeaux spent a half hour trapped in her car as New Orleans' midtown flooded with rainwater.
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Those who remain live in thatch and stick hovels, collecting rainwater to drink and at constant risk of infectious diseases.
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The couple have bathed and washed their clothes in rainwater collecting on the roof, and are now planning their next move.
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The vault managers are now waterproofing the facility and digging trenches to channel melt and rainwater away, according to The Guardian.
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State officials urged drivers to stay off the roads after Hurricane Florence inundated the state with rainwater, causing rivers to overflow.
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All that rainwater eventually made its way into estuaries via urbanized neighborhoods, picking up fertilizer and other pollutants along the way.
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By blocking the drains, however, rainwater that falls on the bogs stays put, re-wetting the system and locking carbon in.
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That could also be a major problem, since the city's pumping system for removing rainwater is not in the best shape.
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Settlers caught rainwater in tanks and grazed their livestock across public land that had yet to be brought under government control.
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Concrete roofs are set to be covered with gardens to provide food, trap rainwater and offer respite from soaring summer temperatures.
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Tony Rainwater: I've been living in Chicago for about five years now and going to the same parties the entire time.
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And although there has been copious public messaging reminding people not to drink from puddles of rainwater, it has been happening.
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He also rigged up a rainwater collection system so he wouldn't have to carry drinking water up two flights of stairs.
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The building and its lake form a perfect circle, and rainwater that falls on the roof is drained into the lake.
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In the town of Utuado, Lydia Rivera has started to ration crackers and drink rainwater to keep her two grandchildren alive.
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Even rainwater — which is a great for your garden — is less safe for drinking unless it's been treated, the CDC says.
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Beneath artificial turf, rainwater is captured, stored and then pumped into the filtration device kept in a container alongside the field.
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The National Weather Service's Baruffaldi said the rain could cause ash flows, or a slurry of ash swept away by rainwater.
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"Organic cold-pressed juice is rainwater filtered through the soil and the roots and the stems and the plants," he said.
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There was a curved roof designed to collect rainwater, shattered pieces of ceramic tile, a dried-up well, boarded-up doors.
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They had made a latrine of the basin in the front of the house, where we used to collect the rainwater.
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And large-scale infrastructure projects, such as deepening drainage canals or building pits to store rainwater, often take years to complete.
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When rainwater seeps into the ground, the acids in it gradually erode particular types of bedrock — limestone or sandstone, for example.
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To avoid a rather sizable puddle of rainwater, a Reddit user employed a helpful piece of Tesla technology, the "Summon" feature.
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Many people laid out thousands on storage tanks to harvest rainwater, and on grey water systems and other water saving devices.
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Eventually, we plan to buy and install storage tanks connected to the gutters, which can harvest whatever little rainwater there is.
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The fire started on Thursday afternoon when rainwater mixed with the chemical compound dichloroisocyanuric acid leaked from one of the containers.
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Rainwater cisterns fed eco-friendly plumbing, while solar panels stationed by the rooftop garden powered units that sold for about $150,000.
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Casa Aguila is also the first residence in San Diego County to use rainwater for 100 percent of its indoor potable water.
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In Cape Town, harvesting rainwater makes sense, and many homes now have storage tanks connected to roof gutters to collect runoff water.
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The 1-year-old mixed breed had been surviving only on rainwater, and was "skeleton thin and unable to walk," Scott said.
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Rain is not pure water, but contains small amounts of carbon dioxide absorbed from the air; this makes rainwater very slightly acidic.
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Q: But in the past few years, various state governments made it mandatory for new houses to have a rainwater harvesting setup.
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In front of one resident's house, Méndez Lázaro points out the many skinny cats and dogs that sniff around the rainwater buckets.
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And a new rainwater collecting system for garden irrigation is yet another sustainability-oriented feature of this library of the 21st century.
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This complicates the city's efforts to combat Zika, as it creates "all kinds of tiny reservoirs for rainwater to collect," Persse said.
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If you position your plant-car under pockets of rainwater, it will grow bigger and leafier, which is (of course) incredibly satisfying.
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Given Turkana's low rainfall, the area is sorely in need of rainwater harvesting techniques such as sand dams and underground water tanks.
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Dansgaard began some of this work in 153, when he collected rainwater in his yard with a beer bottle and a funnel.
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"We are harvesting rainwater from our rooftops and I have three tanks which are almost full," Matongo told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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"Rainwater harvesting is now very important but many people do not have the money to buy or build the tanks," Zimunya said.
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Rainwater harvesting, an age-old technique for capturing monsoon run-off, can provide the country with reliable water supplies throughout the year.
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The letters sit at one end of the park and collect rainwater from a disused 2000 km-long rail viaduct snaking above.
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He says it can break down over time as it interacts with acid naturally found in rainwater, causing anything above to collapse.
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The compilation, simply titled Compilation 1, will feature tracks from Tony Rainwater, Mankind, J. Albert, and 80's pop icon Alice Cohen.
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For instance, a nearby wood-chipping plant offers the building heat, and the roof catches rainwater to be reused in the building.
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Between the outcroppings lie swampy valleys, or vleis, fed by rainwater runoff and rich in acacias, mopanis, figs, euphorbias and other vegetation.
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The reason is that household sewage flows into the same underground sewer pipes that also collect rainwater runoff from rooftops and streets.
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Using rainwater out of barrels gave Ms. Méndez a waterborne kidney infection that landed her in the hospital for nearly three months.
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Parts of the city still smelled fishy, though, possibly from a tidal surge that mixed with the rainwater and submerged entire streets.
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Climate change, in turn, is making the rains more erratic, which limits rooftop rainwater harvesting, and fuels floods that contaminate some aquifers.
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To that end, the island's equipment includes a rainwater cistern, two generators (one for backup), solar panels, a tractor and several boats.
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Presented with a sample of rainwater, he could, based on its isotopic composition, determine the temperature at which the precipitation had formed.
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But older cities across the Northeast and Midwest have older sewer systems designed to carry sewage and rainwater in the same pipes.
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On my drive back to Johannesburg to catch a flight home, I passed several horse trailers piled high with huge rainwater tanks.
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Her class continues to make improvements to and monitor the garden, which soaks up an estimated 15,000 gallons of rainwater a year.
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Four people from Papua New Guinea spent a month in a boat adrift in the Pacific Ocean and lived off rainwater and coconuts.
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The remaining four spent a month afloat in the Pacific Ocean — surviving on rainwater and coconuts — and miraculously lived to tell the tale.
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The natural drains that were supposed to take the rainwater to the sea have been filled in as people built houses on them.
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All fruits and vegetables are from the hotel's own organic garden or from local farmers, and the hotel even harvests its own rainwater.
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The network of bayous crossing the city help to drain rainwater; however, they can also overflow and cause flooding during extreme rainfall events.
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Rainwater claims after the dust settled, Yella and his crew headed back to the club's parking lot and bragged about the alleged assault.
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Some spaces act as private refuges, while others provide daylight, ventilation, rainwater collection and room for more than 20 species of tropical plants.
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She finds him gator-bitten and unconscious, and as their house floods, she realizes the alligators are pouring in along with the rainwater.
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Shocking photos emerged from the capital Dhaka Wednesday that showed residents wading through streets flooded with a mix of animal blood and rainwater.
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Boosting rainwater harvesting and building small dams to capture runoff may help many farmers in areas where groundwater is limited, the experts said.
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The beds harvest rainwater and are built to retain moisture, even making use of the small amounts of waste water flowing from homesteads.
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In addition, the tiles are made of clay and durable plastic, so can be used to harvest rainwater for domestic use, he added.
