Sentences with phrase «much water a river»

The late Dr. Latha Anantha was an internationally - recognized expert in e-flows — the difficult science of figuring out how much water a river needs — and when it needs it — to both meet human demands and perform its key ecological functions.

Not exact matches

While every drop of urban citizens» water is measured and most residential lawns are nearly grassless and brown, farmers — including non-U.S. farmers — can essentially divert river water or other natural water sources as much as they like to grow their crops, even if these crops are then exported to feed foreign cows.

On one hand, it confirms how much Canadians value our water and how integral our lakes and rivers are to our national identity; on the other, it reveals a troubling carelessness with a resource Canadians still consider unlimited in its abundance...

As someone who has spent much of my life on and around rivers, I can attest: the water always wins.

The village has made an arrangement with the vernal and autumnal moods of the river: the houses and shops know how much the river rises with the spring runoff of the snow water and with the fullness of the autumn rains.

People all over the world do this, and much like religion, they do it in very different ways, some walk to rivers, others ponds or creeks, and other simply turn the tap or use the water dispenser on their fridge.

California Drought Restrictions Lifted in Russian River Area: California regulators have ended mandatory water cutbacks along tributaries of the Russian River, but will continue to require property owners to report how much water they use...

Victorian irrigators have been able to buy much needed water for their farms, the Goulburn River's needs are still able to be met and I will use the sale proceeds to benefit the environment elsewhere in the Basin in the future,» he said.

In today's environment, it is more difficult for rivers to bounce back because so much water is extracted from them to sustain towns and businesses.

He also initially told them that he kept a logbook of how much water the property takes from the river — as is required under NSW law when meters are not properly functioning.

«People are bathing their babies too much,» said Dr. Eric Simpson, who conducted the study with a team of researchers, «If you expose skin to water and let it air dry, that leads to dryness — like the bottom of a river bed that cracks open when it dries.»

However, as Rep. Paul Tonko noted during a CapTon interview last night, people who pay attention to such things were well aware that creeks, rivers and streams were running high and probably wouldn't be able to handle much additional water.

The Point, a Hunt's Point group, is receiving $ 150,000 to build a green roof and track how much storm water it prevents from going into the river.

Depth may not be as much of an issue for you if you tend to fish in shallow waters, but if you fish in the ocean or deep lakes and rivers, having a maximum depth of 100 meters or more can be crucial to finding your next big catch.

Greenland's ice streams drain the ice sheet via meltwater runoff much in the same way that water basins drain rivers, explained Bevis.

Nevada and other Western states like California and Arizona are already struggling with the problem of diminishing snowpack in their own states, and rely on the Colorado River for much - needed water.

We use the latest science with engineered logjams and other structures to protect certain areas of the river to get it to start to channel in a way that doesn't meander as much as it does during high - water events.»

This means much of this rock — such as quartzite — reaches the Plain as gravel or pebbles, which can build up in rivers, altering the natural path of the water, the team says.

According to stream gages, as much as 58 percent of the water in the Gunnison River — a prominent Colorado River tributary — comes not from snowpack on the peaks above but from groundwater.

But it's not uncommon for local ranchers to deliver 4 to 6 acre - feet of water, taking twice as much water from the river as their crop needs.

Bevis's findings should make it easier to determine how much water is available in a river at any given time.

It was humdrum stuff — until one official mentioned in passing that this tree - lined curve in the river, a popular picnic spot for Hungarians, was to be drowned by a giant hydroelectric dam being planned in secret by a much - feared state agency known simply as the Water Management.

«As the climate gets warmer, the thawing permafrost not only enables the release of more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, but our study shows that it also allows much more mineral - laden and nutrient - rich water to be transported to rivers, groundwater and eventually the Arctic Ocean,» explained Ryan Toohey, a researcher at the Interior Department's Alaska Climate Science Center in Anchorage and the lead author of the study.

But engineering of the river to make it better for shipping has caused much of its sediment to flow into deep water.

