Sentences with phrase «inland water body»

The team plans to extend their water pollution model to include phosphorus — another nutrient of major concern, especially for inland water bodies such as the Great Lakes.

Inland water bodies are mapped in blue.

Total area of land = 33,881 sg km Total area of inland water bodies = 7645 sq km.

Estimates suggest mercury wet deposition accounts for 50 % to 90 % of the mercury load to most inland water bodies and estuaries in the U.S. Elemental (Hg0), divalent (Hg +2), and particulate mercury (Hgp) are each important in both wet and dry deposition, most likely dominated by the Hgp and Hg2 + forms, since Hg0 is only slightly soluble in water and has very low deposition velocities.

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For instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migrants.

More than a decade ago, Discover reported on an $ 85 million project to restore what was formerly one of the world's biggest inland bodies of water: the Aral Sea.

The effort, a collaboration between the World Bank and the oil - rich Kazakh government, aims to reverse the decades of desiccation that have shriveled one of the world's biggest inland bodies of water.

Once upon a time the Aral Sea was the world's fourth largest inland body of water.

It is in the neighborhood of Dwejra bay (2 km), where visitors will come across a unique natural phenomenon, the Inland Sea, a shallow body of water in the niche of a rocky coast connected to the sea through a narrow tunnel.

Inland, with no body of water to moderate the temperature highs can reach well over 100 ° for months at a time and cooling at night is very limited.

Here is the largest inland body of fresh water in the state of Hawaii.

We also had the opportunity to visit the Balingasay River, twice winner of the Gawad Pangulo sa Kapaligiran Award for inland bodies of water in the Ilocos Region and a recipient of the highly prestigious Wetlands Conservation Award in 1994.

You'll set off from Loch Lomond, the UK's most expansive inland body of water, and travel in style.

It's the largest inland body of water in Great Britain, and is home to a number of different islands and spectacular wildlife.

But the show also features moments of calmness — figures silhouetted against a golden beach at daybreak (Gold Beach Scene — Morning Moment), mist - enshrouded hills (Golden Mountain Mist), inland marshland and bodies of water (Davis Marsh Fall and Mill Pond Dusk), and landscapes covered in newly fallen snow (Inlet Falling Snow).

Nestled within a basin, the body of water he referred to as his «inland sea» was his source of adventure and joy, his faithful companion and as such, his preferred place for solitude.

among other bodies of inland waters, the Great Lakes, Long Island Sound, Delaware Bay, Chesapeake Bay, Albemarle Sound, San Francisco Bay, and Puget Sound are not part of the outer Continental Shelf, and are not subject to leasing by the Federal Government for the exploration, development, and production of any mineral resources that might lie beneath them.

The temperature is never as high at the seaside as it is inland where there is no large body of water.

As defined by NFIP, it is a temporary or general condition of partial or complete inundation of two or more acres of normally dry land from: mudflow, overflow of inland or tidal waters, unusual or rapid accumulation or runoff of surface waters from any source, and a collapse or subsidence of land along the shore of a lake or other similar body of water as a result of erosion or undermining caused by waves or currents of water exceeding anticipated cyclical levels.

Today it's possible to purchase an inland marine policy for goods whose journey brings them nowhere near a body of water.

Boaters who set sail on coastal waters, like the Gulf, will pay more for boat insurance than those who limit their boating excursions to inland bodies of water.

If you stay close to home on inland bodies of water, your boat insurance rates may be lower.

97 percent of the water on Earth is salt water, contained in the planet's oceans, seas, and inland salt water bodies, 2 percent of it (fresh water) is locked in the polar ice caps, and the remaining 1 percent is the fresh water we use everyday.

Australia provides for the management and regulation of its water resources, including inland and coastal freshwater rivers, saltwater rivers and seas, and surface and groundwater, through a significant body of water policy, legislation and regulation.