Sentences with phrase «natural water flows»

Large areas of agricultural lands have been converted for residential and commercial land uses, significantly altering natural water flows and drainage.

«For many years, the natural water flows of these wetland areas have been interrupted by river regulation and concrete weirs.

For marine - based operations for bivalves or algae, no nutrients may be added to the system and only nutrients from natural water flow are permitted.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Vice President Al Gore today presented Congress with a Herculean plan to restore a more - natural water flow to the Everglades, the vast wetland in southern Florida, while safeguarding the booming region's water supply.

As Louisiana's wetlands continue to disappear at an alarming rate, a new study has pinpointed the human - made structures that disrupt the natural water flow and threaten these important ecosystems.

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Your house washed away because that is the natural result of two fathoms of water flowing against a frame house.

Rainforests act as natural water filters, keeping pollution and debris from flowing into water supplies; they also slow down rainwater, sending it into underground reserves.

Additionally, Commonwealth environmental water supported the manipulation of weir pool water levels at Locks 8 and 9 to provide wetlands permanently connected to weir pools with more natural patterns of inundation and drying sequences, assist in inundating creeks and anabranches that normally receive water only during higher flow conditions (such as Mulcra Island) and provide hydraulic variability within the river channel.

The watering resulted in the water level rising by up to 1.5 metres between Willandra Weir and Booligal with smaller water level rises occurring between Booligal and the Great Cumbung Swamp, with the integrity of the flow preserved with natural patterns of flow occurring as the water moved through the system.

Environmental water was delivered between January and February to manage the recession from high natural flows during late December / early January and ensure that river levels decreased gradually.

The watering action ceased on 3 February 2012 due to high natural river flows.

5.3 opportunity to supplement natural flows or coordinate with other water releases (including consumptive and other environmental water); and

In 2017 - 18, Commonwealth environmental water will continue to build on the positive responses of vegetation from past environmental watering and natural flows; and provide habitat and recruitment opportunities for waterbirds, native fish, turtles and frogs.

The real value of environmental water during wet conditions lies in its ability to extend the duration of larger natural flows in order to restore the variability in flows that once existed around big floods.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Office can (and does) use environmental water to extend the duration of high natural flows in order to deliver better environmental outcomes (e.g. bird and fish breeding) but always and only if there are no detrimental impacts on people and propWater Office can (and does) use environmental water to extend the duration of high natural flows in order to deliver better environmental outcomes (e.g. bird and fish breeding) but always and only if there are no detrimental impacts on people and propwater to extend the duration of high natural flows in order to deliver better environmental outcomes (e.g. bird and fish breeding) but always and only if there are no detrimental impacts on people and property.

During spring in 2016 - 17, a small volume of Commonwealth environmental water contributed to increasing river connectivity in the Mehi River and Carole Creek during a large natural flow event.

Our long - term intervention monitoring (LTIM) researchers are well placed to understand and report on the benefits of natural flows (as distinct from environmental water flows) and how we might mimic similar conditions through environmental water delivery to stimulate future events.

What triggers a translucent flow is specific to rules that apply to individual storages, but what they have in common is, when a storage has reached a certain capacity, a small amount of water is allowed to flow through river systems to replicate a natural response to rainfall.

In a housing community, the amount of water released into streams must be carefully controlled so as to equal the natural flow of water.

(b) It is further in the national interest to ensure that the Nation's electricity is affordable, reliable, safe, secure, and clean, and that it can be produced from coal, natural gas, nuclear material, flowing water, and other domestic sources, including renewable sources.

The Thompson campaign has pointed out throughout the city comptroller's run for mayor that he has worked hard on environmental efforts, including attempting to stop natural gas drilling within or near the city's upstate watershed, which provides drinking water to the city's residents; calling for the preservation of wildlife space in the Ridgewood Reservoir; and issuing a report documenting the impact of airport congestion at the city's three major airports; and the rise in airport runoff, especially the flow from Kennedy Airport into marshes in Jamaica Bay.

It may be that the Glen Canyon and Hoover Dams have altered the river's ecosystem beyond the point where regulating the flow of water through the dams is going to achieve anything like the natural flow of water that existed before them.

