History Since humans began living in concentrated village or urban settings, stormwater runoff has been an issue.

Some of the early incorporation of stormwater engineering is evidenced in ancient Greece.

Water collected from the ground, sometimes from areas which are especially prepared for this purpose, is called stormwater harvesting.

Runoff votes will send more women than ever to Kazakhstan's parliament.

Michael Pritchard Okay. We've got some runoff from a sewage plant farm.

Under the regulations of the California Constitution, no runoff election was required.

The system collects the runoff from the washing process for appropriate disposal.

In other areas, rivers or seasonal surface runoff can be used for irrigation.

For example, over 85 of the annual runoff from the Colorado River basin originates as snowmelt.

There are still threats to the marshes primarily from agricultural runoff as well as drought attributed to climate change.

The voting will take place on May 23 and 24, with a runoff on June 16 and 17 if necessary.

If not all seats were filled on the first ballot, a runoff was held shortly afterwards for the remaining vacancies.

In the runoff between Boni and Houngbédji on 19 March 2006, Boni won with almost 75 percent of the vote.

The meltwater runoff in western Greenland was so strong that it swept away an important road bridge across the Watson River.

CLIRUN is a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet based integrated water balance model developed for climate change impact assessment of river basin runoff.

Moreover, regardless of who wins the presidential runoff, fears about Ukraine s independence will not, in contrast to 2004 2005, be an issue.

Following the 1st round of elections on Sunday November 20, only 23 seats were determined conclusively the rest went into a runoff vote.

If, however, the opposition parties resolve their differences and manage to stitch together a firm common platform, they could force Jonathan into a runoff.

Fecal coliform bacteria can enter rivers through direct discharge of waste from mammals and birds, from agricultural and storm runoff, and from human sewage.

This is patterned after the U.S. Senate but each constituency is of (roughly) same size and the system used is two round runoff voting.

On the land, phosphorus (chemical symbol, P) gradually becomes less available to plants over thousands of years, because it is slowly lost in runoff.

The MB must still decide for inclusiveness if it wants to attract the support of Aboul Fotouh and Sabahi voters in the runoff against Shafiq.

The MB must now try to persuade the 10.7 million voters who supported Aboul Fotoh and Sabbahi to back Morsi in the runoff against Shafiq.

Programs written in MAD included MAIL, RUNOFF, one of the first text processing systems, and several other utilities all under Compatible Time Sharing System(CTSS).

However, neither made it to the second round of the election (the final runoff) Moin came in fifth and Karroubi third in the first round.

The verdicts are likely to boost support in the runoff for Morsi, who split the Islamist vote with two other candidates in the election s first round.

Consider, for example, that, because GM crops require less chemical pesticide, fewer farmers and their families risk being poisoned by runoff into waterways and ground water.

The common saying in Tahrir is We ve got differences with Morsi, but we ve got blood with Ahmed Shafiq, Mubarak s last prime minister and Morsi s opponent in the runoff.

In addition, reefs such as those near Salt River Bay in St. Croix depend on mangroves and sea grass colonies along the coast for protection against runoff.61

Austria paid a price for its Haider interlude, and France did not exactly benefit from the runoff between President Jacques Chirac and Le Pen in the last Presidential election.

Bayrou has never had it so good, but, barring the unlikely collapse of one of the two leading candidates campaigns, he will fail to qualify for the second round runoff.

Do they, perhaps, include green infrastructure, so that we can take runoff and water that's going out of our houses and clean it and filter it and grow urban street trees?

No till farming techniques, in which the soil is not plowed, mean less soil erosion, less runoff of agricultural chemicals, and lower fuel consumption and carbon emissions by mechanized farm equipment.

Regardless of which of the remaining candidates will be elected in the upcoming runoff the incumbent Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko or Viktor Yanukovich the Orange Revolution will have come to an end.

In the 2002 presidential election, frustration with the system fueled strong support for the extremes, with Jean Marie Le Pen, the leader of the far right, qualifying for the second round runoff.

Moreover, regardless of who wins the presidential runoff, fears about Ukraine s independence will not, in contrast to 2004 2005, be an issue. This too, is a step forward that should not be underestimated.

As evident in this slide from Lake Nabugabo in Uganda, the agricultural runoff from this crop, which goes into these buckets, is the sole source of drinking, cooking and bathing water for this village.

And I also think that thinking about processed foods in a new way, where we actually price the negative externalities like petrochemicals and like fertilizer runoff into the price of a bag of chips.

The rise of former President Hosni Mubarak s last prime minister, General Ahmad Shafiq, who will enter the presidential runoff alongside the Muslim Brothers (MB) candidate Mohamed Morsi, has raised eyebrows across the political spectrum.

In addition to, I think, doing a beautiful adaptive reuse, they tore up some of the parking spaces, put in bioswales to collect and clean the runoff, put in a lot more sidewalks to connect to the neighborhoods.

Rodrigo Borja Cevallos of the Democratic Left (Izquierda Democrática, or ID) party won the presidency in 1988, running in the runoff election against Abdalá Bucaram (brother in law of Jaime Roldos and founder of the Ecuadorian Roldosist Party).

The Socialists anointment of Ségolène Royal s as their presidential candidate is an important step on the road to the Fifth Republic s eighth presidential election, which is set for April 22, 2007, with a second round runoff two weeks later.

But the United Nations climate panel s latest assessment tells us precisely the opposite for North America, there is medium confidence that there has been an overall slight tendency toward less dryness (wetting trend with more soil moisture and runoff).

The FMLN s presidential ticket, headed by current vice president Salvador Sánchez Cerén, is expected to attract the majority of the votes in comparison to the opposition, but not to garner more than the 50 needed to avoid a runoff election.

Transboundary pollution issues are among the top priority concerns in 20 of the subregions, the most prevalent sources of pollution are agricultural runoff and industrial and municipal discharges, while unsustainable use of freshwater and living resources also score high on the priority list.