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But the borehole produces so little water at the peak of the dry season that storing rainwater has become a necessity, he said.
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But in many areas, communities "need lots of awareness and education on how best they can explore opportunities for rainwater harvesting," he said.
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Bangalore was built around a series of lakes that acted as rainwater reservoirs and recharged the aquifers, providing a renewable source of water.
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Its Brooklyn headquarters are stocked with vegan snacks, 50-foot plant walls nourished with rainwater and 3D printers for employees to express themselves.
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Rivers of rainwater coursed down the steps and streets of Matera, power-washing the city, cleansing it of anything that wasn't millennia-old.
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As rainwater runs off and flows downhill, it picks up soil, trees, boulders and other debris and eventually collects in a stream channel.
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A storm water retention system collects rainwater, which is then recycled and used in the building's cooling towers and to water the landscaping.
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Videos showed glass windows and doors smashing, pedestrians blown off the ground and residents frantically bailing rainwater off their balconies to prevent flooding.
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Rainwater is pulled up from the roots to the canopy, where it is released back to the atmosphere to fall as rain again.
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Subsidies for landholders who protect watersheds - land that absorbs rainwater - exceeded $23 billion last year, about $2 billion more than 2014, the study said.
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That includes more than 12,000 pounds of volatile organic compounds from Exxon Mobil's massive Baytown refinery when rainwater sank a storage tank's floating roof.
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He turns and presses his meaty palm into mine, closing my hand around the burnt red stone slick with rainwater without saying a word.
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One year, so much rainwater collected in Popeye's cap that it spilled out and drenched the crowd as the balloon made a tight turn.
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Besides working with livestock, including chickens, the group has installed rooftop rainwater harvesting systems, and uses the water to produce vegetables with drip irrigation.
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The situation could get worse as swollen rivers carry rainwater from neighboring India downstream into the low-lying and densely populated country, they said.
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Faced with complaints of dwindling groundwater, the government promises to enforce long-standing laws mandating that all buildings should be equipped to harvest rainwater.
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All of these so-called green infrastructure projects are designed to let rainwater seep slowly back into the earth instead of pumping it out.
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Another five aquifer systems were categorized as "extremely" or "highly" stressed — they're being replenished by some rainwater, but not nearly enough to offset withdrawals.
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And by 'we' I mean my friend Dan on the island who definitely does not have Instagram, lives in a yurt and drinks rainwater.
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The basic elements of green building — structural orientation, conservative use of glass, water-efficient toilets, rainwater harvesting systems — are well understood and widely available.
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Rainwater flooding did not wreck the city in Hurricane Katrina, when breaches in federal levees let a nearby lake spill into the streets. 5.
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Those include adapting farming practices so that soil retains more moisture and nutrients, harvesting rainwater, and conserving wetlands that capture runoff and decontaminate water.
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TEPIC, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the heart of Honduras' notorious "Dry Corridor", the most important harvest for farmer Daniel Cruz Castro is rainwater.
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But Matongo said last year's brutal drought had already persuaded many local people to harvest as much rainwater as possible, by any means possible.
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Increasingly strong storms threaten more spills as the open ponds become overwhelmed by rainwater and send the sludge beyond the confines of the pond.
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Researchers recently discovered plastic microfibers in rainwater in the Rocky Mountains, and plastics are also showing up in the food supply (primarily in fish).
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Trump did not specify what water policies he was referring to, but environmentalists have argued in the past that rainwater could be better harvested .
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Some farmers are feeding their water storage ponds with rainwater captured in roof gutters on their home and directed to the ponds, they said.
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The trees take in rainwater through their roots, move it up into the canopy, and release it into the air, a process called evapotranspiration.
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Ducks, white and brown feathers ruffled by the wind, waddled through the rainwater pooling on the sidewalks and the grass, still searching for food.
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The building was designed to be eco-conscious: rainwater is used to flush the toilets and to water plants; photocells heat the tap water.
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The amoeba was detected in untreated groundwater from a well and rainwater from a cistern that he had used as his household water sources.
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Deep-well drilling by industry and agriculture has gone unregulated, and the government's recent attempts to encourage rainwater harvesting have met with limited success.
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It seems like the wettest, boggiest slope ever, with scores of crisscrossing rainwater runnels, turning everything into a churn of mud and sheep droppings.
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These bits of land next to roadways collect rainwater, which then percolates through soil and gathers in a drain, before heading out to sea.
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Rooftops are covered with solar panels or gardens that collect rainwater for reuse, while ground water is used to cool buildings through air-conditioners.
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Derek Rouse, a Navy flight engineer, said he and wife Jennifer have asked Balfour Beatty for years to stop rainwater from penetrating their home.
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Recent drought and wildfires have created a situation where the land cannot retain the rainwater, making it easier for mudslides and debris flows to occur.
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Those include building underground water tanks to harvest rainwater while limiting evaporation, and planting herbs in jerrycans tied to wood boards to maximize farming space.
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In docs, Rainwater claims he showed up to the club last month but when he tried getting inside he was told by security to wait.
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Joel Rainwater is the narrator and a ghost who is emotionally attached to a lizard; he can't understand why the spirits want to kill it.
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"In areas where rains have failed, farmers who depend mainly on rainwater to irrigate their crops have no, or very low, crop yields," they wrote.
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Its research shows that, despite 99% compliance on paper, only 40% of buildings actually do trap rainwater and store it or inject it into aquifers.
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The clever part is that rainwater isn't pure: It contains compounds like ammonium, calcium and sodium, all of which become ions when they're in solution.
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Smaller steps like introducing rainwater-harvesting to trap monsoon run-off and building check dams on riverbeds to improve groundwater levels would have helped instead.
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Sea levels are rising, South Florida was built on a marsh, and rapid development keeps shrinking the wetlands that can absorb and drain excessive rainwater.
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South Florida water managers sometimes can't discharge rainwater into the ocean because the tide is so high that seawater is pushing into the water system.
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As Hickok notes, "the cycle may continue" as that additional rainwater evaporates back into the atmosphere and causes rainfall on other farms and towns downwind.
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Some studies show that Chimalhuacan only has a guarantee of enough water until 2050, forcing the government to consider new measures, such as rainwater collection.
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In Paradise, most of which was destroyed by the fires, the storms could cause ash flows, or a slurry of ash swept away by rainwater.
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Traditional cisterns cut into the rock capture rainwater and many of the stone buildings in the area have withstood the elements for hundreds of years.
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But there are also features that you would likely never see at a Californian tech company, like the three massive siloes filled with rainwater outside.
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After a while, windshield-wiper blades can start to leave smear marks on the window, as the rubber strips that push rainwater away can degrade.
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The World Bank-led Kiribati Adaptation Program, begun in 2003, developed water-management plans, built coastal sea walls, planted mangroves and installed rainwater-harvesting systems.
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She wants to apply some of the same philosophies in the farm to the lot, create permeable surfaces so that precious rainwater is not wasted.
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"You know, when it rains that rainwater turns copper, it turns red, and it drips off of those things," Mr. Stevenson said of the columns.
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Many landslides are caused by infiltration of rainwater or groundwater, but geologists think that water is not involved in this case at all, just gravity.
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In Long Island City, as in many other neighborhoods, sewer lines can fill up with so much rainwater runoff that there are combined sewer overflows.
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These include rooftops covered by plants, scenic wetlands for rainwater storage, and permeable pavements that store excess runoff water and allow evaporation for temperature moderation.
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Mr. Hunt used a pan to collect the rainwater dripping through the ceiling, graduated to a bucket and, when that proved insufficient, a trash can.
