Sentences with phrase «into lakes and rivers»

Then we foul it and pump the results to sewage plants, to spend more making it clean enough — we hope — to dump into our lakes and rivers.

The alternative is that they'll end up in a landfill, or be stacked for disposal or storage and blow away into lakes and rivers.

Second, they'd sharply reduce the nutrient pollution present in treated wastewater that is currently released into lakes and rivers.

The tiny beads seep out of water - treatment systems into lakes and rivers, choking fish and marine life that ingest it.

The scientists found that an east wind of 63 mph blowing for 12 hours would have driven the shallow waters back, both into the lake and the river channel.

Not exact matches

«Any attempt to turn off the flows of capital and people around the world will be like trying to divert a river into lakes and creeks,» said Xi.

Cassini was able to probe beneath this moon's cloud cover, discovering rivers flowing into lakes and seas and being replenished by rain.

Streams and rivers flow into lakes which flow into more streams and rivers until eventually, they all dump into the ocean.

For the drops of rain which fell upon one side flowed into Lake Erie and so out, by the St. Lawrence River, into the Atlantic, and the drops which fell upon the other side flowed into Lake Chautauqua and so out, by the Ohio River and the Mississippi, to the Gulf of Mexico.

Pagans who worshipped Odin, believed in Isis and Mithra, believing that natural guilt and corruption of their new - born children could be washed away by sprinkling them with water, or by plunging them, as soon as born, into lakes or rivers.

Mitt Romney's first job after College was to work for Monsanto and help them improve their Corporate image after getting cuaght dumping known cancer causing PCB's into the rivers and water ways around the Great Lakes... So did the families that came down with cancer from drinking water contaminated by those dumped PCB's chemicals commite a sin against God... or did Monsanto commite the sin by dumping them?

In the meantime, excess phosphates from fertilizers get leached into rivers and lakes.

Rather, brine is collected from springs on the floor of the lake and on its shores, carried around it and dumped into the river.

She, beside me walking with her secret joys, motioned her two gloved hands airborne toward a stick out on the lake beyond the boys, a dark branch balanced at the dam's ledge, in the roar and plunging of that river on whose cascade into noise it seemed to hesitate, poised there at the edge of more.

The release of up to 75,000 ML of Commonwealth environmental water and up to 15,000 ML of New South Wales held environmental water into the Lachlan River commenced on 7 June 2013 from Lake Brewster and was completed until mid July.

It takes into account, for example, what sort of water has been used at all stages of the life cycle (eg natural rainfall over agricultural land, water from rivers, lakes and groundwater resources); the context of local water scarcity; and whether the water would otherwise be used for another activity of critical importance.

In fact, the more sedate, noncompetition model can be wheeled right into lake or river and used as a fishing boat.

Many large rivers and lakes in Western Canada were traversed by steamships, from the 1860s, and in some cases, into the mid-20th century...

As part of the Spring Big Sweep, local soil and water conservation districts sponsor numerous clean - up days at creeks, lakes, streams and wetlands that flow into area rivers.

From the time I was four years old, my father and my grandfather and my uncles would journey into the wilds of Maine, waking me well before sunrise, to climb on snowmobiles and travel through the woods out across the frozen lakes and rivers.

These chemicals seep into run - off water after heavy rains, poisoning lakes, rivers and waterways.

«Expanding Washed Ashore into the community provides an opportunity to engage more people beyond Shedd's walls with an artistic, powerful message that single - use plastic trash is one of the deadliest predators for our lakes, rivers and oceans,» said Kris Nesbitt, senior director of exhibits and experience development at Shedd Aquarium.

JEFFERSON COUNTY, N.Y. — Governor Andrew Cuomo made it very clear Monday: He feels Plan 2014 — the guide that went into effect in December and was designed to help Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River ecosystems by keeping levels higher, longer and allowing for more fluctuation — was a major blunder.

«That's allowing waste to be dumped into rivers and streams and in the same month, she accepted the River Keeper Award out in the St. Lawrence,» Wilson said, referring to an award given by a nonprofit for the lawmaker's work to support Plan 2014, a plan to modify water levels on Lake Ontario.