A pulse flow is a surge of water that periodically flows through a river — normally as the result of natural events such as spring storms or melting snow.

This decreases natural storm runoff during high - flow winter months while contributing proportionately more water to streamflows during the drier months that make up about 80 percent of the region's calendar year.

Whitewater Kayaking Since the 2000 Olympics, the whitewater kayaking event has moved from natural rivers to artificial courses in which the water's speed and flow, the height of waves, and the obstacles can all be adjusted.

There are two primary ways to achieve «environmental flows» of water necessary to sustain river ecosystems, write Mike Acreman, of the UK's Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and colleagues in a review published this month in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: controlled releases like the recent experiment on the Colorado that are designed with specific objectives for ecology and ecosystem services in mind and hands - off policies that minimize or reverse alterations to the natural flow of the river.

The research by hydrogeologists at The University of Texas at Austin, which appears in the May 11 edition of the journal Nature Geoscience, shows for the first time that virtually every drop of water coursing through 311,000 miles (500,000 kilometers) of waterways in the Mississippi River network goes through a natural filtering process as it flows to the Gulf of Mexico.

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.

Renewable energy (sources) or RES capture their energy from existing flows of energy, from on - going natural processes, such as sunshine, wind, flowing water, biological processes, and geothermal heat flows.

The term refers to all the farmers who share irrigation water from a common source, be it a natural spring or the flow from a weir.

These geographic shifts will keep the wine flowing, but may bring new pressures on wildlife and other natural resources such as water, says climatologist Lee Hannah of Conservation International's Moore Center for Ecosystem Science and Economics.

Such green completions would capture the natural gas that flows back with the water used to frack the well.

America's largest freshwater rescue, The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), aims to improve water supply for South Florida farms and residents, by returning water flow to its natural state.

«The equations derived from our analysis can be used by water resources managers to better predict how a proposed water withdrawal or other alteration to natural stream flow will affect the health of downstream fish populations.»

And that is an underestimate of the amount of brine, fracking fluid and other contaminated water that flows back up a well along with the natural gas or oil, because it is based on incomplete data from state governments gathered in 2007.

The water is injected under high pressure into a wellbore to fracture deep rock formations in order to release the flow of natural gas and petroleum in a process call hydraulic fracturing.

When all are at ease, dialogue flows like water and movements are natural.

Many of the building's features also conserve energy, from a lighting system with sensors that allow for maximizing the use of natural light to waterless urinals and low - flow dual - flush toilets that conserve water.

Children test a variety of natural Earth surfaces to see which allows water to flow through the fastest.

In the past, the best way to clean water was to leave the natural environment to selfrecycle its own water flows.

It majorly includes the various aspects such as flow, density, water level, channels, etc., which are essential in figuring out a lot of natural and environmental factors.

They initiate biodiversity conservation actions and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land use practices for soil, water and natural forest with the aim to increase land productivity and improve water flow.

«The updated Fresh Flow II Fountain provides a natural flow of filtered water, which may be an inherent preference for many pets.»

Some pets like the more natural circling water flow that bubbles rather than flows.

The water free flows like a natural fountain and falls into a bowl at the bottom.

These fountains aerate and recirculate water, mimicking natural, flowing sources and may encourage drinking.

In that technique, the natural elasticity of the urethra under forceful urine flow is used to allow small stones present in the cat's bladder to make their way out via the urethra — much like a water balloon jet increases the diameter of the balloon's neck when you squirt someone at a party.

In freshwater applications, they are best employed in rheophilic habitats where the fish need a constant unidirectional flow of water to simulate their natural ecosystems — for example, the Congo (Zaire) River and the up - stream habitats of the Asian hillstream regions.

This harmony is achieved through an awareness of energy flow, the balance of the natural elements of wood, fire, earth, water and metal, the correct placement of objects in an interior space and the balance of yin and yang (masculine and feminine, light and dark).

Tegenungan Waterfall Tegenungan Waterfall one of many tourist places and destination, is unique for it lush green surrounding and heavy water flow, perfect for swimming and enjoying for the fresh water, Natural scenery around.