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There was no water, no electric light; he gathered rainwater in buckets and boiled it and used a small solar panel to charge his phone.
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Once the pairing established itself as a saleable commodity, the music industry just kept returning to the seemingly bottomless well full of blessed African rainwater.
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The city's rainwater drainage system also is being extended at a cost of $667,000 and is due to be completed in five year's time, he said.
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Poncho the Brangus bull was, like thousands of other Louisiana residents, displaced by the 2-trillion-plus gallons of rainwater that flooded the state in August.
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Fearing trouble was about to go down, Rainwater claims he ran out of there but Yella and his crew chased him down and beat him up.
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They primarily grow paddy and millet, and because they depend on rainwater irrigation, Beniwal has no choice but to hope for showers -- the heavier the better.
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The latter look like straightforward drawings of astronomical charts but the artist incorporates rainwater filtered through stencils to depict nighttime stars as splotches of negative space.
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They can be used as a tent, as ground cover, to catch rainwater, to patch holes, for a trap, and even to drag back heavy animals.
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The hope is this will provide more accurate estimates of rainwater about to slosh into the municipal waterworks, helping managers to limit flooding and sewage overflows.
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Despite better built levees and flood walls since Katrina, officials are concerned that additional rainwater from Barry could exacerbate an unusually swollen Mississippi River this weekend.
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Local authorities have switched off electricity and water supplies at the barricaded detention centre, leaving the asylum-seekers to survive on stockpiles of food and rainwater.
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AMSTERDAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Competition for funding among companies trying to do good by doing everything from harvesting rainwater to making prosthetic limbs can be fierce.
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To cut down on freshwater, some of its facilities use seawater, industrial canal water, recycled "gray" water from sinks and showers, captured stormwater, or harvested rainwater.
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Local-level solutions could include increased use of solar-powered pumping stations and small dams that hold rainwater, allowing aquifers to be replenished, the ICRC said.
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Following Hurricane Maria, some Puerto Ricans have resorted to bathing in rivers and mountain streams; collecting rainwater to flush toilets; and drinking from potentially risky sources.
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As well, there are systems that recover rainwater and air conditioning condensation into basement tanks, where the water is reused for irrigation and to flush toilets.
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"This crisis was expected considering that the last monsoons had failed," said Sekhar Raghavan of Rain Centre, a nonprofit that promotes rainwater harvesting in the city.
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Both the Crescent Farm and the offsite garden in the Arboretum are food forests cleverly engineered to harvest rainwater and store the water in the ground.
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In order to adapt, the country is trying to build rainwater cisterns and new pipe systems to ensure that its people have safe drinking water supplies.
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They were both saturated with rainwater, he said, which could cause them to disintegrate after centuries in the unusually dry air of St. Michan's limestone crypt.
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In 1999, Mr. Rainwater was instrumental in bringing to the library the Elaine Lustig Cohen Dada Collection, considered the largest of such art in private hands.
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A 2012 city rule requires new developments to take measures to retain significant amounts of rainwater on site, such as using green roofs and porous pavements.
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"One of the key solutions is to welcome immigrants into these communities," said Brooks Rainwater, director of the National League of Cities' Center for City Solutions.
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So the fires of Chimaera were the result of carbon-dioxide-rich limestone, or calcium carbonate and hydrogen-rich serpentinized rocks that were doused by rainwater.
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The library even makes its own solar energy (30 percent of the building's energy is generated this way) and collects rainwater in a 373,000 gallon cistern.
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"Other technologies short of desalination, like wastewater treatment, groundwater recharge, the capture of rainwater and storm water to recharge aquifers, aren't necessarily particularly expensive," she says.
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For an additional cost, the homes can be fitted with a solar power microgrid, rainwater collection and a sewage treatment system that doubles as a garden.
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BARCELONA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In the Caribbean island state of Barbados, rainwater collection has been promoted as a way to boost scarce supplies of fresh water.
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The expanse of desert landscape that has been swept into rippling sand dunes sees rainwater lakes collecting in the rolls at certain times of the year.
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The library even makes its own solar energy (30 percent of the building's energy is generated this way) and collects rainwater in a 373,000 gallon cistern.
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Rainwater has resulted in the most extensive flooding in any city in the history of the U.S., and forecasts show that plenty more is on the way.
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Furthermore, pine needles and bark on the forest floor can form a resinous layer that prevents snowmelt and rainwater from sinking in and building up groundwater reserves.
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Patman hones in on the ways nature grows through empty buildings via rainwater filling sinks, ivy pouring in through windows, or tiny saplings sprouting through the floor.
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Claiming to have subsisted on birds, turtles and and rainwater, Alvarenga was later sued by the family of his companion, Ezequiel Cordoba, who died during the ordeal.
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It's got "rooftop solar, electric-vehicle charging stations and dedicated spots for car-share vehicles, rainwater capture and water treatment features"—not to mention 720 parking spots.
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More started to take some of the burden from women, and then worked to reduce the total amount of work by building rainwater tanks near the village.
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The one dismay has been seeing millions of gallons of precious rainwater pour down hillside gutters and storm drains, as it flowed unhindered into Santa Monica Bay.
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At its South Carolina data center, a $1.2 billion facility, Google is experimenting with a rainwater retention pond as a source of water to cool its systems.
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While most American Indians were hunters and gatherers, the Puebloans were also accomplished tillers of the soil, irrigating the wild desert in this canyon with captured rainwater.
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The company first came to fame for its rubber galoshes but has since found better ways to keep rainwater (and water in general) away from your shoes.
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One theater is even decked with a smart vertical garden on its outer wall, which collects its own rainwater via a solar-powered system on the roof.
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The fields can store and clean up to 133 million liters of rainwater annually, or nearly 2,000 liters per hour, while children use them to play football.
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"It's been raining recently, which in one sense is good because we can gather rainwater for cooking," a woman reached by phone said, asking to remain anonymous.
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A less gruesome explanation is that the poculum caputus evolved a bowl shaped head to collect rainwater or something, but then why the fuck is it white?
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Since 2009, Bangalore's water board has run campaigns to promote rainwater harvesting, making it mandatory for all residential complexes to have built-in systems to catch rain.
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Though she has the support of her colleagues, she notes that it's an uphill battle trying to convince city planners to agree to the rainwater collection plans.
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In Rwanda, the authorities say the bags contribute to flooding and prevent crops from growing because rainwater can't penetrate the soil when it is littered with plastic.
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When those pipes are overloaded with rainwater, the combined overflow is then discharged directly into nearby rivers, bays and creeks instead of going to wastewater treatment plants.
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Devoted to sustainability, the hotel, its farms and swimming pool use only harvested rainwater — accumulated each year during the monsoon season — which is then treated and filtered.
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A channel of water-systems had been built between each tipi, which funneled dirty rainwater away from the temporary homes and into tiny pools of aquatic joy.
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OBITUARIES An obituary on Thursday about the longtime New York Public Library art curator Robert Rainwater misstated the name of a French printmaker whose work he exhibited.
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In Seattle, where Amazon is based, its buildings have green roofs and low-flow fixtures in the restrooms, and capture rainwater to use to water the landscape.
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Perhaps the sky darkens, or is brighter because the sun is reflecting on the surface of rainwater, perhaps producing a rainbow through the droplets in the air.
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Sprawling urban development and use of impervious material prevent soil from absorbing rainwater, prompting further investment in infrastructures that typically impede natural processes and worsen flood impacts.
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Launched in 2015 in 16 cities, the initiative seeks to reduce the intensity of rainwater runoff by enhancing and distributing absorption capacities more evenly across targeted areas.
