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You have to capture natural water, so it does not flow off into city drains. – Brian Godley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Unfortunately we're not well-prepared, generally speaking in the Pacific Northwest, for heat, our [ power ] grids are largely taxed during the wintertime for heating purposes, but in the summer, there's a lot less capacity in the grid to be able to actually manage some of the major drains on cooling infrastructure that's needed. – Vivek Shandas	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The pitch of life is like music. You go too high, it is thrilling; you go too low, it drains. – CLIFFORD VILLALON	added by Zandalee2000 3 years ago
There are some burn marks on the front of the building. They destroyed the inside of their floor and threw all sorts of stuff outside. ... They flooded the floors, clogged the toilets, clogged the drains, so there is water damage. – Jacob Long	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We have cleaned out the sewers and the clean out drains between the facility and 696, we're also in the process of cleaning up the basement of the facility. – Jill Greenberg	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Everything always drains to the mangroves here and there's no place for it to go with that much rain, monday's always in the mix. – PGA Tour	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
It drains people's energy and it sucks the joy out of being at work. – Marie McIntyre	Found on CNN 4 years ago
That stuff drains out, and you get future potential for fire after that. – Eric Miller	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The lights started flashing, ears started popping, and the drains started gurgling. – Michael Sussman	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If I have worked harder and built myself a good house while you have been content to live in a hovel, the tax gatherer now comes annually to make me pay a penalty for my energy and industry by taxing me more than you. If I have saved while you wasted, I am [taxed] while you are exempt. If a man built a ship, we make him pay for his temerity as though he had done injury to the state; if a railroad be opened, down comes the tax collector upon it as though were a public nuisance.... We punish with a tax the man who covers barren fields with ripening grain; we fine him who puts up machinery and him who drains a swamp. To abolish these taxes would be to lift the whole enormous weight of taxation from productive industry.... The state would say to the producer, 'Be as industrious, as thrifty, as enterprising as you choose. You shall have your full reward! – Henry George	added by Normando 5 years ago
Unused drains create a slimy film that creates an ideal breeding spot for drain flies, if these flies are present in the house there is almost certainly a slow or clogged drain. – Brad Smith	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Single use plastics are a major problem, as such items( cups, straws, plates) are disposed of. They either litter drains and roads, or wind up in dumpsites -- or worse, are put on fire, kerala is the first state in Katy WongDelhi , India that has banned one-time disposable products in the entire state. Maharashtra, too, recently banned multi-layered packaging, and disposable products. Katy WongDelhi , India still has a long way to curb the issue of single-use plastics. – Swati Singh	Found on CNN 5 years ago
After the last [stealthing] encounter, I just became emotionally shut off, at first I wanted to get pissed and scream at the person, but all that disappointment drains you … Now I just try to be way more careful. – Alexandra Brodsky	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
These ghost teachers receive taxpayer-funded salaries, health benefits and pensions, yet they may never return to the classroom or engage in actual teaching, this should not be allowed or tolerated because it is a blatant misuse of taxpayer dollars and drains money and resources away from our classrooms and our students. – Patrick Stefano	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
For too long, plastic bags have clogged our storm drains, littered our greenspaces and tangled our trees. – City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The teachers were coming out terrified because they had heard the rumors that he was fleeing in the city's drains. – Ana Bertotti	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We heard it was coming, then we heard some rushing water and went downstairs and three o'clock is when it got real bad and [water] started shooting up through the drains. – Jason Peck	Found on CNN 8 years ago
But it's up to him to present credible and concrete plans, from a strategic vision to (fixing) the holes in the road or cleaning drains when it rains. – Prime Minister Matteo Renzi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There has been some minor grading to make sure the site drains properly, but there has been no work at the site specifically for the cemetery dedicated to Mr. Trump and family. – Trump Ed Russo	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
No, there are no Mexican immigrants building anything, there has been some minor grading to make sure the site drains properly, but there has been no work at the site specifically for the cemetery dedicated to Mr. Trump and family. – Trump Ed Russo	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I can't afford to rent anywhere else, every time it rains I pray to God for it to stop. But what can I do ? Even a short downpour can leave the capital flooded as piles of rubbish on the streets and debris filled canals block drains, which exacerbates flooding. Natural disasters linked to climate change will only get more frequent and extreme in the future, experts say. Decades of deforestation have left Haiti even more exposed to natural disasters, with less than three percent of its original forest cover still intact, according to the UNDP. This causes soil erosion and reduces the ability of soil to retain water, making Haiti more vulnerable to flooding and landslides. During heavy rainfall, there are few trees to stop water washing down the bare mountains. While 5.5 million tree seedlings have been planted in Haiti by the UNDP since 2010, not enough has been done to stop people cutting down trees in the first place. Selling charcoal, which comes from burning wood, is used for cooking and is a key source of income for many Haitians living in the countryside. . – Angelique Hilaire	Found on Reuters 9 years ago

You have to capture natural water, so it does not flow off into city drains.

