Sentences with phrase «damming up a river»

In terms of «motivating a seller», in the absence of some clear advice one might think of the many movies where homesteaders were intimidated out of their homes by a scoundrel damming up the river or burning down a barn!

Not exact matches

Fixated thoughts, past experiences (whether successes or failures) and rigid ideas act as boulders in this river, damming it up.

Thoreau's interest was especially attracted to the plight of the shad, which migrated each year up the river only to be met «by the Corporation with its dam»:

«We'll be going up the river that would be destroyed by the dam.»

Dams on the Mississippi river aren't swallowing the sandy sediment needed to build up the river's delta and protect nearby cities from flooding

«Our results suggest that sedimentation - driven methane emissions from dammed river hot spot sites can potentially increase global freshwater emissions by up to 7 percent,» said the report.

Here, by reconstructing a sequence of events along the Yellow River — including a landslide that created a dam from which water built up and burst forth — Wu Qinglong and colleagues provide geological evidence for a catastrophic flood event that may be the basis of the Great Flood.

From Palestinian village wells shut down by Israeli troops on the West Bank, to Turkey's damming of the headwaters of the Euphrates, which will wash a quarter of a million angry Kurds out of their homes and reduce the river's flow through Iraq by up to 80 per cent.

Heavy monsoon flows in the Narmada caused the river to back up behind the half - completed dam, which has become the centre of worldwide protests against large dams.

Two levels of terraces extending upstream indicated a wall of ice and mud had dammed the river, backing up a lake that filled the valley.

McMichael spent a lot of time fishing as a boy and grew up to become a world expert on Pacific salmon, leading many of the most thorough studies to date of fish survival through dams along the Snake and Columbia rivers.

A study found that the beaver is playing an increasing part in climate change because the dams they build for shelter create shallow, stagnant ponds of water which allow biological material to build up on the bottom of the river.

When the government of Ethiopia finishes building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2017 or 2018, it will not only have built the largest hydroelectric power - generation plant in Africa, but also stirred up tensions among African nations, and indelibly altered a river that itself has guided millennia of human history in the region.

In her latest film, «Night Moves,» a ragtag triumvirate of determined activists - cum - eco-terrorists, played by Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, and Peter Sarsgaard, decide to make a grand statement about over-consumption and the destruction of natural resources by blowing up a hydroelectric dam on the Oregon river near where they live.

That operation is to blow up a hydroelectric dam, one of several that's been erected on an Oregon river, and the intention is as much symbolic as anything: as Josh says, «People are going to start thinking.

There is no forest any more, and no more iguanas, and the mineral river that once flowed swiftly through the valley is now dammed up, its waters diverted to the city's reservoir.

If you are a seasoned hiker with an incurable longing to get back to nature, you can spend up to 20 days on trails that wind from Sabie to Graskop, from Graskop to the dam in the Blyde River Canyon, from Pilgrim's Rest to the dam — through incredible scenery rich in montane grassland and indigenous riverine forest.

You will see all the scenic highlights of the Ord River system by joining Triple J Tours at 1130 and navigating 55 kilometres upstream to the base of the Lake Argyle dam wall before turning around and soaking it all up again on the return journey!

This flight begins over Sydney Harbour, offering some fantastic photo opportunities of the Opera House, Harbour Bridge and the famous Sydney skyline before following the Parramatta River up to the Olympic Park and continuing west over the Warragamba Dam, the Megalong Valley and the Jamieson Valley.

The flight begins over Sydney Harbour, offering some fantastic photo opportunities of the Opera House, Harbour Bridge and the famous Sydney skyline before following the Parramatta River up to the Olympic Park and continuing west over the Warragamba Dam, the Megalong Valley and the Jamieson Valley.

The «Water» pictures include large - format color images that often read like artful abstractions at first glance: the dried - up Colorado River Delta in Baja, Mexico, with its lunar - like silvery gray surfaces; a great swirl of water at China's Xiaolangdi Dam on the Yellow River that brings the British painter J.M.W. Turner to mind; and an aerial picture of dry - farming land in Aragon, Spain, whose jutting organic forms suggest the shapes of Picasso or Jean Dubuffet.

As weather makes less predictable shifts, glaciers melt and droughts dry up rivers, how will dams be affected?

Damming of the river has resulted in the build - up of highly methanogenic sediments under a shallow water column, facilitating the transformation of fixed CO2 to atmospheric CH4.

Plus tear down silted up dams and let the rivers run free to the oceans.

In discussing growing threats to indigenous rights, both documents highlight the Brazilian government's plans to build a massive complex of up to 29 large dams along the Amazon's Tapajós River and its tributaries in the next 10 years.

He said that if you raised the dam (increased the «insulation») then you would raise the level of the river («pile up the heat»).

Hydroelectric dams will not come up on five Chilean rivers, at least for now.

Now we have «Hay Duke» Kitzhaber D - Retread runnning for Oregon Governor, who wants to kill that flood control on the Snake, by blowing up the Snake River Dams.

Where do you think the energy that lifts water from the ocean through evaporation and deposits it up on land where it descends in rivers through power dams generating electricity comes from?

However, in February 2011, Chinese officials revealed plans to resume the Nu River dams as part of China's 12th Five - Year Plan, which aims to add up to 140 GW of new hydropower capacity to meet its renewable energy targets.

Prior to the lake filling up when the dam was completed 60 years ago what's now the lake bottom was mostly Mountain Juniper and Oak trees with a some a bit of cleared area nearer the original river and stream channels used for small farms.

1) Negatively: Clouds and cloud formation, mostly 2) Positively: Shallow waters caused naturally or by human activities such as putting up dams in rivers and making shallow pools & reservoirs for irrigation and water consumption.

The city of Houston this week has alerted the San Jacinto River Authority that it may have to take an emergency step that has not been done for two decades - order Lake Conroe to release up to 150 million gallons of water a day from its dam.

Solidarity with Treaty 8 members and allies who have set up a protest camp at Rocky Mountain Fort on the Peace River to oppose the Site C dam.

Essex Junction grew up as a mill town along falls created by the construction of a dam on Winooski River.

Head up to the dam near the middle northern part of the map and face the dam from the river.