Sentence examples for water capture from inspiring English sources
Taxpayers' cash would be better spent on more effective, long-term soft engineering schemes to protect homes, such as water capture and upland tree planting".
If San Francisco can conserve and recycle enough water, capture enough rainfall and recharge its once-generous groundwater basin, the argument goes, by 2020 or 2025 the Hetch Hetchy reservoir might no longer be needed.
"These sites have evolved since their early focus on urban greening to now include improvements to pedestrian and vehicular safety, creating ecological links and, most recently, storm water capture," Philip Abramson, a parks department spokesman, said in an e-mail.
It's your usual water recycling steps: screening and filtering; biological processing; membrane processing; UV sterilisation; and chlorination – but it's putting it all together and co-ordinating it with the water capture of mains water, interconnections with the trade waste and sewer, and connecting up the recycled water mains to export that is the new and more complex part".
Many of the schools have planted fruit and nut orchards, schools have designed ingenious water capture mechanisms to irrigate the vegetable beds across the summer holidays, built greenhouses from waste materials, taken part in fitness and wellbeing programmes and began to embed the best practices arising from the projects into their curriculum.
As a result, water capture and storage infrastructure is widely disseminated throughout the region.
Capture was expressed as the pre-watering weight subtracted from the post-watering weight (kg of water captured).
A $100,000 investment in green roofs citywide could lead to more than 81,000 gallons of storm water captured.
A 40-square-foot green roof could result in 810 gallons of storm water captured per year.
The building will supply and treat all of its own water, capturing rainwater in a 50,000-gallon underground cistern.
Rain water captured by drain sewers on city streets flows into the same pipes that bring waste water to sewage treatment plants.
