Sentences with phrase «river water from»

Many of Peru's farmers irrigate their wheat and potatoes with the river water from these disappearing glaciers.
It is important to remember, however, that the uncoupling of river water from its tDOM component during the winter freeze - thaw cycle38 hampers the use of this approach to assess year - to - year changes in freshwater runoff storage.
Submerged pumps draw river water from a screened intake, utilized primarily for adult holding and bulk pink salmon incubation.
If Dr. Edwards had not been able and willing to do this, people in Flint might very well still be getting unsafe Flint River water from their taps.
The plant would pump millions of gallons a day of Hudson River water from Haverstraw Bay, treat it, and then sell the drinking water to Rockland County residents.
Despite this lack of critical data, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has classified Hudson River waters from north of the Bronx Borough line all the way to the northern end of Columbia County as acceptable for swimming.

Not exact matches

You couldn't swim in the rivers, because they contained dust and run off from radiation - infused water.
The Water Corporation is set to purchase the entire renewable energy output from Verve Energy's Mumbida Wind Farm and Greenough River Solar Farm to offset the energy requirements of its Southern Seawater Desalination Plant.
As it happens, EnCana itself has invested in a specialized $ 10 - million plant near its Peace River, B.C., operations that treats «sour» water from a saline aquifer for use in its shale drilling.
Later in the day, the two leaders planted a commemorative pine tree, using soil and water from mountains and rivers in their respective countries, according to a statement from South Korea's presidential Blue House.
The residents of the pretty houses set back from West Royalty's narrow streets may not live by one of Charlottetown's rivers, but they see no reason to bring the water to them: only 2.4 % have private pools.
Water from the old site's Richards Creek and the new site's Snoqualmie River was combined with Japanese sake.
The Great Man - Made River was a multi-billion-dollar scheme promoted by Gadhafi to divert water from underground aquifers to towns and cities.
While the battle over water rights is intensifying in California, farmers in Palo Verde have «first dibs» on water from the Colorado River.
The guard tower at an evacuated Texas State prison unit in Rosharon, Texas, is submerged by water from the flooded Brazos River in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, September 1, 2017.
A body was found by a fisherman in the Grand River on Saturday, 14 kilometres from where Kaden Young was swept into rushing waters in February.
Nearly two years ago, Flint city officials, under the guidance of a state - appointed emergency fiscal manager, switched their city's water supply from Lake Huron to the nearby polluted Flint River.
«We received some drinking water on the 28th [of September] but it is already finished, and I can't let the children drink water from the river as they might get ill.
When the Army Corps of Engineers rejected a proposal from Energy Transfer Partners to drill under the Missouri River to build the Dakota Access pipeline, they did it because it would trample Tribal Rights, jeopardize critical water systems, and threaten the wellbeing of thousands of people across multiple states.
«We received some drinking water on the 28th [September] but it is already finished, and I can't let the children drink water from the river as they might get ill.
And the last book of the Bible prophetically pointed to the gradual depletion of religion, that is false religion, by its members at Revelation 16, which says: «And the sixth one (of seven angels) poured out his bowl (symbolizing God's anger) upon the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun.»
Likewise, when Namaan the Syrian emerges from the Jordan cleansed of his leprosy, we are supposed to understand that the river's healing waters really signify grace in general and the sacrament of baptism in particular.
And if, there being no water, because the camel will have drunk it all up, you thirst for wine from the river of wine that is flowing by, you will become intoxicated from drinking pure wine and collapse under the influence of the strong drink and fall asleep.
Depleting water tables and pumping water from faraway sources like the Colorado River has made development fast and easy.
But such things are not because of what Jesus has done, but are the lingering effects of the poison which was dumped into our river so long ago, and which will eventually be purged from the water once and for all.
The water from these two rivers redeems from barrenness land that would otherwise be desert, and creates a fertile valley from which one of the great civilizations of the ancient past emerged.
