Lee's home is a new-build, incorporating the latest in rainwater capture systems and sustainable building methods.
For drinking water, they depend on cisterns that collect scarce rainwater and on wells.
So the spores remain dormant until rainwater works its way into the cracks and activates them.
Logging and development have encroached on catchment areas, reducing their capacity to retain rainwater.
It will mean the sewer can capture more rainwater, preventing sewage overflowing into the River Ribble.
In 1991, she married Richard Rainwater, the billionaire founder of investment firm Rainwater Inc.
In 2009 Mr. Rainwater was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy, a degenerative neurological disease.
Its new chief, longtime Rainwater ally John Goff, planned to focus on office buildings, safe and simple.
He said rainwater had run into gullies, causing rocks and debris to end up on the carriageway.
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Similar testing in other states, including California and Washington, has shown comparable levels of iodine-131 in rainwater samples.
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In Tanzania rainwater harvesting allows farmers to grow rice or vegetables instead of staples like sorghum and maize.
They have devised ingenious methods to harvest, transport, and store rainwater, spring water, groundwater, and even air moisture.
Her aggressive negotiating tactics during her early years at Rainwater helped cement her reputation as a fearless businesswoman.
Stormwater runoff, caused by rainwater running off impervious pavement, is a principal cause of urban waterway pollution nationwide.
Frangipani implements a rainwater recycling system to water its sustainable gardens and uses solar panels to reduce energy use.
He runs outdoor camps for asthmatics and a rainwater-conservation project in the state of Rajasthan, along the western border.
In one corner of her living room, rainwater has punctured a ceiling panel.
When she married Richard Rainwater, one of the country's top investors, she was already the highest-paid woman in banking.
One is to build ponds to capture rainwater so it filters down to replenish underground water stores - aquifers.
Rice is the former Secretary of State under George W. Bush and Moore is vice president of Rainwater Inc.
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Solar panels, geothermal energy and rainwater collection will ensure that the massive manse can function through any natural calamity.
The homes have other environmentally-friendly technologies like rainwater collection systems and solar heating.
Have we been covering up the fact that radiation is being found in U.S. rainwater, drinking water, air, and milk?
It was beloved in the mid-1990s for its famous chairman, Richard Rainwater, an astute investor of the Bass family's wealth.
Instead of ventilation grates that allow rainwater to pour in, the new stations will be aired using enclosed cooling plants.
They are growing different crops, planting trees, harvesting rainwater and growing fodder for livestock to minimize the impacts of climate change.
Also concealed: The lengths to which the team went to integrate eco systems radiant floors, photovoltaic panels and rainwater collection into the design.
According to Revolymer, the rain-soaked streets of Britain won't be a problem either--preliminary studies show the product disintegrates "in months" in rainwater.
That was followed by a collapse of a roof panel at the stadium on May 27 after rainwater collected on the roof.
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Raw sewage from sewer overflows and polluted rainwater add to the mix.
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