Sentences with phrase «water diversion»

The costs of storm water diversion and legal issues, including who owns the captured water, also need to be sorted out.

On the back wall, «Configurations (aqueduct),» 2017, shows part of the South - North Water Diversion Project in China; foreground, the Queens Museum's Relief Map of the New York City Water Supply System.

Sensors installed along China's South - to - North Water Diversion Project track water quality, watch for intruders, and detect structural damage

-- 5 - 10 minute walk to Paradise Beach (great for surfing)-- Banana, Plantain, Chino Apple, Avocado, Papaya, Maracuya, Bamboo, and Coconut planted — Slope and water diversion in place, moving rain water from the property with culverts and tubes — Septic installed in lower property — Retaining walls in plantel — Includes a framed guest container - house.

Scientists found that low dry - season river discharge, due to irrigation at diversion dams, was the principal factor that explained the dolphin's range decline and that dolphins were more likely to persist in the core of the former range, likely due to the concentration of water diversions and dams near the range periphery.

In addition, exclusion of human - related impacts such as irrigation, land use, and water diversion from most current climate models makes reliable projection of drought even less certain (Sheffield and Wood 2008).

Instead the SDLs represent limits on average water diversions over the long - term.

New Water Diversion Measuring and Reporting Requirements Coming for California Growers Water Board May Adopt New Regulation January 19 — needs to know how much water is being diverted — Wine Institute says additional reporting should only be required during a declared drought emergency...

The harbor development has become feasible as a multimillion - dollar, state - funded water diversion project comes to a close.

While the city's request has been winding its way through the regulatory pipeline for a number of years, the governor's office has given no indication regarding his intentions in terms of whether or not, as one of eight Great Lake states governors with veto power over the proposal, he will vote to approve the unprecedented water diversion.

Impeded by dams, major water diversions, and escalating droughts, this 100 - mile stretch of the mighty Colorado River stopped flowing regularly to the gulf in 1960.

(The reason visitors see so much tufa around Mono Lake today is because the lake level fell dramatically after water diversions began more than 60 years ago.

Inside, exhibits shed light on the natural and human history of the Mono Basin, including major environmental challenges caused by water diversions that almost killed the lake.

«It is unacceptable that in nearly six years, there are still no measures in place to protect the Athabasca River from massive water diversions that leave the river dry,» wrote Danielle Droitsch, director of NRDC's Canada Project from Washington, D.C. «The Alberta government has again failed to establish critical environmental safeguards.

In 2002, over 33,000 salmon died in a massive fish kill caused by dams on the river, as well as water diversions, agriculture, industrial pollution, mining, road building and poor forestry.

The amount of water consumed by BECS for energy generation and for carbon capture and storage is two orders of magnitude lower than that used for biomass growth, but this industrial usage requires water diversion, conveyance, and treatment with intensive localized effects (Scown et al. 2011).

This can be due to local land subsidence due to oil or water extraction or upstream water diversions, because of rebound from the last glaciation (Maine rises causing Florida to lower because they are on the same plate), or because the Earth's crust is in perpetual motion.

Some good news: according to the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau, New Orleans is safe from flooding related to the overflowing Mississippi due to an extensive water diversion system.

Water diversions for Los Angeles residents left Owens Lake bone - dry by 1920.

However, China's current domestic river development policies — which include major hydroelectric dams and a nationwide, south - to - north water diversion project — indicate this will not be easy.

Pursuing the subject of hydration from a different angle, the project's final element took Ms. Chang to China's South - to - North Water Diversion Project, the longest aqueduct in the world.

«Because of water diversions, it was nothing more than a dry crevice filled with rocks and litter,» he says.

China has planned, and in some cases begun construction on, major hydropower and water diversion projects in its southern regions, including Tibet, which is making the water security of its downstream neighbors more fragile.

More than 1,400 new dams or water diversion projects are planned or already under construction and many of them are on rivers flowing through multiple nations, fueling the potential for increased water conflict between some countries.

Water diversions for Los Angeles left the lake bone - dry by 1920.

Conservationists have long contended that dams and water diversion have destroyed the biological richness of the Colorado River delta, a key nursery of marine life that flows into the Gulf of California.

The water levels have decreased due to water diversions for human uses, drought and a changing climate.

Iraqi authorities said the water diversions were for irrigation, but people outside the country said the project targeted the marshes as a hiding place for dissidents and army deserters.

The team found that river flows and waterbird numbers were closely linked, indicating reduced water flow due to dam construction and water diversion for irrigation was the primary reason for the long - term declines in waterbirds in the Murray - Darling Basin.

We can't continue to indefinitely expand our old practices — of chemical use, of water diversion, of plowing wild lands and converting them to farms, of nonagricultural sprawl, and of the production of industrial waste.

After the Second Gulf War removed Hussein from power, Iraqis tore down the water diversions and returned water to the marshes.

Water diversions and habitat loss have driven numerous fish species in the delta to the brink of extinction.

The final BDCP is intended to provide the scientific underpinning needed to gain authorizations under federal and state endangered species laws to build the water diversion tunnel.

When an ecosystem has been dramatically changed by human activities — such as agriculture, oil and gas exploration, commercial development or water diversion — it may no longer be able to provide the food, water, cover, and places to raise young.

Introduced pikeminnow, in conjunction with the diminished flows due to the Potter Valley Project water diversion, have taken a significant toll on the native fish population below Van Arsdale Dam.

Of the 23 roosts that are no longer available to bats, 9 (mostly buildings) have been demolished, 4 (all buildings) have burned, 4 (all buildings) have been renovated in such a way that bats were excluded, and 6 (including buildings, caves, mines, and a water diversion tunnel) have had the entrance closed.

LW: And you've researched the water diversion project, another daunting project of extraordinary ambition.

Unless massive barriers or water diversions are constructed, many cities, small islands, population centres, economic hubs and iconic sights will be submerged.

Old forest logging, biofuel and other industrial plantations, urban sprawl, climate change, water diversion and countless other methodical diminishments of intact natural ecosystems are to blame.

Low lake levels also affect air quality and water diversions to Los Angeles.about 2 years ago

The South - to - North Water Diversion Project will cost over RMB 500 billion ($ 62 billion) and will bring water from the Yangtze River to the Chinese capital, which by some estimates is more parched than Israel.

And water diversions would not be needed.

In 1995, the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund sought to block a water diversion project for the Animas River in Colorado.

The four - year delay, reports the Wall Street Journal, will impact the central of three sections of the «South - to - North» water diversion project, which at $ 62 billion may cost three times what the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest, cost.

If the giant body of water nearly vanished with no human pressures, what could be the consequences with both man - made climate change and water diversions for irrigation that keep much of the resource from even reaching the Dead Sea?