Sentences with phrase «additional water runoff»

We haven't built the capability to divert some of this additional water runoff into our depleting groundwater aquifers (underwater storage of water), so most of it goes into the ocean or evaporates.

Not exact matches

Which leads me to another question — the melting glacial / Greenland / Antarctic ice water is depleted in CO2 (check out the bubbles in your ice cubes)-- how much additional CO2 is being sequestered by this runoff into the oceans, and what happens to CO2 increase when we run out of glaciers?
We define «additional runoff due to thinning» as the portion of precipitation that appears as surface water at the sub-watershed outlet and that is directly attributable to mechanical thinning treatments.
Now that additional runoff is causing water in areas that had never seen water before.»
A thickening active layer will result in additional water storage capacity in the soil and thawing of ground ice will not necessarily make water available for runoff.
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z