Sentences with phrase «entire drainage basin»

I was appointed Chair of the Assiniboine River Management Advisory Board charged with developing a management strategy for an entire drainage basin.

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For the first time, findings based on observations and computer simulations all point to the same conclusion: the huge Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica has begun an irreversible ice discharge, and nothing can now halt the subsequent drainage of the entire basin.

That seems like a lot until you realize that the entire surface of the Earth is 510 million square km, so the drainage basin for the Mediterranean is about 1.7 % of the surface of the planet.