Sentences with phrase «becoming seasonal rivers»

Local rivers fed by these glaciers are becoming seasonal rivers, generating conflict among the 2 million people who depend on them for water supplies during the dry season.

The Ganges would become a seasonal river, flowing only during the monsoon season.

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Since the Andes is the principal source of sediments to the Amazon river system, the consequences of this massive reduction will be dramatic: river channels will become deeper, reducing seasonal floods which are necessary to bring fluvial sediments and nutrients to floodplain environments and provide connectivity between environments for both migrant fish and people.

Over the past decade, Petersen, Neves, and their band of archaeologists had become local heroes, earning the appreciation of the surrounding community during seasonal digs conducted on the peninsula that separates the Rio Negro and Amazon rivers.

According to current projections, over 1 billion people will lose access to their only water supplies due to melting Himalayan glaciers, with many major rivers predicted to become seasonal flows.

Seasonal transport across once frozen land and rivers may become difficult or costly.

I wonder if the rate of sediment deposition will actually increase as glacial melting increases in the Himalayas, before slowing again as the major rivers of South Asia become fed more by rain alone than by seasonal glacial melting.