Sentences with phrase «much water flows»

For example, one can imagine closing off the Southern end of the SF Bay, as not much water flows in from the South.

According to more than 170 years of water records and a comparison of how much water flows in and out of the lake, consumption of freshwater is likely to blame for the shrinking of Utah's Great Salt Lake — and of similar lakes around the world.

After so many years of dedicated cultivation, the chiles in the region have developed particular characteristics based on anything from the amount of sand in the soil to how much water flows to their roots.

The discovery may be significant for understanding how much water flowed on the surface of ancient Mars.

If you go during the dry season, Dec - Apr, the water is a stunning turquoise blue but there is not much water flowing down the falls.

All of these spots are free to visit, but don't expect to see much water flowing from February through... Read more about Waterfalls and giant trees.

There was so much water flowing into the crawl space that without the sump pump it filled rapidly with water.

Not exact matches

Howat and his team were able to figure this out by creating high - resolution topographic models of the glaciers and their boundaries, as well as a numerical model of exactly how much water was flowing off these coastal glaciers and ice caps — technology that wasn't available back in 1996.

And here again we may recall, that early as the source may be, the passage in question was not written down until much water had flowed under the bridge.

With water flows in the Murray - Darling Basin at record lows, there has been much discussion about whether growing rice and cotton in Australia is sustainable.

DO NOT let the water flow over the rim of the pan, but you do want as much of it submerged under the water, as possible.

You should take much liquid, especially water in order to improve clean flow of breast milk and flush out toxins that your little one can get through milk.

The agreement to buy Toohey Park permits a certain amount of water runoff from the Sunny Ridge site to flow into a pond at the park, but parks officials said they want to ensure that the project doesn't send too much water into the park.

My daughter saves her toys to give away to other little ones, and whenever the kitchen tap or shower faucet has running water flowing with full force, my little one reminds me to use it just as much as I need and to not waste too much water in the shower.

This outcome can occur if something interferes with the normal cooling process that leads to star formation and instead drives the entire disk to become unstable, rapidly funneling matter to the center, much like water flowing down a bathtub drain when you pull the plug.

This in and of itself doesn't change much regarding water flow, but it does feel nice in the hand, especially when you operate single - handedly.

Much as what unfolded during the crisis in Japan, the computer modeling suggested that fuel in one of the two reactors on the Peach Bottom site would begin to melt as soon as nine hours after a loss of cooling water flow.

But an international team of scientists now finds that water flows over the bony carapaces of these fishes much as air does over the space shuttle, creating vortices of water that help guide the fish while swimming in unpredictable waters.

Unable to pull as much water from the sky, they are subject to cavitation — a pocket of air that develops in the water being pulled up into the tree, which expands and can block the flow of water in either direction, killing all or part of the tree.

SLIPS's thin layer of liquid lubricant allows liquids to flow easily over the surface, much as a thin layer of water in an ice rink helps an ice skater glide.

It also provides a legal framework designed to forestall conflict over how much water the US lets flow into Mexico, especially during droughts like the one currently gripping the region.

It's nearly impossible to tell how much water would flow from one into the other, but figures in the documents make it clear that the water sources are heavily relied on as sources of both groundwater and surface supplies at the same time.

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

A recent research report about one of the largest lithium brine and salt deposits in the world in Chile's Atacama Desert by geoscientists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the first to show that water and solutes flowing into the basin originate from a much larger than expected portion of the Andean Plateau.

In the third type of vent environment, «hydrothermal seeps,» much cooler (less than 30 - 60 degrees Celsius) water trickles out of lava flows interleaved with seafloor mud.

Hollis says computer forecasts predict continued drying across much of the national park, a reduced flow of water to the marshes, and that saltwater will be drawn in below ground.

Much of this flow has now been diverted into Israel's national water grid.

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.

When magnetic reconnection occurs between two clouds of plasma that have the same density, the exhaust flow is wildly unstable — flapping about like a garden hose with too much water pressure.

However, under different climate states during the past few millennia the water flux was greater than now; this leads to great uncertainty in estimations of how much of the current water flow is renewable versus fossil.

But the process can become overwhelmed when too much of the contaminant is pumped into a waterway, allowing nitrate to flow to coastal waters.

Using detailed, ground - level data from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and Environmental Protection Agency, Cardenas and Kiel analyzed the waterways for sinuosity (how much they bend and curve); the texture of the materials along the waterways; the time spent in the sediment (known as the hyporheic zone); and the rate at which the water flows through the sediment.

The authors determined that the low - flow sprinkler systems were just as effective as the high - flow systems in mitigating the effects of heat in California's hot, dry climate, despite using only about one - quarter as much water.

As global warming affects the earth and ocean, the retreat of the sea ice means there won't be as much cold, dense water, generated through a process known as oceanic convection, created to flow south and feed the Gulf Stream.

Because water has greater density than air and flows are more constant than wind, underwater turbines can deliver much more energy than wind turbines.

If wind has expanded the canyons of Mars, scientists might overestimate how much water once flowed there if they neglect the effect of wind.

If the water remained in the channel, the water would eventually cool to a point where it was not melting much ice, but the channels allow the water to flow out to the open ocean and warmer water to flow in, again melting the ice shelf from beneath.

Hawkings and his collaborators spent three months in 2012 and 2013 gathering water samples and measuring the flow of water from the 600 - square - kilometer (230 - square - mile) Leverett Glacier and the smaller, 36 - square - kilometer (14 - square - mile) Kiattuut Sermiat Glacier in Greenland as part of a Natural Environment Research Council - funded project to understand how much phosphorus, in various forms, was escaping from the ice sheet over time and draining into the sea.

But if scientists have been discounting this effect, «our attempts to estimate how much water used to be flowing on Mars... might be pretty strongly biased,» he says.

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.

The recent paper, published August 30 in Science Advances, found that without significant changes, Jordan could face lower rainfall, much higher temperatures and as much as a 75 percent decline in water flowing into the country from Syria.

Using data on the rate at which water flows in the creek and official figures on how much salt is spread on the roads, he calculated that even by November only about 45 per cent of the previous winter's salt had been washed down the creek; the rest remained in the ground water.

Understanding how carbon flows between land, air and water is key to predicting how much greenhouse gas emissions the earth, atmosphere and ocean can tolerate over a given time period to keep global warming and climate change at thresholds considered tolerable.

If this scenario is accurate, Earth may today hold half as much water in its depths as is currently flowing in oceans on the surface, Panero said — an amount that would approximately equal the volume of the Pacific Ocean.

But questions have lingered over how much water actually flowed on the planet, and the ocean hypothesis has been hotly debated.

Since so much of the ice sheet is grounded underwater, rising sea levels may have the effect of lifting the sheets, allowing more - and increasingly warmer - water underneath it, leading to further bottom melting, more ice shelf disintegration, accelerated glacial flow, and further sea level rise, and so on and on, another vicious cycle.

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.

Researchers at the University of Manchester have developed a graphene - oxide membrane with a scalable, uniform pore size that can filter out even the smallest salts, giving it potential for producing drinking water from salt water without affecting the flow of the water too much.

Too much of the polar water, which is also less salty, and the Gulf Stream could be displaced to the south, removing the flow of water that currently warms England and Northern Europe....

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.