Sentence examples for catching groundwater from inspiring English sources

The prototype he is building with volunteers and staff engineers at the city planning office, he said, is a hydrostatic equalizer with a series of perforated tubes that would run under the foundation, catching groundwater that rises during a flood and channeling it away from the house, into the receding water on the street.

It powered down lines in rural areas ahead of the blazes — catching criticism for preventing firefighters from tapping groundwater supplies because electric pumps were inoperable, but also preventing downed lines from igniting new spot fires like those in Northern California that sapped already-limited resources.

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