This liquid line is called the wash line, and maintaining a proper wash line is essential to good bartending.

Japanese usually wash outside the tub and then soak in hot water, which is then reused by the next family member. That means the water must be reheated each time if the next person in line dawdles.

Some two weeks after the initial accident, oil has begun to wash up on the frail marshes and rich oyster beds that line Louisiana’s shores.