Sentences with phrase «most of flood waters»

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In most cases that would be standing water most likely caused by a leak or some sort of internal flood.

Images of the flooded metropolises of Houston, Jacksonville, and San Juan with overtopped dams, billowing sewage, and flooded homes show that torrential rain can be one of the most devastating consequences of hurricanes, especially in urban areas where concrete makes it harder for water to drain and where people can drown.

Ecosystem goods and services have most recently been defined as «the direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems to human well - being,» which can further be divided into one of four broad categories: regulating services (e.g. flood mitigation, water purification), provisioning services (e.g. food), habitat or supporting services (e.g. spawning grounds) and cultural services (e.g. recreational opportunities)(see here for an excellent explanation of these categories).

In reference to the flood, one of the most important points to grasp is that in ancient Middle Eastern cosmology, the waters of the world — especially large bodies of water such as the ocean and the sea — were considered to be the dwelling places of powerful deities.

And he has yet to address the fact that a world wide flood once receded would leave all lakes filled with salt water, not fresh, that mammals could not survive on and would have also killed off most of the plant life.

Actually food for several years, since having salt water flood the earth would have caused the death of almost every plant that most of those animals could have eaten as well as damage the earth so the crops wouldn't have been able to come back for years.

Most geologists and scientists say there is however a fairly large amount of data that proves a major regional floods have occured that would imitate some of the Genesis flood account details, however with the book claiming it was a global flood being specific as to how far over every mountain the water reached, physics easily debunks the Genesis account.

When one looks at the various Christian beliefs that were once firmly believed — Adam and Eve, Noah's flood, people living to be 700 or 900 years old, the Red Sea splitting, water turning into wine, a talking snake, a man living in a whale's belly, people rising from the dead, Jesus driving demons out of people and into pigs — but which are now acknowledged by most thinking people to be mere mythology, it is pretty hard to give a lot of credibility to what's left.

Most Young Earth Creationists (Creationists who believe the earth is less than 10,000 years old) believe that the Grand Canyon was formed by the waters of the flood as recorded in Genesis 6 - 8.

Most recently, we partnered with Feed the Children to provide nearly 3 million bottles of water to those affected in the Flint, MI water crisis and more than 1.2 million bottles of water to communities impacted by the catastrophic floods in Louisiana.

The most important part of the formula is using distilled water when the ice is flooded.

The Rensselaer County Village of Hoosick Falls is looking toward the future after being dogged by more than a year of negative headlines surrounding a water contamination crisis and most recent devastating flooding.

Back here in Rockland County, Clarkstown police say Route 303 and Route 59 near the Palisades Mall have a tendency to flood quickly and rather deep when it rains, so usually once most of that water drains out, they're able to reopen the roads.

Most drivers have been forced to make a detour, while others have parked their vehicles due to the pool of flood waters on major highways.

Ecosystems provide the most basic provisioning services — food, firewood, and medicines — along with the so - called regulating services of a fully functional environment, which include cleaning the air, purifying water, controlling floods and erosion, storing carbon, and detoxifying pollutants in soils.

The state's normal strategy for water management calls for keeping the reservoirs low in winter, to provide protection against floods, and keeping them as high as possible in summer, to ensure an adequate supply for the giant farming operations in the Central Valley (one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world) and for arid southern California.

Like Earth, Mars must have received a lot of water at birth; some researchers think the plains that cover most of its northern hemisphere were once the bed of a vast, shallow ocean, filled by cataclysmic floods of water cascading out of the southern highlands.

Storm drainage systems typically redirect most floodwater out to sea, but given the region's intense water deficit, hydrology scientists at the University of California, Davis, are experimenting with so - called groundwater banking, which involves sending storm water to flood fallow fields where it can percolate into the soil and replenish aquifers.

«Most of the literature tends to focus on flooding events and increases in infectious diseases spread through water,» Dr Lal said.

Marshes and other natural coastal bulwarks can grow taller as seas rise, protecting against floods, but most of them need sediment - rich waters to do so.

Those levees, most of which are simple earthen berms, are weak and vulnerable to earthquakes, seasonal floods, and rising waters expected as a result of climate change.

After water purification, one of the most important regulating services of páramo... environments is flood control,» said Daniel Ruiz, an associate professor of environmental engineering at Antioquia School of Engineering and researcher at Columbia University's International Research Institute for Climate and Society.

However, the most cost - effective idea of all was the «hybrid» approach, using a combination of infrastructure improvements, and smaller flood barriers to keep water out of the city.

Bull Trout are the most cold - water dependent fish in the Pacific Northwest and are extremely sensitive to winter floods that flush incubating eggs and fry out of gravel nests.

From this they came up with the idea of a «flood prevention pipe», whereby a pipe would circle the world, gathering water from flood prone areas, filtering and distributing water to those countries most in need.

