For the best results, carrots should be grown in sandy soil that does not hold water for a long time.

VOA: special.2009.02.24

The rain harvesting systems mean that a family member no longer has to walk long distances to get water.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

Scientists have long believed that Earth's satellite lacks the ability to hold water near its surface because it has no atmosphere.

VOA: special.2009.09.30

The students were then asked to hold their hand in cold water for as long as they could.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

The systems are especially useful for those who are too sick to go a long way for water.

VOA: special.2009.07.27

When the flowers came, Paul put them in water and then he took a long,hot bath.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

This allows the water to stay warm for a long time.

VOA: special.2009.04.20

I had to walk a long way for the water.

VOA: special.2010.08.01

Lake Champlain is a long, narrow body of water.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

Osman says long-term residents like her were already struggling to find enough food and water for thousands of recent arrivals from Mogadishu.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

There are few neighbors and the distances to the water well,to the clinic, to the school are long.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

This 17-year-old boy says he spends long days carrying water back to his family's home.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

Water in the Okefenokee is dark, like tea that has steeped a long time.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

In a neighborhood in northern Port-au-Prince the line for clean water was long.

VOA: standard.2010.01.26

"Basically,it's an underwater balloon. You've got two parts to it: You've got the balloon here - which is this long cylindrical object - and that's filled with a lighter-than-water substance, which is aviation gasoline."

VOA: standard.2010.06.21

Galmudug regional government Minister of Planning Omar Mohamud warns that not implementing a long-term solution to the water problem will fuel the vicious cycle of droughts, hunger,and violence and keep the Somali people in the iron grip of poverty.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06