Assertion: levee | /r/CapableOf | push water
Facets:
value: into nearby towns
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Unlike a levee, which could push water into nearby towns, a reservoir would act as a valve, releasing water from the dam during droughts and storing extra water during floods.
text: This is a basic matter of physics and something the Corps has known since at least 1852, when a report it commissioned demonstrated that as levees confine a river to a narrower channel, they force water to flow higher and faster.