The article is fun and interesting, but note: gargoyles are, by definition, water drainage spouts.
The slope would allow water drainage and prevent puddling in the street.
Several months ago, a major water drainage project was supposed to have fixed the problem.
In addition, acidic water drainage from old mines can make entire water supplies unfit for people, decades after closure.
Urban sprawl, like some vigorous mold, is overtaking green spaces and threatening water drainage basins.
Far less money is spent now on maintaining the vast networks of water drainage and irrigation that crisscross the country than was expended under Communism.
Inspectors also drove about 100 miles south to sample water at three surface water drainage systems on the Tigris and Euphrates.
In fact, the blackouts are even longer in rural and poor urban areas which also lack other basic infrastructure like roads and waste water drainage.
New York has a storm water drainage system that was linked many years ago to the same pipes that carry wastes from homes and businesses.
All the infrastructure - power, fresh water, drainage, all the things you take for granted in European and American hotels - had to be built from scratch.
A plan submitted in 1993 to overhaul Mumbai's storm water drainage was turned down by the municipal corporation because of a lack of funds.
