Sentences with phrase «supplies during the dry season»

Local rivers fed by these glaciers are becoming seasonal rivers, generating conflict among the 2 million people who depend on them for water supplies during the dry season.

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When they would first enter moranhood, when the milk supply was low during the dry season, or when they would prepare for war against an especially powerful enemy, they would extend the meat fest up to a month.

The extensive system of drains and canals present at Tikal may have been built to move water from the center of the city rather than to supply water to lower situated reservoirs during the dry season.

Similarly, Stern Review says in boldface (Section 3.2 «Water», p. 76 of Cambridge U.P. edition) Melting glaciers and loss of mountain snow will increase flood risk during wet season and threaten dry - season water supplies to one - sixth of the world's population -LRB-...).

Glaciologists report that the Gangotri glacier, which supplies 70 percent of the ice melt that feeds the Ganges River during the dry season, could disappear entirely in a matter of decades.

In the Andes, glacial melt water supports river flow and water supply for tens of millions of people during the long dry season.

In some areas glaciers help sustain a constant water supply; in others, meltwater from glaciers is a primary water source during the dry season.