Sentences with phrase «into rivers»

Each picture is paired with an evocative verse — for example, «Slow into rivers, / water slithers and snakes / through silent canyons at twilight and dawn» — and its Spanish translation.

And inside was the owner, his face flushed despite the frost that had turned his windows into rivers of curdled milk.

Lin Wei, 27, one of a handful of male sixthgrade teachers at a primary school here, has made a habit of telling stories about warlords who threw witches into rivers and soldiers who outsmarted Japanese troops.

This song follows the journey of a raindrop as it falls from the sky into the rivers and streams on its journey around the world until it changes to mist and drifts back up to the clouds to starts it's journey all over again.

As well as being kinder to your skin and your health, natural products cause fewer allergic reactions, are less harsh on the fibers of the fabric and limit the amount of chemicals being drained into rivers and lakes.

Study team member Robert Dudley says global warming could be involved but that the aim of the study was only to determine whether snowmelt runoff into rivers was increasing or decreasing; it will be up to other scientists to examine what factors might be responsible for the trend they found.

Eventually it can flow into rivers and the sea.

This chemical could then flow into rivers, lakes or the ocean.

Rains and irrigation water can wash some of this fertilizer into rivers — and eventually into the ocean.

In addition to wreaking direct havoc on tropical forests, gold mining releases sediment into rivers, with severe effects on aquatic life.

The rest enters the water table, polluting local wells and running off into rivers, lakes and oceans, overloading them with nitrates that create «dead zones» in which aquatic life can not survive.

According to researchers with the Northwest Territories Geological Survey, the permafrost collapse is intensifying and causing landslides into rivers and lakes that can choke off life downstream, all the way to where the rivers discharge into the Arctic Ocean.

Some have none; they just spew polluted wastes directly into rivers.

The water that runs off of land into rivers, lakes and the seas.

Water treatment plants are supposed to clean the water from our toilets, showers and sinks before releasing it into rivers, lakes and oceans.

But this situation does illustrate that reducing the flow of excess nutrients into rivers and bays can have an enormous benefit.

Farmers now plant cover crops, such as oats or barley, that use up fertilizer that once washed away into rivers.

When an area floods, USGS teams can put out mobile stream gauges and equipment to monitor what pollution might have washed into rivers.

On roads that had turned into rivers, rescuers in kayaks and fishing boats searched for victims trapped in cars and on rooftops.

No company would be allowed to pour such dangerous chemicals into the rivers or onto the soil.

Orange County differs from most communities in that it purifies treated wastewater instead of discharging it directly into rivers and oceans.

Following World War II, manufacturers also began producing vast quantities of agricultural fertilizers containing nitrogen and phosphorous — and about 95 percent of these nutrients run off into rivers and are flushed into coastal waters.

Flushing sewage into rivers is not just an environmental catastrophe, it is also a ludicrous waste of nutrients that could be helping to feed the world.

Recycled water, including treated sewage, can be used on gardens and in industrial processes instead of being flushed into rivers and oceans, alleviating pressure on potable water supplies.

In the late 90s, high concentrations of NDMA were found in what was otherwise extremely clean recycled wastewater, which in most states is discharged into rivers that are used as sources for drinking water.

Unless, of course, you're one of those people who have followed the devices into rivers, onto train tracks, down impassable wilderness trails, or right into another country.

Most of the carbon returns to the atmosphere through respiration or when plants are eaten or die, but some washes into rivers.

Some of it is returned to watersheds in altered forms - like water heated during coal - fired electrical production and stored in cooling towers or ponds before being released - at higher temperatures - back into rivers.

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.

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.

But farming inefficiencies mean that most of this nitrogen runs off the land into rivers and oceans.

Nobody lost sleep when some silvers and bigheads escaped into rivers during flood events.

Nitrogen is an important nutrient for crops and a key ingredient in fertilizer, but nitrogen often washes away into rivers and other bodies of water where it is detrimental to aquatic ecosystems.

That translates into rivers and streams that rise and fall more sharply and more often, making life harder for young salmon that hatch and spend their first few months in freshwater before migrating to the ocean.

Nearly all water needed to supply cities, farms, and industry accumulates as snow in nearby or distant mountain ranges melts and runs down into rivers used to irrigate crops, sustains fish and wildlife, and quenches...

That, in turn, helps prevent erosion and runoff into rivers and streams.

New research reveals that charred plant material is leaching out of the soil and into rivers, eventually making its way to the ocean.

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

The news comes only days after the chancellor, Kenneth Clarke, went to Brussels to demand the renegotiation of a further directive, the Urban Waste Water Directive, which will require still tougher measures to clean sewage discharges into rivers and coastal waters by early next century.

For decades, people have been building shopping malls and parking lots that cause water to flow quickly into rivers, rather than soak into the ground.

«But as soon as you wet it, like when you wring a sponge, the nitrogen can flood into the rivers.»

But when floods occur, nitrogen is washed into surface waters such as tributaries that feed into rivers.

The Australian government has announced a plan to release a herpes virus into rivers, in a bid to wipe out the country's most notorious invasive fish pest.

He said: «The warmer, wetter winters predicted for the future will result in more phosphorus transferred from agricultural land into the rivers and ultimately the oceans.

Instead of going from sky to rain, into rivers, and then back into the oceans in the usual water cycle, it got stuck in Australia, caught up in record - breaking floods and rivers that run backwards into the continent.

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.

Large volumes of hard rock dumped into rivers by landslides can increase flood risk up to hundreds of kilometres downstream, potentially affecting millions of people, researchers say.

After a few days of severe rain last year, neighborhoods resembled wetlands, streets had turned into rivers, and a large piece of the main coastal road had fallen into the ocean.

The only solution is to slow the flow into rivers, or perhaps build an artificial lagoon.

«You need to help slow down the flow of water into rivers, and help water infiltrate into the ground,» says Cloke.