Sentence examples for floodwater through from inspiring English sources

The government ordered the gates opened to try to redirect rising floodwater through canals after sandbag embankments and other efforts to keep the water from the city were failing.

While most of this ancient rock was laid down by river flooding, Sweetman's tiny crumbly section was created by torrential Early Cretaceous rains that sent floodwater through forests picking up trees, burnt wood from wild fires and, crucially, carcasses of dead dinosaurs.

Poisonous chemicals and dangerous bacteria spread via floodwater through residential areas.

Food may be contaminated by floodwater through the poor health habits of farmers, such as cleaning plates and fruits using contaminated water directly.

JARAY, Pakistan — Life in the Swat Valley had been torn apart long before floodwaters poured through, toppling homes and destroying crops, livestock and livelihoods.

Forgetting everything, he rushed out the door to look for them, but, before he had time to lock it, the staircase occupants swept past him and into the apartment, like floodwaters through a breached dam.

Mr. Jamali criticized members of the government, accusing them of intentionally redirecting floodwaters through Baluchistan and inundating the homes and farmlands of one million people in the country's poorest province.

Ms Yingluck said the government would work out which parts of the city to send the floodwaters through.

South of Paris thousands of people were evacuated from Nemours and Montargis as floodwater swept through both cities, causing three deaths.

It is this death that we follow second by second inside Kamon's brain, until "the wafer of glass upon which his mind rested shattered, and thought burst from its reservoir like floodwater, travelling through the hollow package of his body in pursuit of pain".But Ms Scott's minuteness does not serve to smooth her characters' passage into an indifferent landscape.

It is proposed that farmers in upstream riparian zones be co-opted as flood harvesters and thus contribute to improved floodwater management through simple water management technologies that enable agricultural lands to be put to higher productive use.