"Adding compost to the soil dramatically increases its ability to hold water, aiding in water conservation, " he adds.
Also, if the U.S. and China economies manage to hold water in 2012, that could bode well for Brazil.
That excuse would not hold much water in this case.
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Researchers at Keele University, in Staffordshire, England, had a group of hardy volunteers hold their hands in freezing cold water, first while swearing and then while emitting inoffensive phrases.
Suddenly, he remembered how he had to hold two water buckets up in the air in primary school, along with the faces of the headmaster and his homeroom teacher.
Communities and local civil society organizations need to be actively involved in decision-making in order to generate bottom up demand for change and hold governments to account for public investment in water and sanitation.
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When the dinghy capsized in the River Swale, the boy grasped hold of a branch in the fast-flowing water.
The more optimistic interpretations do not quite hold water either, especially in Chechnya, where Mr Putin unfortunately shows no shortage of decisiveness along with ill-disguised contempt for European peacemongers.
Home Star legislation that would provide consumers with rebates for energy and water efficiency is on hold in the Senate, its future uncertain.
Sindhis make up about a quarter of Pakistan's population, but hold only a couple of the top 50 jobs in the water ministry.
As an explanation for the conundrum of the ice ages, this notion could only hold water if a mechanism for such large changes in atmospheric composition might be found in the real world.
Why hold the conference in Virginia, where conservatism is in the drinking water and liberal-baiting a sport?
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As he reached out to hold the statuesque body, the lovely form dissolved in ripples of water.
Second, increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere also leads to increased temperatures, and the warmer the temperature in the water, the less oxygen it can hold.
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For nine months the ship Transocean Discoverer Spirit used 360-degree rotating propellers to hold itself steady in the 3, 500-foot-deep water as diamond-tipped bits cut the deepest oil well ever--6.5 miles down.
Residents were seen waiting patiently in long lines to fill up anything and everything that could hold water -- from plastic jugs to metal drums.
Dams for irrigation, meanwhile, have a doubly damaging impact on fisheries: they not only hold back water, but also encourage the conversion of forest to farmland in the flood-plain.
But in reading the five bullet points, many of them hold little to no water.
And there's been an increase in rainfall at higher latitudes as a consequence because the atmosphere can hold more water if it's a little bit warmer.
Deep-water drilling was supposed to hold off the effects of a decline in world oil production that began in 2005 and is forecast to continue unabated through the rest of this century, just as several billion Chinese and Indians go on an energy consumption spree.
Inside the hostel, the owner gave me a large rubber bladder, swollen with boiling water, and as I prepared for bed I held it in my hands the way one might hold a beating human heart my own heart, perhaps.
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