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There were wastebaskets catching rainwater seeping through the ceiling, cardboard and wood chips and carpets meant to soak up days worth of dampness at Pimlico Race Course.
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Anne Sawyer, rector of St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery, which is trying to raise money to replace faulty copper gutters that funnel rainwater into the building.
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Since the town became autonomous, residents say crime has plummeted and the community has built what local media calls the largest rainwater capture system in Latin America.
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Providing shelter for up to 10 people, it features rainwater tanks, a solar hot-water system, and support columns that residents may adjust to accommodate uneven terrain.
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IPCC scientist Valerie Masson-Delmotte called for the scale-up of practices like organic farming and harvesting rainwater for irrigation that could help farmers deal with climate change.
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The ranch house has a cascading storm water and creek purification feature in the courtyard, and native grasses that cleanse rainwater prior to entering the creek and spring.
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One such start up is Retas, set up by a trio of graduate students in 2016 to improve management systems of rain and stormwater by using rainwater harvesting.
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For years, researchers have argued over the source of this water, whether it was fed by rainwater falling from the sky or from ice melting beneath the surface.
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With the population seen growing to 100 million by 2030, according to Savills, the delta is testing "sponge cities" where landscapes and underground tanks absorb and store rainwater.
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Rainwater is pumped out through a century-old system of canals, drainage pipes and pumps — all suffering from decades of neglect laid bare during last summer&aposs flooding.
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So the key is to capture and store rainwater, instead of letting it escape out into the ocean, something that recent infrastructure projects have been trying to fix.
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Lawrence Nyagwande, the Manicaland manager of Environment Africa, a non-governmental organization, said rainwater harvesting should be promoted vigorously to rural communities while concerns about drought are fresh.
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The rain could cause ash flows, or a slurry of ash swept away by rainwater, according to Robert Baruffaldi, a meteorologist from the National Weather Service's Sacramento office.
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There's even an associated local bottled water brand now — "Amaziyateke," named after a big leaf that collects rainwater, but in Rwanda is also slang for a beautiful woman.
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Nearly 8 million gallons of combined rainwater and untreated sewage spilled into New York's Genesee River, and more than 4 million gallons of the same spilled in Baltimore.
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Help must be given to farmers to plant trees, improve rainwater harvesting, create more efficient irrigation systems and plant drought-resistant crops over shorter cycles, U.N. experts said.
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According to the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), approximately 35 percent of Malaysian rice is solely grown with rainwater, leaving farmers even more vulnerable to changing weather patterns.
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The otherwise generic structure, he said, holds up to 680,1.63 gallons of rainwater collected mostly from the roof of the enormous stadium standing just a few feet away.
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As a result, city officials said, Amazon's new headquarters would be an improvement over older buildings — and could actually end up reducing rainwater runoff in the sewage system.
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"Organic cold-pressed juice is rainwater filtered through the soil and the roots and the stems and the plants," Mr. Evans told The New York Times last year.
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To address the issue, China's sponge city initiative has an ambitious goal: by 2020, 80% of urban areas should absorb and re-use at least 70% of rainwater.
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"There's tremendous pollution being put into the ocean because they're going through what's called the storm sewer that's for rainwater," Trump said aboard Air Force One in September.
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In Philadelphia, Anguelovski and her team studied a program to build flood-fighting infrastructure like parkland, green roofs, and curbside swales to absorb rainwater before it hit sewers.
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"There's tremendous pollution being put into the ocean because they're going through what's called the storm sewer that's for rainwater," Trump said aboard Air Force One last week.
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I see nothing but grass, but she bends to one knee and plucks a delicate weed with rainwater cluster in the center of its leaves like crystal orbs.
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Rainwater harvesting tanks, to catch the runoff from tin roofs, also are being installed, and irrigation pumps purchased, on a continent with one of the world's lowest irrigation rates.
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As far back as 1990, there were reports that Cape Town's water supply was reaching dangerously low levels, and was developing an over-reliance on rainwater for municipal water.
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Rainwater feeds the River Rwizi - a source of water for millions of people in southwest Uganda - and deposits sediment, but within a month the river dries up, Ngabirano added.
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Ngabirano said hilltops should be covered with trees and plants to prevent soil erosion and enable the ground to absorb more rainwater through the holes made by their roots.
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The Cloaca Maxima, which still drains rainwater from central Rome's streets, was the ancient city's main sewer and in those days disgorged vast amounts of waste into the river.
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Sand dams "only trap excess rainwater, so there is no risk of them jeopardizing the livelihoods of people relying on the river as a source of irrigation", Omolo added.
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As well as helping water escape into the ground, travertine removes a number of pollutants that occur when rainwater mixes with dirt, rendering it suitable for agriculture, they said.
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But the success of those actions depends on support at the state and federal level, Rainwater says, since city initiatives work best if aided by national regulations and funding.
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Residents have taken to collecting rainwater in any containers they can, which scientists warn creates the perfect breeding ground for disease-carrying mosquitoes, which could soon overrun the island.
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Accompanying their vocals, Brennan's equipment, now unboxed, but also improvised instruments, including sledgehammer snares, straw broom high hats and a 6-foot rainwater container acting as a bass drum.
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As rainwater started to fill the drains, Guzman eventually emerged from a manhole near a gas station a mile (1.6 km) across town and stole a car at gunpoint.
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For example, if you look at beef that is pasture raised, we're talking about a green water footprint because the animals are eating grass that's being fed by rainwater.
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What plants of prey do need is full sun, a period of cold dormancy and rainwater — not tap water, which contains too many minerals, to say nothing of chlorine.
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The new fritkots will feature a reflective aluminum facade, tiled interior and be equipped with rooftop solar panels and a rainwater harvesting system to make them more environmentally sustainable.
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Trapped under an air-conditioner for three weeks, the dog survived off rainwater that fell in front of him in Marsh Harbour, a neighborhood on the Great Abaco Island.
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But when a football field that stores and filters rainwater was installed at the school in 2015, he noticed that the health and class attendance of his pupils improved.
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We left the basement in place, and we're in the process of waterproofing those basement walls and converting it into a rainwater harvesting system with a 5,000-gallon capacity.
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Its legs had been shortened, the shell was gouged and dirty, convex Perspex windows had been removed, and the interior had been flooded by rainwater and slathered in plaster.
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His death was announced by Max Schumann, president of Printed Matter, a nonprofit distributor dedicated to artist's books and related publications, where Mr. Rainwater was a longtime board member.
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In the animated series, Popeye is being recast as a more youthful, environmentally resourceful fellow, who lives in a washed-ashore houseboat, collects rainwater and grows his own spinach.
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It's a move that Mr. Adjaye said will break up rainwater streaming down the facade during storms while also splitting up the mass of the building with horizontal lines.
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A video from within the center was released last week by the activist group GetUp showing cramped dormitories, mold-ridden showers and rainwater collected in garbage bins for drinking.
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It is also better monitoring water use in factories and harvesting rainwater for toilet flushing at its plants - one way to act as a better water steward, she said.
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It is also better monitoring water use in factories and harvesting rainwater for toilet flushing at its plants - one way to act as a better water steward, she said.
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In a recorded conversation between Marcus, Jake, and, Bernabe obtained by VICE, Bernabe acknowledged that the rainwater line and sewage line meet, so floods are a mixture of both.
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The humidity, rainwater, and sunlight nourish the living wall just like the grass of a lawn except the lichen and fungi make a black patina not unlike William's charcoal drawings.
