Lakes may form in basins where there is sufficient precipitation or meltwater from glaciers above.

The drainage systems are not able to handle the water pressure.

The rain water is evaporating on a hot day.

Do they, for instance, capture rainwater so that we can reduce water use?

It's the number one contaminant of groundwater, drinking water, rain water.

If we have four years of drought, we still have water on the campus, because we collect rainwater.

The natives collect and store rain water to drink.

A downpour brought a sense of relaxation and victory to the mass.

And it can collect six million gallons of rainwater in one season.

On April 3, 2007, she skidded off the road into a drainage ditch which had filled with flood water from the Sauk River.

A class, three classrooms and rainwater collection is 5,000 dollars.

The rainfall, scant as it is, also presents the threat of flooding and has been a danger since earliest times.

It is one of a series of interconnected, murky bodies of water in Scotland its water visibility is exceptionally low due to a high peat content in the surrounding soil.

And all the rainwater that drops on the Mountain is actually accumulated.

We then dug a big hole to put in a rainwater catchment tank to take our yard water independent.

Atlanta straddles the Eastern Continental Divide, such that rainwater that falls on the south and east side of the divide flows into the Atlantic Ocean, while rainwater on the north and west side of the divide flows into the Gulf of Mexico.

And I know because when you look at the rainfall, these particular insects, these Globe Skimmers breed in temporary rain water pools.

Another important point of these sand banks is that when it rains, the rainwater soaks down into the soil. So, it's gone.

So this rainwater is flooding down the hillside, carrying with it sediments from the construction site, smothering the coral and killing it.

The upper part of the drainage basin of the Moa River is located in the south of this region.

As such, the desert, rain, dust, and water appear as lyrical motifs throughout the record.

Six centimeter of rainfall, and they can telephone you that if you find any water problem in your city, Delhi, Bombay, Bangalore, Mysore, please come to our area of six centimeters, we can give you water.

Sources The source of almost all fresh water is precipitation from the atmosphere, in the form of mist, rain and snow.

All that green stuff actually naturally absorbs storm water, also helps cool our cities.

The city now relies on flood barriers and augmenting drainage from canals by pumping and building drain tunnels, but parts of Bangkok and its suburbs are still regularly affected by flooding.

When rain falls in deserts, as it occasionally does, it is often with great violence.

In fact they go 15 feet deep, and collect rain water from roof, there is a small pipe, and from their courtyard.

He was a leader during the uprising in 2000 in Cochabamba in which the people of the city threw out Bechtel, the multinational corporation that had privatized all the water in the city even the rain that people collected.

If the surface is impermeable the precipitation will create surface run off which will lead to higher risk of flooding if the ground is permeable, the precipitation will infiltrate the soil.

Do you like rain?

We need the rain.

Here's a design for harvesting rainwater that's super cheap and available to people in the developing world.

Hydraulic engineering was highly developed in Europe under the aegis of the Roman Empire where it was especially applied to the construction and maintenance of aqueducts to supply water to and remove sewage from their cities.

Conductive cooling occurs when the air comes into contact with a colder surface, usually by being blown from one surface to another, for example from a liquid water surface to colder land.

Barefoot technology this was 1986 no engineer, no architect thought of it but we are collecting rainwater from the roofs.

So if I was to walk outside in the rain wearing this dress today, I would immediately start to absorb huge amounts of water.

We played golf in spite of the rain.

He went out in spite of the rain.

He started in spite of the rain.

In spite of the rain, I went out.

He went out in spite of the storm.

Tom came even though it was raining.

They came in spite of the rain.

The contamination of the karst underground waters is due to the large number of waste disposal sites leached by rainwater, as well as to the accidental overflow of various liquids.

In Botswana, the Setswana word for rain, pula , is used as the name of the national currency, in recognition of the economic importance of rain in this desert country.