Sentences with phrase «other surface water»

Homeowners insurance does not cover damage from flood or other surface water, including storm surge.

5) As as result of 3 and 4, issues such as subsidence from ground water extraction, salt water intrusion, water hole and other surface water drying, wild fires, debris flows, etc, etc are rampant.

Not exact matches

If all of that water was contained inside the Earth (as many Christian «claim» is the case when they get desperate because the other options clearly don't work), then you wouldn't have been able to walk on the surface because the Earth's crust would have turned into a literal quicksand soup.

This is derived from movements on the surface of water and turns out to be applicable in many other areas.

That would mean, amongst other things, that there were no ice caps or salt water, that plate tectonics were incredibly rapid in the recent past and this didn't cause the Earth's surface to shatter etc..

Once the surface of the water looks cloudy and the yeast blooms, add it to a mixing bowl with the remaining 1/2 cup of water and the other bread - dough ingredients.

The final volume of water recovered for the environment is dependent on the outcome of two work programs that may either increase or decrease the surface water sustainable diversion limits; one to remove river system constraints and the other to improve the efficiency of environmental water delivery.

In each greenhouse, one of the flats was surface irrigated by a simple watering can, and the other was sub-irrigated by placing it in an inch of water in a large tank until the soil had taken up enough water to dampen the surface.

The loss of fertile top soil by erosion results in a lower yield capacity on the onehand and in a undesired transfer of nutrients, pesticides and sediments in surface water on the other.

Simply place the tub on top of a small table, chair or other short sturdy surface (like a cooler), fill it up with about an inch of water, cups, pails and shovels, and let your little ones engage in some pouring, emptying and splashing fun.

They look past the array of empty liquor bottles, some on top of the pond «s thick algae carpet, others poking up through the surface like some kind of strange water plant.

After preparing food, wipe your kitchen counters and other exposed surfaces with hot soapy water or a commercial or homemade cleaning solution.

We know that if a mother smokes, if she has consumed alcohol or other sedatives, if the baby is formula fed, if the sleep surface is a sofa or water bed, or if the bed is also shared with other children that a baby sleeping with his or her mother is at heightened risk of SIDS or accidental death.

This includes infants placed on water beds, couches, or other unsafe surfaces.

Do not cosleep is you are under the influence of drugs and alcohol, if you are obese because you have a greater chance of having sleep apnea, if you are suffering from sleep deprivation, if you have a water bed or other cushiony surface where it's easier for your baby to fall towards the middle of the bed, if you bed isn't big enough, if your other children are sleeping in the bed with you and there isn't enough room, or cosleeping on a coach or sofa.

The CPSC has issued a warning against using them and other soft surfaces, stating that infants should never be placed on air beds, water beds, and beds not designed for babies» use.

Never place a baby to sleep on a chair, soft bedding, water bed, cushion, adult bed or any other raised surface not intended for newborn sleepers.

As the quality of drinking and surface water declines, why not use some of the money for water treatment systems and other water quality improvement programs?

He has clearly articulated the need to reduce nitrogen and other contaminants from entering groundwater and surface waters by limiting development.

«NYSTA's knowledge of highway use and regulation and traffic impacts, while important, is highly limited within the context of a complex environmental review covering surface and groundwater, soils, bedrock and geology, storm water, air quality, habitat, and climate, among other areas of specialized knowledge and expertise,» they wrote.

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's also an endocrine disrupter that interferes with development in fish, frogs and other species when it gets into surface water.

The strike - slip and thrust movements of the fault may drive water from the Red Sea in between the fault and the surface of the igneous block, allowing the two to slip past each other, the scientists suggest.

The meteorite, dubbed Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, contains a concentration of water by weight about ten times higher than in any of the other 100 or so known Martian meteorites — those rare rocks that get ejected from the Martian surface into space when an asteroid hits the planet, and eventually find their way to Earth.

Depending on how light is measured, it can either be particle - like, lighting up a camera pixel, for example, or wavelike, interfering with other waves like ripples on the surface of water.

Dispersants are mixtures of solvents, surfactants and other additives that break up the surface tension of an oil slick and make oil more soluble in water, according to a paper published by the National Academy of Sciences.

In September, scientists for India's Chandrayaan - 1 and two other spacecraft announced the discovery of trace quantities of water over much of the moon's surface, which may be created in this process.

In other places — Iceland, for example — the ridge tops are exposed above the water's surface.

On the other hand, the fact that water is slightly compressible is what allows pressure waves, such as sound, to travel through, though this property has almost no effect on surface waves.

Companies separate the water and other by - products from the oil and inject it back into the ground via wastewater wells (a step designed to protect soil and surface water).

In 2011, in response to growing public concern about the possible environmental and human health effects of fracking wastewater, Pennsylvania's Department of Environmental Protection requested that the discharge of fracking fluids and other unconventional oil and gas wastewater into surface waters be prohibited from central water - treatment facilities that release high salinity effluents.

The trick is, as we mentioned earlier, the ability of water molecules to stick to each other and to other surfaces so strongly.

Furthermore, the researchers found that by altering the size of the ripples, and the type of molecules on the surface, they could achieve fast and controlled motion of molecules other than water..

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.

So this effect could either be the result of natural variability in Earth's climate, or yet another effect of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases like water vapor trapping more heat and thus warming sea - surface temperatures.

Like other pelagic fishes (those that live in the open sea or in surface waters), many sharks travel far and wide.

They encourage stale - smelling fragments to react with water and become less volatile, and they induce TMA to bond with water and other molecules so they never escape the fish's surface to assault your senses.

In other studies where green sea turtles and tiger shark home range overlap have been analyzed, scientists have observed turtles that avoid isolating themselves at the water surface when they are vulnerable to ambush from tiger sharks.

The polymers could be printed onto other surfaces such as fabrics to harvest water from fog, they report 14 June in Nano Letters.

When water drops onto a hydrophilic surface like a windshield, on the other hand, it spreads out and runs in rivulets.

On planets orbiting Proxima Centauri, TRAPPIST - 1 and other M dwarfs, water could be extremely sparse, energetic flares might regularly singe the surface and you might live always in sun or forever in darkness.

From their location thousands of feet below the surface of water or ice, these telescopes will see evidence of neutrinos coming the other way, through the Earth itself.

Although there are other techniques that allow researchers to concentrate molecules on a surface, those techniques mostly work with water as the medium.

You ping a single extra photon down towards Earth's surface, and on the way it hits a water molecule in the atmosphere, boosting its energy slightly and changing its future collisions with other molecules.

The Shallow Radar experiment will peer 30 feet or more below the Martian surface to detect buried water ice; another instrument, an infrared radiometer, will monitor dust storms and other atmospheric disturbances.

Winds over the ocean (blue arrow) also create currents on the surface, pushing the water up one side of the wave and down the other.

By comparing this fingerprint to the geochemical and isotopic profiles of 29 background surface water samples collected across the region, the team was able to determine where and to what extent contamination associated with brine spills had occurred, and rule out the possibility that it had been caused by other sources.

When two smooth, slick surfaces are submerged in water and brought within 100 nanometers of each other, something odd happens: they adhere, even though they are too far apart for electrostatic forces to bridge them.

This included the study of fungi living in the water and the sediments, as well as fungi living on the surfaces of plants and other animals.

«This is the first time water vapor has been unequivocally detected on Ceres or any other object in the asteroid belt and provides proof that Ceres has an icy surface and an atmosphere,» said Michael Küppers of ESA in Spain, lead author of a paper in the journal Nature.