Sentences with phrase «divert river water»

One proposal to fix this is to divert river water out of the main channel so that it flows closer to shore.

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.

This all changed in the 1950s, when a Soviet irrigation project diverted river water to rice and cotton fields miles away.

The irrigation system was so leaky that many canals lost more than 50 percent of the diverted river water en route to the fields, which cut the amount flowing into the sea.

Not exact matches

The Great Man - Made River was a multi-billion-dollar scheme promoted by Gadhafi to divert water from underground aquifers to towns and cities.

These possible future states - of - affairs include, in the short run, my having drunk a glass of water or, more mediately, the possession of a new well or the diverting of a river.

But massive irrigation programmes begun during the Soviet era diverted water from the rivers that feed it, reducing the lake's volume to just 10 per cent of what it had been and leaving large areas dry (see map).

New Delhi's endemic shortfalls occur largely because water managers decided some years back to divert large amounts from upstream rivers and reservoirs to irrigate crops.

In fact, since most of the water from the Jordan River's tributaries has been diverted and no longer flows to the Dead Sea, even the Dead Sea is dying.

As an alternative to the pipeline, a regional environmental group called EcoPeace Middle East has proposed restoring the flow of water in the Jordan River, which has been dammed and diverted until only 10 % of its former flow reaches the Dead Sea.

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For example, he found that well owners also tended to be more aware of the Kansas Aqueduct proposal, an $ 18 billion undertaking that would divert water from the Missouri River to western Kansas.

A team of researchers led by geoscientist Karl Flessa of the University of Arizona in Tucson hoped that analyzing ancient shells would allow them to estimate the delta's biological productivity both before and after the river's water was diverted.

Mena did his Ph.D. at EPN under the supervision of Chemnitz University of Technology mathematician Peter Benner (now at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg), in the area of optimal control — a branch of applied mathematics that tackles problems like how much water must be diverted from a river to avoid flooding a city.

Sudan has been trying to divert a bigger share of the river's water; but downstream, Egypt is experiencing one of Africa's fastest population explosions and will need every drop of water it can get.

The research team identified some impacts of duck hunting in southern Australia but these were not as strong as the effects of diverting water from the rivers of the Murray - Darling Basin.

«Our study is the first long - term and large - scale assessment of the impacts of dams and diverting water from the rivers and wetlands of the Murray - Darling Basin,» says study lead author UNSW Professor Richard Kingsford.

But Soviet - sponsored irrigation projects, begun in the 1950s, diverted water from two rivers that fed the sea: the Amu Darya and the Syr Darya.

Soviet planners in the 1950s diverted much of the rivers» flow to water fields of rice and cotton in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and in farther - flung Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.

But massive irrigation programmes begun during the Soviet era diverted water from the rivers that feed it, reducing the lake's volume to just 10 per cent of what it was and leaving large areas dry.

A plantation in Ethiopia's Gambela region, owned by a Saudi Arabian billionaire, diverts water from the Alwero River, according to a June 2012 report from GRAIN, a non-profit organization that advocates for small farmers.

As supplies dwindle, they say, they can channel water from the highlands, where rain falls between October and April, or divert rivers that flow east to Amazonia, which receives more precipitation than its sparse population uses.

When the fluctuating flow of heavy sediment gets trapped in the channel and the river floods again, the water is diverted by the trapped sediment, so it moves laterally into another area.

Environmentalists say that diverting water from the river will lower the water table, dry out wells and damage an important wetland.

Deltas can also sink as old river sediments compact under their own weight and water carrying replacement sediments is held back by dams or diverted for irrigation.

The ambitious program would divert water from the Sacramento River above the delta, sending it through massive underground tunnels to provide water for two - thirds of the state's population, from San Jose to San Diego, and thousands of farms.

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.

