Sentences with phrase «control water runoff»
They also supply essential services — for example, they filter water, control water runoff, protect soil, regulate climate, cycle and store nutrients, and provide habitat for countless animal species and space for recreation.
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Green roofs keep buildings cool, control water runoff and can be really nice to look at, in those rare situations where there is office space overlooking terraces, like there were at ESRI Canada's Toronto offices.
In addition, farmers can add organic matter to soil and control water runoff, improving water retention and soil fertility.
Our contacts at the Missouri Botanical Garden says a key to maximizing your property's sustainability is conserving water and controlling water runoff.
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«Using rain barrels is an excellent strategy for homeowners to conserve water and control runoff.»
The city has committed $ 1.5 billion to erecting green infrastructure — green roofs, street and sidewalk plantings, porous pavements, cisterns, rain barrels — that will control and absorb storm water and prevent polluted runoff from flowing into waterways by capturing it and filtering it naturally through the soil.
The setup is part of an experiment aimed at testing an unusual water pollution control scheme that uses gypsum, a waste product from coal - fired power plants, to reduce nutrient runoff from farms.
They protect the soil from wind and from water runoff, helping to control erosion.
ref A key strategy to address ocean acidification is reinforcing existing environmental laws (e.g., U.S. Clean Water Act) to: limit runoff and associated pollutants, control coastal erosion, and enforce emission limits for pollutants such as nitrogen oxide and sulfur oxide.
As his office announced plans Tuesday of the beach tour, Assemblyman John McKeon (D - Essex) criticized Christie for his veto of legislation to control pollution flowing into Barnegat Bay via storm water runoff and for his pulling the state out of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
The revised model represented statistical relationships between annual runoff and winter precipitation, forest basal area reductions and time since treatment, but these relationships were not necessarily related to physical processes or functions that control water balance [20].
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Ice - sheet volume is controlled by the balance between mass input and mass loss; mass input is almost entirely due to snowfall, and mass loss is from iceberg calving supplied by flow of the ice sheet, or runoff of melt water.