It does however serve an important function, in helping the region drain water better.
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Like many jockeys, he took diuretics to drain water from his system and ran up to 25 miles a day.
The highways that ring Manhattan along the water sit atop a series of tide gates that are designed to drain water from the road and keep water from gurgling up from below, said Sam Schwartz, a former city transportation commissioner who now works as a consultant.
The migrants have placed a further drain on water resources.
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Their purpose is to drain off rain water properly and to cool and show off the huge engine.
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Because Las Vegas is an artificial playground built in the middle of the desert, is it any surprise that the valley may drain its entire water supply by the year 2021?
Other laws enable you to drain your land of water or to get water onto your land.
Then to make the stuffing fry the onion in a little water, drain and add breadcrumbs and chopped sage.
Network Rail said workers were laying a pipe underneath the track to allow the water to drain away onto the other side.
Meanwhile, some people living in Kilham claim the flooding last month was made worse because the council did not clear the gullies to allow the flood water to drain away.
"As much as they can, they can make sure there is an environment where the utility workers can get to the places they need to do the work, " he said, whether that means helping drain tunnels of storm water or clearing roads of debris.
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But Mr Mustow admitted that much more needed to be done to ensure that farmers did not increase flood risk with land drainage schemes and that developers and builders ensured that new developments allowed water to drain into the soil rather than flushing into the sewers.
He said there was concern for more low lying areas as the water begins to drain away.
After returning to and repressurizing the Lunar Module, we were able to drain and measure the remaining water in the backpacks to confirm the predicted.
Under the Ninth Circuit ruling, a permit could be demanded for every drain and ditch that directs water from a logging road to a fish-bearing stream.
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The contractor hired by the FBI to drain the pond put the water into two other nearby ponds, and some of it could have overflowed into land.
According to the government's blueprint for dismantling Fukushima Daiichi, engineers will first have to repair the reactor building leaks, which could take six years, then drain the buildings of radioactive water, which could take an additional two years.
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In the past, we've cleaned out both sides of the drain, which really upsets the water voles.
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The financial figures he had been painstakingly assembling swooned as a group, sucked into the dead blank screen like glittering water pulled down a drain.
Stinky-looking brown water suddenly spews from the drain, and partially mashed-up apples are sprayed all over the walls and floor.
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If traffic congestion can be compared to water flowing through a sink drain, then a congestion toll is like the handle on the spigot -- it increases during times of peak road use, decreases during off-peak times, and is adjusted in real time to keep traffic flowing smoothly.
However, the water could take some time to drain from the pitches, she added.
Cold water and sulphuric acid next, drain off the gasoline, that leaves a paste, boil the paste, add a reactive.
Fountains of water still spew forcefully from almost every drain and gulley, and the main roundabout into St Asaph from the A55 remains impassable.
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China's thirst for industry and irrigation has combined with climate change to drain the aquifers, some of which hold fossil water that has lain undisturbed for millennia.
"There is not a blockage issue in the mine, it is a water issue which we are currently trying to drain, " he said.
It is a time-waster, they say, a drain on family incomes, a usurper of land and water better used for cash and export crops like coffee, and possibly a dangerous narcotic too.
They also worry that higher water levels in the spring will impair their ability to drain fields.
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