Once you enter the dark space where a dramatic spotlight shines on a 100sqm patch of falling water, the sound of the shower and the feeling of moisture in the air immediately gives the familiar impression of being caught in a downpour.
And there is no indication that the reason why decaying dams are found at each point where the town brook falls ten feet is because there used to be a dozen factories on its banks using the gravity power of falling water to turn out a variety of industrial products.
There was a stream alongside the road and far down the pass he saw a mill beside the stream and the falling water of the dam, white in the summer sunlight.
There's a standard set of stories about Niagara, recounted in tourist guidebooks and scholarly tomes, and trotted out every few years in an educational documentary that begins and ends with sweeping helicopter shots of falling water.
Tide: periodic rising and falling of large bodies of water resulting from the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun acting on the rotating earth.
The stream showed clear and smooth-looking in the glasses and, below the curl of the falling water, the spray from the dam was blowing in the wind.
It was an image of one of the explorers falling into icy water.
Rebecca Mark, the head of Azurix, an offshoot of Enron, an energy company, believes that the increased variability in temperatures, the rising intensity of storms and especially falling water levels across the country are prompting Americans to press their politicians to reform water subsidies.
The HighDro Power system works by harnessing the considerable energy from falling waste water in the soil pipes of high-rises, converting it to electricity.
Ebb-tide: the falling tide, part of the tidal cycle between high water and the next low water.
Water tables are falling across the north of the country and as aquifers drop, irrigation wells go dry.
But he was afraid of falling asleep and dropping into the gator-filled water, so he duct taped himself to a branch.
You hear water rushing softly, falling steadily, a kind of background music that stays with you as clearly as the image of the building.
Tidal current: movement of water in a constant direction caused by the periodic rising and falling of the tide.
He loves the idea of the waves but he hates falling over and he really hates getting salt water in his eyes.
The innovation is in the engineering of a racking system and floating structure that can accommodate water rising and falling.
The report, Gaza's Children: Falling Behind, says that high levels of nitrates and other contaminants have been found in the main water supply.
Opening a dinner-break debate on the subject on 8 February 2012, Lord Warner told peers Gaza's infrastructure was falling apart and that the water, sewage and health care systems were "on the verge of collapse".
Friends of the Earth Cymru says the falling cost of wind and solar energy will soon leave the business case for the barrage "dead in the water".
Some of Argentina's privatisations of the 1990s were flawed by corruption and monopoly, but electricity and water were successful, with tariffs falling and coverage expanding under arms-length regulation.
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