Sentence examples for increasing rainwater from inspiring English sources

Jacobson says the elimination of aerosol pollution would offset some of the need for additional dams by increasing rainwater supply.

Another potential focus area for adaptation could be improving sanitation and drinking water by supporting inexpensive and effective water treatment and increasing rainwater harvesting, safe storage, and gray-water reuse.

Large regions of impervious surfaces, like mall parking lots and interstate highways, can increase rainwater runoff while reducing infiltration into soil.

Sustainable land management techniques, such as mulching with pigeon-pea hedges and an organic amendment, should be advocated and promoted for the semiarid hillsides of Cabo Verde prone to erosion to increase rainwater-use and to prevent further soil degradation.

Connect a series of rain barrels to increase your rainwater storage capacity.

A significant part of the saving is attributed to the increased minimum rainwater tank capacity from the 1 kL specified in the Building Code of Australia to 1.5 kL, and feeding rainwater into the hot water supply in a climate where rainfall occurs in winter.

Rainwater harvesting techniques are used worldwide to augment potable water supply, provide water for small-scale irrigation practices, increase rainwater-use efficiency for sustained crop growth in arid and semi-arid regions, decrease urban stormwater flow volumes, and in general to relieve dependency on urban water resources cycles.

The increasing interest in rainwater harvesting stems from rising water bills, drought and environmental awareness.

One goal of the Clean Water Act of 1972 was to upgrade the nation's sewer systems, many of them built more than a century ago, to handle growing populations and increasing runoff of rainwater and waste.

Lower groundwater levels will lead to the loss of dissolved salts from the rooting zone and higher levels to increasing dilution with fresh rainwater.

In addition, storms preceding Haiyan inundated Filipino lands with rainwater, further increasing the likelihood of floods and mudslides.