Water imagery evokes the woman's sexuality, with feminine or ' yin ' erotic symbols in the garden stream behind the lovers and in the waves on the robe of the young gallant, while the flowering ume on the standing screen serves as a metaphor for male or ' yang ' sexuality.

In Orrall's lyrics, water imagery is prominent, with water as life-giving and cleansing, " Melting, reemerging and rising up clean in the pouring rain " ( this theme is also found in " Sound of Water ").

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 is then mixed with this dry composite, which enables it to be shaped ( typically poured ) and then solidified and hardened into rock-hard strength through a chemical process called hydration.

Water runs through the voids in the pavement to the soil underneath.

Cayuga Lake is the source of drinking water for several communities, including Lansing near the southern end of the lake along the east side, which draws water through the Bolton Point Municipal Water system.

Water can be converted to its component elemental gasses, H < sub > 2 </ sub > and O < sub > 2 </ sub > through the application of an external voltage.

By chance he encountered a copy of " Captain Claridge's work on the ' Water Cure ,' as practised by Priessnitz, at Graefenberg ", and " making allowances for certain exaggerations therein ", pondered the option of travelling to Graefenberg, but preferred to find something closer to home, with access to his own doctors in case of failure: " I who scarcely lived through a day without leech or potion!

Midway through their set, Parsons joined the headline act and fronted his former group on renditions of " Hickory Wind " and " You Don't Miss Your Water ".

Water from the Tigris thus enters the Euphrates through the Shatt al-Hayy well above the confluence of the two main channels at Al Qurnah.

Water supplies from wells in karst topography may be unsafe, as the water may have run unimpeded from a sinkhole in a cattle pasture, through a cave and to the well, bypassing the normal filtering that occurs in a porous aquifer.

Water is being exploited through the 30-year, multi-billion dollar Lesotho Highlands Water Project ( LHWP ), which was initiated in 1986.

Water samples can be filtrated through an extremely fine filter.

Water quality may also be affected through ground water resources that have a high number of septic systems in a watershed.

The NADW flows southward through the Atlantic Ocean, approaching the Antarctic Bottom Water past the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

* Water pollution, by the discharge of wastewater from commercial and industrial waste ( intentionally or through spills ) into surface waters ; discharges of untreated domestic sewage, and chemical contaminants, such as chlorine, from treated sewage ; release of waste and contaminants into surface runoff flowing to surface waters ( including urban runoff and agricultural runoff, which may contain chemical fertilizers and pesticides ); waste disposal and leaching into groundwater ; eutrophication and littering.

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.

The UNU Institute for Water, Environment and Health ( Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ) works directly on the global water crisis., The three core functions of UNU-INWEH are: ( i ) helping developing countries meet the Millennium Development Goals through capacity development: ( ii ) facilitating global knowledge enhancement and networking to address the global water crisis ; and ( iii ) fostering better approaches to water management and governance through applied research designed to fill critical policy gaps

Water on Earth moves continually through the hydrological cycle of evaporation and transpiration ( evapotranspiration ), condensation, precipitation, and runoff, usually reaching the sea.

Water moves perpetually through each of these regions in the water cycle consisting of following transfer processes:

Water is excreted from the body in multiple forms ; through urine and feces, through sweating, and by exhalation of water vapor in the breath.

Water flowing out of the lake is forced through turbines that turn generators.

The many hoards of treasure include the Mildenhall Treasure, Water Newton Treasure, Hoxne Hoard, and Vale of York Hoard.

The constellation is located in an area of sky called the Sea or the Water, consisting of many water-related constellations such as Aquarius, Pisces and Eridanus.

Water was one of many archai proposed by the Pre-socratics, most of whom tried to reduce all things to a single substance.

San Carlos Water, one of many inlets on East Falkland.

Water pollution ; many people get their water directly from contaminated streams and wells ; as a result, water-borne diseases are prevalent ; increasing soil salinity from faulty irrigation practices.

It passes the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone to the Irminger Sea, and arranges in the DWBC between 2500 and 3500 m. Because of its complex formation / transformation history this water has many names: Iceland-Scotland Overflow Water, Northeast Atlantic Deep Water and Gibbs Fracture Zone Water

* The Water Festival is the form of similar new year celebrations taking place in many Southeast Asian countries, on the day of the full moon of the 11th month on the lunisolar calendar each year.

It has extremes of many kinds: some of the highest sea cliffs in the UK at St John's Head, which reach ; the impressive and famous sea stack, the Old Man of Hoy ; some of the most northerly surviving natural woodland in the British Isles ; the remote possibility that Arctic Char survive in Heldale Water and the most northerly Martello Towers, which were built to defend the area during the Napoleonic War, but were never used in combat.

The largest pub in the UK is The Moon Under Water, Manchester ; as are many Wetherspoons pubs it is in a converted cinema.

Water and minerals are also important natural resources ; the region is home to many of the country's major dams, and mining is an important industry in the area.

The U. S. Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Saint Croix, Saint John, and Saint Thomas, along with the much smaller but historically distinct Water Island, and many other surrounding minor islands.

Saint Croix, Saint Thomas, Saint John, Water Island, many other islands

Water appears in nature in all three common states of matter ( solid, liquid, and gas ) and may take many different forms on Earth: water vapor and clouds in the sky ; seawater in the oceans ; icebergs in the polar oceans ; glaciers and rivers in the mountains ; and the liquid in aquifers in the ground.

* Water is miscible with many liquids, such as ethanol, in all proportions, forming a single homogeneous liquid.

* Water forms an azeotrope with many other solvents.

Water can dissolve many different substances, giving it varying tastes and odors.

Water is important in many geological processes.

Water is vital both as a solvent in which many of the body's solutes dissolve and as an essential part of many metabolic processes within the body.

Water, however, is not a finite resource, but rather re-circulated as potable water in precipitation in quantities many degrees of magnitude higher than human consumption.

Water is also used in many industrial processes and machines, such as the steam turbine and heat exchanger, in addition to its use as a chemical solvent.

Water plays many critical roles within the field of food science.