Sentences with phrase «as headwaters»

The Kissimmee Chain of Lakes is regarded as the headwaters of the Kissimmee - Okeechobee - Everglades system.

Emas serves as the headwaters for several Brazilian rivers, including the Araguaia, which flows 1,632 miles before feeding into the Amazon.

Not exact matches

If built as planned, the Dakota Access Pipeline will snake through the headwaters of the Missouri River, a life - giving source of fresh water for millions of people who live downstream, including Native Americans.

All of these forms ultimately stem from the headwaters of scripture as their primary source, but they become bearers of a dialogue about scripture and thus must always be judged by their faithfulness to that primary source.

Management of non-point source pollution is of great importance in the context of coffee agriculture, as this land use often coincides with headwater streams that influence water quality at the basin scale.

The property's iconic tea court featuring rich wood paneling will serve as the setting for tea service at Headwaters.

A mountain stream is usually clean and clear without color at its headwaters, but soon starts to pick up colors and contaminants as it runs down through the landscape of our modern world.

South Africa is a heavily populated country reliant for most of its water on neighbours that control the headwaters of rivers such as the Orange and Cunene.

by Walter Chaw I watched Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water in a packed auditorium in Telluride, CO as a torrential rainstorm pounded the roof of what is, outside of the festival, an ice - skating rink, perched there with a park in front of it, the headwaters of the San Miguel to one side and the mountains to the other and all around.

As it gains elevation, it climbs over the crest of the Sierra and passes through Quincy and Portola, eventually finding its way to the Middle Fork of the Feather River and following it to its headwaters in Sierra Valley.

As part of the 2016 literary events to celebrate Beatrix Potter's 150th anniversary, specialist walking and cycling tour operator, Headwater, is delighted to introduce a BRAND NEW hand - crafted, 6 - night, self - guided walk which follows in the footsteps of the great literary legends and explores the very best of the South Lakes National Park.

From here it's a gentle walk as the path follows the raised metal wakway past yet another glacial lake, over the headwaters of the Snowy River and on to the Eagles Nest for a ride down the chairlift to Thredbo.

The mountains in the region form the headwaters of several major river systems — including the Ganges, Mekong, Yangtze, and Yellow rivers — which serve as sources of drinking water and irrigation supplies for roughly 1.5 billion people.

But not on the Sun itself, as such changes can not travel upstream in the solar wind, anymore than a log floating down a fast - flowing river can not alter the flow at the headwaters.

Glaciers provide about 13 km3 of water during the summer peak melt period as the Abramov and Fedchenko glacier are at the headwaters of the Vaksh River (Normatov and Petrov, 2006).

Munkhbayar and members from his organization United Movement of Mongolian Rivers and Lakes (UMMRL), together with 11 other NGOS, were protesting government attempts to weaken the «Law to prohibit mineral exploration and mining at headwaters of rivers, protected zones of water reservoirs and forested areas,» informally known as «the law with the long name» or LLN.

The maps below show hotspots of biodiversity based on a rarity - weighted index biological diversity produced by the Nature Conservancy, as well as the major river systems with headwaters in the Appalachian coalfields.

New Wild and Scenic rivers will include rivers on Oregon's Mount Hood (as pictured), the Snake River headwaters in Wyoming, and the Taunton River in Massachusetts.This is an important and meaningful milestone.

In addition, the EPA estimates that more than 40 % of Western watersheds have contamination in their headwaters as a result, and that the total clean up cost of mining sites in the West could be $ 32 billion or more.