Sentences with phrase «water out of rivers»

«This year's America's Most Endangered Rivers report underscores the problems that arise for communities and the environment when we drain too much water out of rivers,» Bob Irvin, President of American Rivers, told Amy Kober.

Since most property was far from streams and there was little rain, officials then gave settlers formal rights to take water out of rivers and move it across dry land where it could be used to mine minerals or turn rocky fields into farms.

«It's common sense that taking water out of a river will leave less for those people downstream.

They hoped the fighting would end foreign investors» plans for irrigation projects that would suck water out of the river and destroy their livelihoods.

Not exact matches

The tiny beads seep out of water - treatment systems into lakes and rivers, choking fish and marine life that ingest it.

Turbid waters spill out into the Gulf of Mexico where their suspended sediment is deposited to form the Mississippi River Delta.

And the last book of the Bible prophetically pointed to the gradual depletion of religion, that is false religion, by its members at Revelation 16, which says: «And the sixth one (of seven angels) poured out his bowl (symbolizing God's anger) upon the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun.»

If we've packed away the prophetic calls to repentance, sacrifice and reconciliation up in the attics of our new family life centers; we need to pop our heads out of the water and see where we are in the river of mercy.

«Jhn 7:38 He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.»

In the Garden the river flows out of the garden to water the garden.

So, jumping into a river of ice water isn't going to be a shock to the system if you know it is ice water and that you fully expect to get out of that river because you have line tied to someone on the bank?

Kev — «So, jumping into a river of ice water isn't going to be a shock to the system if you know it is ice water and that you fully expect to get out of that river because you have line tied to someone on the bank?»

Like a tree by the side of a river seeks out more ways to send its roots to the life - giving water, so we too must seek as many avenues as possible to dig into God's river of love and strength and peace.

The huge river barges had constant problems with leakage and needed a large crew to pump water out of hull (again, becuase of the size).

Looking at the almost empty bowl of water from the Spring of Siloam in the court of the Temple and pointing first at it and then at himself, he said, «If you will but believe in me, out of your own heart will flow rivers of living water» (7:38, AP).

Every morning she walks to the Ganga where a pot of water is miraculously churned out of the river and given to her.

It is said that you can not teach anyone what they do not know already; and Jesus, being a good teacher, has reached back into the tradition that he shares with the young man and pointed out what both of them know: If you would be like a tree planted by rivers of water, learn to know, love, and obey the Law of God.

The Spirit of God lives within all of us who are Born Again and out of us will flow rivers of living water if we let them.

Or, if you drink from me, rivers of living water will flow out of you.

When pulled out of the river it is no longer a part of the river because a river, contextually, is a moving body of water.

«Let anyone who is thirsty come to me, and let the one who believes in me drink... «Out of the believer's heart shall flow rivers of living water.»»

For out of the believers heart shall flow rivers of living water.

He that overcometh shall inherit these things, and I will be his God and he shall be my son... And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb, and in the midst of the street thereof.

Men have tripped, gone down with a splash, and come up with hardly a change of expression to carry on the struggle; they have run along river banks, hurdling rocks and thrashing out into the water around log jams, in their effort to turn, control and finally dominate their trout.

Farther down the river he rode in and out of the water three more times, the last at around 7:15.

The Usk River Authority, and others like it in England and Wales, was set up by the Water Resources Act of 1963, and there were plenty of acts before that which made it quite clear that pulling out salmon, except with fully licensed rod and line, was distinctly illegal; but Si √ ¥ n Jones and his friends justify themselves on the basis of somewhat earlier legislation, instituted in the 10th century by an independent Prince of Wales, Hywel Dda («Howell the Good»).

Read this article on making river water safe to drink in case you run out or forget to fill up the bottle as you're heading out of the door.

Determined to find out what really lurked in the murky water during the recent 10th annual Chicago River Rescue day, she pulled on chest waders and led a group of volunteers to the site in her Forest Glen neighborhood.

Lawrence River Board agreed this week to increase the water flowing out of the lake at a greater rate.

