The IP65 certification provides improved water and dust resistance, enabling field workers to maintain their productivity in challenging scenarios, such as sand storms and heavy rain.

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Every grain of sand washed away by rain from mountains and from the land finally reaches these obstacles called dams which we built across rivers and remains there, diminishing further the water storage capacity of dams.

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While their female counterparts had to fight for their gold medal Thursday in wet sand and smog-stained rain, the U.S. men's beach volleyball team had sunny weather.

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It meets the highest standards of resistance to dust, sand, shock, vibrations, low pressure, high and low temperature, rain and long-term moisture.

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Back home now in the beautiful village of Childrey, part of the Lambourn "valley of the racehorse", Fitzgerald bemoans heavy summer rain which last July led to his home being flooded - the sand bags are out again.

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Other sound but basic advice is for people to use sand to fill pools where mosquitoes might breed, to empty and bury any containers that might fill with rain, and to store water for drinking, cooking and washing in covered containers.

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