Sentences with phrase «by floodwaters from»

Cut off by floodwaters from homes and family, hurricane evacuees needed communication almost as much as they needed food and water.

The dramatic display was the latest chapter of a chemical disaster, caused, in part, by floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey.

COLLEGE STATION — The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service and others are collaborating to offer another set of free water testing opportunities Feb. 14 - 15 for private well owners in areas affected by floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey.

Volunteers evacuate people and pets from a neighborhood inundated by floodwater from Tropical Storm Harvey on Aug. 28, 2017, in Houston.

Not exact matches

Floodwaters may also be contaminated with toxic waste washed from tailings left by gold and silver mining, says Linda Figueroa, a wastewater engineer at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden.

But because Jebel Barkal is a lone mountain, isolated from other buttes in the area and sometimes nearly engulfed by the Nile's floodwaters, the priests may also have seen it as the perfect metaphor for the primeval mound: the island where Amun pulled himself out of the waters of the Abyss and created the first gods by masturbating.

He reveals the most daunting water issues we face today, among them the threat of flooding in China's Yellow River, where rising silt levels will prevent dykes from containing floodwaters; the impoverishment of Pakistan's Sindh, a once - fertile farming valley now destroyed by the 14 million tons of salt that the much - depleted Indus deposits annually on the land but can not remove; the disappearing Colorado River, whose reservoirs were once the lifeblood of seven states but which could dry up as soon as 2007; and the poisoned springs of Palestine and the Jordan River, where Israeli control of the water supply has only fed conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

The goal: rescue all 21 available dogs and 31 cats from the shelter to make room for an anticipated flow of additional animals that would be displaced by the storm's floodwaters.

In Montong Ajan village, the agency recorded some 100 houses affected by floodwater, which came from mountainous forest areas on Sunday.

The best way to protect communities from floods is by restoring natural floodplains, which act as buffers between floodwaters and homes, and protecting wetlands, which act like sponges, soaking up and filtering floodwaters.

He noted how Bangladesh had seen its mortality rates from flooding drop sharply since the 1970's, mainly by adopting simple means of getting people to higher ground, some as basic as installing high platforms for people to climb above the floodwaters.