Both types of rock are water-permeable, resulting in numerous springs.

Ice will form in water-permeable rock in much the same way as it forms in soil.

This changes the casings from being water-permeable to being reasonably airtight.

The tablet has a rigid water-permeable jacket with one or more laser drilled small holes.

Rivers have been restored to healthy levels and, more importantly, this rain is at last reaching the water-permeable rocks deep underground.

To foil new invaders, mulch all the exposed soil with thick planter's paper or water-permeable fabric.

This process is analogous to the osmotic pressure across a water-permeable membrane with pure water on one side and an electrolyte on the other.

Water-permeable pathways lead from the building to JCC's College Park.

Blueprints of the Kent trail renovations show the path paved with bituminous concrete, which is water-permeable and looks like asphalt.

Because of the transition from water-permeable to impermeable rock layers several spring horizons have emerged, explaining the richness of the springs.

In the nephron, osmotic diuretics act at the portions of the nephron that are water-permeable.

The egg, containing the genetic material that would become Marrina, became water-permeable; this permeability was responsible for her adaptations to aquatic environments.

Oreum is mostly composed of water-permeable basalt, so it is unusual to have a lake on top of Oreum.

However, the limestone deposited in a little water-permeable layer nor Lower Keuper, which prevents a rapid infiltration of precipitation in the limestone.

If Cholok was right, Vargovic's people might find a way to make it water-permeable; opening the fullerene weave sufficiently so that the spheres' buoyant properties would be destroyed.

For such conditions, Mr. Eosso said, it is often necessary to excavate down eight inches and then install a water-permeable "road fabric" before backfilling with four inches of gravel.

The reaction is identified by severe itching around small red papules 1mm to 1.5cm in size located on areas of skin that were covered by water-permeable clothing or hair during ocean swimming.