Sentences with phrase «as lakes and rivers»

These molecules likely had a chance to accumulate in shallow waters such as lakes and rivers.

At that time, it was a region of active volcanoes, as well as lakes and rivers.

Not exact matches

Such withdrawals aren't subject to review by the compact's governing bodies, the Great Lakes St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Council and the Great Lakes St. Lawrence River Water Resources Regional Body, as long as the withdrawal consumes less than 5 million gallons daily.

Most players in the gutter cleaning line of business usually offer related services such as providing cleaning services for spas, hot tubs, whirlpools, saunas, gutters and rivers and lakes et al..

What I do get it the beauty of the vision you have had as you describe here and in your video of the waterfall with the metaphors of the river water fall and lake for Father Son and Spirit and the peace that has accompanied that surpassing understanding.

Pagans who worshipped Odin, believed in Isis and Mithra, believing that natural guilt and corruption of their new - born children could be washed away by sprinkling them with water, or by plunging them, as soon as born, into lakes or rivers.

It is furthermore a contention that these Seas of Nothingness became as rivers, lakes and creeks within or inside all concentrated organizations of said atomic matter.»

They can unite in measures that prevent ecological degradation — such as deforestation, pollution of lakes and rivers, and so on.

This water was in addition to the 722 GL of Commonwealth environmental water delivered to maintain barrage flow to the Lower Lakes to 31 December 2015 as part of the River Murray Valley Flows and including return flows from watering events in Victorian tributaries.

High rainfall conditions and inflows to the Menindee Lakes during winter - spring 2016 provided the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder with an opportunity to deliver environmental water to support native fish populations in the Lower Darling as well as the longer - term health of the river system.

In addition to improving flow variability within the river channel, the proposed weir pool manipulation events will provide inundation for fringing wetlands and lakes, as well as flows through important flowing habitat for fish such as in Potterwalkagee Creek (Mulcra Island) and Lindsay River and Mullaroo Creek, (where regulating structures constructed under The Living Murray program were commissioned this yriver channel, the proposed weir pool manipulation events will provide inundation for fringing wetlands and lakes, as well as flows through important flowing habitat for fish such as in Potterwalkagee Creek (Mulcra Island) and Lindsay River and Mullaroo Creek, (where regulating structures constructed under The Living Murray program were commissioned this yRiver and Mullaroo Creek, (where regulating structures constructed under The Living Murray program were commissioned this year).

The minister, Mr Burke said the river system constraints such as the Barmah Choke, Menindee Lakes and certain narrow channels had been well - explained in the consultation documents.

The Search and Rescue Squad originally started out as a «Dive and Recovery Unit» recovering lost property and persons from the rivers, lakes and water ways in the region.

Fresh and cured fish from its coastline on the Baltic is a common staple as is fresh water fish from the 1200 rivers and 6000 lakes in Latvia.

In fact, the more sedate, noncompetition model can be wheeled right into lake or river and used as a fishing boat.

As part of the Spring Big Sweep, local soil and water conservation districts sponsor numerous clean - up days at creeks, lakes, streams and wetlands that flow into area rivers.

Nearby Lake County offers unparalleled opportunities for fishing and boating as well as river tubing in Alexander Springs.

For rural and remote living children, lakes and rivers serve as transportation routes as well as sources of recreation.

[241] The attractions and major tourist destinations of Ghana include a warm, tropical climate year - round; diverse wildlife; exotic waterfalls such as Kintampo Waterfalls and the largest waterfall in west Africa, Wli Waterfalls; Ghana's coastal palm - lined sandy beaches; caves; mountains, rivers; meteorite impact crater and reservoirs and lakes such as Lake Bosumtwi or Bosumtwi meteorite crater and the largest man - made lake in the world by surface area, Lake Volta; dozens of castles and forts; UNESCO World Heritage Sites; nature reserves and national paLake Bosumtwi or Bosumtwi meteorite crater and the largest man - made lake in the world by surface area, Lake Volta; dozens of castles and forts; UNESCO World Heritage Sites; nature reserves and national palake in the world by surface area, Lake Volta; dozens of castles and forts; UNESCO World Heritage Sites; nature reserves and national paLake Volta; dozens of castles and forts; UNESCO World Heritage Sites; nature reserves and national parks.

Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence River and the North Country deserve the same consideration as the New York City area.

His comments remain powerful today as a plan to restore healthy wetlands along the shores of Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River awaits the approval of the U.S. and Canadian governments.

By Darryl Enriquez A developer's interest in selling land for a walkway connecting lakes Mendota and Monona along the east bank of the Yahara River in Madison leaves Karolyn Bebee as the lone holdout.

An inventor and sportsman as well, he constructed his own private airport on a portion of the land now underwater beneath Lake Tappan, and constructed Rockland County's first private golf course on another section, along Blue Hill Road and the Hackensack River.

There will be a new generation of equipment to control the flow between treatment facilities, pumping stations and tanks; there is a system to alert customers and large institutions, such as hospitals, to interruptions in service; old pipes are replaced more rapidly to limit leaks; and officials are working toward a system to move water from north to south, so the Southtowns can rely on the Van De Water treatment plant on the Niagara River should the Sturgeon Point plant on Lake Erie fail or lose its links to customers, like when a 42 - inch main failed last summer.