This weekend we will be sharing a really special moment with one of our friends from The Mission as he is baptized in the muddy waters of the Tennessee River.
Nepalese Hindu devotees prepare to fill water pots from the holy Bagmati River at the Pashupatinath Temple during the month - long Swasthani festival in Kathmandu on February 10, 2013.
Rev 22:1 - 2 — Then he showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month; and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Looking at the almost empty bowl of water from the Spring of Siloam in the court of the Temple and pointing first at it and then at himself, he said, «If you will but believe in me, out of your own heart will flow rivers of living water» (7:38, AP).
As water disappears from the sea, and a river becomes parched and dries up, so man lies down and does not rise.
Renuka assists the Rishi in his performance of the puja by fetching water from the river Ganga.
The Lamb is at the center of this startling political and economic transformation, and from the city flows a «river of the water of life.»
Vilcabamba's altitude is about 5,100 feet above sea level and its water supply comes from two sparkling rivers, the Uchima and the Chamba.
While any type of water can be used, it is preferable to use fresh water from a stream or river.
Babylonia was rich in its alluvial soil, the age - long deposit of the Euphrates and the Tigris, those two great rivers that year after year unceasingly carried their load of silt to a resting - place, first in the Persian Gulf, then in the swamps that were slowly forming, and at length in the plain which gradually emerged from the waters, though at inundation each year it once again was claimed by the floods that had made it.
Los Angeles became the country's second-most populous city because of brilliantly engineered water projects that transported rivers of water to parched Southern California from the north and east, while also transforming the Central Valley from a wasteland to the nation's bread basket.
The St. Jo River whirling full around the South Bend rich and dark as a negresse en chemise bedaubed with cochineal: mauve, purple tinting the water from the Odilon Redon sun setting.
If water did not decrease in density as the temperature approached freezing, the water in ponds and rivers would freeze from the bottom up instead of from the top down and lots of fish and other forms of life would perish in the winter.
Or, if you drink from me, rivers of living water will flow out of you.
Mitt Romney's first job after College was to work for Monsanto and help them improve their Corporate image after getting cuaght dumping known cancer causing PCB's into the rivers and water ways around the Great Lakes... So did the families that came down with cancer from drinking water contaminated by those dumped PCB's chemicals commite a sin against God... or did Monsanto commite the sin by dumping them?
As he entered the water, he saw across the river an Indian woman from a nearby village who had come for her evening bath.
One of the most remarkable parallels is the story concerning Sargon I, king of Assyria about 1200 years before Moses, who was said to have been set in a basket of rushes, its lid sealed with bitumen, and cast into the river, from which he was rescued by a «drawer of water
Boy with seven limbs: Are those signs to mankind from God to mean some thing or nature telling us that there is some thing wrong with the way we are living, the medication we take, the pollution and corruption to fresh clean air to breath, earth we feed from, pure clean drinking waters from (rain, rivers, springs, groundwaters), salt waters (seas and oceans).
Surely this suggests a point where the sea would be purified by the fresh water flowing in from the Jordan River — and this is just where Qumran is.
Guyana's name is derived from a term that means «the land of many waters,» due to the many rivers that crisscross the country, as well as its location on the Atlantic Ocean.
It is important to capitalise on good storage volumes and environmental water availability in wetter years in order to build ecological resilience — the ability of river, wetland and floodplain ecosystems to withstand and recover from the impact of future droughts.
7,852 ML of Commonwealth environmental water was delivered in the Lower Namoi River (From February to May 2017), to provide:
Between July 2012 and June 2013, over 1000 GL held by the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder (770 GL) and The Living Murray program (289 GL)-- including return flows from the Victorian rivers — is expected to have been delivered.
It's really a sight as the clear river water swirls around the top of the watermelon, just off the bank with some stragically placed rocks placed nearby to stop it from being taken downstream and picked off by someone in a cabin in the next county.
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