Sentence examples for rain stormwater from inspiring English sources

To learn more about rain, stormwater, and water pollution check out the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Pollution Discharge Elimination System web site (http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/home.cfm?program_id=5).

Nassau County has two separate drainage systems -- one for rain and stormwater and another for sewage -- and under normal conditions they never meet.

When standard LCA is extended to include impacts of freshwater withdrawal, rain & stormwater and seawater (0.09 0.18 compared to 11.45 17.16 mPET/m3) were the resources resulting in least overall environmental impact.

Rain & stormwater harvesting and desalination had a markedly lower environmental impact compared to the base case, due to the reduced water hardness leading to e.g. a decrease in electricity consumption in households.

The 4 cases studied were: Rain & stormwater harvesting from several blocks in the city; Today's groundwater abstraction with compensating actions applied in the affected freshwater environments to ensure sufficient water flow in water courses; Establishment of well fields further away from the city; And seawater desalination.

The standard LCA showed that the Rain & stormwater harvesting case had the lowest overall environmental impact (81.9 μPET/m3) followed by the cases relying on groundwater abstraction (123.5 137.8 μPET/m3), and that desalination had a relatively small but still important increase in environmental impact (204.8 μPET/m3).

Rain and stormwater harvesting if planned, designed, and managed properly will become a valuable alternate source of water to address the intensified water stress around the world.

"Customers can prepare for the summer by installing cisterns and rain barrels to save stormwater," Jazmadarian stated in the release.

Stormwater -- rain that falls on paved areas, flows into overtaxed sewers and then carries all the pollutants directly into rivers and oceans -- is now the biggest form of water-related pollution coming from cities. Two trillion gallons of untreated water per year flow out of cities in the U.S. alone.

The Mayor's announcement is an important step; one that we hope will result in an even greater investment in green infrastructure, on par with cities like Milwaukee, whose regional green infrastructure plan has a goal of capturing 740 million gallons of stormwater per rain event by 2035.

Many of the distributed stormwater practices – like rain gardens or green roofs – also have aesthetic values.