D. B. Weiss

The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.

American Author

Norman Borlaug

In future irrigation schemes, water drainage and removal systems should be budgeted from the start of the project. Unfortunately, adding such costs to the original project often will result in a poor return on investment. Society then will have to decide how much it is willing to subsidize new irrigation development.

American Scientist

John Burnside

Worldwide, enormous areas of peatland are still being lost to agricultural development, drainage schemes, overgrazing, and exploitation-based infrastructure development projects such as roads, electricity pylons, telephone masts and gas pipelines.

Scottish Writer

John Breaux

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.

American Politician

Ron White

When I was a kid, mostly I played in a ditch that didn't have much water in it. It was for drainage purposes. There was not a lot trouble to get into in that ditch. It was ditch activities like catching crawdads and minnows.

American Comedian

David Schweikert

Look at the commercial and industrial development that is going on along the 101. A lot of the infrastructure - the sewer lines and drainage that make development possible - was put in during the freeway construction.

Paula Jean Swearengin

I was born in Mullens, West Virginia, and lived in a community called Iroquois in Appalachia. We faced heavy pollution. Our water came from the Sweeney Watershed, which meant we essentially drank acid mine drainage.

Sam Donaldson

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.

American Journalist

Seth Moulton

Sulfide-ore mining is one of the most toxic industries in America and has a long history of polluting waterways with acid drainage that contains arsenic, mercury, and lead.

Alan Brien

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

English Novelist

Drainage often relates to systems handling water flow in urban planning or construction.

Infrastructure Context

Discussions on drainage can involve environmental concerns with water management.

Environmental Impact

Drainage may come up when talking about weather and its effects on areas.

Weather Conditions

Drainage can metaphorically describe the reduction of resources or energy.

Metaphorical Use

It's also used to talk about financial losses or depletion of funds.

Financial Context

Used when discussing physical or mental energy being exhausted.

Energy Discussion

In medical contexts, drainage refers to fluid removal to aid healing.

Medical Procedure

Drainage in medical settings often requires specialized knowledge to understand.

Technical Vocabulary

It involves medical tools like tubes or drains designed for fluid removal.

Healthcare Equipment

 Moscow, and New York City, hundreds of drainage pumps are abandoned, flooding the tunnels in just three days. By the end of the first week, most emergency generators have shut down, and once the fires have gone out, the earth goes dark for the first time in centuries.

What would happen if...

 Caves form in karstic regions. So karstic regions are areas of the world where the infiltrating water along cracks, fractures, can easily dissolve soluble lithologies, forming a drainage system of tunnels, conduits -- a three-dimensional network, actually.

Deep Under the Earth's...

 and bad drainage and lack of electricity and rural poverty. We attacked the malarious way of life, and by doing that, we slowly built malaria out. Now attacking the malarious way of life, this is something -- these are things people care about today.

Sonia Shah: 3 reasons we...

 Rewilding, to me, means bringing back some of the missing plants and animals. It means taking down the fences, it means blocking the drainage ditches, it means preventing commercial fishing in some large areas of sea, but otherwise stepping back.

For more wonder, rewild...

 people store more carbon than any other terrestrial ecosystem on the planet so for that they are very important for the global climate regulation the peatland should not have trees on them the trees and the drainage ditches that have been

Here, Cutting Down...

 got a base to decide you know what elephants it's art in the drainage line because they are being extremely protective assuming it is build a beast but did you see this female right up front making sure the babies are behind

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 ecosystem which is pretty important isn't it it is totally rescuing the landscape you know in victorian times pretty much across the country headwaters like this were straightened up put into into deep ditches drainage

Wild Beavers Return...

 create good drainage from snow and rain a dry nest is essential if these birds are to have any success in raising young penguins are fiercely protective of their pile of stones

A Collection Of Summer...

 and constant floods a surface drainage system in fact could become a public park that was also giving pleasure to

Reintegrating cities...

 so maybe somewhere deep in this drainage yeah

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