Sentences with phrase «soil erosion problem»

For centuries the silt piles have been washing away into the Yellow River - a natural process that has exacerbated, thanks to the Dazhai Way, into arguably the worst soil erosion problem in the world.

China planted 400 - 600 million trees to control severe soil erosion problems.

During his search, the Buyer rejected an oceanfront property shown to him by the Buyer's Representative because he was concerned about that property's potential for soil erosion problems.

Not exact matches

In regions with continental climate, soils are subject to desiccation, meaning climate change will aggravate problems of salinity, erosion, and desertification.

They don't deal with the ecological problems of modern agriculture, like erosion and lack of soil biodiversity, critics say.

However, the study shows that simply preventing runoff and erosion does not address the core problem of abundant soil phosphorus, and this overabundance could override conservation efforts.

The erosion of the soil and other signs of environmental degradation may have become apparent; in this environment, population levels almost certainly began to pose problems.

Those soft landings will be mixed with some hard landings as happened in the African country of Rwanda in 1994, when Rwandans transiently solved — if I can use that word — their own problems of over population and deforestation and soil erosion in a horrible way — namely in 1994 awhen six million Rwandans killed nearly one million Rwandans — mostly with machetes — and drove another two million into exile.

Farmers here have reported environmental problems, such as floods, droughts, reductions in water quality and increases in soil erosion and downstream sedimentation of irrigation networks.

As a biologist, she saw the problems that deforestation and soil erosion were causing in rural areas, especially for the women who do most of the physical work.

Impacts: Soil degradation, erosion and deforestation resulting from climate change are huge problems for food and water security, as well as human health and shelter.

Developing an Infrastructure Fund for the Planet explored how ecosystem service payments and markets in carbon, water and biodiversity are quickly becoming a key solution to the urgent environmental problems of climate change, fresh water pollution, biodiversity loss, soil erosion, and destruction of our coastal and marine systems.

Using the old maxim that «the problem is the solution,» this design captures stormwater runoff — usually a cause of soil erosion — and turns it into an abundant resource for times of scarcity.

Environmental Engineers develop solutions to environmental problems, like erosion or flooding, using engineering, soil science, biology, and chemistry.

This is essential investment intelligence for a property investor, ensuring that the investor does not end up with a property with problems that simply can not be fixed, such as serious structural problems, cracks and shifts resulting from problems with the foundations or local geology; drainage, flooding or damp problems due to poor sitting; and signs of serious soil erosion or land slippage.