Sentences with phrase «reduced runoff»

In addition, less mountain snow going into late spring means reduced runoff in late spring and summer.

For example, the City of Seattle reduced runoff by 97 percent the year after converting an open ditch stormwater drain to an attractive roadside swale garden, decreasing the width of the adjacent street and planting native vegetation.

«Reduced runoff is increasing the pressure on freshwater resources in much of the world, especially with more demand for water as population increases,» says NCAR scientist Aiguo Dai, the lead author of the journal paper.

Scientists already know how climate change is impacting the Western United States — higher temperatures have translated to earlier spring snow melts, precipitation is falling more as rain instead of snow at higher elevations and there's reduced runoff and streamflow.

The effect is measurable: for example, reduced runoff from snow melt has caused an annual 5 percent decrease in the amount of water entering the Colorado River, which experts say already faces the risk of significantly drying up.

This usually occurs in coastal and estuarine areas due to reducing land - based influence (e.g., either from reduced runoff and associated groundwater recharge, or from excessive water withdrawals from aquifers) or increasing marine influence (e.g., relative sea - level rise).

Beyond REDD, there are scores of practices designed to incentivize good land stewardship — from carbon - based payments for no - till farming to watershed payments for reduced runoff to mitigation banking that supports habitat protection and restoration.

Thus tremendous increases of Nile discharge are determined, by radiocarbon dating, to have occurred about 12,000 and 9,000 years ago, separated and followed by alluviation, indicating reduced runoff in the headwaters.

Less precipitation leads to reduced runoff for communities, industry and agriculture.

It is thought the reduced runoff is achieved because Festulolium's intense initial root growth and subsequent rapid turn - over, especially at depth, allows more water to be retained within the soil.

Less rainfall to the area will mean reduced runoff into water basins that feed irrigated fields.

The combination of higher evaporation and lower precipitation depletes soil moisture and reduces runoff, making droughts more intense and more frequent.

The scale of the problem is daunting, and even though enormous attempts are done to reduce the runoff humans are still pumping about 10 million tonnes of extra phosphorus into our freshwaters every year.

Yet even with a dramatic shift toward reducing runoff, Magnien warns that it could be 10 to 20 years before the gulf shows visible improvement.

Although many projects here at the shelter are an on - going endeavour, all major construction projects are complete, including our latest project, converting all rain gutters to drain into rainbarrels to reduce runoff.

Golden Gate Audubon Society will plant native coastal scrub plants and grasses to create a naturalistic sediment contour in the upland at Pier 94 in Bayview Hunters Point to sequester carbon and reduce runoff.

Bioretention, an LID technique, can reduce runoff impacts from paved areas.

Thirdly, urban agriculture and urban forestry contribute to disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change by reducing runoff, keeping flood plains free from construction, reducing urban temperatures, capturing dust and CO2, while growing fresh food close to consumers reduces energy spent in transport, cooling, processing and packaging, whilst productive reuse of urban organic wastes and wastewater (and the nutrients these contain) reduces methane emissions from landfills and energy use in fertilizer production.

The goal was worthy — to reduce runoff into the Chesapeake Bay — but the requirement wasn't.

Not exact matches

MillerCoors» water - saving effort — focused in Texas, California and Colorado — involves using sensors to release just enough water for irrigation, planting native grass to reduce erosion and runoff and keeping a close eye on leaky machinery in its breweries.

MillerCoors is giving out about $ 700,000 to landowners in the Trinity River Basin that use strategies that reduce erosion and runoff, such as restoring native plants and rotating cattle grazing, according to Trinity Waters, a non-profit conservation group.

«We continued to reduce risk and accelerate runoff of the block,» said Rodney O. Martin Jr., chairman and CEO of Voya Financial.

Complicating this picture, is that for the first time in modern history, the Fed is concurrently removing accommodation in two ways, by increasing the price of money (Fed funds rate) and reducing the supply of money (balance sheet runoff).

The project will focus on improving farm productivity and profits while reducing water pollution associated with agricultural runoff.

