Sentences with phrase «water over river»

They wore them down like water over river stones.

Residents in the historic Stockade neighborhood on the Mohawk River woke up yesterday to frozen streets after ice floes forced water over the river's banks Saturday night.

Not exact matches

The answer is actually the Grand Canyon... you know, where there are canyons that are perfectly suited to having water — like maybe the Colorado River, which cuts through it — fall over them?

While the battle over water rights is intensifying in California, farmers in Palo Verde have «first dibs» on water from the Colorado River.

VANCOUVER — Despite having bodies made up mostly of water, dozens of angry middle - aged men gathered over the weekend to protest regulations designed to protect B.C. rivers, aquifers and beaches.

The tribe had sued the Army Corps over its approval of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota, arguing the line could contaminate their water source, the Missouri River.

The river's clean waters serve as the wellspring in what has steadily become one of the storied confrontations over energy development, justice, finance, and human rights in the American West.

The pipeline goes over mountains, across farmland, over the Fraser and Skeena rivers, and straight through the Great Bear Rainforest to the Pacific where it will be picked up by supertankers trying to navigate our inland coastal waters,» said New Democrat environment critic Rob Fleming.

The sun sets over the St. Johns River near Jacksonville, Fla. as flood waters still fill the streets during Hurricane Irma Sept. 13, 2017.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you.

Bishop sometime the devil will put a river in front of us so we can.t cross over, that is when God will carry us, because of our anoiting, he no longer put puddles of water, he put rivers without a bridge, but God come right on time and be the bridge over trouble water.

People all over the world do this, and much like religion, they do it in very different ways, some walk to rivers, others ponds or creeks, and other simply turn the tap or use the water dispenser on their fridge.

Over thirty years later, James disparaged this same view, saying that, of course, «We want a universe where we can just give up, fall on our father's neck, and be absorbed into the absolute life as a drop of water melts into the river or the sea» (PRAG 140).

Eusebius talks of «passing over the fiery river and that fearful water, the drops of which are fire» and Newman would talk of the «penal waters» in The Dream of Gerontius.

The «river stones» used to cook the soup are smooth stones, usually polished over centuries by moving water, that are about four inches wide and two inches thick.

In its first such arrangement with a non-government organisation, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder has signed an agreement with Nature Foundation SA Inc. to manage up to 50 GL of Commonwealth environmental water over five years to support wetland and floodplain rehabilitation in the lower River MuWater Holder has signed an agreement with Nature Foundation SA Inc. to manage up to 50 GL of Commonwealth environmental water over five years to support wetland and floodplain rehabilitation in the lower River Muwater over five years to support wetland and floodplain rehabilitation in the lower River Murray.

Between July 2012 and June 2013, over 1000 GL held by the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder (770 GL) and The Living Murray program (289 GL)-- including return flows from the Victorian rivers — is expected to have been delivered.

Over 679,000 ML of Commonwealth environmental water was provided directly to the South Australian Murray (including over 284,000 ML of return flows from upstream Commonwealth environmental watering events in the Goulburn - Broken catchment, Campaspe River and Hattah LakOver 679,000 ML of Commonwealth environmental water was provided directly to the South Australian Murray (including over 284,000 ML of return flows from upstream Commonwealth environmental watering events in the Goulburn - Broken catchment, Campaspe River and Hattah Lakover 284,000 ML of return flows from upstream Commonwealth environmental watering events in the Goulburn - Broken catchment, Campaspe River and Hattah Lakes).

«Fifty gigalitres of water over five years will help sustain the river and environments that lie between the larger iconic wetlands and floodplains, contributing to the health of the Murray - Darling river system as a whole,» he said.

Over 1300 gigalitres of water will be available this year to benefit the many rivers in the Basin.

In October 2012 the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder entered into a long - term agreement with Nature Foundation SA for the use of up to 10 gigalitres a year of Commonwealth environmental water over the next five years to support wetland and floodplain rehabilitation projects in the lower Murray RWater Holder entered into a long - term agreement with Nature Foundation SA for the use of up to 10 gigalitres a year of Commonwealth environmental water over the next five years to support wetland and floodplain rehabilitation projects in the lower Murray Rwater over the next five years to support wetland and floodplain rehabilitation projects in the lower Murray River.

As at 30 September 2015, over 4914 GL of Commonwealth environmental water has now been delivered to rivers, wetlands and floodplains of the Murray - Darling Basin, with early signs of significant environmental benefits showing up in monitoring programs.

