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...By storing rainwater in these ‘pans’, Macharia explains, he can irrigate his fields and harvest healthier cabbages not once but three times a year....
...“Rainwater harvesting is one such adaptation strategy to address water insecurity as a result of climate change.”...
...“But if we can recover the rainwater, I think we can survive.”...
...They survive on rainwater and raw turtle and shark flesh. Their skin grows a fungus. While Maurice crumbles, his wife remains steely, creating routines for their days....
...Beneath his upper body on the lower half of the canvas, a wash of blue paint drips like rainwater down a glass panel....
...and illuminating, ranging from a boutique vineyard where the noise of a whip crack shoos starlings from the Chardonnay grapes, to an off-grid cabin stay where horses wander the glades, drinking from the rainwater...
...The small bronze “Water Piece” (1979), whose terraced mound of irregular concentric rings catches rainwater and light, suggests memories of monsoons....
...Plastic bags are already banned and measures are in place to use solar energy and harvest rainwater. His plan is to add three or four new hotels and increase visitor numbers by 40 per cent....
...In the wild there’s no one with a miracle spray, orchids take their nutrients from rainwater, bird poo and so on.”...
...The landscape here was historically made up of ravines, a type of natural channel formed by the passage of rainwater, but has since been largely flattened for property development....
...In addition, most of the country’s crucial cereal crops — such as wheat and barley — are grown using rainwater....
...As a result, most farmland is still rainwater-fed rather than using more dependable irrigation systems, for example, while Africa’s lack of roads and railway lines makes it hard for farmers to access even...
...On top of that, drought-ridden soils are not sufficiently retaining rainwater, which is depleting groundwater reserves....
...Sustainable solutions, including solar panels and rainwater harvesting, have been utilised to lower running costs....
...This article is part of a guide to Madrid from FT Globetrotter The streets of Lavapiés, a historic neighbourhood in the heart of Madrid, are awash with rainwater....
...But by the end of the three-day gathering — with roads near the hotel submerged beneath waist-deep rainwater from the biggest downpour to hit the city in almost 140 years — delegates from the US, Europe...
...Even newer parts of the estate are crumbling: just this month, rainwater deluged the covered courtyard of Portcullis House, when a pane of glass broke in the atrium’s roof....
...Every roof on the premises now collects rainwater; reverse-osmosis technology purifies the drinking water, and some five million litres — three million more than before — are now available for the anti-fire...
...Solar panels power the hot water supply, a ground-source heat pump provides underfloor heating and an underground tank stores rainwater....
...As well as reducing mains water consumption, the rainwater is better for plants than tap water: fewer salts and chemicals, more nitrates....
...Boone Pickens and Richard Rainwater’s Mesa Petroleum in 1997 and renamed it Pioneer....
...For example, households can consider flood risk when choosing where to buy or build a home, landscape grading to divert rainwater, investing in sump pumps and drainage, and, when possible, installing efficient...
...A mirror buried for 100 days close to an underground wartime bunker took on a turquoise hue, perhaps due to the structure’s lead content, while a curvaceous vessel entombed beneath the end of a rainwater...
...In 2022, GWT installed three rainwater planters behind Gloucester Rugby Club’s stadium to combat flooding on tarmac. Downpipes empty directly into the planters....
...Santander UK has considered environmental aspects — its building harvests rainwater for its plants and for flushing toilets and has photovoltaic cells on the roof that generate about 15 per cent of the site...
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