A new Tappan Zee Bridge is rising over a three - mile stretch of the Hudson River — the first pilings are in, looking like giant tree stumps growing out of the water — but a big question looms: Where will the $ 3.9 billion come from to pay for it?

NYPD officers fished a.40 - caliber weapon out of about 20 feet of water in the East River just after 3 a.m. — a couple hundred feet north of where Officer Randolph Holder was shot in the head Oct. 20.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has distributed $ 1.7 million wrested from Westchester polluters to organizations that will use the money to keep contaminated storm water out of the Bronx River.

Diaz will specifically focus on a request for expressions of interest that the state put out in December for a 12.8 acre site at Harlem River Yards, a large stretch of land by the Willis Avenue Bridge along the water.

Silver detailed his neighbors» many difficulties in the wake of the ruinous storm, which inundated Lower Manhattan with river water and knocked out power to tens of thousands of residents.

They found that the heaviest rainstorms increased the water volume coming out of the river 100 times more than normal.

Technically, that water has already been doled out, with strict budgets allowed for each of the states along the river.

As Trout Unlimited's Denison points out, flood irrigation is just 35 percent efficient, meaning nearly two - thirds of the water taken out of the river is lost, and never gets used by the grasses it is meant to nourish.

Officials, it turned out, had estimated the Colorado's average flow after a period of unusually wet conditions, calculating that 18 million acre - feet flowed through the river each year, and dividing up some 15 million acre - feet, or 4.8 trillion gallons of water, between the states.

The Water Authority's haul from the sale of federal lands eventually came to almost $ 300 million and helped bolster financing for the pipelines, tunnels, pumps and more that Las Vegas eventually built to double its capacity to move water out of the Colorado RWater Authority's haul from the sale of federal lands eventually came to almost $ 300 million and helped bolster financing for the pipelines, tunnels, pumps and more that Las Vegas eventually built to double its capacity to move water out of the Colorado Rwater out of the Colorado River.

«Given that atmospheric rivers over the Atlantic and Pacific oceans appear as coherent filaments of water vapor lasting for up to a week, and that Lagrangian coherent structures have turned out to explain the formation of other geophysical flows, we wondered whether Lagrangian coherent structures might somehow play a role in the formation of atmospheric rivers,» said study coauthor Vicente Perez - Munuzuri, a physicist at the University of Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

One proposal to fix this is to divert river water out of the main channel so that it flows closer to shore.

They report in Global Biogeochemical Cycles that, of the carbon entering coastal waters from rivers and the atmosphere, about 20 percent is buried while 80 percent flows out to the open ocean.

Glorious shots illustrate the tributaries of an ancient river system and show how fields of water ice even now stretch out from the Martian south pole.

Whether the uranium is stripped out of an open pit like the Ranger mine in Australia, removed from deep underground like McArthur River or chemically leached from its rocky home as at the Smith Ranch - Highland mine in Wyoming (the largest mine in the U.S.), yellowcake is the end product, along with a heap of radioactive tailings and, often, contaminated water.

Historically low water levels in the Orinoco River at the time the research was carried out also meant more of the engravings were exposed.

They are linked by rivers that form when melting ice expands the lakes, increasing pressure under the ice cap and causing underground channels of water and mud to squirt out.

The mountains are made primarily of rock - hard water ice; the dunes are most likely ice granules coated with hydrocarbons; volcanoes probably belch methane and ammonia, and methane fills the lakes, evaporates to form clouds, and rains back down to carve out river channels.

According to Peter Gleick and Meena Palaniappan, writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, water availability is a growing global problem, especially in regions like the Western U.S. where «almost all major rivers and aquifers and already tapped out.»

When threatened by predators such as clouded leopards, the monkeys leap out of branches hanging over a river and crash into the water with a loud splash.

The lake and the Chari River, which flows out of it, constitute the most important water source in the region, and massive irrigation systemsbuilt by Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad, the nations that share the lakeare seriously draining it.