Sentences with phrase «brown river water»

Where the Barron river flows into the sea, brown river water mixes with the blue seawater.

In the north, train lines had been submerged and whole villages swamped by brown river water.

Not exact matches

While every drop of urban citizens» water is measured and most residential lawns are nearly grassless and brown, farmers — including non-U.S. farmers — can essentially divert river water or other natural water sources as much as they like to grow their crops, even if these crops are then exported to feed foreign cows.

«I remember watching this little old brown guy watering down the infield with this huge hose,» says actor Pat Morita, 68, who was interned with his family at Gila River and grew up to star in The Karate Kid, among other movies.

Where the river emptied into the sea, a wide fan of debris turned the waters brown.

When the motor - launch deposited me in the cacophony of the quayside, engine churning mats of water hyacinth as it turned to head back across the brown expanse of oily water that was the River Zaire, I was hit by the sensation that so unnerves first - time visitors to Africa.

First, the brown, churning water - the circle of our river around us; inside that, the quilt squares of our fields, which were turned dirt, newly planted seeds, the bright green carpet of a field just beginning to come to life, fences mended or falling down into the soft new grass, humped haystacks, our cattle herd, our sheep herd, our goats, bare birch trees pointing straight into the heavens; and in the center, in the heart, our cobbled and dirt streets, our red - tiled and gray - shingled roofs radiating out from the town square with its statue of a long - dead war hero in the middle.

Although the dog's exact place of origin is in dispute, it is widely believed to have first appeared along the Wolf and Fox River valleys of Wisconsin, and was originally known as the Brown Water Spaniel or the American Brown Water Spaniel.

The American landscape is a catalogue of noxious weeds and invasive pests that have disrupted native ecosystems: Japanese kudzu in the South, African tamarisk in the Southwest, Amazonian water hyacinth and Burmese pythons spreading through the Everglades, Russian zebra mussels choking the Great Lakes, Asian carp invading the Mississippi River system, and European brown rats everywhere.

When I say river, I am not referring to a brown ugly body of water, the Noosa River is pristine with crystal clear calm warm water, and sandy banks just perfect for little river, I am not referring to a brown ugly body of water, the Noosa River is pristine with crystal clear calm warm water, and sandy banks just perfect for little River is pristine with crystal clear calm warm water, and sandy banks just perfect for little ones.

The Otago and Southland tributaries are full big fish in small water; and the classic backcountry rivers of the Southern Alps where trophy rainbows and browns sway in pools as clear as mountain air.

The river next to the villa has greenish - brown water.

«While staying clear of most set historical tableau scenes, Lawrence has managed to bring fresh drama to those he found irresistible, e.g., Washington crossing the Delaware River, which he shows as a series of crowded boats in muted greens and browns, covered and muffled against the bright blue water to capture the quality of «violence, but a quiet feeling as well.»»

It has filled the river to bursting, brown waters bearing a cargo of soil rich with its signature smell of alder, cedar and basalt.

But the future of this remarkable place, known as The Meeting of Waters (or Encontro das à guas) is being called into question by a new industrial port which threatens to pollute the rivers and disrupt wildlife — prompting environmentalists to rise in its defense.The Meeting of Waters marks the spot where the brown, murky waters of the Solimões mixes with the dark torrent of the Rio Negro near the northern capital of Manuas, converging to form the Amazon river proper.

Newsom has supported Brown's proposal to move water during dry times from Northern California to Southern California through a $ 16 billion tunnel project in the Sacramento - San Joaquin River Delta.

By any measure, the current California drought is severe, to the degree that Governor Brown made an emergency drought declaration almost a year ago, state and federal water agencies have been forced to greatly cut back deliveries of water to cities and farms from dangerously depleted rivers and reservoirs, and local utilities are asking customers for a mix of voluntary and sometimes mandatory water - use reductions.

Brown says, «This means putting together an earth restoration budget — one to reforest the earth, restore fisheries, eliminate overgrazing, protect biological diversity, and raise water productivity to the point where we can stabilize water tables and restore the flow of rivers.