Sentence examples for dug water from inspiring English sources

A power substation had to be installed, wells dug, water and sewer systems put in place.

Before the drainage canals were dug, water flowed from Lake Okeechobee, about seventy miles north of Miami, to Florida Bay, about forty miles to the south of the city, in one wide, slow-moving sheet.

Roughly a year after her divorce, in a tiny bar about 25 miles from her home, she met Ernest Brewer, who dug water wells for the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

Millions had been spent, reservoirs dug, water moved this way and that, but the Everglades continued to grow sickly, largely because of what analysts say is rampant overdevelopment and the loss of regular flooding that wetlands need.

Man-made sources are mainly dug water harvesting pans and shallow wells.

A dozen homeless men and women in a nearby encampment in the river bed recently dug water diversion trenches in the sand around their tents to prepare for the rains.

People developed extensive systems of fields and dug watering holes for livestock.

The labors of sandhogs digging Water Tunnel No. 3, eight hundred feet below Manhattan.

In times of drought, elephants dig water holes in dry riverbeds by using their tusks, feet, and trunks.

Michael graduated from Samuel Gompers High School, named for the labor leader, and became a "sandhog," digging water and subway tunnels.

Large air-operated earth drills, mounted on motor trucks on trailers, are utilized for digging water wells and blast holes for quarry operations.