Sentence examples for drainage from inspiring English sources

"Although the development of new drainage infrastructure in the city is underway," the report noted, "the project is behind schedule and over-budget, demonstrating that the implementation of adaptive measures may still be a challenge for the local government".

Murillo Karam recognised the collaboration of the US government in tracking Guzmán to a network of safe houses with reinforced metal doors and escape tunnels that made use of the city drainage system and allowed the criminal to escape from an initial operation.

In other parts of the border, cartels have adapted underground drainage tunnels.

When it rains, the streets around them overflow because the drainage system cannot cope.Mr Varela says he will keep spending $3 billion a year on public investment, which he hopes will generate 7% growth.

The federal government is pushing the provinces to agree to a national ban on the bulk removal of water from all drainage basins.

Its sorry state is due to compaction from running machinery over it; water and wind erosion; and depletion of minerals and organic matter through overplanting and overgrazing.Related items A survey of agriculture and technology: Cultivating carbonMar 23rd 2000Salt, too, is building up through over-irrigation and poor soil drainage.

The red swamp crayfish, for example, has tucked into the paddy fields of the Iberian peninsula with gusto, eating rice seedlings and burrowing into the banks of drainage channels, causing them to collapse.

They say the land was promised to them by the city's mayor, before he died in a helicopter crash while inspecting hurricane damage.Installing water, electricity and drainage at El Mogote would be expensive.

As the accompanying map suggests, Saddam Hussein's aggressive drainage programme in the 1990s, which had the dual purpose or reclaiming land and pursuing rebels hiding in the waterways, turned much of the marshland into desert, depopulating the area.

In the end, though, none of his characters is as fascinating as those who haunt Mr Gilmour's book, whose courts and railways, schools and drainage projects still furnish India even today, while the thin red line has vanished with scarcely a trace.

Britain's catastrophic floods of 2007 were largely the result of overloaded drainage.