Mena did his Ph.D. at EPN under the supervision of Chemnitz University of Technology mathematician Peter Benner (now at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems in Magdeburg), in the area of optimal control — a branch of applied mathematics that tackles problems like how much water must be diverted from a river to avoid flooding a city.

From the Andes to the Himalayas, scientists are starting to question exactly how much glaciers contribute to river water used downstream for drinking and irrigation.

Soviet planners in the 1950s diverted much of the rivers» flow to water fields of rice and cotton in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and in farther - flung Tajikistan and Turkmenistan.

«The future of freshwater biodiversity is inextricably linked to land and water infrastructure management,» writes N LeRoy Poff of Colorado State University in his guest editorial for ESA Frontiers, in which he contemplates whether rivers have changed so much that we need to rethink some of our conceptions about restoration.

The concept calls for transferring that gush of water (twice as much as Nevada's yearly allotment from the Colorado River) through 775 miles of pipe, 110 miles of canals, 85 miles of tunnels, and seven pumping stations that would lift the water as high as 7,500 feet.

The Ohio EPA worked to clean up the river in the following decades, and the water quality has improved dramatically — so much so that in 1998, Cuyahoga was recognized as one of 14 American Heritage Rivers.

Not only is Greenland's melting ice sheet adding huge amounts of water to the oceans, it could also be unleashing 400,000 metric tons of phosphorus every year — as much as the mighty Mississippi River releases into the Gulf of Mexico, according to a new study.

Strong east - west currents, a possible island chain, and even the Congo River's enormous flow of fresh water might have helped cichlids across the South Atlantic, which was of course much narrower then.

It used to discharge as much water as the Missouri river in the US.

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Others are much smaller, such as the upper waters of the Red Sea, or the dilute estuaries of several Northern Hemisphere rivers.

Who gets water, and from where and how much, is dictated by the Law of the River, which consists of state and federal law, treaties and compacts.

Managing storm - water runoff in urban settings is critical to keep basements dry, streets clear and passable, and streams and rivers healthy, but how much are homeowners willing to pay for it?

The so - called run - of - river design would not store much water behind a dam, but would require digging a long tunnel in an area that holds the densest population of orangutans.

The collective fresh water discharge of this region is more than four times greater than the mighty Yukon River of Alaska and Canada, and half again as much as the Mississippi River, which drains all or part of 31 states and a land mass more than six times as large.

A few years ago, however, scientists began noticing that large - scale groundwater pumping around cities like Hanoi was lowering the groundwater level, so much so that the flow had reversed in some areas and river water was making its way into the aquifers instead.

The production of methane is accelerated because stationary pools of water contain much less oxygen than a flowing river interacting with the atmosphere and microbes thrive in low - oxygen environments.

A NOAA website on atmospheric rivers contains this fascinating statistic that illustrates just how much moisture can be transported by winds in the mid-to-upper atmosphere: «A strong atmospheric river transports an amount of water vapor roughly equivalent to 7.5 - 15 times the average flow of liquid water at the mouth of the Mississippi River.&rriver transports an amount of water vapor roughly equivalent to 7.5 - 15 times the average flow of liquid water at the mouth of the Mississippi River.&rRiver.»

A rushing river will carry the debris left from a strength training session much quicker than a stagnant pool of water.

Sadly, we've had pretty much no snow so far this winter, so it doesn't look like another high water year (good because the river won't flood but bad because, well, we / farmers rely on that water in the hot summer months).

The premium white water experience can be found on the American River and you'll have so much fun you'll have no times for first date jitters.

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Although the settings and the casts of characters change, these aren't stories that begin and end so much as lives that we partake of for a time and then take our leave of, cups of water snatched from an ever - flowing river.

The countryside is shot to wonderful effect, with the Snowy Mountains and rivers spectacular to see, and much attention to the detail of water flowing or grasses swaying in the breeze helps to set the mood.

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.

And living near a river or open water could add significantly to the premium as there is a much higher risk of flooding.