rainwater

Example Sentences

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Instead, he’d thrown himself into keeping the mushroom alive: fertilizing the surrounding trees so they’d offer more shade, digging tiny channels to direct rainwater, building a fence.

From Literature

With no rainwater to dilute the sewage it is particularly concentrated - this is an illegal practice.

From BBC

Oil fires can also release sulphur and nitrogen oxides, which can form acids if they dissolve in rainwater, as well as other harmful hydrocarbons, metallic compounds and droplets of oil.

From BBC

On Earth, most sulfates dissolve easily in rainwater.

From Science Daily

Stroud Brewery is organic, so it does not use pesticides or herbicides, and uses harvested rainwater to flush its toilets.

From BBC