Sentences with phrase «of surface water supply»

In addition to causing changes to the timing and quantity of surface water supply, global warming is also causing more severe impacts from drought.

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I'm talking about «usable» water — «The Earth has a finite supply of fresh water, stored in aquifers, surface waters and the atmosphere.

A number of sources have been examined, Seggos said, including the possibility of tapping into the Tomhannock Reservoir in Pittstown, water supplies in Bennington, Vt., and other surface or groundwater sources.

It would address the decades - old issue of septic tanks on Long Island that threaten drinking water supplies and surface waters, according to a Senate report released last year after a series of public hearings chaired by Sen. Kemp Hannon (R - Garden City).

Although no one can say for certain whether the subsurface ocean supplies the water that has been seen spraying out of the tiger stripes on Enceladus's surface, the scientists say that it is possible.

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.

Arizona law, too, treats groundwater and surface water as unconnected, as does Arizona's state water plan, which purports to account for water resources and to estimate how many years of supply remain.

Recent estimates show that forests in the Southeast deliver surface drinking water to an estimated 48.7 million people, with streams from the mountainous Southern Appalachian region alone providing water supplies to 10 million people, many of them living in major cities such as Atlanta, Georgia.

Untersee is a good model for Mars, he says, because it is supplied by subglacial melt — water that accumulates at the bottom of an ice pile — rather than from surface melting, which does not occur on Mars.

The Loa surface and groundwater system supplies the great majority of water used in the region, and meets much of the municipal and agricultural demands.

The scientists believe that the drains, designed to channel rain or irrigation runoff to the gutter in front of the house, may leave a perpetual supply of standing water in the buried pipe beneath the soil surface, which provide sites for mosquito development.

These sites tended to experience intermittent upwelling that supplies nutrients to surface waters, spurring blooms of algae and providing plenty of food for the filter - feeding mussels.

«By midcentury, we expect to see less reliable surface water supplies in several regions of the United States,» said the study's lead author, Kristen Averyt, associate director for science at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder.

An international team of researchers analyzed the available data taken from all previous studies of the Southern Ocean, together with satellite images taken of the area, to quantify the amount of iron supplied to the surface waters of the Southern Ocean.

Nearly one in 10 U.S. watersheds is «stressed,» with demand for water exceeding natural supply, according to a new analysis of surface water in the United States.

«A single power plant has the potential to stress surface supplies in a local area,» said co-author James Meldrum, a researcher in the Western Water Assessment, a program of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and CIRES.

And, if some geological mechanism has been supplying water to the surface all this time, wouldn't the mantle have run out of water by now?

Nearly one in 10 U.S. watersheds is «stressed,» with demand for water exceeding natural supply, according to a new, CIRES - led analysis of surface water in the United States.

Wendy Panero, associate professor of earth sciences at Ohio State, and doctoral student Jeff Pigott are pursuing a different hypothesis: that Earth was formed with entire oceans of water in its interior, and has been continuously supplying water to the surface via plate tectonics ever since.

As of August, Antigua had no surface water supplies, and by October it was using 100 percent desalinated water.

In one sentence: Regions that depend primarily on irrigation from surface water will be more vulnerable to drought as the impacts of irrigation on water supply are most significant during times with low water flow, according to climate modeling research from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

And regions that depend primarily on surface water irrigation (rivers, lakes, reservoirs) will be more vulnerable to drought as the impacts of irrigation on water supply are most significant during times with low water flow.

«So the best explanation is a region of salty, liquid water below the frozen surface, which supplies a conductive layer.

Water pollution essay: «Water is life'Over three - fourth of the earth's surface is made up of water - so a ready supply of water is something that we have all taken for granted for much of our Water pollution essay: «Water is life'Over three - fourth of the earth's surface is made up of water - so a ready supply of water is something that we have all taken for granted for much of our Water is life'Over three - fourth of the earth's surface is made up of water - so a ready supply of water is something that we have all taken for granted for much of our water - so a ready supply of water is something that we have all taken for granted for much of our water is something that we have all taken for granted for much of our life.

