Sentences with phrase «drains out of the lake»

The water actually drains out of the lake from the bottom through sinkholes, like a giant bathtub and then travels through a 10 - mile series of underwater caves, resurfacing at the Maligne Canyon.

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Topsoil and natural vegetation would ordinarily filter many of these pollutants out, but the impermeable pavement that covers much of the surface where these pollutants originate carries it right into storm drains and into streams, rivers, lakes and the ocean where it can poison marine life — which we might eat — as well as entire riparian or coastal ecosystems.

The lake and the Chari River, which flows out of it, constitute the most important water source in the region, and massive irrigation systemsbuilt by Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad, the nations that share the lakeare seriously draining it.

We found that the volume of meltwater drained through this particular aquifer - crevasse field system is comparable to what comes out of a western Greenland supraglacial lake or river system.»