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Then that waste is washed out of livestock pastures or manure-using farms with rainwater, or it's dumped with untreated human sewage into waterways that ultimately drain into the ocean.
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"When we close those, there is no outlet for the rainwater that is gathering in Colombo," said Mohamed Moufar, a deputy project manager for the Metro Colombo Urban Development Project.
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Mr. Lampert was 243 years old and at the vanguard of the hedge fund movement when he launched ESL in 22 with $2288 million in seed money from Mr. Rainwater.
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Potent storms deluged the Washington, D.C. area Monday morning, marooning drivers atop their vehicles, transforming boulevards into brown rivers, filling parking garages with water, and dumping rainwater into the Metro.
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Mr Azam enlisted local children to plant a mix of greenery; he added an underground trench able to hold 500,000 litres of rainwater, which is then saved for drier periods.
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Experts worry that as sea levels rise, Kiribati's fragile groundwater supply will face even greater risks, while the next drought could quickly exhaust the municipal supply and household rainwater tanks.
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Across rural KwaZulu-Natal, efforts to adapt to drier conditions are evident, from the new 'JoJo' tanks to hold rainwater running off tin roofs to more irrigation pumps and hoses.
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The insect thrives in puddles, nooks and crannies common in Rio and other tropical cities peppered with chaotic and unplanned neighborhoods, where rainwater, open sewers and litter offer ample habitat.
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They were looking after the orphaned children of another daughter killed in the bombing, she said, and were reduced to putting pots and pans in the street to collect rainwater.
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That work led to Dr. Bohr and Dr. Mottelson's winning the 1975 Nobel in physics, shared with another physicist, Leo James Rainwater, who had independently come up with similar ideas.
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In the flood-prone Houston area, federal permits will not be required to develop coastal and prairie wetlands that absorb excess rainwater and provide habitat for migrating songbirds and waterfowl.
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Brooks Rainwater is the senior Executive and director for City Solutions, and Irma Esparza Diggs is the senior executive and director for federal advocacy, at the National League of Cities.
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The US company has installed solar power and rainwater harvesting technology at several of its warehouses, as well as motion sensing lights that switch off as soon as workers exit.
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Mr. Lampert was 25 years old and at the vanguard of the hedge fund movement when he founded ESL in 2288 with $2309 million in seed money from Mr. Rainwater.
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Rainwater seeped into houses in many parts of the city and people took to Twitter to post pictures of their submerged cars and flooding homes and to criticize the government.
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By 2025, the government also wants to triple the use of rainwater and recycled wastewater for watering plants, flushing toilets and other uses that do not require drinking-water standards.
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But 20 years ago, Michael and his wife transformed their Chippendale home into an experiment in sustainable living: solar power, rainwater tanks, and a septic system to process their waste.
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The sculpture features rain barrels and an 2100-gallon cistern that families can use to collect rainwater at their homes, taking full advantage of the brief, but powerful El Niño storms.
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Without access to private tankers or rainwater harvesting systems, these low-income families are almost entirely dependent on groundwater for basic needs -- and thus are hit hardest in crises like this.
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Brandon Rainwater is suing Yella claiming he and his crew beat him to a pulp outside the hotspot strip club, V Live in Dallas ... this according to docs obtained by TMZ.
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During a rare downpour, villagers driving carts drawn by zebu cattle emerged on the region's main road to fill jerrycans and drums with rainwater collected from the highway's crater-sized potholes.
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When she saw water dripping off a closed umbrella and onto the door, she came up with a sponge tip that would go on the end and soak up the rainwater.
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They had a store of coconuts on their small aluminum boat, and managed to catch a sea bird, but otherwise were dependent on rainwater they collected in a tarp for sustenance.
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Potent storms deluged the Washington, D.C. area on July 8, marooning drivers atop their vehicles, transforming boulevards into brown rivers, filling parking garages with water, and dumping rainwater into the Metro.
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Cities could help save scarce supplies be reusing water that flows into drainage systems and is otherwise lost, and by installing features such as permeable pavements to capture rainwater, he said.
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Nevertheless, rainwater harvesting has been slow to gain widespread traction in the region of 80,000 people, where much of the land is barren apart from drought-resistant acacia and mopani trees.
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The tank acts like a huge sponge, absorbing rainwater during storms and releasing it later to use for cleaning toilets and streets, as well as for irrigation in parks and playgrounds.
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"I don't think that's bad for an enormous building project," she told reporters but conceded that rainwater dripped into her office in NATO's current headquarters during a recent heavy winter storm.
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After acquiring one such silo in 2010, Hall started the arduous task of pumping out 1.3 million gallons of accumulated rainwater and gutting the silo of rusting launch structures and debris.
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Now, as residents use buckets, bottles, and whatever they can find to gather rainwater for bathing and even drinking, they're creating the perfect breeding grounds for mosquitoes that spread debilitating diseases.
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Let's say you have a home that has geothermal heating, a rainwater catchment system and solar panels that generate all your electricity: You might say you have a zero-carbon lifestyle.
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As a result, criminal justice reformers across the political spectrum have drawn attention to people who have ended up behind bars for offenses like illegal shellfish harvesting and illicit rainwater collection.
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They instead oversee a lake trapped in a perpetual rainstorm, taking on more rainwater each day as they try futilely to bucket out a few drops to charity before they die.
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To ensure food security for the continent's 1.3 billion - and growing - population, countries need to manage their water resources more efficiently, from harvesting rainwater to maintaining aquifers, or underground water basins.
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To ensure food security for the continent's 1.3 billion - and growing - population, countries need to manage their water resources more efficiently, from harvesting rainwater to maintaining aquifers, or underground water basins.
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Still, the system of pumps, underground pipes and canals is designed to remove only 1 inch of rainwater in the first hour of a storm and a half-inch in subsequent hours.
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Two common themes: increasing sustainability to meet environmental goals and improving transportation to reduce gridlock, according to Brooks Rainwater, Director of the Center for City Solutions at the National League of Cities.
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"Sometimes we don't sleep, (but) rather keep our eyes open for the entire night when there happens to be heavy rainfall, because the rainwater keeps coming inside the house," said Rai, 343.
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The crowd putters around the carpeted convention hall, picking up pamphlets on collecting rainwater or stopping to look at Salvador Alvarenga, a celebrity survivor after 13 months adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
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And true to its name, the team also uses only solar or wind power, plays on an organic pitch that grows using recycled rainwater, and offers free electric car charging for fans.
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That got him wondering about what happened with all the rainwater that wasn't captured, setting him off on a quest that took him to treatment facilities like this one in Los Angeles.
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On a smaller scale, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is introducing cisterns to help people harvest and store rainwater in Niger, where desertification claimed 100,000 hectares of land every year.
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Among them is apuwai, stocky with a corrugated leaf that holds rainwater like a cup; such water is considered sacred because it never touches the ground and was traditionally used in healing.
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The domes are supported by concrete pilings and were once interconnected to make a 2,4000-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bathroom home outfitted with solar panels and a cistern to collect rainwater.
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Like many Capetonians, I've been pigging out on "water porn" over the past few weeks, watching endless videos, like these ones of rainwater arriving in Theewaterkloof Dam, Cape Town's main water supply.
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At Wimpole Street, the beverage giant has a number of features demonstrating its commitment to the environment, including floors made of reclaimed timber, electricity generated from solar panels and rainwater that's harvested.
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"'Day Zeros' are inevitable unless cities push for judicious use of water - including rainwater harvesting and reuse of waste water, as well as more efficient irrigation, and regulation of tubewells," she said.
