Sentence examples for build water from inspiring English sources

Rather than replacing more than 2,000 miles of decrepit sewer pipes, the county dispensed contracts to build water treatment plants, pumping stations and administrative buildings, some on slag heaps left behind by closed steel mills.

The government suggested homeowners, regardless of their council tax band, could apply for grants to build water gates.

Meanwhile, governments are relying more and more on private companies to finance and build water infrastructure, in return for profitable long-term licences to run local monopolies.

Nestlé chair Peter Brabeck talks to Jo Confino about the need to build water stewardship into core business strategy and how a sense of entitlement causes irresponsible use.

General Electric, for example, has hired American workers to build water heaters, refrigerators, dishwashers and high-efficiency topload washers, but continues to add more jobs overseas as well.

Brabeck warns businesses not to hide behind a philanthropic agenda but to build water stewardship into the heart of their business strategies.

What is more, a time horizon of two generations — 40 to 60 years — is short for engineers anywhere in the world, who build water-delivery systems designed to last 75 years or more.

So far the younger Geisse has invested $130,000 in four Geneva-blessed projects, including a microlending program in Honduras and an effort to build water-treatment plants in India.

However, he felt the song did not seem to be about the World Cup and could "just as easily be about a global effort to build water-pipes in the worst drought-ridden areas of the continental land-mass".

Oxfam builds water pumps.

Rivers were straightened, dykes built, water tables lowered, and peat cut on a large scale.