In view of the increasing shortage of usable surface and ground water in many parts of the Nation and the importance of finding new sources of supply to meet its present and future water needs, it is the policy of the Congress to provide for the development of practicable low-cost means for the large-scale production of water of a quality suitable for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and other beneficial consumptive uses from saline water, and for studies and research related thereto.

If your pool is located on or near sloping ground, it may have natural drainage which is certainly more desirable than to be faced with the annual expense and labor of first pumping out the water and then scooping out all the debris.

yet the water in the ground should not be stagnant either.

It had grown hot early that day, and I hoped that the boy, my brother's son, would soon come across the broad black area of plowed ground, carrying the jar of cool water.

On the surface of the ground or in water they move by undulating their body from side to side.

Light chose, not without opposition, a site on rising ground close to the River Torrens, which was the chief early water supply for the fledgling colony.

Failure to pump a septic tank can cause overflow that damages the leach field, and contaminates ground water.

In the background is the village of Blindheim | Blenheim ; in the middle ground are the two water mills that Rowe had to take to gain a bridgehead over the Nebel.

Sulfuric acid and H < sup >+</ sup > ions that have been formed can leak into the ground and surface water turning it acidic, causing environmental damage.

Roots anchor it to the ground, gather water and mineral nutrients from the soil, and produce hormones.

The clay is first ground and mixed with water to the desired consistency.

The relation between Cr ( III ) and Cr ( VI ) strongly depends on pH and oxidative properties of the location, but in most cases, the Cr ( III ) is the dominating species, although in some areas the ground water can contain up to 39 µg / liter of total chromium of which 30 µg / liter is present as Cr ( VI ).

This gas mixes with ground water and forms H < sub > 2 </ sub > SO < sub > 4 </ sub > ( sulfuric acid ).

It further prevents the pollution of ground water by controlling the fecal matter decomposition before entering the system.

* The site is a newly reclaimed area with a maximum water table rises to about 2 metres ( 6. 5 ft ) below ground level.

:” Work at the same time upon sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on and equal basis and unceasingly rework until you have got it.

Diagrammatic Map of ground and water transport in the DR Congo in 2000 ( roads ) and 2006 ( waterways and railways )

Either steam under pressure emerges from the ground and drives a turbine or hot water evaporates a low boiling liquid to create vapour to drive a turbine.

These processes, combined with erosion and transport by the water network beneath the glacier, leave moraines, drumlins, ground moraine ( till ), kames, kame deltas, moulins, and glacial erratics in their wake, typically at the terminus or during glacier retreat.

Concern around the issues of ground water contamination and air pollution rose in the early 1980s and individuals involved in antitoxic groups claim that they are concerned for the health of their families.

Of oil merchants in Baku Çelebi writes: " By Allah's decree petroleum bubbles up out of the ground, but in the manner of hot springs, pools of water are formed with petroleum congealed on the surface like cream.

This seems also implicated in the epic of the hieros gamos or sacred marriage of Enki and Ninhursag ( above ), which seems an etiological myth of the fertilisation of the dry ground by the coming of irrigation water ( from Sumerian a, ab, water or semen ).

The bomb plunged into the ground near the Post, but not precisely into the Command room itself.

to the SAC command and control post, forty-five feet below the ground at Offutt Air Force Base, near Omaha, Nebraska ; ;

There was no time in the short Mexican encounter to evolve a solution but the area provided a proving ground for new departures in the near future.

He found them near the carcass of a zebra that had been killed the night before, and he circled once, nose to the ground, hair shooting up along his back, as it did when he was after lion or bear, and then he lifted his head and bayed, and the pack joined in, all heads high, and Jones knew it was a hot trail.

" He was wounded when an artillery shell exploded near his horse, throwing him to the ground in a violent fall.

After Ali ibn Yusuf's death in 1143, his son Tashfin ibn Ali lost ground rapidly before the Almohads, and in 1146 he was killed by a fall from a precipice while attempting to escape after a defeat near Oran.

In 2006, shortly after Hurricane Ernesto affected Bath, North Carolina, eleven year-old Kevin Schanze discovered a piece of metal debris on the ground near his beach home.

In the end of the ensuing struggle he succeeded to crash his aircraft into the ground near Thatta on seeing no way to prevent the hijack and the defection.

As the ion will travel from the tip at voltage V < sub > 1 </ sub > to some nominal ground potential, the speed at which the ion is travelling can be estimated by the energy transferred into the ion during ( or near ) ionisation.

Blue Cranes feed from the ground and appear to rarely feed near wetland areas.

A ground blizzard has snowdrifts and blowing snow near the ground, but no falling snow.

While mountain tops remain snow-capped year long, near the coast snow only stays on the ground for a few minutes or hours.

That year, Dewar opposed a visit to Aberdeen by the Springbok rugby side, staging a silent vigil near the ground.

Fulham's training ground is located near Motspur Park, where the club's Academy is also situated.

* 1998 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and six more on the ground.

The village of Oakley, burnt to the ground by the dragon early in the story, may also be named after Oakley, Buckinghamshire, near to Thame.

When in operation it will use two ground operations centers near Munich, Germany and in Fucino, Italy.

In November 2009, a ground station for Galileo was inaugurated near Kourou ( French Guiana ).

Western gray whales are facing, the large-scale offshore oil and gas development programs near their summer feeding ground, as well as fatal net entrapments off Japan during migration, which pose significant threats to the future survival of the population.

Each of the condemned, said Coke, would be drawn backwards to his death, by a horse, his head near the ground.

A jump is considered a fail if the bar is dislodged by the action of the jumper whilst jumping or the jumper touches the ground or break the plane of the near edge of the bar before clearance.

High ground, separated by broad, undulating steppes, gives way to mountains ranging from near the Iranian and Turkish borders.

A land mine is an explosive device, concealed under or on the ground and designed to destroy or disable enemy targets as they pass over or near the device.