Sentences with phrase «rivers for»

It's terribly harmful to the communities and aquatic life that rely on those rivers for sustenance.

With nuclear energy there is no need to mine and burn coal, drill for oil and gas, or dam wild rivers for electricity — a fact widely recognized by scientists, politicians, and informed members of the public (including Brower's boss and colleagues at the Sierra Club) in the 1960s.

For example, Alberta's energy regulator told many oil sands operators in July that they can't divert water from the Athabasca, Peace and Wabasca rivers for use in their operations.

Large populations depend on some of the rivers for everything from agriculture to clean drinking resources, including the Yellow River, the Ganges, the Niger, and the Colorado, which have all shown significant declines.

Scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, examined stream flows from 925 of the world's largest rivers for over fifty years, 1948 to 2004.

This, he said, could create new opportunities to reopen rivers for spawning fish and for recreation.

How exactly does a company let toxins spill into our rivers for 10 hours?

Alaskan River Riches Southeast Alaska has one of the healthiest salmon fisheries in the world, thanks to strict regulation and bountiful wild rivers for fish to spawn.

An example of this is the conflict between regions over the use of rivers for water supply and hydropower, when those rivers flow from one jurisdiction to the next and ownership of the water is not clearly established by region - wide agreements.

Everything has to be on a grand scale: damming rivers for hydro - electric; providing wide spread solar cooking pots which require 4 hours a day of direct overhead sunlight for the family bean meal; or an improved stove to burn dung less repugnantly; or... Whatever the «no coal fired electric generation» crowd can conceive.

Since melt water from Tibetan glaciers replenishes many of Asia's major rivers — including the Indus, Ganges, Yellow, and Brahmaputra — such losses could have a profound impact on the billion people who rely on the rivers for fresh water.

For me, the abstract phrase «rivers for the future» suddenly became grounded in real concerns: Where would the children go to school if they were displaced by the proposed Salween dams?

Colorado depends on our rivers for agriculture, recreation, municipal needs, and drinking water supplies.

Previous research concluded that 1.15 to 2.41 million metric tons of plastic waste entered the ocean by way of rivers for a global total of 67 percent coming from 20 polluting rivers.

PM: After lunch at Whet Restaurant, drive the spectacular Bloomfield Track, across the many crystal clear rivers for around two hours before you reach the Lions Den Hotel for an afternoon sundowner beer with the old timers.

There are two rivers for Bali white water rafting, Ayung River and Telaga Waja River.

Because the ideal rivers for cave tubing are located deep in the jungle, many participants enjoy combining cave tubing with other complementary activities including zip lining through the canopy or spelunking one of the many sacred caves in the country, including ATM (Actun Tunichil Muknal) Cave that still hosts the complete skeletons of young children sacrificed to Maya gods more than 1,000 years ago.

The Sarapiquí River is one of Costa Rica's most - exuberant rivers for some of the best rafting Costa Rica has to offer!

For the more active guests, there is easy access to golf courses, tennis courts, beaches and rivers for fishing, kayaking and swimming.

Spend your days on the water fishing, either offshore salt water, or hit the rivers for some freshwater fishing.

If fishing wilderness scenic rivers for 5 species of Pacific Salmon, an experience most can only dream of is for you, we make it reality!

The Apurimac is one of the top 10 rivers for white water in the world, and the section we run flows through a huge canyon offering spectacular scenery.

White Water Rafting Puerto Viejo is very close to the Pacuare River, which has being rated as one of the top five rivers for water rafting in the world.

But one is not dependent on the rivers for game sightings.

This region of Nainital not only provides excellent rock climbing venue but also has mighty mountains, scenic beauty and the gushing rivers for sight seeing.

With underground rivers for snorkeling, Xcaret Eco-Park is one of the Riviera Maya's top places to experience being inside a cenote; on a previous visit, we spent a day at Xcaret.

I took this thing out to many lakes and rivers for trips.

There are no lakes or rivers for shelter.

Washington, DC About Blog We protect our nation's rivers for people, wildlife & the communities that depend on them.

The remainder stay in the effluent water which is released back into the environment — oceans for coastal towns, rivers for inland.

Ancient Russians also frequently bathed in ice cold rivers for health and spiritual cleansing.

The focal rivers for this assessment, including black outlines of the seven climate divisions (see Water chapter), contributing watersheds (red), river gage locations (green), and the Continental Divide (dotted).

Turkey has been building dams upstream on the two rivers for irrigation and hydroelectricity.

Juvenile salmon that enter the ocean this year amid the gradually improving conditions will not return from the ocean to spawn in the Columbia and other rivers for another two years or more, so fishermen should not expect adult salmon numbers to improve much until then.

Since prehistoric times people have lived by the seas and rivers for the access to cheap and quick transportation and access to food sources and trade; without human populations near natural bodies of water, there would be no concern for floods.

I would climb mountains and cross rivers for this pork.

When Christianity came to northern Europe, rulers sometimes led whole armies through rivers for mass baptisms.

It clogged the river for miles, causing coughing, sneezing and skin irritations.

Montana rancher Fred Wacker had thousands of head of cattle fattening up along the Yellowstone River for export to China when President Donald Trump picked a trade fight with the Asian nation.

A railroad station crush left 36 people dead Sunday among tens of millions of Hindu pilgrims flocking to the banks of the Ganges River for the world's largest religious gathering, authorities reported.

But Hartshorne uses his tunnel to gain an abutment on both sides of the river for his bridge, and his bridge to do the needed surveying for his tunnel.

So I suggest that the meeting of John and Jesus at the river for a wash, is the place where the «handover» ritually took place for all to see.

It may be a river that ravages the villages on its banks, a river for drowning and forgetting.

Oh cry me a river for the oppression of Nice White People.

One evening, he went down to the river for a swim.

When I was in Melbourne recently, we went to a little cafe bar by the river for breakfast, and I ordered the Israeli breakfast dish.

This document sets out the plans for managing within a multi-year context the Commonwealth environmental water portfolio in the Lachlan River for 2016 — 17.

This document sets out the plans for managing within a multi-year context the Commonwealth environmental water portfolio in the Murrumbidgee River for 2017 — 18.

You can hardly blame the winemakers of Coonawarra or Margaret River for talking up cabernet.

During a standard week I will cycle down to the river for a couple of morning sessions, where I'll check the river and weather conditions, and that the clubs are being safe and fair, as we have 36 college boat clubs all sharing the same short stretch of river, which three external clubs also use.