Sentences with phrase «river systems flowing»

Scientists analyzing satellite data were astonished to discover the size of the vast lakes and river systems flowing beneath the Antarctic ice sheets, which may lubricate the movement of these glaciers as they flow into the surrounding sea.

Not exact matches

Indeed, the river almost always flows in the opposite direction: our informal, intuitive notions of cardinality, time, space, and causality in fact drive the evolution of abstractions such as functions, geometric spaces, real numbers, and coordinate systems.

Giant pumps can now reverse the flow of rivers and move water uphill to arid land farms that have become key cogs in our nation's not - so - local industrial food system.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, contributed to whole - of - system watering in the River Murray, providing benefits along the length of the River Murray in 2016 - 17 and contributing to flows and targeting outcomes from Hume Dam through to the Coorong.

The environmental water used at Whirlpool Corner, Disher Creek and Berri Basin was provided from flows returning to the river system from watering actions originally delivered in Victoria.

A total of 367 GL of Commonwealth environmental water was released from Hume Dam to support in - channel, wetland and low elevation floodplain habitat throughout the River Murray for improving the condition, movement and recruitment of native fish — both silver (critically endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999) and golden perch were detected spawning in the Mid Murray in response to flow variability; improve riparian and wetland vegetation condition; and contribute to the managed export of salt from the River Murray system.

Significant natural flows resulting from rainfall events moved through the length of the River Murray system from June 2016 to January 2017.

This watering action contributed to protecting and restoring ecosystem functions and aquatic habitats in the Warrego River system by supporting more naturally variable flow regimes.

Up to 93,902 ML of Commonwealth environmental water in the Lower Balonne River system (unregulated) was available to contribute to flows during 2013 14.

Up to 153,816 ML of Commonwealth environmental water in the Lower Balonne River system (unregulated) was available to contribute to in - stream fresh flows during 2014 15.

The use of 1,415 ML of Commonwealth environmental water in the Moonie River system (unregulated) contributed to in - stream fresh flows during 2013 - 14.

A flow event in Sept 2016 triggered access to Commonwealth allocations and a total 794 ML of Commonwealth environmental water contributed to in - stream flows, protecting and restoring ecosystem functions and aquatic habitats in the Warrego River system by supporting:

Environmental water use over successive years of lower flows has shown significant benefits for the system through the export of excess salt from the river, as well as through the reduction of the amount of salt imported into the Murray Mouth from the sea.

This involves highly targeted and discrete environmental watering actions such as maintaining low flows to manage water quality by flushing waterholes and directing small volumes of water from the main river channels to providing refuges for plants and animals in wetlands and channel systems.

Commonwealth environmental water contributed to flow regimes that allowed native fish to recruit and survive in the Gwydir River System.

What triggers a translucent flow is specific to rules that apply to individual storages, but what they have in common is, when a storage has reached a certain capacity, a small amount of water is allowed to flow through river systems to replicate a natural response to rainfall.

The head of the Murray Darling Basin Authority admits the authority is powerless to prevent upstream farmers harvesting rainwater desperately needed to flow through the river system for the benefit of all users.

The Hoosic River flows through the village where PFOA contamination is in the water system on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2016, in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)

There will be a new generation of equipment to control the flow between treatment facilities, pumping stations and tanks; there is a system to alert customers and large institutions, such as hospitals, to interruptions in service; old pipes are replaced more rapidly to limit leaks; and officials are working toward a system to move water from north to south, so the Southtowns can rely on the Van De Water treatment plant on the Niagara River should the Sturgeon Point plant on Lake Erie fail or lose its links to customers, like when a 42 - inch main failed last summer.

EPA Regional Director Judith Enck says every year heavy rains and heavy snow melt overwhelm the system causing nearly two billion gallons of raw sewage to flow directly into the Niagara River.

One unknown is how the addition of massive flows of freshwater from Siberian rivers, bolstered by thawing permafrost, could affect the system, says study co-author Eddy Carmack, an oceanographer with Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Sidney.

The team looked at how meltwater from two small mountain glaciers flowed through the system and influenced the mountain streams, rivers and groundwater all year long.

This research shows how ancient urban centres didn't necessarily need an active, flowing river system in order to thrive.

Moore et al. tested this hypothesis in one of the few remaining free - flowing river systems in North America, the Fraser River waterriver systems in North America, the Fraser River waterRiver watershed.

The irrigation system was so leaky that many canals lost more than 50 percent of the diverted river water en route to the fields, which cut the amount flowing into the sea.

