Sentences with phrase «to prevent erosion»

We must prevent the erosion of affordable housing to ensure that low - and middle - income families can remain in their communities.

That, in turn, helps prevent erosion and runoff into rivers and streams.

The project will also prevent erosion and stabilize sandy slopes.

If necessary, amend the constitution to prevent erosion of property rights.

It can also prevent erosion and filter out contaminants, protecting clean water.

The plants clean the water by trapping particulates, and stabilize shorelines by preventing erosion.

Trump's positions are further complicated by a recent Politico reportthat shows his organization cited global warming as justification to build a coastal structure to prevent erosion at a golf course in Ireland.

The good side is that the tree prevents erosion, and it forms a microhabitat for birds and animals in an otherwise harsh environment.

Mangrove forests play key ecological roles, including sustaining fish populations and other wildlife, preventing erosion along coastlines, and acting as an overall carbon sink.

Some other key sustainability points: Coconut trees are soil builders Coconut trees help prevent erosion Coconut trees can provide multiple items for life; timber for building, the leaves used as roofing, coconuts as food, coconut water as beverage, coconut husk for fuel and coconut nectar as a sugar.»

Vetiver is a well - known environmentally friendly ingredient — its grasses are used to help prevent erosion globally and help replenish polluted air, too.

The Mulai Kathoni forest prevents erosion and supports livestock for the growing human population.

Bamboo farms help to prevent erosion through the stabilization on the dirt by their roots.

As Wired points out, «The researchers also found that so - called biological soil crusts, a little - studied layer of lichen and bacteria found in arid western regions, play a surprisingly large role in preventing erosion.

But a new study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology and led by University of Pennsylvania doctoral candidate Bianca Charbonneau finds that the invasive plant does have one advantage over its native counterpart, Ammophila breviligulata, or American beach grass: the invasive is better at preventing erosion of dunes during big storms.

It can improve the agriculture (mainly the soil for crop production by preventing erosion) and re-generate soil nutrients.

In addition, a bamboo grove releases some 35 percent more oxygen into the air than a similar - sized stand of trees, and it matures (and can be replanted) within seven years (compared to 30 - 50 years for a stand of trees), helping to improve soil conditions and prevent erosion along the way.

What's more, they also prevent erosion - borne humus loss as a result of downpours, snow gliding or avalanches.

Peas also have a relatively shallow root system which can help prevent erosion of the soil, and once the peas have been picked, the plant remainders tend to break down relatively easily for soil replenishment.

Climate - smart agriculture promotes a number of water conservation practices, such as planting a buffer of trees and bushes along streams and rivers to prevent erosion and contamination from crop runoff.

These locally - adapted leguminous crops can help restore degraded soils very fast, successfully suppress weed, fix nitrogen and prevent erosion.

In order to be sustainable, all ingredients are produced without the use of synthetic fertilizers or chemical pesticides and herbicides, and are cultivated in a way that helps restore native ecosystems, prevent erosion and support water conservation.

In 1990, the Park District hired Shabica as a consultant to assess what kind of work needed to be done on rock formations along South Lake Beach to prevent erosion.

The Park District also proposes a restoration of the costal habitat at Rosewood that would expand the beach, prevent erosion and protect other aspects of the area.

«We are sceptical that the proposed protections will prevent the erosion of liberties of religion and conscience,» the signatories declare in the letter, which is published in today's Telegraph newspaper.

It also faulted the agency's decision to assess damage starting 10 years after the trees would be cut, when replanted saplings would be helping to prevent erosion.

The herbivorous beast would also eat dead grass, allowing new grass to send its roots deeper into the ground to prevent erosion.

The prototype shows, for example, that planting teak on a hillside to prevent erosion can have the opposite effect.

These root systems are a «below ground safety net» that stores carbon and nitrogen, prevents erosion and pulls up water from deep in the soil.

The plants help prevent erosion, and their accumulating biomass after they die keeps the wetlands from drowning as the delta subsides.

The program is in place in 26 of China's 31 mainland provinces and, while its central goal is to prevent erosion, most of the reestablished forest is now used for the production of timber, fiber, tree fruits and other cash crops.

The government - backed effort, known as the Grain - for - Green Program, has transformed 28 million hectares (69.2 million acres) of cropland and barren scrubland back to forest in an effort to prevent erosion and alleviate rural poverty.

But most of the finer sediment, he believes, spreads far and wide — into the Essex marshes, for instance, and even to the shores of Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany: «Any plan to prevent erosion of Holderness could be seen as a major impediment to the development of some of the valuable coastlines of Europe.»

Off the Sussex coast at Elmer engineers from Arun District Council have built four offshore islands, each about 100 metres long, to act as breakwaters to prevent erosion of the local beach.

Placement of a sheet of PTFE between the graft and surrounding structures can also help to prevent erosion.

Inlets and outlets generally need a cover of either vegetation or stone to prevent erosion.

The soil is then planted with vegetation to prevent erosion of the soil by rainfall and wind.

Reefs also protect shorelines from damaging storm waters and prevent erosion; they are the rainforests of the sea that provide a home for one million species; and they are «the medicine cabinets of the 21st century» according to NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program, providing new sources of medicine to treat cancer, HIV, heart disease, arthritis and other diseases.

◊ Other considerations: If you start drinking lemon water with any degree of frequency, be sure to use a straw to limit the exposure of acid on your teeth (prevent the erosion of tooth enamel).

The unions are perceived to be standing in the way of badly needed reforms, protecting incompetent teachers, and putting up barricades to prevent the erosion of pension benefits the public can no longer afford.

«After we had done a variety of activities from the Landforms FOSS kit, and read in our textbooks about erosion, we designed ways to keep the soil on the hillside and prevent erosion.

It holds in the soil near its roots to prevent erosion.

Landscapers help create and conserve outside spaces, for wildlife, plants and to prevent erosion, creating and maintaining green spaces that provide a wealth of health benefits.

María Luz's family owns a small plot of land in the hills of Honduras, but they can't raise a profitable farm, until a new teacher arrives and shows the village how to make compost for the soil and terraces to prevent erosion.

Nusa Lembongan's northeast corner is covered with a substantial mangrove forest which plays an important environmental role sheltering the coast and preventing erosion.

It is vital that the lush growth be allowed to remain in order to stabilize the soil and prevent erosion, which can transform a cut rainforest into a useless wasteland in a very short time.