When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Rainwater management - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainwater_management

    Rainwater harvesting (RWH) is the process of collecting and storing rainwater rather than letting it run off. Rainwater harvesting systems are increasingly becoming an integral part of the sustainable rainwater management "toolkit" [5] and are widely used in homes, home-scale projects, schools and hospitals for a variety of purposes including watering gardens, livestock, [6] irrigation, home ...

  3. Drainage law - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drainage_law

    In addition to whatever statutes or local ordinances may be in effect in a given locality, there are three basic legal doctrines which the various state courts recognize. [ 1 ] In the State of Michigan , drainage law is so important that most counties still elect a drain commissioner to regulate drainage of surface water.

  4. Diablo Grande water district wins cases over unpaid taxes ...

    www.aol.com/news/diablo-grande-water-district...

    The legal action will lead to sale of the affected parcels as the water district deals with financial struggles and the challenge of maintaining basic services for Diablo Grande households.

  5. Trickle-Down Taxation: Maryland Residents Facing 'Rain Tax' - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/on-maryland-rain-tax-stormwater...

    The Environmental Protection Agency decreed in 2010 that Maryland had to stop so much stormwater runoff from draining into the Bay, a project that would cost $14.8 billion. ... The only rain tax ...

  6. Stormwater fee - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormwater_fee

    Equivalence issues were raised concerning the imposition of sewage fees based on the usage of water supply. In 1985, in order to ensure the legal equity of charging based on the polluter pays principle, the German Federal Administrative Court and the local high court ruled that the sewage system charges should be separately collected as usage fees for rainwater exclusion and as usage fees for ...

  7. Libanomancy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libanomancy

    Burning incense gives off complex patterns of smoke. Libanomancy (also known as livanomancy and knissomancy) is a divination primarily through observing and interpreting burning incense smoke, but which may include the way incense ash falls as well. [1] Like most other methods of divination, during libanomancy a specific question must be asked.

  8. Diablo Grande’s new developer is defaulting on taxes ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/diablo-grande-developer...

    Diablo Grande originally was a 33,000-acre master plan with five villages and a convention center, but only one village was authorized for development and the project went into bankruptcy in 2008.

  9. Kōdō - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kōdō

    Mica plates (gin-yo 銀葉), where the incense wood is placed to stop it from burning if it were to be placed directly on the ash Incense holder board ( honkōban 本香盤), a small, wooden tablet with a flower-shaped mother-of-pearl fittings upon which the small incense pieces on mica plates are kept on top for display after use, normally 6 ...