Sentence examples for lifted water from inspiring English sources

The government lifted water rationing rules on the main island and disbanded its cabinet-level drought crisis center.

Waterwheels were also used to power chain pumps that lifted water to raised irrigation ditches.

When the town lost electricity and water, 68-year-old Mikuni Fumitaka visited a local well and lifted water from 30 feet deep to distribute among the townspeople.

It was here that 19th century rail travelers to Los Angeles disembarked, saw the works that lifted water from the river to quench the thirst of a growing city, and likely spent their first night in town.

But such a pump can only lift water a maximum of 30 feet.

Well pumps lift water from underground and discharge it directly into a distribution system.

That's because it takes an extraordinary amount of electricity to lift water as it gets deeper and deeper.

The energy required to lift water in both cases is comparable; in trees with large pores, water simply moves faster through fewer and larger vessels.

In the course of investigating why suction pumps would lift water only about 9 metres (30 feet), Evangelista Torricelli identified air pressure and invented the barometer.

Along the way the reader learns about aqueducts, dams, canals, waterwheels and devices for lifting water, as well as sanitary inventions, naval battles and maritime voyages of discovery.

He finally decided that the best option was a two-stage pumping system capable of lifting water thirteen hundred vertical feet.