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Rafaelian's restoration team pays close attention to original detail while outfitting the mansion with eco-friendly upgrades, such as transforming a former cistern for Belmont's horses into a new rainwater collection system.
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Set against the deep-shaded blue walls, in the middle of the pavilion, is a circular clearing, open to the sky, where rainwater is funneled to be recycled elsewhere in the park.
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Even the roots have been pulled out, leaving nothing to hold the parched soil together as rainwater washes downhill, potentially taking tents and people with it and quickly inundating low-lying settlements.
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As a centerpiece for the show "On Paper: History of an Art" (1990) and its more than 19853 items, Mr. Rainwater commissioned a large work in paper from the artist Michelle Stuart.
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Forests are the world's most effective land cover or maintenance of water quality, providing a kind of natural "sponge" that collects and filters rainwater before gradually releasing it into rivers and streams.
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Even if it had hit a hundred years ago, a storm like Florence would be catastrophic, but rising sea levels have lifted the water table, leaving less space for rainwater to drain.
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The Earthship&aposs roof catches rainwater and snow and then channels it into a cistern in the rear wall, so it can then be reused as water for drinking, cooking, and showering.
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On a recent Tuesday, amid a sea of handmade furniture, folksy artworks and vertical gardens irrigated by rainwater captured on the roof, eight Etsy employees showed us how they create their looks.
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"This isn't something that happened over one year or two years," said Brooks Rainwater, a senior executive and the director of the Center for City Solutions at the National League of Cities.
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Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, team leader for climate change and health with the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, says there is a cheap and easy answer: covering rainwater tanks with mosquito nets.
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Mukherjee's model incorporates a rainwater harvesting unit, and a sanitation system that converts waste from the kitchen, toilet and chicken coop to generate methane gas that can be used as cooking fuel.
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For the Aromatherapy lovers, you'll find the cult-favorite green Eucalyptus and Spearmint candle, plus a similar Mint and Rainwater variety if you're looking to switch up your living-room scent for summer.
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Some of those funds have been used to restore ancient indigenous canals that help control water flow, and to work with farmers on better managing the land so soil will absorb more rainwater.
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These low-income families, without access to expensive private water tankers or rainwater harvesting systems, are almost entirely dependent on groundwater for basic needs -- and thus are hit hardest in crises like this.
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The library had no proper drainage system, which meant rainwater leaked into the space, cracking floors and walls decorated with centuries-old mosaics; wooden beams had splintered; and the electrical systems needed updates.
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But their party plans to escape the heat quickly turned deadly when a "40-foot-wide black wave" of rainwater, mud and debris came through a narrow canyon and swept the family away.
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Many organizations have heeded the call and are helping provide clean water by repairing pipes on damaged wells, mobilizing drill rigs and donating tanks that collect and store rainwater that runs off roofs.
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According to the building's designers, GDP Architects, rainwater is harvested while a "green terraced accessible roof" offers sweeping views of the city and its surroundings, with a canopy providing shade from the sun.
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They left the scenic coastline vulnerable to mudslides because they burned grass and shrubs that hold soil in place and baked a waxy layer into the earth that prevents rainwater from sinking deeply.
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To one gallon of honey, you simply add five gallons of rainwater, a packet of Champagne yeast (even though raw honey contains its own naturally occurring yeasts), and five cups of brown sugar.
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The French architect Jean Nouvel is directing a sustainable development project for the island that will include offices, shops, transportation and recreational activities, and will feature green roofs and the reuse of rainwater.
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A 10,000-gallon tank was recently buried at the site to collect rainwater, which will be used to feed the plants, flush the toilets and wash the two dozen boats kept on site.
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CreditCreditThomas Struth for The New York Times In late August, as Hurricane Harvey began smashing into the Texas coast, a flood of data began pouring in along with the catastrophic quantities of rainwater.
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" Instead, preparing for disasters and recovering from weather challenges require many different strategies, including "holding that rainwater, keeping the flow from going into the drains faster, raising your homes above the flood line.
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A set of 15 pools stacked one above the other, hollowed into the granite of the Tinajas Altas Mountains, these natural tanks can hold some 20,000 gallons of rainwater but are rarely full.
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The digital scene also illustrates the clever design of the atrium, which would allow for plenty of light to flood the space and had a pool set in its center to collect rainwater.
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The bottom line: Without significant investments in plugging leaky pipes, improving agricultural efficiency, harvesting rainwater and mandating conservation, 45 cities — home to 450 million people — could see their taps dry up by 2030.
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I watched, entranced, as a jovial chef — I'd gone with Mr. Nutella — rolled out a mound of greasy dough, slick with oil and likely more than a few dashes of perspiration and rainwater.
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Once the test flight was over, everyone was called to take a group photo and grab a drink; a plastic bucket sat at the entrance of the VoloPort, collecting rainwater from the roof.
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The asylum seekers, drawn largely from Afghanistan, Iran, Myanmar, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Syria, use rubbish bins to collect rainwater and set up makeshift shelters to protect against the tropical sun and rain.
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In a neighborhood near San Juan, rainwater that Angel Negroni and his wife collect in buckets for use in their garden has become the couple's main source of water for drinking and cooking.
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Determined to stem the exodus and repair confidence in the region, civil society groups and government agencies are trying to revive water bodies, de-silt ponds and build dams for irrigation and rainwater harvesting.
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With low groundwater levels and insufficient rainwater collection systems, the state government has resorted to trucking water directly into Chennai neighborhoods, where hundreds of thousands of residents wait in line for their meager allocation.
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It's a totally off-grid system, a 500-gallon tank outside that's hooked up to pipes on the side of the house, like PVC on the back of the house that does rainwater collection.
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Those solutions include changing farming practices so the soil retains more moisture and nutrients, harvesting rainwater, re-charging aquifers, conserving wetlands that capture runoff and decontaminate water, restoring floodplains and turning rooftops into gardens.
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Papua New Guinean police cleared the remaining asylum-seekers from the Manus detention complex on Friday, ending a three-week protest which saw some 600 people surviving on rainwater and smuggled food and supplies.
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"We need to know how much of the rainwater is being recharged through rainfall and infiltrations, how much of it is stored, and so how much of it can be sustainably used," he said.
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METROPOLITAN An article in some editions on July 2556 about the Bronx River House, an ecologically sensitive building, gave an incorrect figure from city officials for the size of the building's rainwater storage tank.
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The ditches, waist high in some places, were a functional and architecturally strategic element of the original layout, funneling rainwater off the course while simultaneously ensnaring the wayward golf ball into a shadowy abyss.
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Since the urine was not diluted by other sewage or rainwater, it could be broken down to its chemical elements, which were then compared against a vast database of substances with known psychoactive effects.
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The city is particularly vulnerable to storms because it is "below sea level, protected by levees and pumping systems that remove rainwater, which cannot drain naturally," the Environmental Protection Agency said on its website.
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The famed investor Richard Rainwater, the billionaire Hollywood mogul David Geffen, and Michael Dell and Thomas J. Tisch were among the prominent backers who gave him more than $200 million in start-up capital.
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Singapore gets a lot of rain, so WET capitalized on this by designing the water feature to collect rainwater from the roof and funnel it into the building, creating the world's largest indoor waterfall.
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"What we try to do is create an environment with a lot of daylight," he said, pointing out trees that cool air by soaking up humidity, and a pond collecting rainwater to flush toilets.
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When people cut or burn swaths of the Amazon for these purposes, 50% of rainwater in that area leaves the Amazonian water cycle, flowing across the cleared land and draining into rivers and oceans.
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A few blocks down the strip at another parklet with a rainwater catchment exhibit, I found Nicole Hubman, a 30-year-old who was sitting and reading, waiting for her yoga class across the street.
