Sentences with phrase «water intrusion when»

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Rising sea - levels — particularly when combined with storm events — are just one of several factors that could endanger the integrity of the Delta's 1,100 miles of earthen levees, which protect the state's water supply and the region's agricultural, transportation, and energy systems from flooding and saltwater intrusion.35 Earthquakes, land subsidence, and floods present serious threats to the aging levees as well.

Obviously large populations are forced to move when storm surges and salt water intrusion render existing habitats uninhabitable.

As for the aquifer argument, salt water intrusion is what happens, always, when you overdraw.

When warm water intrusions subsided, the glacier stabilized, and even began advancing between 1985 — 2002.