To understand the hidden costs of corn - based ethanol requires factoring in «the huge, monstrous costs of cleaning up polluted water in the Mississippi
River drainage basin and also trying to remedy the negative effects of poisoning the Gulf of Mexico,» says Tad Patzek of the University of California's Civil and Environmental Engineering department.
Not exact matches
The Columbia
Basin is the
drainage basin of the Columbia
River and covers about 260,000 square miles of the Pacific Northwest.
Fully differentiated lesson following the AQA Geography GCSE specification on
drainage basins and a
rivers long profile.
1 - Introduction 2 - Hydrological cycle 3 -
Drainage basin 4 - Long profile of
river 5 - Upper, middle and lower course 6 - V shaped valleys 7 - Waterfalls 8 - Meanders and ox bow lakes 9 - Mid test 10 - Flooding 11 - Boscastle mystery 12 - Boscastle ICT 13 - Flooding in Bangladesh 14 - Rivers GIS 15 - Revision
Permafrost thawing and precipitation in
drainage basins of Arctic
rivers are projected to intensify with escalating atmospheric temperatures and thereby enhance the mobilization of soil organic matter to the Arctic Ocean32, 33, 34, 35, 36.
I was appointed Chair of the Assiniboine
River Management Advisory Board charged with developing a management strategy for an entire
drainage basin.
It is located on Sachigo Lake, which is part of the Sachigo
River system and Hudson Bay
drainage basin, approximately 425 kilometres (264 mi) north of the town of Sioux Lookout.
Build an ice cap on that; you get water and silt being extruded out of the
basins, even flowing «uphill» under that pressure; look at the radar maps, the ice may have pushed a lot of silt out to its edges over time, you can see the pattern of
river drainage channels in the radar imagery.
In addition, peak flows are reduced by reservoirs, sustainable urban
drainage systems (SUDS, e.g., Pasche et al. 2008), retarding
basins, infiltration
basins, and through targeted land management plans such as afforestation and
river renaturation (Reinhardt et al. 2011).
Complex patterns of locally generated runoff are transformed into horizontal transport as
rivers through the
drainage basin.
Melting snow is an important source of this water as well as all amounts of surface water that move to streams or
rivers through any given area of a
drainage basin.