Sentence examples for pipes mean from inspiring English sources
Rusted pipes mean that toilets barely run, linoleum floors are worn to the bare concrete, and broken windows let rain and snow into stairwells.
Such leaky pipes mean that many households in today's Lviv, the Ukrainians' name for their leading western city, have water for only a few hours a day.Western Ukraine, sometimes called by its old name of Galicia, differs sharply from the rest of the country, and not only in having a few bits of decent pre-Soviet infrastructure.
The Neptune fountain, on the Promenade, is cracked and faulty pipes mean it is malfunctioning.
The parameters influencing head losses were considered to be eleven parameters representing the filter properties; filtration level, total filtration surface, flow rate, concentration of total sand, filtration time, inside diameter of the inlet and outlet pipes, mean filtration velocity, mean diameter of sand particle size distribution, water viscosity and water density.
Others have taken to sleeping in sewage pipes, meant for reconstruction, according to the Nepal Times.
Fewer companies using the pipes meant less money for maintenance, furthering decline.
A dilapidated sewage system covers only the central area, and pipes meant to deliver clean water are a Swiss cheese of leaks.
But the damage to the pipes means lead will keep getting into Flint's water, Henderson said.
Because replacing pipes means tearing up streets, it would take roughly 20 years for the utility to bring its pipe replacement cycle down to 100 years without excessive disruption for residents, Edwards said.
The wall consists of a series of underground refrigeration pipes meant to form a frozen soil barrier around the four reactors that were crippled during the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
