Sentences with phrase «of lakes and rivers»

OPP commissioner Julian Fantino said, «This latest incident where two brave men were attempting to rescue a small child demonstrates the inherent dangers of our lakes and rivers and the need to be vigilant at all times.»

But be aware that Connecticut posts speed limits on a number of its lakes and rivers.

It's a geography lesson of lakes and rivers handcrafted for the living room — gorgeous tables made with once - rotting wood, fitted with embedded pieces of handcut blue glass.

According to WWF, «unsustainable water use practices in agricultural production are linked with the drying of lakes and rivers, declines in underground water levels, and rising soil infertility from a build up in salinity.»

It's more than climate change; it's also extraordinary burdens of toxic chemistry, mining, depletion of lakes and rivers under and above ground, ecosystem simplification, vast genocides of people and other critters, etc, etc, in systemically linked patterns that threaten major system collapse after major system collapse after major system collapse.

«There's no magic wand in any capital in the world that you can wave to refill all of the lakes and rivers that will dry up, or make farm — arid farm land fertile again.

Though precise consequences can not yet be defined, three main pathways of climate change impact are outlined, affecting fisheries and aquaculture, their dependent communities and their economic activities: direct physical (e.g. flooding, severe droughts), biological and ecological (e.g. productivity of lakes and rivers), and indirect wider social and economic (e.g. fresh water use conflicts).

He uses unconventional materials in traditional photographic techniques to produce unique photographic prints with a conceptual twist; for example his «dust» series, which uses collected dust and adhesive in place of the usual photographic chemicals to print delicate, gossamer images; or his photographs of lakes and rivers that are developed in liquid collected from the bodies of water themselves.

Milford Sound is just a 2 hour drive from Te Anau, travelling through pristine rainforest, past a myriad of lakes and rivers, and over mountain ranges to arrive at your destination.

Latin America has a lot of amazing bodies of water covering extensive sections of lakes and rivers.

The temple has a significant importance for the rice farmers in Bali, as the temple is dedicated to the worship of the goddess of lakes and rivers.

The temple was built in 1926 and is dedicated to the worship of the goddess of lakes and rivers, Dewi Batari Ulun Danu.

Some rest behind moats or along the shores of lakes and rivers.

Though I know we're connected to mainland Alaska, sometimes with the influences of the ocean and the number of lakes and rivers, it feels like Brooks Camp and Katmai are actually part of an island — a very wet island.

Set in the Cariboo Mountains of central B.C. amid gorgeous scenery, this 72 - mile long, rectangular circuit of lakes and rivers is a great one for beginners.

Born and raised in Fairbanks, Jennifer now raises her own school aged son in «The Golden Heart City» and enjoys long walks through the woods and along the shores of the lakes and rivers of Fairbanks.

We live near Green Bay and lots of lakes and rivers so this was an important feature so that we could take our kayaks out for a day in the sun.

Why else would the kid need to befriend an amphibious monster that lives in an underground system of lakes and rivers (making the amphibious part of its biology one of evolutionarily convenience for the screenplay).

Climb mountains for sunrise, watch sunsets by the banks of lakes and rivers, visit caves, and have the time of your life!

The large layer of ice acts like a blanket trapping that heat, which in turn melts the ice underneath, creating the network of lakes and rivers.

«Despite 35 years of reduction in acid deposition, still a number of lakes and rivers are negatively impacted.

We also know that Mars once had free - flowing water, too, in the form of lakes and rivers, and potentially oceans as well.

If groundwater decreases, the sizes and depths of lakes decrease as well, so the size and diversity of lakes and rivers serve as a proxy for how close to the surface the water table — the top of the ground water — resides.

The existence of lakes and rivers depends on the levels of the groundwater.

In the realm of research, academic hydrogeologists are broadening their time horizons to help forecast and mitigate the effects of climate change, and they're stretching the traditional boundaries of their field to explore questions such as how groundwater interacts with the surface water of lakes and rivers.

The hike in acidity can kill plants and wildlife: Over the last 2 decades, scientists have documented harm to thousands of lakes and rivers and millions of hectares of high - altitude forests.

