Water chestnuts were introduced to North America around 1874, and escaped cultivation in the eastern United States, where they have been declared invasive species from Vermont to Virginia.

# Water chestnuts ( traditional: 荸薺 ; simplified: 荸荠 ; pinyin: bíqí )

Water, air, fruit, poetry, music, the human form -- these things are important to Persians, and they experience them with an intense and discriminating awareness.

There are forty-seven special district governments in Rhode Island ( excluding two regional school districts, four housing authorities, and the Kent County Water Authority ).

Water is drawn in through their mouths, which are usually at the bottom of their heads, and passes through branchial food traps between their mouths and their gills where fine particles are trapped in mucus and filtered out.

Water makers are available for yachts that convert seawater and electricity into potable water and brine.

Water shortages are often a problem, especially in the north of the country.

The original Game Boy and Game Boy Color versions have a Moon Water storyline, and are known as Bubble Bobble, and Classic Bubble Bobble respectively.

Water insoluble chromium ( III ) compounds and chromium metal are not considered a health hazard, while the toxicity and carcinogenic properties of chromium ( VI ) have been known for a long time.

Examples of species listed on Appendix II are the Great White Shark ( Carcharadon carcharias ), the American black bear ( Ursus americanus ), Hartmann's mountain zebra ( Equus hartmannae ), African grey parrot ( Psittacus erithacus ), green iguana ( Iguana iguana ), queen conch ( Strombus gigas ), Mertens ' Water Monitor ( Varanus mertensi ), bigleaf mahogany ( Swietenia macrophylla ) and Lignum Vitae " ironwood " ( Guaiacum officinale ).

The five major planets are associated with and even named after the elements: Jupiter 木星 is Wood ( 木 ), Mars 火星 is Fire ( 火 ), Saturn 土星 is Earth ( 土 ), Venus 金星 is Metal ( 金 ), and Mercury 水星 is Water ( 水 ).

Water clocks, also known as clepsydrae ( sg: clepsydra ), along with the sundials, are possibly the oldest time-measuring instruments, with the only exceptions being the vertical gnomon and the day-counting tally stick.

** Water ( hydroelectric )-Turbine blades are acted upon by flowing water, produced by hydroelectric dams or tidal forces.

Water and wind erosion are now the two primary causes of land degradation ; combined, they are responsible for 84 % of degraded acreage, making excessive erosion one of the most significant global environmental problems we face today.

Water and wind erosion are now the two primary causes of land degradation ; combined, they are responsible for 84 % of degraded acreage.

Gaseous water | Water vapor is an invisible gas, but the cloud s of condensed water droplets refract and disperse the sun light and so are visible.

Water vapor and carbon dioxide absorb a number of useful portions of the infrared spectrum, so high-altitude or space-based telescopes are used for infrared astronomy.

Water resources are sources of water that are useful or potentially useful.

Water movement is a significant means by which other material, such as soil or pollutants, are transported from place to place.

Nearby are the Water Art, the Hardenbergsche House and the Prince House.

Several buildings, as well as the Marston Water Tower, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Consumer advocacy groups such as Public Citizen or Food and Water Watch maintain that the safety of irradiated food is not proven, in particular long-term studies are still lacking, and strongly oppose the use of the technology.

* Its birth flowers are the Larkspur or the Water Lily.

They perform at both military and civilian airfields, and often perform directly over major cities such as San Francisco's " Fleet Week " maritime festival, Cleveland's annual Labor Day Air Show, the Chicago Air and Water Show, and Seattle's annual Seafair festival.

Water is often used to cook foods such as noodle s.

Water on a very clean glass surface will often supercool several degrees below the freezing point without freezing.

The accounts are known through often inconsistent 19th-century secret society histories and popular literature, and also appear to draw on both Fujianese folklore and popular narratives such as the classical novel Water Margin.

Water Margin is often seen as the first full-length wuxia novel: the portrayal of the 108 heroes, and their code of honour and willingness to become outlaws rather than serve a corrupt government, played an influential role in the development of jianghu culture in later centuries.

Water is a liquid at temperatures above 0 ° C ( 273. 15 K, 32 ° F ) at sea level, but it often co-exists on Earth with its solid state, ice, and gaseous state ( water vapor or steam ).

* Water is a good polar solvent and is often referred to as the universal solvent.

Water runoff often collects over watersheds flowing into rivers.

Water jumps were once at least fifteen feet ( 5 m ) wide, although the water often had drained out of them by the time the last competitor jumped.

# Water is pumped through the freshly cut culms, forcing out the sap ( this method is often used in conjunction with the injection of some form of treatment ).

However, because agriculture has to compete for increasingly scarce water resources with industry and municipal users ( see Water scarcity below ), there is often no alternative for farmers but to use water polluted with urban waste, including sewage, directly to water their crops.

Water towers are often regarded as monuments of civil engineering.

Water pipes were laid only towards the end of the 19th century, and then often only with one tap per building or per story.

Water may be discharged on the surface if it is relatively fresh, but, often, it is injected into rock at a depth where the quality of the injected water is less than that of the host rock.

Water, lard, rind, potato starch flour and soy or milk protein are often added for binding and filling.

There he developed a love of walking, as well as for the local scenery and wildlife, which often featured in his novels ; the name of a protagonist in several of Buchan's books Sir Edward Leithen is borrowed from the Leithen Water, a tributary of the River Tweed.

Water in the reef surface zone is often agitated.

The five Incarnations are associated with the five elements ( Death with Earth, Fate with Water, War with Fire, Nature with Air, and Time with Void ), and often other items with fives ( the previously mentioned Book of Five Rings ).

Water temperatures are some of the warmest on the southern California coast and range from about 60 ° F in February to 72 ° F in August ; however in early to mid September water temperatures often range from 73 ° F to 75 ° F.

While " Minnehaha ", an American Indian word, is often translated as " Laughing Water ", the correct translation is " curling water " or " waterfall ".

( Water, in fact, does carry disease, but more often if it is drunk than if one bathes in it ; and water only carries disease if it is contaminated by pathogens.

Their sound is often identified as being similar to other post-hardcore bands, such as Avail, Hot Water Music and Dillinger Four.

Water buffalo have been domesticated in the Philippines as far back as pre-Hispanic times and are often used by farmers in the Philippines to plow the fields and as a means of transportation.

The most common reasons for abandoning children in literature are oracles that the child will cause harm ; the mother's desire to conceal her illegitimate child, often after rape by a god ; or spite on the part of people other than the parents, such as sisters and mothers-in-law in such fairy tales as The Dancing Water, the Singing Apple, and the Speaking Bird.