Sentences with phrase «dependent on the water»

As a result, either we must abandon farmland in large areas of the west that are dependent on the waters of the Colorado or we must begin to plan for huge desalinization schemes which will be enormously expensive.
But the wearing of wetsuits in triathlon is governed by British Triathlon rules and is totally dependent on water temperature one hour before the start of the event.
When analyzing water, for instance, according to Conservation International, researchers studied the value of the crops dependent on water for irrigation, as well as the value of the energy water generates through hydroelectric dams, among other factors.
Contributing to the tension is drought and a growing population more dependent on a water source that may be diminishing.
Syria is over 70 per cent dependent on water originating outside of its borders — primarily through the Euphrates.
Our bodies are dependent on water and drinking enough H2O ensures we are able to transport nutrients, regulate body temperature and flush out toxins.
Incredible, but your body is mostly water and there are so many different biological functions which are dependent on water that it necessarily follows that water will certainly boost your health and well being.
Not only is your skin directly dependent on water to stay hydrated, but optimal water flow thru the body will flush out toxins and impurities, helping your skin stay clean and smooth.
Incredible as it may seem, but your body is mostly composed of water and there are so many different biological functions which are dependent on water that it necessarily follows that water will certainly boost your health and well being.
Water is the transpolitical meeting point of the emerging global citizenship of Earth - Homeland and you have in your hands the future of life, because they are dependent on water to continue their evolution.
Explore on forest walks and boating expeditions, which will be dependent on the water level.
Another thing is the water table of the region is dependent on the water table of the lake, and with this dam, the lake levels will drop.
In temperate climates strong seasonal waterborne infections like the norovirus, rotavirus, salmonella, campylobacter and — differing from the usual dogma — influenza are mainly triggered by drinking water, dependent on the water's temperature (in Germany it is at a minimum in February and March and at a maximum in August).
A single drain at the bottom is sufficient, as long as the outflow isn't turbulent (i.e. as long as the outflow is linearly dependent on water depth).
The claim that CO2 immediately increases plant growth and acts as a fertilizer is a highly oversimplified argument, since plant carbon uptake is dependent on water, temperature, and nitrogen suppy.
In tropical countries, growth rates are highly dependent on water availability (Lugo, Brown, and Chapman, 1988).
The marshes were recently recognized as Iraq's first national park, but their viability remains largely dependent on the waters that feed them.
The Rainwater Harvesting Project is based on the idea that the existence of the farm, like Venice itself, is dependent on water.
The glaciers, Asia's main watershed, feed ten rivers and are the source of water for 47 % of the world's population, and are dependent on water rising in the Tibetan plateau.
The Commission notes that the Bill expands the mandatory content of the Basin Plan to include arrangements for «critical human water needs» for those communities dependent on the waters of the River Murray System.

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The American Petroleum Institute, the principal lobbying group for the industry, said its members are working to become less dependent on fresh water, and instead draw on other sources.
The final volume of water recovered for the environment is dependent on the outcome of two work programs that may either increase or decrease the surface water sustainable diversion limits; one to remove river system constraints and the other to improve the efficiency of environmental water delivery.
The sauce ingredients have a lower specific heat capacity than water and accordingly will be heated faster dependent on thickness / viscosity.
Recent research suggests that a «one - size - fits - all» prescriptive advice to drinking is outdated because sweat water losses are dynamic and dependent on the intensity of exercise (higher metabolic rate, more sweating, more water loss); the ambient temperature (the hotter the conditions, the greater the amount of evaporative sweat production); and body size (bigger the mass, more evaporative sweat needed to cool the body).
You do lose hydration when you donate, and since your milk supply is dependent on your being well hydrated, you should drink water before and after donating blood.
For one, if you're dependent on bottled water, it might be time to switch that habit to something a little less destructive to the earth.
With our water and food supply running low, I just breastfed and breastfed my son... If our child had been dependent on milk formula, I would have taken part in looting, too....
Or ISIS could manipulate the water and electricity governed by the dam to exert control over cities and areas dependent on it, as Saddam Hussein did when in power.
Mr. Ayariga predicted good harvest due to the rainfall pattern but stressed that the rice project is not dependent on rainfall alone but water conservation.
With more than 100,000 Hudson Valley residents dependent on the Hudson River for drinking water, Riverkeeper has urged community leaders in Dutchess County, Poughkeepsie, Hyde Park, Rhinebeck, Highland and Port Ewen to understand the risks posed by crude oil transport on the Hudson River, and actions they can take to protect their drinking water supplies.
But it is dependent on local governments, schools, and other taxing entities, like water boards and library boards, holding the line on spending.
The group reported that carbon - based life dependent on liquid water and using DNA «is not the only way to create phenomena that would be recognized as life.»
It is doing so because it is concerned about its environment: the air quality in its cities, the water it is dependent on from the melting glaciers of the Himalayas.
The plan was dependent on a stopgap measure Mulroy had negotiated: Nevada's ability to take a share of excess river water left unclaimed by the other states.
The new system is an example of Deep Lake Water Cooling (DLWC), an alternative to airconditioning systems dependent on fossil fuels and electricity.
Fish are dependent on oxygen that dissolves in the surface water and then sinks downward, but it is only within the past 70 million years that the deep seas have been oxygenated.
I am also confident that these species are very rare and may be dependent on old - growth forests or small water bodies such as springs and wetlands.»
Think about the American West, where our whole water supply system is strongly dependent on the winter snowfall.
This process of smoothing the original water isotope variations from precipitation is dependent on the temperature, as the water molecules in vapour form are more mobile at warmer temperatures.
This process of transforming the fluffy snow into hard ice is physical and both the thickness and the movement of the water molecules are dependent on the temperature.
Scott has recently taken up an adjunct research position at the Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook University where he is currently: (i) investigating the importance of enhanced larval survival and strong «local» reef interconnectedness as a triggering agent for primary outbreaks of crown ‐ of ‐ thorns starfish on the central GBR, and (ii) assessing potential improvements in the health of coastal seagrass and dependent dugong populations due to targeted reductions in fine sediment loads from the GBR catchment.
Using these steady - states, we find that if volatile cycling is either solely dependent on temperature or seafloor pressure, exoplanets require a high abundance (more than 0.3 % of the total mass) of water to have fully inundated surfaces.
However, if degassing is more dependent on seafloor pressure and regassing mainly dependent on mantle temperature, the degassing rate is relatively large at late times and a steady - state between degassing and regassing is reached with a substantial surface water fraction.
The region is highly dependent on spring snowmelt to refill reservoirs and replenish ground water.
The total annual water budget for agriculture and human use in the mountainous West is highly dependent on the amount of snow melt that will occur in spring and is proportional to the amount of snow on the ground.
They are home to cold - water coral reefs and forests, sponge beds and hydrothermal vents, as well as the many millions of species dependent on these.
Both cause temperature change so both will play a role in any future water vapour feedback process that is dependent on temperature.
We here studied, in intact young and aged adult mice, drinking - water (1μM) estradiol effects on both retention and organizational components of hippocampus - dependent memory, using a radial - maze task of everyday - like memory.
Such temperatures would be damaging to all forms of water - dependent life on Earth today.»
Walsh recommends that exercising women need between half to one litre of water per hour, dependent on temperature, intensity and personal perspiration rates.
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