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No one likes hauling buckets of human waste across multiple blocks to the collection points, and residents are using open pits scattered all around the neighborhoods, which then collect rainwater in the late spring storms.
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If "Bag Bak" was slip-streaming down the freeway, this is reflective of a midnight soiree among torrents of rainwater, crawling with the windscreen wipers on max, making way toward or home from a function.
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What to watch: Big cities are in the lead, but the next five years will see small and medium-sized cities jump on the bandwagon and coordinating with larger neighbors for regional benefits, Rainwater said.
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I can, however, ingest rainwater another way, with one of those travel filter bottles marketed to men who model themselves after Bear Grylls, but in actuality, if push came to shove, would never drink piss.
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He is a rainwater-harvesting expert who advises the city and consults with others around the country, and says that seeing other parts of the Southwest, with their still-fertile valleys, propelled him into action.
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The federal pumps are designed to mimic the city's own rainwater pumping capacity when enormous gates at the mouths of key drainage canals close to stop storm surges from pushing Lake Pontchartrain back into neighborhoods.
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Scores of visitors lined up on Thursday at the pre-opening for a glimpse of the Rain Vortex, a 40-metre tall waterfall that pours rainwater from the center of the glass and steel dome.
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Finally, the agave syrup is fermented using native yeasts and distilled, with rainwater, in 650-liter stills powered by clean natural gas rather than wood, whose smoke is harmful to the mezcal artisans, or mezcaleros.
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Meanwhile, locals plan to avoid further damage to St Mark's Basilica by using movable flood barriers and improving its rainwater drainage system, said Pierpaolo Campostrini, managing director of CORILA, a consortium researching the Venice lagoon.
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In Paradise, a town virtually wiped out by the Camp Fire, the storms will bring about an inch of rain Wednesday and could cause ash flows, or a slurry of ash swept away by rainwater.
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As a result, city officials said, over the course of roughly 22014 days, the St. Petersburg authorities released 136 million to 151 million gallons of partly treated raw sewage, mixed with rainwater, into Tampa Bay.
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Trapped under an air-conditioning for three weeks, a one-year-old puppy was found after surviving off rainwater that fell in front of him in Marsh Harbour, a neighborhood on the Great Abaco Island.
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The roofs of the headquarters and a few of the neighboring buildings are outfitted with large gutters that collect and distribute rainwater to a 7,300-gallon cistern on the eighth floor of the Etsy building.
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" Instead, she added, preparing for disasters and recovering from weather challenges require many different strategies, including "holding that rainwater, keeping the flow from going into the drains faster, raising your homes above the flood line.
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HAVOYOCO, which receives funding from a range of organisations, from The Development Fund of Norway to Oxfam, CARE and the FAO, also has improved water harvesting in the area, capturing rainwater for crops and animals.
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"In the past 10 to 85033 years, cities have become the laboratories of innovation," said Brooks Rainwater, director of the Center for City Solutions at the National League of Cities, which opposes local preemption laws.
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"I do think from the infrastructure piece, this is where cities are able to take the lead and think about how 28503G is both regulated as well as implemented throughout the city sphere," Rainwater continued.
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Edinburgh can expect increasing issues with its outdated stormwater management systems, and increased rates of decay as the rainwater and shifts in temperature mobilizes once-static elements of the ancient sandstone composition of its structures.
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As it climbed, so it dwindled, until it was little better than a cart track— ridged brown earth covered loosely by stones, shards of soft blue slate and yellow gravel braided by the running rainwater.
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Key aims of the work in Barbados were to improve water storage facilities to eliminate mosquitoes, give technical advice on building and maintaining water tanks, and raise public awareness about safe ways to harvest rainwater.
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"There are neighborhoods that depend on tankers throughout the year with no access to government water pipelines," said Shekhar Raghavan, director of the charity Rain Centre, which encourages rainwater harvesting and water conservation in urban areas.
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That's when the island's Zero Carbon Resorts program approached them with suggestions on how to save energy and costs - from solar panels and LED lights to rainwater harvesting, refillable bottles and bamboo roofs for extra cooling.
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Further, the battle to capture rain will involve more than persuading people to tear out lawns or take water-on-water-off military showers; there is no single project that can capture all the rainwater lost.
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Community members participating in the farming project are trained to plant sorghum using a method in which a sand barrier is built in front of the growing area, capturing rainwater and releasing it slowly, said Emuria.
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A network of bayous crisscrosses the city, and they are both a blessing and a curse, since they help to drain rainwater from the city but can be a cause of major flooding when they overflow.
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Rainwater harvesting projects are enabling small-scale farmers to branch out from their traditional maize and beans to grow fruit and vegetables they can sell, according to the Secretariat of Agriculture and Livestock (SAG) in Honduras.
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And the mayor has installed a team of heavy hitters -- including Paul Rainwater, who led the Louisiana Recovery Authority after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 -- to manage the city's drainage infrastructure on an emergency basis.
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In November I love to look at the places where rainwater flows downhill to find Otter Creek, and then the Little Harpeth River, and someday — winding through the great Mississippi River watershed — the Gulf of Mexico.
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Plenty, Mr Thakkar argues, could be done to conserve groundwater; for instance, by collecting and storing rainwater more effectively, regulating consumption, treating urban sewage properly and providing credit for drip irrigation to replace wasteful flooding techniques.
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The Hix Island House, on the other hand, is powered by solar panels, collects rainwater in cisterns, heats water with the sun, and uses runoff from sinks and showers to irrigate fruit trees on the property.
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Created when rainwater and snowmelt flow into cracks in the soil, freezing and thawing for centuries to come, these wedges are abundant in Alaska's North, where 70 to 90 percent of the ground can be ice.
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After racing north to avoid the worst of the storm's winds, he returned last week to find that the spacious three-bedroom house he bought 14 months ago had been heavily damaged, and flooded with rainwater.
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A corrugated-tin barn stood beside five squat reservoirs used to capture rainwater — the town's water is not potable — and a lonely clothesline tree leaned crookedly in a cement courtyard surrounded by an uneven stone wall.
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Robert Rainwater, a curator and art historian who oversaw an expansion of the New York Public Library's holdings in modern and contemporary prints, artist-made books and printed ephemera from the 21971s onward, died on Nov.
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The print division was next door, and in 1972 Elizabeth E. Roth, its keeper (as curators were then called) and one of the library's great repositories of institutional memory, invited Mr. Rainwater to join her department.
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In the eastern Hong Kong neighborhood of Heng Fa Chuen, residents of a flooded housing complex linked arms and held hands as they waded knee-deep through pools of rainwater in streets, parking lots and stores.
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When the system is paid off, M-Kopa offers the customer other pay-as-you-go products: a rainwater tank to save time and money on water, an efficient stove that saves on fuel, a smartphone.
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Several cities and towns suffered landslides and floods as rainwater washed over the state of Minas Gerais, overflowing rivers, threatening to burst mining dams and leaving rescue workers scrambling to respond to several emergencies at once.
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The low-lying city's drainage system, shaken by an explosion Saturday in equipment that powers key rainwater pumps, can handle that rainfall with electrical capacity to spare, said Richard Rainey, spokesman for the Sewerage & Water Board.
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With its green credentials very much in mind, the first building the company has constructed from the ground up will be a futuristic affair with a giant canopied roof to collect rainwater and generate solar power.
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Oddly, I'm not actually that arsed about what a bargain you've got now you've moved back to Leeds, or how you had to live off sawdust and rainwater to afford the dilapidated dwelling in deepest Deptford.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore is grappling with a controversy that refuses to go away, a month after rainwater flooded a tunnel of its mass rapid transit (MRT) service, leading to the partial suspension of train runs at weekends.
