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rainwater

[reyn-waw-ter, -wot-er] / ˈreɪnˌwɔ tər, -ˌwɒt ər /


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He avoids bottled water due to microplastics and has set up an elaborate system to catch rainwater from the house roof.

From Slate • Mar. 30, 2026

Stroud Brewery is organic, so it does not use pesticides or herbicides, and uses harvested rainwater to flush its toilets.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

Almost two miles east, a block of businesses in the Fairfax District, along Melrose Avenue near Martel Avenue, reported rainwater rising from the flooded sidewalk and seeping into their storefronts.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

These included data from Arctic ice-cores and rainwater samples collected around the world.

From Science Daily • Feb. 6, 2026

They all depend upon clean, unpolluted water channeled from the rainwater running through that territory into the rivers and streams.

From "Camp Panda" by Catherine Thimmesh




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