He recalled that a research conducted by a professor in a London university and published over three decades ago had predicted that unless one or some of the rivers from the Central African region are diverted to empty into the Lake Chad basin, the river would dry up.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo made it very clear Monday: He feels Plan 2014 — the guide that went into effect in December and was designed to help Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River ecosystems by keeping levels higher, longer and allowing for more fluctuation — was a major blunder.

[101] It is located at the origin of the Niagara River, which flows northward over Niagara Falls and into Lake Ontario.

The goal is to reduce the amount of pollutants that flow into the region's streams, rivers and lakes.

When a river's waters rise high enough, they can spill over into the lake, dropping loads of sand and silt.

These threats include a proposed hydropower plant on the Ewaso Ngiro River, just over the border into Kenya, and a factory to process the soda ash from the lake itself.

RAIN OUT Rainier conditions than previously thought turned the Sahara Desert into grasslands, lakes and rivers from 11,000 to 5,000 years ago, a new study finds.

Pollutants in urban settings are many and of a wide variety, and all of them - if you don't treat and successfully reduce the pollution - are getting into the receiving water, be it a river or lake or the ocean.»

In many communities with infrastructure, sewers overflow whenever there is a heavy rain, sending raw sewage into rivers and lakes.

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.

Scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle's (U.W.) School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences think they know why Bristol Bay is so productive year after year: Several hundred discrete populations of sockeye salmon inhabit the network of rivers and lakes that empty into the bay, and this tremendous population diversity buffers the entire fishery against the vicissitudes of the environment.

The eruption sent an avalanche of debris into the North Fork of the Toutle River and blocked the drainage of Spirit Lake, causing a dangerous rise of lake watLake, causing a dangerous rise of lake watlake waters.

A study into freshwater lake management along the Amazon's most meandering river has demonstrated astounding benefits to local livelihoods in replenishing vitally important fish stocks — a source of much - needed food and income.

The notion that septic tanks prevent fecal bacteria from seeping into rivers and lakes simply doesn't hold water, says a new Michigan State University study.

These revolutionaries drained lakes, rerouted rivers, chopped down forests, and slashed straight into the guts of Mother Earth.

Malaska works as a volunteer for the Cassini team in his spare time and at the conference he described a winding channel flowing into a south Titan lake that follows a path very similar to a stretch of the lower Mississippi river — and thus might carry a comparably vast flow after a methane rain.

The IJC recommended that the total phosphorus target for Ohio's Maumee River, which drains agricultural land and empties into western Lake Erie, be cut 37 percent during the spring.

Intensive use of pesticides in farming guarantees runoff into rivers and lakes.

However, a combination of northerly winds and currents helped trap the bloom near where the Maumee River brings the majority of nutrients into the lake and right where Toledo's water intake happens to be.

Using supercomputers, the researchers found that this dense piece of ocean floor material (called a lithospheric slab) is slowly sinking into the Earth's mantle and is responsible for the formation of the Lake Eyre Basin, one of the Earth's largest internally drained basins and home to the lowest point in Australia at 15m below sea level, as well as the Murray - Darling Basin, home to the largest river system in Australia.

Mercury released into the environment eventually finds its way into oceans, lakes and rivers, where it is converted into methyl mercury by microorganisms.

Before the river was «leveed off» and the landscape behind it given over to agriculture, La Grange Reach tapped into shallow lakes, thick pockets of woods, and myriad sandbars and sloughs, all of which moderated the flow of nutrients into it.

Heavy downpours can overwhelm New York's antiquated 19th - century sewer systems, the miles of pipes and tunnels that carry away wastewater and, when overtaxed, divert billions of gallons of raw sewage and contaminated urban runoff into the rivers, lakes and the ocean.

From there it leaches into groundwater, eventually finding its way to rivers and lakes, where it causes algae blooms that suffocate aquatic animals.

A glaciologist rather than a biologist, he wanted to investigate a question critical to climate change: Do subglacial rivers and lakes lubricate the movement of ice over land — and might they somehow accelerate a glacier's flow into the ocean, triggering rapid sea level rise?

Three - quarters of wastewater in Peru is dumped untreated into rivers, lakes and the Pacific Ocean, and the Health Ministry has identified dozens of rivers polluted with lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury and other metals from mining operations.