The obstacle is that state law prohibits development in the Core Preservation Area of the Pine Barrens in order to protect the island's purest supply of drinking and surface water.

With over 70 % of the earth's surface covered in water, it may appear that there is an abundant supply available to sustain us.

As you SNUBA, breathe easily through a regulator with the support of surface - supplied air, attached by a long hose to a support raft floating above the water.

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There's also the real danger of toxic material leaking into surface and ground water supplies as a result of poor oilfield operational practices.

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Surface mining techniques are even more damaging, both in regions such as Central Appalachia, where mountaintop removal methods are deployed, and in deserts and prairies, where arid conditions make reclamation and restoration of underground water supplies difficult.

The impact of the variability and periodicity of rainfall on surface water supply systems in Scotland

On the earth the supply of water vapour is unlimited over the greater part of the surface, and the actual mean temperature results from a balance reached between the solar» constant» and the properties of water and air.

Johnson, K. S., S. C. Riser, and D. M. Karl (2010), Nitrate supply from deep to near - surface waters of the North Pacific subtropical gyre, Nature, 465, 1062 — 1065, doi: 10.1038 / nature09170

In response to long - term declining rainfall, Perth's Water Corporation, Western Australia's main water supplier, has been moving away from its reliance on dams, and is now planning to move away from reliance on the Gnangara mound, a surface groundwater system made up of four main aquifers beneath Perth's coastal pWater Corporation, Western Australia's main water supplier, has been moving away from its reliance on dams, and is now planning to move away from reliance on the Gnangara mound, a surface groundwater system made up of four main aquifers beneath Perth's coastal pwater supplier, has been moving away from its reliance on dams, and is now planning to move away from reliance on the Gnangara mound, a surface groundwater system made up of four main aquifers beneath Perth's coastal plain.

The five Great Lakes hold 21 percent of the world's fresh surface water — an H 2 O supply that will come in handy in drier times.

One - fifth of the world's fresh surface water supply lies here, and it is worth protecting.

There is over a trillion gallons a day of water redirected out of our eco-system being trapped in pipes and sewers, pumped into oil wells for pressure, trapped into tailing ponds with heavy surface scum, made into canned food and water products, made into cleaning supplies and beauty products.

Groundwater supplies between 30 and 50 percent of California's water supply, depending on precipitation, and represents a storage reservoir that is over three times greater than available surface water storage.

In the western US, they contribute as much as 75 percent of surface - water and groundwater supplies.

CfC's in amounts humans ever produced would have had an impact upon the water supply by a ration of perhaps 10 million: 1 in terms of reaching the O3 layer 10 - 25 miles > the surface of the earth.

Snowpack is expected to decline in the decades ahead, reducing surface water supplies in locations throughout the western US Photo: US Department of Agriculture Photo: NRCS

Adverse effects on quality of surface and groundwater; contamination of water supply; water scarcity may be relieved

The rate of evaporation always increases in proportion to the supply of extra energy to water molecules at the surface or to molecules of air that are in contact with the water surface so that no warming of the ocean by the air can occur.

Impervious surfaces such as roads, parking lots, and roofs associated with sprawling urban development significantly change natural river flow patterns and the recharge of underground water supplies.

When water goes down a drain it doesn't just fall down the middle but sticks to the pipe because of surface tension; the powerpipe circulates the cold water supply in a coil wrapped around the drainpipe.

The answer is that since the effect of CO2 is at the surface, rather than distributed throughout the troposphere, then the surface of the Antarctic ice shelves melted supplying fresh water to the sea ice edge.

Whether the water supply is sourced from a municipal or private water purveyor, or obtained privately from a surface water body, well, or spring, the water must be obtained and managed through the complex web of statutes, regulations, and court cases known as water law.

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While water covers more than 70 per cent of the earth's surface and comprises two - thirds of our bodies, it is a huge fallacy to think that there is a limitless supply.