Sentence examples for lowering water from inspiring English sources

Parishes in southern Louisiana have been lowering water levels in drainage canals, putting road-clearing crews on standby and piling sandbags.

If multinational corporations are sincere about sustainability, then they must link compensation for the senior executives directly to meeting goals such as cutting carbon emissions, and lowering water and energy use.

Tests at nine sites established the ages of thick white and yellowish-orange calcite deposits lining walls of cave interiors as a measure of lowering water levels as the canyon deepened.

Shantou's mayor, Zhou Rifang, says the government has tried to compensate for the downturn by lowering water and electricity prices to factories, providing low-interest loans at state banks to exporting firms, speeding up tax rebates and removing some two dozen "unnecessary municipal charges".

Four testing schemes for rising water level and three for lowering water level were done.

Municipalities have a vested interest in lowering water use because they are under severe restrictions set by state and federal governments.

Thus, cementitious structures that are expected to be exposed to salt crystallization should be designed to meet strength needs by lowering water-to-binder ratio < 0.40.

Effective means of mitigating deicer salt scaling are: reduction in paste porosity by lowering water-binder (w/b) ratio or by means of pozzolanic reactions; utilization of hydrophobic surface treatment using silanes.

Many kayakers, canoeists and rafters are unhappy with them because they have lowered water depths.

Contributing to the pollution has been a severe drought, which has lowered water levels, concentrating contaminants.

Beginning Tuesday, Mr. Searchinger said, the corps will be required to lower water flows on the river for six weeks.