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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The turtle's empty carapace, or shell, is used as decorative pieces in their homes, or as containers for holding water and food.
They quickly learned that they needed to scale back too everything from taking shorter showers to save on water, to holding off on new clothes to using their own money if they wanted extras (like a trip to the drive-thru).
Clays are water-loving materials (just ask any friends who make pottery), sometimes forming from the interaction of water and different kinds of precursor volcanic rocks, and holding much of that water within their mineral structures.
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.
This is the largest publicly traded regulated water and wastewater utility holding company in the U.S., catering to approximately 15 million residents across the country and parts of Canada.
Eastern Flight 401 passenger Ron Infantino spent five hours pinned by debris in the water and sawgrass, holding onto the armrest of what had been his seat on the airplane.
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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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.
Levees along the length of the river appeared to be holding, and water diverted through spillways seemed to be rising more slowly than expected, but Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal warned residents that plenty could go wrong.
On Saturday, the local community is holding a "High Water Music Festival" to benefit the people of Tunica Cutoff.
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Holding or pulling people under water, grabbing, pushing, eye-gouging or swimming trunk yanking are very common!
Before holding the bowl over the water, break up the yolks with the whisk and add a splash of vinegar.
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The four men died after the Gleision drift mine flooded on 15 September 2011 after a retaining wall holding back a body of water failed.
The Europeans, like their American counterparts, want to water down a provision that forces bank holding companies to set aside more capital for risky activities.
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According to Birmingham's annual reports, he has other interests in energy, property and water companies (he has a clothing holding, too), but little else is known about how he amassed wealth.
The edification conveyed from old name to new: His older brother, John, standing on a chair, holding aloft a dented tin cup brimful with water.
The group is thinking of pooling municipal services such as water and waste disposal, and even setting up a joint holding company.
One side features the Genius of Medicine holding an open book in her lap, collecting water pouring out of a rock to quench the thirst of a sick girl beside her.
For now, Mr Yang's school is holding out, with a diesel generator and cans of water supplied by well-wishers.
He says holding RWE might give existing investors preferential rights with respect to new water shares--a two-for-one bonus.
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.
Earlier this year, details released under the Freedom of Information Act revealed "snagging" issues holding up the move included incomplete work to the building's roof and water damage to other areas.
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.
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".
Veolia Environnement, a holding of Chung's Alger LargeCap Growth and MidCap Growth funds, consults for, builds and manages water utilities.
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