Join researchers seeking signs of life in one of the hundreds of lakes and rivers that lurk beneath Antarctica's expansive ice sheet.

They can unite in measures that prevent ecological degradation — such as deforestation, pollution of lakes and rivers, and so on.

Its most important function is to protect and reclaim the waters of our lake and river system.

Implementing the framework's steps and establishing a common understanding of the lake and river system depends on widely shared, reliable data and analysis, the report says.

Not exact matches

«Any attempt to turn off the flows of capital and people around the world will be like trying to divert a river into lakes and creeks,» said Xi.

The tiny beads seep out of water - treatment systems into lakes and rivers, choking fish and marine life that ingest it.

In one of the projects designed by PBS Education, students can view a guided tour of various French explorers in the 17th Century that helped map out North America's diverse waterways, like the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.

The array of claims around Alberta's crude is wide and varied: on the one hand, anti-Keystone groups contend that dilbit — i.e. diluted bitumen, thick oilsand crude mixed with light hydrocarbons that will allow it to flow through a pipeline — is more corrosive than other types of oil and sinks in water rather than floating, which makes it harder to clean rivers and lakes after a spill.

Its motherlode consists of extraordinarily high - grade uranium deposits in Saskatchewan: the McArthur River and Cigar Lake deposits account for roughly 80 % of its proven and probable reserves.

And even though these are merely proposed restrictions for now — it's hard to test the constitutionality of a press release, one environmental law academic noted — they could well become a second front in the ongoing battle against transporting bitumen across rivers, alongside lakes and toward oceaAnd even though these are merely proposed restrictions for now — it's hard to test the constitutionality of a press release, one environmental law academic noted — they could well become a second front in the ongoing battle against transporting bitumen across rivers, alongside lakes and toward oceaand toward oceans.

Laws related to drinking water, elections, financial transparency, matrimonial property, land surrenders and the removal of protections for lakes and rivers were passed in spite of strong opposition by First Nations.

MINNESOTA Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin Lakes and Pines Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys

The city at the mouth of the Manitowoc River on Lake Michigan is home to more than 33,000 renters and homeowners, and got its name from the local Native Americans, which called it «Home of the Good Spirit.»

CN operates a railway that terminates at Hay River on the south shore of Great Slave Lake, 450 road km south of NICO and provides a rail link for haulage of the concentrate that will be produced at the mine site.

The Pine Point property consists of a semi-contiguous group of 47 mineral claims and mining leases in the Pine Point District, about 10 km south of Great Slave Lake and accessible from Hay River by all - weather year - round highway which parallels the mining lease block.

Most players in the gutter cleaning line of business usually offer related services such as providing cleaning services for spas, hot tubs, whirlpools, saunas, gutters and rivers and lakes et al..

«This refinery wouldn't change the pipeline of oil that would traverse British Columbia's rugged land, and healthy rivers and lakes,» said New Democrat energy critic John Horgan, who along with Skeena MLA Robin Austin, provided the New Democrat's initial response to the proposal.

VANCOUVER — New Democrats are calling on the B.C. Liberal government to protect the health of our oceans, lakes and rivers by banning the sale of products containing plastic microbeads.

The new law will apply only to the three oceans that border Canadian territory, and to 159 lakes, rivers and riverines designated in schedule 2 of Bill C - 45.

That over 99 % of Canada's lakes and rivers are no longer subject to federal oversight, and that some 3,000 environmental assessments were abruptly cancelled last year by the Conservatives?

PSAC members working for Environment Canada, for example, inspect lakes and rivers and watersheds and habitats, among a multitude of other tasks — diligently and in the public interest.

Neither can the lakes and rivers and bays and streams and creeks flowing from the vast oceanic sea of Nothingness be denied.

The scientists found that an east wind of 63 mph blowing for 12 hours would have driven the shallow waters back, both into the lake and the river channel.

... and, it's no one person or post or thing, and its not that I have all the answers, or that I live my beliefs the way that I aspire to... I just see lots of really great - hearted people tying themselves in knots, feeling shame and guilt and depression and anger... and at times it seems it is because they are trying to differentiate between seas and lakes and rivers and oceans... instead of just going for a swim.