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Veterinarians guess that she subsisted on rainwater and what she could find in the brush of the median, but all agree the fact that Frida survived five weeks stranded in such an dangerous situation is a miracle.
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Tehran also posed specific challenges for blind people because of uncovered canals next to streets (to drain rainwater or water the trees) and aerial obstacles like construction material jutting out of transport or storefronts and tree branches.
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Troy Driscoll and Josh Long Driscoll, 15, and Long, 163, were pulled out to sea off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina, and spent the next six days at sea, eating jellyfish and drinking rainwater to survive.
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Moufar said his agency is confident that constructing three pumping stations, two tunnels to carry rainwater and a major diversion canal, also to take floodwaters out to sea, will help the city confront its worsening flooding risks.
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Meanwhile, in Isiolo County, in the arid northeast, and Embu and Kitui counties in the east, more than 80 households are now using home dams to store rainwater runoff, under an initiative supported by ActionAid International Kenya.
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Brooks Rainwater, director of the Center for City Solutions at the National League of Cities, tells Business Insider that city dwellers are voicing their support for eco-friendly measures by voting for green initiatives across the country.
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Pumps that drain rainwater from New Orleans' streets are not the same pumps that the US Army Corps of Engineers built after Katrina as part of a $14 billion effort to fortify the city against tropical events.
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The pilot cities have been charged with finding ways to absorb, store, filter and purify rainwater, retain it within their boundaries, and release it for reuse when needed instead of channeling it away through sewers and tunnels.
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"We're not going for city-level rainwater harvesting, we are not going for groundwater recharge, we are not preserving our lakes," said Sushmita Sengupta, a water expert at the Center for Science and Environment in New Delhi.
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In summer, the forest keeps the journey of rainwater a secret, tucks it away under a tangle of green, just as it keeps hidden all the songbird nests that are so visible now against a pewter sky.
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"Indian Reservation," first recorded by Marvin Rainwater in 21980 as "The Pale Faced Indian," told the story, in impassioned terms, of the forced removal of Cherokee Indians from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma in the 21961s.
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Those who cannot afford to install rainwater and gray water harvesting systems are still arriving in droves to collect free water at Cape Town's many natural springs -- often queuing in pouring rain while they wait their turn.
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All inside was reduced to dust aside from a six-pack of Lone Star and the vial of rainwater, but the opening event was a massive party, marked by invitations, press releases, and a lot of beer.
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Mr. Gómez's body was found in the municipality of Ocampo in northeastern Michoacán, where he had disappeared, in a large tank designed to capture rainwater, said Magdalena Guzmán, a spokeswoman for the state prosecutor's office in Michoacán.
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The most vivid display of rainwater damage was a large crater that appeared on part of The Mall, one of the oldest and busiest thoroughfares in the city where colonial era-government buildings and shopping plazas are.
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Legislation and more environmentally conscious young buyers are also forcing developers of upmarket properties to ensure their projects also offer sewage treatment and rainwater harvesting facilities, as Indian cities struggle with a growing water crisis during summer months.
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With recycled rainwater to irrigate the gardens and energy-harvesting heat pumps, the mosque says it produces close to zero carbon emissions and boasts better green credentials than the thousands of other mosques that are scattered across Europe.
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More on Harvey: In Beaumont, a city of roughly 118,000 near the Louisiana border, running water has been cut off completely, and many people are stuck with no escape as the rainwater has turned it into an island.
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Rainwater harvesting is being encouraged by Blessing Zimunya, a traditional leader in the village of Chitora, south of Mutare city, who said he was urging local people to save as much water as possible during the rainy season.
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Barriers such as flood walls could trap rainwater, worsening flash floods, and create a two-tier system where some areas are protected at the expense of others, usually the urban poor and those in neighboring provinces, they add.
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But government officials have already attempted to mitigate the threat of extensive flooding in a number of ways, including China spending billions of dollars on a "sponge city" program, to help the urban sprawl absorb rainwater more efficiently.
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Funding will also be used to build community-managed rainwater harvesting systems to provide at least 130,000 people with clean drinking water, and it will be directed towards involving more women in flood and cyclone early warning systems.
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In Barbados, where many have abandoned once-ubiquitous kitchen gardens, enticing younger people back to farming with more profitable high-tech systems and "climate-smart" techniques like rainwater harvesting and weather-resistant crops could help, said Fletcher-Paul.
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In 2014, experts with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research found that restoration of Cape Town's native "fine bush" (fynbos) and removal of invasive "water thirsty" plants had cut water consumption by vegetation and increased rainwater recharge.
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The find was made in Bermondsey, south London, by archaelogists working on London's new "super sewer," a £4.2 billion ($5.4 billion) tunnel that will capture, store and transfer raw sewage and rainwater that currently overflows into the river.
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Plastic shards, beads, and fibers were identified in more than 90% of rainwater samples taken from across Colorado, including at more than 3,000 metres high in Rocky Mountain National Park, according to researchers from the US Geological Survey.
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Afterward, officials considered ways of making the city more absorbent with design changes, like planting grass to replace asphalt (because asphalt does not absorb rainwater) or lowering playgrounds and basketball courts so they hold water in a storm.
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Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham), the combative leader of the neighboring Indian reservation, is pressing a conflict over cattle-grazing rights, while a developer is encroaching with a plan to build homes for well-heeled urbanites craving elbow room.
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The plants on green roofs also work like a giant sponge, soaking up water and therefore reducing the amount of rainwater that reaches street level, lowering the risk of flooding, minimizing sewer system overflow and filtering dirty runoff.
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The act has worked well, said Douglas A. Burns, a biogeochemist with the United States Geological Survey in Troy, N.Y. Rainwater in the Northeast has seen about a tenfold decrease in acidity since the 1970s, Dr. Burns said.
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John Kaganga, a Ugandan farmer frustrated that he has been unable to find funding to scale-up an innovative community project to harvest rainwater from road runoff, said he had found demands by funders nearly impossible to meet.
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The station, on the south bank of the Kelani River, close to where Somasiri lives, will suck up rainwater that falls inside the city and pump it out to the river, on the other side of the closed floodgates.
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In a foreword to the strategy, Greater Chennai Corporation Commissioner G. Prakash noted that, after major floods in 2015, the city had started harvesting rainwater at offices and campuses, as well as restoring traditional temple tanks, ponds and lakes.
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ROBERT SATCHWELLHaarby, Denmark Investments in small-scale water technologies such as low-till or zero-till agriculture, supplemental irrigation, groundwater recharge and rainwater harvesting could yield a direct net benefit of up to $200 billion to Africa's 100m farmers.
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Read more: Silicon Valley's largest city wants to house the homeless in floating apartmentsThe 'Mole People' live in individual concrete pits that are meant to drain rainwater away from the cityUnder Las Vegas, there are thousands of concrete pits.
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Siemens says it is investing a figure in the "low triple- digit millions" of euros in its building, which collects rainwater to flush toilets and will use 90 percent less electricity and 75 percent less water than its predecessor.
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Second, unchecked development in the greater Jakarta region, which is now home to more than 235 million people, meant retention ponds, swampland and other open spaces that normally absorb rainwater were paved over for shopping malls and apartment blocks.
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Dealing with worsening water scarcity will require South Africans to collectively put "the shoulder to the wheel in order to find solutions", such as rainwater harvesting and recycling water, said Sputnik Ratau, a Department of Water and Sanitation spokesman.
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