Hints and tips:
...Former set designer and craftsman Joseph Turnbull builds bespoke cabins and saunas....
...Residents have fixed leaky pipes and taps, and put out tubs to catch rainwater....
...Parts of the sewer self-clean and don’t smell at all, thanks to the tunnels’ egg-shape design, which allows the rainwater to flow through at a velocity that flushes as it goes....
...An original lead rainwater cistern dated 1670 is still earning its keep in the courtyard....
...Mr Gerrard disputes the suggestion that the tunnel is unnecessary or poor value, pointing to the tripling of London’s population since Joseph Bazalgette designed the capital’s sewers 150 years ago....
...Rainwater-retaining systems pioneered by Singapore will spread globally. Rain gardens will become widespread, helping to soften urban areas....
...The depleted basins led to an abrupt water shortage in the municipality recently, as rainwater no longer followed the traditional courses and streams, and caused erosion instead....
...They said the church needs restoration and renovation, such as to rotting roof timbers as well as mosaics and paintings damaged by rainwater leaks....
...By and large London’s Victorian sewer system designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette copes unaided....
...Thames Water has admitted that much of this discharge is fresh rainwater (up to 95 per cent) mixed with sewage....
...The 24-year-old single mother has no papers to lay claim to the land on the edge of a litter-strewn ditch though which rainwater rushes....
...Meanwhile the biggest oilfield, as Joseph Stanislaw, adviser to Deloitte Consulting, likes to point out, lies beneath Detroit....
...Pale grey and shimmering with reflections, it surprises us on one side with a pulled-out drawer half-filled with rainwater....
...Aside from the main house, I have the lagoon that I created by building a dam that collects rainwater....
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