For Arua, he determined that its eight small rivers were ideal for run - of - river systems, in which water flows through turbines.

«It's remarkable that there are three worlds in the solar system where flowing rivers have carved into the landscape, either presently or in the past,» says Taylor Perron, associate professor of geology in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS).

Outside of Earth, Titan is the only other planetary body in the solar system with actively flowing rivers, though they're fed by liquid methane instead of water.

In the Mississippi River system, however, a series of dams on various upstream tributaries have reduced sediment supply to the delta, while levees on the lower part of the river have artificially channelized the flow, forcing sediments to be deposited beyond the delta in the deeper Gulf of MeRiver system, however, a series of dams on various upstream tributaries have reduced sediment supply to the delta, while levees on the lower part of the river have artificially channelized the flow, forcing sediments to be deposited beyond the delta in the deeper Gulf of Meriver have artificially channelized the flow, forcing sediments to be deposited beyond the delta in the deeper Gulf of Mexico.

Sulfurous gases released into the atmosphere impacted monsoon rainfall in the Ethiopian highlands, weakening the rain belt system and, as a result, depleting the flow of water to the river.

We suggested that, given the documented flow of water beneath the ice sheet, perhaps sub-glacial rivers carried in the microbes, and Tranter responded, «People would have laughed at you a decade ago, but there is a river system under the ice sheet.

It flows off the glacier, incising a number of cracks similar to an ordinary river system [1].

The river drains parts of four ranges in the Transverse Ranges System north and northwest of Los Angeles, then flows west onto the Oxnard Plain and into the Santa Barbara Channel of the Pacific Ocean.

There are also two cave systems, one of them is made of spring water and has many formations and the other one has a river flowing through it and both are situated at just a few minutes away from the lodge.

The water in the Blue Hole is part of an underground cave system that flows into the Sibun River.

Many people do not know that the Yucatan Peninsula is home to the world's longest underground river, flowing through a vast system of connected caverns known as Sac Actun that includes more than 150 cenotes.

The Monkey River flows from the Maya Mountains at the Guatemala border through southern Belize to the Gulf of Honduras, and plays a key role in supporting area wildlife, as well as the nearby reef system.

You might mention drought in California (Australia is having the worst drought ever recorded, since the white man arrived, and is considering shutting down agriculture in the Murray - Darling system, which is 90 % below its normal water level), or the Dust Bowl conditions in the Great Plains in the 1930s (another 5 year drought), or the collapse of water flow into the Colorado River, or category 6 Hurricanes (Katrina was a 4).

Disagreements over the allocation of water among countries that share river systems is a common source of international political conflict, especially where populations are outgrowing the flow of the river.

When large quantities of water flow into the combined sewer overflow systems, which make up 60 to 70 percent of the city's sewers, they tend to spill over into New York City's rivers.

Along with a porous paving system and a network of natural swales, the living roof will retain storm water, allowing it to percolate slowly through the soil rather than flow swiftly from impervious surfaces into the nearby river.

In addition, rivers that were experiencing larger stream flows were usually in little - populated areas, such as the Arctic where melting ice is inundating river systems.

In addition, peak flows are reduced by reservoirs, sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS, e.g., Pasche et al. 2008), retarding basins, infiltration basins, and through targeted land management plans such as afforestation and river renaturation (Reinhardt et al. 2011).

The huge Ob river system in Russia for example has seen a 40 % increase in water flows in recent years due to Permafrost Melt.

Such decadal temperature fluctuations in the SPNA are strongly correlated with other components of the climate system, for example, Atlantic hurricane activity, North American and European river flow, and rainfall over the African Sahel and northeast Brazil.

Sewage infrastructure has not kept up with Tijuana's rapidly growing population and development... Waste from those areas flows untreated into the river system.

They can be benefits we receive from natural systems — plants filtering our air and water; bees pollinating our crops; or wetlands and waterways maintaining water flows in our rivers and reservoirs.

We will describe the Colorado River system and its management, then the century - long gaged record of flow, and then the use of tree rings to extend, or reconstruct, the gaged record 400 years or more into the past, providing a more complete picture of past flow variability.

Dyer has Pakistan and India, increasingly under the pressure of food insecurity — due to more frequent failures of the monsoon combined with still - growing populations — confronted in the mid-2030s by drastically reduced summer stream flows in the Indus river system.

Nowhere is the melting more alarming than in the Himalayas and on the Tibetan plateau where the ice melt from glaciers sustains not only the dry - season flow of the Indus, Ganges, Yangtze, and Yellow rivers but also the irrigation systems that depend on them.