He reveals the most daunting water issues we face today, among them the threat of flooding in China's Yellow River, where rising silt levels will prevent dykes from containing floodwaters; the impoverishment of Pakistan's Sindh, a once - fertile farming valley now destroyed by the 14 million tons of salt that the much - depleted Indus deposits annually on the land but can not remove; the disappearing Colorado River, whose reservoirs were once the lifeblood of seven states but which could dry up as soon as 2007; and the poisoned springs of Palestine and the Jordan River, where Israeli control of the water supply has only fed conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.

In most cases that would be standing water most likely caused by a leak or some sort of internal flood.

Though flash floods — fast - moving water 15 feet or higher — are thought to be the most destructive and deadly, a few inches of water can also be devastating.

The most recent change came with the 2008 flood, where part of the current veil detached, resulting in the water now flowing out of only one side of the notch.

Even the most reluctant tyke will be amazed by the sheer volume of water that hurtles over the Huka Falls - and when the flow control gates open at Aratiatia the gorge is quickly flooded by the waters of the Waikato River.

The epic raw building off the Montrose L stop announced huge plans for Bushwick Open Studios, only to cancel / postpone most of them due to the rain water flooding.

-- Research which drivers of flood damage beyond inundation depth, such as flood duration, water contamination, and debris content, are most important and develop an appropriate damage prediction function for calculating rates;

Most TS losses occur from the storm surge, the water pushed over the land, or inland flooding caused by huge amounts of rainfall often generated by lesser tropical storms hung up over coastlines.

Drip irrigation, or micro-irrigation, is the most efficient way to get the maximum crop yield from a unit of water, the report says; flood irrigation — still the most common form --- is the least efficient; sprinkler systems are somewhere in between.

With interstates under feet of water, and most of the streams and rivers near the city in flood stage, local authorities have asked boat owners to join rescue efforts.

In that novel is the most evocative description of Lake Eyre beginning to fill again, this time, in 1957, following the huge 1956 floods, and the waters slowly making their way to Lake Eyre.

(1) to provide new and additional assistance from the United States to the most vulnerable developing countries, including the most vulnerable communities and populations therein, in order to support the development and implementation of climate change adaptation programs and activities that reduce the vulnerability and increase the resilience of communities to climate change impacts, including impacts on water availability, agricultural productivity, flood risk, coastal resources, timing of seasons, biodiversity, economic livelihoods, health and diseases, and human migration; and

Bangladesh experienced one of the most destructive floods in its history, with more than half of the country under water.

The production of more than half the country's rice and most of its fish and shrimp depends on seasonal flooding in this area; the risk, however, is that higher seas could alter the regular flooding regime, expanding the area inundated with salty water and rendering cropland unusable.

Images of the flooded metropolises of Houston, Jacksonville, and San Juan with overtopped dams, billowing sewage, and flooded homes show that torrential rain can be one of the most devastating consequences of hurricanes, especially in urban areas where concrete makes it harder for water to drain and where people can drown.

These include potential flood damages from more extreme rainfall in most parts of Australia and New Zealand; constraints on water resources from reducing rainfall in southern Australia; increased health risks and infrastructure damages from heat waves in Australia; and, increased economic losses, risks to human life and ecosystem damage from wildfires in southern Australia and many parts of New Zealand.

How a rising of the ocean waters may flood most of our port cities within the foreseeable future — and why it will be followed by the growth of a vast glacier which may eventually cover much of Europe and North America.

America's Most Endangered Rivers of 2009 are: # 1: Sacramento - San Joaquin River System (CA) Threat: Outdated water and flood management The largest watershed in California is on the verge of collapse, threatening the water supply for more than 26 million people, placing the capital of the nation's most populous state at high risk of flooding, and damaging a once productive and healthy ecosystem that supported the nation's most diverse salmon rMost Endangered Rivers of 2009 are: # 1: Sacramento - San Joaquin River System (CA) Threat: Outdated water and flood management The largest watershed in California is on the verge of collapse, threatening the water supply for more than 26 million people, placing the capital of the nation's most populous state at high risk of flooding, and damaging a once productive and healthy ecosystem that supported the nation's most diverse salmon rmost populous state at high risk of flooding, and damaging a once productive and healthy ecosystem that supported the nation's most diverse salmon rmost diverse salmon runs.

[3] Developing countries will be hit first and most, increasingly suffering from droughts, water shortages and crop losses, settlements devastated by hurricanes or flooding or the spread of tropical diseases.

Most impacts of climate change manifest themselves through water — be it floods, storms or droughts, sea level rises or ocean acidification that leads to coral bleaching.

And a few inches of water in your backyard would be seen by most people as «flooding».

Although most policies will cover wind damage and any water damage caused by the exposure of your home to the elements, it will usually not cover damage caused by any resulting flooding.

Just a few inches of water can cause thousands of dollars in damage and most homeowners policies don't cover flood damage.

In most cases that would be standing water most likely caused by a leak or some sort of internal flood.

Most policies provide protection against damage to the property caused by the flowing of flood water into the house.