Sentence examples for wait for water from inspiring English sources

Many have settled in shelters or with friends to wait for water levels to fall so they could return home.

"They'd make us wait for water," she said, "and we'd have to gather it drop by drop from the pipes in the early morning".

"The nearest water source requires that women walk the distance of 23km, wrote Roux on a recent blog, "or they wait for water delivery from the military stationed nearby.

Those on board bring the boat in, throw out the ropes to those on land who thread them around bollards and throw them back, then close the gates, close the sluices, walk around, open the other sluices, wait for water to go up or down, open the gates, climb back on board and go.

They wait for water and medicine.

Displaced Palestinians wait for water as they shelter at the Abu Hussien United Nations school in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip after the area was hit earlier in the morning by Israeli shelling on July 30 , 2014

Schooling interrupted, as flood-affected children in Pakistan wait for waters to recede Jacobabad district, Pakistan, October 2012 – Reshma is a cheerful 10-year-old girl, who makes beautiful dolls in her free time.

We've just treated a woman who passed out waiting for water and food".

McKnight, D. M. et al. Dry Valley streams in Antarctica: ecosystems waiting for water.

On one street, a crowd of people stood around a fire truck, waiting for water.

In the town of Dorado, residents waited for water outside a hazardous-waste site.