Sentence examples for conduits for water from inspiring English sources

Burrows acted as conduits for water and warmer air.

For example, water was seeping through missing stones and grout, and the hollow roots of dead trees had become conduits for water.

At least one of the building's standpipes, conduits for water that run like a spine through the building, was not working.

Dirt paths are being converted to real streets with underground conduits for water, sewage and electricity and the whole neighborhood is being integrated into the larger city, especially through mass transit.

At these times, epigeic earthworms can form temporary vertical burrows that may act as conduits for water flow.

Fire investigators found that a section of the building's standpipe — a critical conduit for water throughout the building — had been removed, leaving it useless when two firefighters, Robert Beddia, 53, and Joseph Graffagnino, 33, died fighting the Aug. 18 blaze.

Higher NO3-N concentrations, variable hydraulic head, and groundwater emergence onto the land surface in seep areas provided evidence for preferential flow paths as an important conduit for water and N movement in these areas of the riparian zone.

The presence of cracks and other inclined features (probably fractures) serve as conduit for water movement to the surface resulting to events of groundwater seepages in the weathered layer.

The major joints acting as conduits for inflow water were designed for efficient drainage.

Once the basement structure was done, Mr. Tamaro said, the tiebacks were cut and their openings welded over with steel plate -- partly because the basement floors were there to support the walls, partly to avoid having a permanent part of the structure encroach on other people's property, and partly because they serve as conduits for river water.

Ideally, for future drilling, we would like to know the location, strike and dip, and width of the main fracture conduits for hot water.