For example, December 6, 1974, when you detected a cell of leftists who used phrases from Che Guevara's diary to encode messages; or September 17, 1976, when you were able to warn President Montenegro that an insurrection was brewing in the Cochabamba and Santa Cruz regiments; or December 25, 1981, when you deciphered messages from the Chilean government to its chargé d'affaires regarding water that was being diverted from a river along the border.

The Ōkōzu Channel (大河津分水路, Ōkōzu Bunsuiro), completed in the 1920s, diverts flood water northwest into the Sea of Japan while the river splits into a number of branches and continuing northeast.

«A subak is defined as all the major rice terraces irrigated from a single dam... The dams are arranged one below the other down the river canyons, a single canal, usually of some length, carrying the diverted water to the subak, often with the aid of overhead aqueducts or long tunnels» (230).

Later this year she and her team will break ground on Bending the River Back into the City (2012 — present), a three - part sculpture consisting of a below ground tunnel that diverts water from the Los Angeles River, a seventy - two - foot waterwheel that lifts the water to publicly accessible bio-remediation gardens on the roof of the Metabolic Studio building, and a distribution network of users voluntarily receiving the newly clean water.

Later this year she and her team will break ground on Bending the River Back into the City (2012 — present), a three - part sculpture consisting of a belowground tunnel that diverts water from the Los Angeles River, a seventy - two - foot waterwheel that lifts the water to publicly accessible bio-remediation gardens on the roof of the Metabolic Studio building, and a distribution network of users voluntarily receiving the newly clean water.

It is to this area that the Central Arizona Project (CAP), the largest and most expensive aqueduct system in the country, takes water from the Colorado River and diverts it along 336 miles of channels.

In fact, the Sao Francisco river is going through a controversial project to divert its course and send water to drier areas.

As the water in the convection weir increases, more of the feeder river is diverted into a bypass tunnel which feeds directly to below the resevoir dam.

«An impassioned environmentalist, Vivienne reveals that the meat trade squanders global water supplies by diverting rivers and depleting our scarce natural resources.

At least agricultural exports are value - added water, and we don't have to divert rivers.

The small - scale nature of most of the projects in the Balkans is particularly damaging because water is diverted through pipelines, leaving empty channels where rivers used to be and causing loss of fauna and erosion, a 2017 report by consultancy Fluvius said.

Its two giant tunnels will divert water from the Sacramento River toward Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and farms in the San Joaquin Valley.

While diverting rivers in Canada to supply fresh water for irrigation in the US would galvanize protests from the environmentalists, the point is that while it is not currently politicaly correct, accomplishing this feat is well within our technological capabilities and when the choice becomes divert or starve, the environmental objections tend to get drowned out.

The system, more than a century old, diverts cold high - elevation water from the West Branch of the Feather River into a canal that feeds into Butte Creek.

For example, Alberta's energy regulator told many oil sands operators in July that they can't divert water from the Athabasca, Peace and Wabasca rivers for use in their operations.

Also, the regulations on diverting water for agriculture use are very tight — rivers can't be pumped if it means endangering fish stocks or other wildlife.»

The potential energy of water in an elevated lake that is rushing down a river does not contain «heat» per se, but, if we dam the river and divert the water pressure to run a hydroelectric generator, we can transform the river energy into electrical energy and then use that to power an electric heater.

Currently the mining operations are licensed to divert 370 million cubic meters (equivalent to 2.3 million barrels) of fresh water per year from the Athabasca river.

Seven years after four Manitoba indigenous communities were flooded — allegedly by the Manitoba government diverting water from a river to avoid flooding in Winnipeg — a judge has approved a $ 90 - million settlement for those impacted.

Kansas filed suit against Nebraska in 1998, accusing its neighbor of breaching a 1943 compact by allowing irrigators to drill wells along streams and tributaries and thus divert more than the state's legal share of the river's water.

«Back in the 80s, there was a controversial proposal to divert Sacramento River water around the California Delta for Southern California cities and San Joaquin Valley farms.