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  2. Rain gutter - Wikipedia

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    Lead guttering: slate and pitched valley gutter flow into parapet gutter, with downpipe and overflow Eaves gutter and downpipe Decorative lead hopper head dated 1662, Durham Castle A rain gutter , eavestrough, eaves-shoot or surface water collection channel is a component of a water discharge system for a building. [ 1 ]

  3. Hindustani vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Hindustani, also known as Hindi-Urdu, like all Indo-Aryan languages, has a core base of Sanskrit-derived vocabulary, which it gained through Prakrit. [1] As such the standardized registers of the Hindustani language (Hindi-Urdu) share a common vocabulary, especially on the colloquial level. [2]

  4. Megh Malhar - Wikipedia

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    The name derives from the Sanskrit word Megh, meaning cloud. Legends say that this raga has the power to bring out rains in the area where it is sung. Megh Malhar is similar to raga Megh with a tint of Malhar in it. According to Indian classical vocalist Pandit Jasraj, Megh Malhar is a seasonal raag and is sung as invitation to rains. [1]

  5. Drainage - Wikipedia

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    During the construction process, they set out all the necessary levels for roads, street gutters, drainage, culverts and sewers involved in construction operations. Civil engineers and construction managers work alongside architects and supervisors, planners, quantity surveyors, and the general workforce, as well as subcontractors.

  6. Rainwater harvesting - Wikipedia

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    configuration of domestic rainwater harvesting system in Uganda. [1]Rainwater harvesting (RWH) is the collection and storage of rain, rather than allowing it to run off.. Rainwater is collected from a roof-like surface and redirected to a tank, cistern, deep pit (well, shaft, or borehole), aquifer, or a reservoir with percolation, so that it seeps down and restores the ground w

  7. Box gutter - Wikipedia

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    A box gutter, internal gutter, parallel gutter, or trough gutter is a rain gutter on a roof usually rectangular in shape; it may be lined with EPDM rubber, metal, asphalt, or roofing felt, and may be concealed behind a parapet or the eaves, or in a roof valley. [1] [2]

  8. Gutter - Wikipedia

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    Gutter, in typography, the space between columns of printed text Gutter, in bookbinding , page edges joined to the spine Gutter (philately) , the space between panes of postage stamps that creates configurations of "gutter pairs" or "gutter blocks"

  9. Nullah - Wikipedia

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    In East Asia, a nullah (Chinese: 明渠; pinyin: míngqú; Wade–Giles: ming 2-chʻü 2; Jyutping: ming 4 keoi 4; lit. 'open ditch') refers to an open, usually concrete-lined flood control channel designed to allow rapid drainage of stormwater or a sewerage channel for industrial wastewater from high ground, to prevent flooding or stagnation in urbanised coastal areas, [4] and basically is an ...