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Pumping stations have been operating at full capacity for days, but Governor Chadchart Sittipunt said Sunday it could take "up to a week" for the waters to fully drain.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

Check that the water entering the drain is emerging from the curb.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Iran doubled some gasoline prices to the equivalent of $0.04 a liter, a drain for Iranians, many of whom don’t earn much more than $100 a month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

The collapse in April caused a water-filled crater known as Ufford Hole to drain on to surrounding land, including on a side channel towards the East Suffolk railway line.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

“Who knows. Perhaps they can drain it, tighten the soil; they have resources beyond our imagining. Or perhaps they wish to grow rice for their own men.”

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

“It’s amazing to get all the new businesses back in, we’re doing great—and then everything starts flooding again because the stormwater drains are still clogged,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

Dry, windy days lift ash back into the air, while rain and snow turn it into a heavy deposit blocking drains and damaging infrastructure.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Walk around your property with a view to securing items such as fertilizer bags and open paint cans so that they don’t wash into storm drains, which flow to the ocean without treatment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

The plant had been shut down in June and again in July due to the unusually high temperatures in the Aare, which drains nearly half of Switzerland and flows into the Rhine.

From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026

His face drains of color the moment he puts weight on his leg.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

“To Catch a Predator” drained some of the humanity from TV.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Take Sunday Ticket, the NFL’s out-of-market package, which drained about $1 billion from DirecTV in its final season and is projected to cost YouTube nearly $9 billion over its current, seven-year deal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

"The peat is drained by extractive plantations, monoculture plantations, whether oil palm or pulpwood," Greenpeace Indonesia forest campaigner Belgis Habiba told AFP in Pontianak.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

We find Mizrahi’s world in grayscale, drained of color in the wake of critical and cultural failure.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

“Oh, no,” Jack said as every bit of energy, every bit of hope, every bit of happiness drained out of him like water.

From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley

Wildfires in Indonesia are blamed in large part on slash-and-burn land-clearing practices that result in the destruction of fire-resistant forest cover and the draining of peatlands.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

It is these same industrial-scale development projects that have been largely responsible for draining the area's peat swamps, which renders them significantly more fire-prone, Prof Page says.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

As a young man, Francisco traversed it on horseback, eking out a living by draining resin from the towering pines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 6, 2026

But a closer look at trade data shows that China isn’t draining a critical U.S. resource.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

“And,” said Nighthand, draining his glass again and peering down the neck of the empty bottle, “they eat their visitors.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell