In doing this, I've got deeply involved in the full process from recycling the water from the clouds, bringing it down, filtering it, using it domestically, in low quantity and with grey water products outpouring from the house that goes straight into the crops that we are growing.
BBC: NEWS | In Depth | 2003 | World Forum | Water | Global village voices: Water
It attempted to calm hurricanes down by seeding clouds around them in a similar fashion.
For the start of ACT THREE , Venus comes down from the clouds.
This wire draws down "electrical fire" from the clouds, the charge being conducted earthward along the kite's rain-soaked string.
Last month much of Europe's airspace was shut down for six days due to ash clouds, stranding many thousands of passengers.
Meteorologists were once limited to a top-down or bottom-up look at clouds.
We were into open country now, running straight up the coast about a mile from the ocean on a two-lane blacktop road across the dunes with no clouds in the sky and a full moon blazing down on the Pacific.
At first glance, it might seem obvious that it was through the action of flowing water (fluvial), but the Curiosity team needs to rule out the possibility that these rocks were deposited by the wind (aeolian) or by some kind of surge, such as the fast-moving clouds of gas and rock that will often plummet down the sides of particular types of volcano (a pyroclastic surge).
But on launch day it all comes down to the uncontrollable forces of nature: clouds, rain, lighting and vultures.
Nameless waterfalls tumble down from the plateau above, while the shadows of clouds dance across treeless slopes.
Clouds hung low, like curtains pulled not quite all the way down.
When Thomas Jefferson described the view from Monticello in 1786, he wrote, "How sublime to look down into the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!"
"In general, look it up first by whatever means, " he said, noting sharks falsely popped up in photos after Sandy, swimming in front yards and down streets, along with doctored images of dramatic storm clouds and wind whipping around the Statue of Liberty.
But as the plane touched down, the last of the showers swept through, the clouds parted, and beautiful blue skies greeted Mrs.
When flying using instruments alone, a situation in which clouds and turbulence can confound a pilot's sense of up and down, being able to take in all this information in one glance, instead of three, simplifies the pilot's task.
Funnel clouds look like cone-shaped or thin rope-like protuberances which hang down from the cloud base, and often do not last very long.
As you roll down the street, the display's background features the sun and clouds.
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