water-engineering

Ellen seemed delighted with my pleasure at this, that, or the other piece of carefulness in dealing with the river: the nursing of pretty corners; the ingenuity in dealing with difficulties of water-engineering so that the most obviously useful works looked beautiful and natural also.

News from Nowhere 1892

Ellen seemed delighted with my pleasure at this, that, or the other piece of carefulness in dealing with the river: the nursing of pretty corners; the ingenuity in dealing with difficulties of water-engineering so that the most obviously useful works looked beautiful and natural also.

News From Nowhere, or, An Epoch of Rest [a machine-readable transcription] 1890

Ellen seemed delighted with my pleasure at this, that, or the other piece of carefulness in dealing with the river: the nursing of pretty corners; the ingenuity in dealing with difficulties of water-engineering, so that the most obviously useful works looked beautiful and natural also.

News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance William Morris 1865

The October sun was setting as the train flew along the margin of the "New River," as Sir Hugh Myddellen's celebrated piece of water-engineering is called.

The Lost Lady of Lone Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859

It diversified decades ago from beer-brewing boilers and valves into stainless-steel water-treatment systems, endowing the region with scores of water-engineering firms.

JSOnline.com 2010

Pentair Inc., the water-engineering company, will close its local plant this summer.

JSOnline.com 2009

Africa or elsewhere had the money to build massive water-engineering systems like California’s, the cost of pouring the concrete is just the beginning, as our tattered system shows.

Lori Pottinger: Dammed Crazy: What Do California's Water Woes Teach Us? 2009