Sentence examples for rainwater toward from inspiring English sources

The result, by all accounts, is that the city is able to exert only limited control over activities in the 2,000 square miles of suburban and rural hills that funnel rainwater toward city taps.

Or is your landscaping directing rainwater back toward the house?

From Bernardsville, on its western edge, to Chatham on its eastern side, the watershed is defined to include all areas that send their rainwater rolling toward the refuge.

The state wants Mr. Hardy's land for a huge replumbing of the Everglades, meant to restore the natural flow of rainwater from Lake Okeechobee south toward the ocean.

Both dogs eventually homed in on a large puddle, a suggestion that rainwater could be driving toxins toward the surface.

A humorous look at the microscopic life thriving in a puddle of rainwater, the book is geared toward readers 7 to 9 years old "and geniuses younger than that," Ms. Lavin said.

The test results also demonstrated that the leading edge/corner regions of the buildings received less volume surface runoff rainwater, and the rainwater accumulation increases toward the leeward surfaces.

Rainwater flows to the north and partially toward the east to the study area, following the regional slope of the surface.

The biologist, who also studies spadefoot toad tadpoles in desert rainwater ponds, says such time pressures drive species toward cannibalism.

A marked improvement "These interventions have improved our health and living conditions," said Selegio, nodding toward his jug, which pours clean rainwater out of a spout when he pushes down a piece of wood connected to a cord.

Degradation begins when oil migrates toward the surface and encounters descending meteoric water (rainwater or any other water of atmospheric origin) containing oxygen and bacteria at temperatures below 93 °C (about 200 °F).