Sentence examples for encourage water from inspiring English sources

The aim of the enterprise is to reduce plastic bottle waste and encourage water accessibility by partnering with outlets who will refill its customers bottles.

They have also built stone weirs across these canals at regular intervals, to slow the current down still further and encourage water to spill over the canal banks.

Worse, subsidies worth billions of dollars serve positively to encourage water wastage in industry and, above all, in farming (see survey).

In response to the population boom and the drought, which began in 1999, the authority began an aggressive effort to encourage water conservation in 2002.

Republicans, who usually claim to be against big government, want taxpayers to pay; Democrats, generally accused of being big spenders, want to match infrastructure costs with water revenues to send the right price signals.The legislation is likely to encourage water conservation by setting targets for reducing consumption.

Programmes for public water and energy awareness that will encourage water and energy conservation.

In the longer run, river flows could fall by what the World Bank calls a "terrifying" 30-40%.Much could be done to avert disaster: repairing and modernising canal systems; developing spate irrigation schemes that divert flash floods to replenish aquifers; stopping electricity subsidies that encourage water-intensive agriculture; and building small and medium-sized dams.

As air climbs the mountain it cools, encouraging water vapour picked up from the warm ocean to condense.

Here, one part has Teflon-like properties that encourage oil to bead up, and another that encourages water to wash the oil away.

The project has encouraged water source committees and village health teams to build soak pits around boreholes as a way of improving water conservation and preventing mosquitoes from breeding near stagnant water.

If water is valued as a scarce resource and thus becomes more expensive, private investment that encourages water saving and efficiency will become attractive and better reflect the scarce nature of the resource.