«Better knowledge will also provide an understanding how pressures such as invasive species, polluted runoff and reduced vegetation cover affect the ongoing health of water - dependent ecosystems in the Basin.

On March 23, Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary in Natick will host a CRWA - led training on Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System permits and effective strategies for reducing storm water runoff pollution.

Rain barrels reduce stormwater runoff, water produced in heavy rainfalls that does not soak in to the ground and can transport pollutants to our local waterways.

Gov. Cuomo wants the state to invest a record $ 2 billion in water infrastructure projects across New York, including helping to pay for new wastewater systems on Long Island that would reduce nitrogen runoff.

Cayuga County is considering steps to reduce the negative impacts of manure runoff on local watersheds.

Improved access for the disabled was also provided, and hardy new plantings were put in place, which will help reduce rainwater runoff into the city's sewer system.

They also reduce storm water runoff, which is a huge issue in cities.

Ground cover, shrubs and other flora planted across a building's roof can reduce storm water runoff, easing the burden on local sewers and water treatment systems.

«Use of the nanoparticle increases soil diffusion while decreasing the risk of leaching and runoff, reducing the amount of chemical in food crops and reducing the cost to treat crops.»

That's why it's important to prevent contaminants from getting into the source water in the first place, for instance by installing wood chip bioreactors on farms to reduce nitrates in runoff water, says Michelle Soupir, a water quality engineer at Iowa State University in Ames.

While government agencies try to craft and implement development and zoning standards to help reduce storm water runoff problems caused by commercial and industrial entities, there is still much that individuals can do to reduce their impact as well.

No - till systems simultaneously reduce the erosive force of runoff and increase the ability of the ground to hold onto soil, making these methods remarkably effective at curbing erosion.

The location is on track toward a target to reduce storm water runoff by 75 percent in summer and 40 percent in winter, he added.

New York's Mayor Michael Bloomberg has committed city funds to converting some of the area's black tar and stone roofs into highly reflective white roofs, which reduce temperatures on roofs and cooling costs but fail to address the storm water runoff problem.

«Difficult at best» Adaptation can include efforts to reduce stormwater runoff by expanding pervious surfaces, building defensive walls to protect critical sites, strengthening building standards, and expanding «green infrastructure» that can retain floodwater.

«We know a lot about how to reduce emissions from smokestacks and tailpipes and agricultural runoff,» he added, explaining that it's not a question of how to do it but that it requires personal, political and economic incentives.

The results indicate that recently proposed measures to reduce farm runoff are probably not sweeping enough to do much good.

Actions to reduce stormwater runoff in ways that allow water to infiltrate and move more slowly through the ground can also ease flooding and peak flows that otherwise threaten salmon redds.

Over two years of field experiments in the south west the team demonstrated that the hybrid, named Festulolium, reduced water runoff from agricultural grassland by up to 51 per cent compared to a leading UK nationally - recommended perennial ryegrass cultivar and by 43 per cent compared to meadow fescue.

The researchers estimated the benefits of tree cover in reducing air pollution, stormwater runoff, energy costs associated with heating and cooling buildings, and carbon emissions.

The researchers suspected different, more targeted, irrigation methods would help reduce nitrate runoff and improve plant efficiency.

In recent years, some growers already have dramatically reduced the amount of water and synthetic fertilizer they use by practicing precision farming techniques, such as drip irrigation, which reduces the overall amount of water used and therefore nitrate runoff.

The setup is part of an experiment aimed at testing an unusual water pollution control scheme that uses gypsum, a waste product from coal - fired power plants, to reduce nutrient runoff from farms.

«If there is enough space around cropland, excess nutrients would have the chance to be taken up by other plants, reducing the content of the runoff that reaches the ocean,» Shantz said.

«Many wetlands soak up runoff and floodwaters, which reduces peak flood - flows and avoids costly flood damage.»

Salt marshes perform a long list of ecological services: they buffer coastal erosion; filter runoff; reduce the risk of flooding; provide habitat for juvenile fish, crabs and shrimp; and store excess carbon, keeping it from re-entering Earth's atmosphere.