"Adding compost to the soil dramatically increases its ability to hold water, aiding in water conservation, " he adds.
Also, if the U.S. and China economies manage to hold water in 2012, that could bode well for Brazil.
The Japanese, for instance, used teapots to hold the water, and cellophane is sometimes used instead of a cloth.
"The dams are no longer sufficient to hold the water, " he said.
Besides absorbing light, the pigments can neutralise free radicals directly, help cells to hold on to their water, and even act as an antifreeze.
Suddenly, he remembered how he had to hold two water buckets up in the air in primary school, along with the faces of the headmaster and his homeroom teacher.
And while this segment of the population continues to hold significant water with marketers and ad agencies, brands would be wise to turn their attention to a key target audience: moms.
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Dawn Harrington, project manager, said the work will allow sewers to hold more storm water and would help protect the environment.
And the major part of the project is a huge dam called the Cofferdam, which has been built to hold back the water from the docks.
This week, Morning Edition explores some of the conflicts that arise as different groups of people seek to maintain their hold on or to get a hold of more water.
But in reading the five bullet points, many of them hold little to no water.
Analysts expect water to hold onto to its top spot for years to come.
It would hold on to water and then let it out through turbines at both high and low tides which would generate electricity.
That argument might hold water to some degree, but when it starts to intrude on your overall well-being, or sanity, or it takes precedence over time with your kids or spouse, then it might be time to cut back.
Residents were seen waiting patiently in long lines to fill up anything and everything that could hold water -- from plastic jugs to metal drums.
Communities and local civil society organizations need to be actively involved in decision-making in order to generate bottom up demand for change and hold governments to account for public investment in water and sanitation.
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Because water molecules can hold on to these malonic-acid handles, the result (known as a carboxyfullerene) is water-soluble.
Arguments such as Apple is fundamentally cheap close to its cash value will not hold water.
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However, Sony cautions that the device's port covers need to be sealed up tight for its claim to ... well, hold water.
The defences include a flood water storage area, upstream of the city, which can hold up to 1.5 million cubic metres of water.
Deep-water drilling was supposed to hold off the effects of a decline in world oil production that began in 2005 and is forecast to continue unabated through the rest of this century, just as several billion Chinese and Indians go on an energy consumption spree.
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.
Well, the magical moisture-absorbing material may get even better, as the plan is to increase the amount of water the material can hold and lower the temperature threshold for its release.
The 250-300 flotilla participants plan to hold a prayer service and lay wreaths on the water approximately 20 miles northwest of Havana, near the site where Cuban MiG fighters shot down the planes.
The suggestion that speculators deliberately manipulate markets to earn profits through bubbles and busts simply does not hold water.
To link these two issues together actually to politicize the Olympic games, does simply doesn't hold water and is ridiculous.
Fact is, the common wisdom--that 1.2 billion Chinese actually want to get on the information superhighway--does not hold much water.
As he reached out to hold the statuesque body, the lovely form dissolved in ripples of water.
For nine months the ship Transocean Discoverer Spirit used 360-degree rotating propellers to hold itself steady in the 3, 500-foot-deep water as diamond-tipped bits cut the deepest oil well ever--6.5 miles down.
He described how they had to hold their children above their heads as they pushed through the quickly moving water.
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