Farmers plant a warm-season perennial grass and fallow the field for two years, improving soil quality and water-holding capacity.
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During the next class, the homeroom teacher called the Korean student who had touched the trumpet without permission to come to the blackboard and meted out the punishment of holding two water-filled buckets with outstretched arms.
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By holding more water in upper-river reservoirs during the summer months, the split-season plan would boost recreational interests that require higher water levels for boat docks and other structures.
Holding or pulling people under water, grabbing, pushing, eye-gouging or swimming trunk yanking are very common!
With light rain as my only company, I walked through Paris until I reached the famous pyramid, splashed with water nymphs in the form of diamond-coloured drops, surrounded by Japanese tourists holding candy-coloured umbrellas.
Most do not, and all too often the owners cross swords with the original landholder: a strange creature who counts on irrigation water, operates machinery at odd hours, and offends his neighbours with smelly cattle-holding pens.
In one, he captures the experience of being from a "jerkwater" town: a village so small that steam-train crews had to "jerk" water up from streams or from people holding buckets along the tracks because there was no water tower from which to refill the engine.
He says holding RWE might give existing investors preferential rights with respect to new water shares--a two-for-one bonus.
For now, Mr Yang's school is holding out, with a diesel generator and cans of water supplied by well-wishers.
Her scariest paddling experience remains being unable to get out of the water having capsized as a 12-year-old, "with my dad on the bank holding a rope".
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