Water features have a practical purpose as well: They mask unpleasant sounds like traffic or noisy neighbors.
"There should be a big peace garden here, with water features and benches, " said James, a British tourist.
In fact, bathrooms are breaking out of the mold so dramatically that one sometimes has to search for water features.
The variety of landscapes and water features, the alternation of the seemingly wild with the obviously cultivated, all call to mind Olmsted's Central Park.
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Joseph McStay owned Earth Inspired Products, a company that built custom water features for high-end commercial businesses around the world, says Mike McStay, his younger brother.
Mr. Montalba says about half of his clients request water features today, a stark rise from the handful of people who were interested 10 years ago.
In some homes, water features can be actually money-saving ventures.
Frank McKinney, a real-estate developer, says he regrets the number of water features he put into a 15, 000-square-foot spec house he built several years ago in Palm Beach County, Fla.
Sam Johnson, a landscape contractor in Atlanta, says that, because of the additional uses, he's now building about four times as many residential water features as he did five years ago.
Storage can be cunningly disguised as beautiful water features.
That's what Tommy Isola, a 35-year-old commercial real-estate broker in Las Vegas, discovered when he moved into an 8, 000-square-foot home with 26, 000 gallons of water features, including a large pool, waterfalls and a koi pond.
The decorative rice cakes at Jilsiru (Insadong St) are works of art, and turn down the nearby alley to sip quince tea in Yetchatjip, a hobbit-sized teashop echoing with water features, songbirds and gayageum (zither) music.
He said the project would create a new opening in the Piece Hall wall and two water features in the building's courtyard, a new planned heritage centre would help people understand the history and economic impact of the building.
Residents in Boston can cool off in parks with water spray features or in air-conditioned community centers across the city.
LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is program administered by the U.S. Green Building Council that awards points for buildings that incorporate various energy efficiency and water conservation features as well as providing such things as bike racks.
How mainstream water-resistant features become will likely depend on demand, said CNET's Reardon.
This information has been provided by Radarsat, a Canadian satellite capable of detecting detailed water and land features through thick clouds, fog and rain using synthetic-aperture radar equipment.
It is vital that the overarching goal of sustainable development explicitly features water as a key component in the decision making process and properly incorporate the risks and uncertainties involved.
Other companies trying to solve tech's liquid-incompatibility problem repeat the same mantra: Water-resistant features are there to help in case of accidents, not to make a phone safe for scuba diving.
On the downside, you do have to give up some of the more premium features like water-cooling or an upper-tier processor, but if you're looking to keep things well under the two grand mark, Computer Shopper says this one is about as good a bet as any.
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The lap pool has no lane lines painted at the bottom (Root wanted the area to look like fun and not work), and the water atrium, which features a warm whirlpool on the top level and a waterfall with a cool plunge pool beneath, was also his brainchild.
Scientists have previously established the existence of water on Mars in the form of ice at the poles and water vapor, and pointed to geological features that appear to have been carved by water ages ago.
If local gravity differences are not pulling water about to create these features, then other factors such as currents, winds and tides must be responsible.
Other features include a water park with five water slides including free fall slides, plus a three-story sports complex with nine-hole mini-golf, a basketball court and rock-climbing wall.
Because it's so hard in water and to maintain voice features, one of the other aspects of this is that when you dive down the pressure increases, the water pressure increases and actually changes these air filled cavities and you have that influence voice characteristics quite a lot.
The manual features the topics of water cycle, water resources and challenges, population growth impacts, climate change impacts, water conservation practices and practical exercises for 1st to 10th grade students.
Later observations by the Viking spacecraft suggested the geologic features were likely carved by water.
It also features Betsy, a local water buffalo, that only has a rope and a tree between herself and freedom.
The cost and availability of water has increasingly come into play as these features grow more popular.
Additionally, certain sections of the Walmart green roof will feature wildlife-attracting habitat features such as compost piles and water basins.
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