2 sentences with 'rainwater'

Example sentences and phrases with the word rainwater and other words derived from it.

• « Mining waste (which was often toxic) was simply left in 'slag heaps', through which rainwater ran and from which toxic run-off reached water supplies. »

• « Over the millennia, rainwater washed many of the gemstones into the Smoke Gorge; others were buried in a volcanic vent about two kilometres deep and 200 metres wide on average, which is where the mine is today. »