What is "bunds"

Usage examples of "bunds".

The custard apples, check dams, contour bunds, and percolation tanks are all elements in reversing that process.

Naidu explained how he had supervised the construction of contour bunds and check dams, which channeled water from the seasonal monsoon rains into a football-field-sized percolation tank: a ditchlike building foundation that took a year to fill up.

Meanwhile, the flood catchment area formed by the long contour bunds was converted into a vast and productive rice paddy.

Naidu and I climbed atop one of the contour bunds to survey the rich, green panorama of cultivation.

The environmentalists worried about defacement of the landscape, the amplified ugliness of cities surrounded by bunds taller than twelve-story buildings.

Transportation experts wondered how they could preserve the flow of traffic in and out of cities without building highways on roadbeds as high as the bunds, far into interior America.

The vacation houses at Cocoa Beach were little boxes with front porches or "verandas" nailed onto them and a 1952 De Soto coupe with Venetian bunds in the rear window rusting in the salt air out back by the septic tank.