drainage
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Its carefully planned streets and advanced brick drainage systems indicate that resources were directed toward shared infrastructure rather than monuments celebrating rulers or religious elites.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026
The team focused on the Iberian Pyrite Belt in southwest Spain, a copper-mining region with 82 active or historic mines that generate more acid mine drainage than anywhere else in the world.
From Barron's ● Jul. 22, 2026
In 2022, the company installed a drainage pipe on the bay which it said it hoped at the time could "really make a difference".
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
The human urge to build right to the shoreline — whether it’s the coastal highway or a bluff-top home — also affects erosion by altering water drainage and adding weight to the cliff.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Min was stirring the clay in the drainage bed.
From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park
"During these drainages, extensive triangular fracture fields with cracks in the ice formed from 2019 onwards, which are shaped differently from all lake drainages I have seen so far," Humbert said.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 5, 2026
Ghuge, the manager at Ola's Thane workshop, said reported service issues included battery drainages, software glitches and damaged wires.
From Reuters ● Nov. 28, 2023
It cites environmental concerns associated with the construction, claiming Arizona has "cut down and removed scores of trees, clogged drainages, and degraded the habitat of species listed under the Endangered Species Act".
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2022
Biologists develop the Bristol Bay forecasts by analyzing a wide range of information, including how many fish of different ages returned from the Bering Sea this past year to different drainages.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 4, 2022
About a quarter of the area is protected by irrigation from wells, the Agra Canal, and embankments or "bands," which catch and hold up the hill drainages.
From The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Sir James McCrone Douie