– Brian Godley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Unfortunately we're not well-prepared, generally speaking in the Pacific Northwest, for heat, our [ power ] grids are largely taxed during the wintertime for heating purposes, but in the summer, there's a lot less capacity in the grid to be able to actually manage some of the major drains on cooling infrastructure that's needed.

– Vivek Shandas

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The pitch of life is like music. You go too high, it is thrilling; you go too low, it drains.

– CLIFFORD VILLALON

added by Zandalee2000
3 years ago

There are some burn marks on the front of the building. They destroyed the inside of their floor and threw all sorts of stuff outside. ... They flooded the floors, clogged the toilets, clogged the drains, so there is water damage.

– Jacob Long

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We have cleaned out the sewers and the clean out drains between the facility and 696, we're also in the process of cleaning up the basement of the facility.

– Jill Greenberg

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Everything always drains to the mangroves here and there's no place for it to go with that much rain, monday's always in the mix.

– PGA Tour

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It drains people's energy and it sucks the joy out of being at work.

– Marie McIntyre

Found on CNN
4 years ago

That stuff drains out, and you get future potential for fire after that.

– Eric Miller

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The lights started flashing, ears started popping, and the drains started gurgling.

– Michael Sussman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If I have worked harder and built myself a good house while you have been content to live in a hovel, the tax gatherer now comes annually to make me pay a penalty for my energy and industry by taxing me more than you. If I have saved while you wasted, I am [taxed] while you are exempt. If a man built a ship, we make him pay for his temerity as though he had done injury to the state; if a railroad be opened, down comes the tax collector upon it as though were a public nuisance.... We punish with a tax the man who covers barren fields with ripening grain; we fine him who puts up machinery and him who drains a swamp. To abolish these taxes would be to lift the whole enormous weight of taxation from productive industry.... The state would say to the producer, 'Be as industrious, as thrifty, as enterprising as you choose. You shall have your full reward!

– Henry George

added by Normando
5 years ago

Unused drains create a slimy film that creates an ideal breeding spot for drain flies, if these flies are present in the house there is almost certainly a slow or clogged drain.

– Brad Smith

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Single use plastics are a major problem, as such items( cups, straws, plates) are disposed of. They either litter drains and roads, or wind up in dumpsites -- or worse, are put on fire, kerala is the first state in Katy WongDelhi , India that has banned one-time disposable products in the entire state. Maharashtra, too, recently banned multi-layered packaging, and disposable products. Katy WongDelhi , India still has a long way to curb the issue of single-use plastics.

– Swati Singh

Found on CNN
5 years ago

After the last [stealthing] encounter, I just became emotionally shut off, at first I wanted to get pissed and scream at the person, but all that disappointment drains you … Now I just try to be way more careful.

– Alexandra Brodsky

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

These ghost teachers receive taxpayer-funded salaries, health benefits and pensions, yet they may never return to the classroom or engage in actual teaching, this should not be allowed or tolerated because it is a blatant misuse of taxpayer dollars and drains money and resources away from our classrooms and our students.

– Patrick Stefano

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

For too long, plastic bags have clogged our storm drains, littered our greenspaces and tangled our trees.

– City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The teachers were coming out terrified because they had heard the rumors that he was fleeing in the city's drains.

– Ana Bertotti

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We heard it was coming, then we heard some rushing water and went downstairs and three o'clock is when it got real bad and [water] started shooting up through the drains.

– Jason Peck

Found on CNN
8 years ago

But it's up to him to present credible and concrete plans, from a strategic vision to (fixing) the holes in the road or cleaning drains when it rains.

– Prime Minister Matteo Renzi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There has been some minor grading to make sure the site drains properly, but there has been no work at the site specifically for the cemetery dedicated to Mr. Trump and family.

– Trump Ed Russo

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

No, there are no Mexican immigrants building anything, there has been some minor grading to make sure the site drains properly, but there has been no work at the site specifically for the cemetery dedicated to Mr. Trump and family.

– Trump Ed Russo

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I can't afford to rent anywhere else, every time it rains I pray to God for it to stop. But what can I do ? Even a short downpour can leave the capital flooded as piles of rubbish on the streets and debris filled canals block drains, which exacerbates flooding. Natural disasters linked to climate change will only get more frequent and extreme in the future, experts say. Decades of deforestation have left Haiti even more exposed to natural disasters, with less than three percent of its original forest cover still intact, according to the UNDP. This causes soil erosion and reduces the ability of soil to retain water, making Haiti more vulnerable to flooding and landslides. During heavy rainfall, there are few trees to stop water washing down the bare mountains. While 5.5 million tree seedlings have been planted in Haiti by the UNDP since 2010, not enough has been done to stop people cutting down trees in the first place. Selling charcoal, which comes from burning wood, is used for cooking and is a key source of income for many Haitians living in the countryside. .

– Angelique Hilaire

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

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