The Japanese, for instance, used teapots to hold the water, and cellophane is sometimes used instead of a cloth.
"The dams are no longer sufficient to hold the water, " he said.
And the major part of the project is a huge dam called the Cofferdam, which has been built to hold back the water from the docks.
Well, the magical moisture-absorbing material may get even better, as the plan is to increase the amount of water the material can hold and lower the temperature threshold for its release.
Dawn Harrington, project manager, said the work will allow sewers to hold more storm water and would help protect the environment.
When the dinghy capsized in the River Swale, the boy grasped hold of a branch in the fast-flowing water.
Then, hold the bowl above the steaming water and start your whisk-athon.
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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.
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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The defences include a flood water storage area, upstream of the city, which can hold up to 1.5 million cubic metres of water.
Where there is less sand they, like Mr Serrato, can mix it into the soil, but the mixture does not hold water so well.
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.
And while this segment of the population continues to hold significant water with marketers and ad agencies, brands would be wise to turn their attention to a key target audience: moms.
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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.
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.
Before work can be done, authorities must inspect the river's piers to ensure that they can hold the temporary bridge and must remove the remainder of the collapsed structure out of the water.
Because water molecules can hold on to these malonic-acid handles, the result (known as a carboxyfullerene) is water-soluble.
Home Star legislation that would provide consumers with rebates for energy and water efficiency is on hold in the Senate, its future uncertain.
They are not tangible, they hold no water, and, yet, the best ones have the power to immediately elicit potent, visceral, human emotion.
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China's thirst for industry and irrigation has combined with climate change to drain the aquifers, some of which hold fossil water that has lain undisturbed for millennia.
"Adding compost to the soil dramatically increases its ability to hold water, aiding in water conservation, " he adds.
Those who saw it as a flash in the pan looked like fools when it took over the wired world, while those who saw it as a techno-utopia that would enlighten (and enrich) the world now hold stock options that are under water.
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.
As he reached out to hold the statuesque body, the lovely form dissolved in ripples of water.
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.
But in reading the five bullet points, many of them hold little to no water.
Also, if the U.S. and China economies manage to hold water in 2012, that could bode well for Brazil.
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