Higgins is also urging the US Department of Energy to conduct a full Environmental Impact study as a spill of any portion of the 6,000 gallons of liquid radioactive waste could pose threats to the Niagara River and the Great Lakes.

With the current state of emergency in the region, and as water levels continue to rise throughout the Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River system, the Governor is directing State Parks to institute the expanded speed restriction.

Workshop Goal: Provide Lake Erie / Niagara River region municipal leaders with training on severe weather and climate change impacts as well as some of the tools, resources, and programs that can be used to identify and address vulnerabilities and increase community resiliency to those impacts.

The broad objectives of the council include developing sustainable solutions to farmers - herdsmen clashes, climate change, desertification and their impact on farmlands and grazing areas as well as lakes, rivers and other water bodies.

OK, we don't have the Pacific Ocean, but the lake and the river could be just as magnificent.

From Louisiana and Missouri through the American heartland and all the way north to Minnesota, Asian carp are invading freshwater lakes and rivers, disrupting ecosystems as they go.

Oxbow lakes form as a river meanders and twists across its floodplain; sometimes, a large loop becomes cut off from the main channel, forming an isolated lake.

The Barska Marine is nitrogen - purged to prevent fogging, making it perfect for humid and moist environments such as oceans, lakes, and rivers.

Depth may not be as much of an issue for you if you tend to fish in shallow waters, but if you fish in the ocean or deep lakes and rivers, having a maximum depth of 100 meters or more can be crucial to finding your next big catch.

A shrimp from America has been invading Europe's rivers and lakes for several decades, but something seems to be preventing this colonist from becoming numerous and problematic, like so many other invaders — such as the Californian grey squirrel and American crayfish.

Looking at this area as a whole, the nonreflecting dark spots were reminiscent of the rivers, lakes and tributaries on Earth.

Near Lake Meade on the Colorado River just outside Las Vegas, I stood one hundred yards away from a watering hole at midday and saw twenty bighorn sheep, several with large curling horns, as they came to take a drink.

About 13 percent of U.S. rivers, 18 percent of lakes and 32 percent of estuaries are classified as impaired by stormwater, which means they are rendered unsafe for swimming or fishing.

Topsoil and natural vegetation would ordinarily filter many of these pollutants out, but the impermeable pavement that covers much of the surface where these pollutants originate carries it right into storm drains and into streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean where it can poison marine life — which we might eat — as well as entire riparian or coastal ecosystems.

«Our report stresses the importance of thinking of Spirit Lake and the Toutle River as a system,» said committee chair Gregory Baecher, Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park.

This is a problem for many species as Norwegian rivers and lakes are already low on calcium.

Malaska works as a volunteer for the Cassini team in his spare time and at the conference he described a winding channel flowing into a south Titan lake that follows a path very similar to a stretch of the lower Mississippi river — and thus might carry a comparably vast flow after a methane rain.

Nutrients, such as phosphorus and nitrogen are essential to crop and animal growth, but too many nutrients cause algal blooms in rivers and lakes.

This is the case of diatoms, algae consisting of a single cell surrounded by a silica skeleton, recommended by the European Union and Switzerland as one of the ideal bioindicators for rivers and lakes.

Environmentalists began to demand phosphate - free detergents in the mid-1980s as evidence mounted that phosphorus was causing problems in Europe's lakes and rivers.

And with sand mining comes disruption and loss of habitat in sand sources such as quarries, rivers, lakes and oceaAnd with sand mining comes disruption and loss of habitat in sand sources such as quarries, rivers, lakes and oceaand loss of habitat in sand sources such as quarries, rivers, lakes and oceaand oceans.

Using supercomputers, the researchers found that this dense piece of ocean floor material (called a lithospheric slab) is slowly sinking into the Earth's mantle and is responsible for the formation of the Lake Eyre Basin, one of the Earth's largest internally drained basins and home to the lowest point in Australia at 15m below sea level, as well as the Murray - Darling Basin, home to the largest river system in Australia.

It shows that while water in rivers and lakes would have disappeared as the climate changed due to variations in Earth's orbit, freshwater springs fed by groundwater could have stayed active for up to 1000 years without rainfall.

For ores that contain even less concentrated uranium — McArthur River is the most concentrated active mine — the proportion of waste in radium and other radioactive elements (as well as toxic heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury) is even higher — and McArthur River's uranium is much less concentrated than the mines of the past like nearby Rabbit Lake or Shinkolobwe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.

In the realm of research, academic hydrogeologists are broadening their time horizons to help forecast and mitigate the effects of climate change, and they're stretching the traditional boundaries of their field to explore questions such as how groundwater interacts with the surface water of lakes and rivers.

Head to your local science center and check out NASA's new short film showcasing the frozen portions of the earth known as the cryosphere, which includes not only glaciers and permafrost but also frozen lakes and rivers and areas with seasonal snowfall.