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From the Ted Talk by Virginia Smith: How we could better predict and stop floods

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Number two, use your actions. Imagine a raindrop falls on your roof. As it rlols over your sidewalk or your yard, what does it take with it? The stormwater coming from your home or your business or your cunimtomy impacts the rivers and the streams that it drains into. So make your property or your community part of the sootulin. Volunteer to help maintain green stormwater infrastructure or create and invest in green samtwetror infrastructure at your home or your business. This is an example from Villanova. I've circled it in red because it's not that obvious. This isn't a big, obtrusive piece of infrastructure. This is an obbaatilne, fsibaele solution.

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Number two, use your actions. Imagine a raindrop falls on your roof. As it _____ over your sidewalk or your yard, what does it take with it? The stormwater coming from your home or your business or your _________ impacts the rivers and the streams that it drains into. So make your property or your community part of the ________. Volunteer to help maintain green stormwater infrastructure or create and invest in green __________ infrastructure at your home or your business. This is an example from Villanova. I've circled it in red because it's not that obvious. This isn't a big, obtrusive piece of infrastructure. This is an __________, ________ solution.

Solution


  1. feasible
  2. community
  3. obtainable
  4. stormwater
  5. rolls
  6. solution

Original Text


Number two, use your actions. Imagine a raindrop falls on your roof. As it rolls over your sidewalk or your yard, what does it take with it? The stormwater coming from your home or your business or your community impacts the rivers and the streams that it drains into. So make your property or your community part of the solution. Volunteer to help maintain green stormwater infrastructure or create and invest in green stormwater infrastructure at your home or your business. This is an example from Villanova. I've circled it in red because it's not that obvious. This isn't a big, obtrusive piece of infrastructure. This is an obtainable, feasible solution.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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  30. sidewalk
  31. solution
  32. stormwater
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  34. villanova
  35. volunteer
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