Sentence examples for open drains from inspiring English sources

The stink of algae, of open drains.

These are separated by narrow lanes and open drains.

Dirty water flows in open drains in cramped neighbourhoods.

Some areas suffer from eroded housing lots and roadways, clogged open drains, and accumulated trash.

You might want to watch your step, to avoid falling into the stinking open drains.

Mechanical draining, using tractor-drawn plows to create deep open drains and so aerate the soil, is now usual on the peaty swamps of Europe, especially in Finland.

The fetid open drains lining the main street of the town do not smell eco-friendly; the place is officially designated poor.

But what we leave in our toilets either stays in an open pit or is flushed into open drains in the streets.

At the time the asphalt surfacing of the city roads mostly ended in a dusty verge, sometimes with open drains, dangerous and unappealing for walking along, he said.

Dirty water can be seen gushing from drainage pipes affixed to the sides of tenements into narrow open drains along both sides of the streets.

Some camps were found to have open drains with "grey water" running right through them, while several camps flooded due to "inadequate drainage after rains".