Over 225,000 ML of Commonwealth environmental water was delivered to the Goulburn River in 2014 - 15 in conjunction with over 29,000 ML of Victorian environmental water and over 54,000 ML of The Living Murray waOver 225,000 ML of Commonwealth environmental water was delivered to the Goulburn River in 2014 - 15 in conjunction with over 29,000 ML of Victorian environmental water and over 54,000 ML of The Living Murray waover 29,000 ML of Victorian environmental water and over 54,000 ML of The Living Murray waover 54,000 ML of The Living Murray water.

Environmental water use over successive years of lower flows has shown significant benefits for the system through the export of excess salt from the river, as well as through the reduction of the amount of salt imported into the Murray Mouth from the sea.

«The six year project will provide a better understanding of how environmental watering improves river, wetland and floodplain health over time.

As at 28 February 2018, over 8,014 gigalitres of Commonwealth environmental water has been delivered to rivers, wetlands and floodplains of the Murray - Darling Basin.

It takes into account, for example, what sort of water has been used at all stages of the life cycle (eg natural rainfall over agricultural land, water from rivers, lakes and groundwater resources); the context of local water scarcity; and whether the water would otherwise be used for another activity of critical importance.

On lakes and rivers across the country, fleets of skinny boats will skitter over the water like giant insects, their wooden legs moving in unison.

Both countries have long - running disputes over river waters; there have been numerous incidents of violence between their border forces; and Indian politicians allege that millions of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh have crossed into India through the porous borders.

But commenting on the issue, the outspoken NPP man noted that the quality of water from rivers and other water bodies have been deteriorating over the years, adding that mining is a major contributory factor to the problem.

Local groups and citizens held a rally over the weekend to call on the U.S. Department of Defense to halt PFOS discharges from Stewart Air National Guard base in Newburgh, New York, which drain into the city's main drinking water source and the Hudson River.

The news of Indian Point's potential closure comes weeks after the state Court of Appeals dealt Entergy a setback in its bid for a new license, interpreting state coastal water rules in a way that gave Cuomo's administration more authority over whether the plant could operate in the Hudson River.

In selected cinemas from 10 August The Rochdale Canal Festival Over nine days this August, the Rochdale Canal will float a watered - down version of the River Pageant.

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?

While it is up to the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to determine whether plants are licensed to operate, the state licenses the facilities» use of river water for operations, and can theoretically put a halt to operations by withholding or limiting permission on the basis of concerns over water quality.

The water board and the water infrastructure in Niagara Falls have come under fire over the last several months because of various water main breaks and the discharge into the lower Niagara River in late - July.

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — The Niagara Falls Water Board says discolored water in the Niagara River near the Maid of the Mist discovered over the weekend is nothing to be worried aWater Board says discolored water in the Niagara River near the Maid of the Mist discovered over the weekend is nothing to be worried awater in the Niagara River near the Maid of the Mist discovered over the weekend is nothing to be worried about.

The brownish free - flowing Butre River that runs through the area has over the past decades been the main source of water for residents.

While it is up to the N.R.C. to determine whether plants are licensed to operate, the state licenses the facilities» use of river water for operations and can theoretically put a halt to operations by withholding or limiting permission on the basis of concerns over water quality.

The convenor of the group, Mr Daryl Bosu assured her that their actions were not politically or individually motivated but are solely to protect the source water for the over 5 million Ghanaians who directly benefit from water from the river Densu, Ayensu and Birim which take their source from the Atewa forest.

When a river's waters rise high enough, they can spill over into the lake, dropping loads of sand and silt.

Lake Powell, along the Colorado River, has seen significant water loss over the past decade.

In the Earth Surface Dynamics Lab at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) the behavior of rivers is modeled through the use of artificial rivers — flumes — through which water can be pumped at varying rates over a variety of carefully graded sediments while drag force and acceleration are measured.

However, the flume - lab experiments suggest that a debris flow can occur in a steep river channel in the absence of such a landslide, simply as a result of increased water discharge over the streambed.

Turning over rocks across the crater, the rover has compiled evidence of ancient water — a lake fed by rivers once occupied the crater itself — and organic compounds and other chemicals essential for life.

David Roberts oversees water rights and policy for the Salt River Project, one of the state's largest public water and power utilities, which is suing landowners over their groundwater wells.

The term «water law» in the Colorado River basin has come to refer to a monstrous volume of federal statutes and agreements, court precedents and state laws and regulations that can differ from place to place and have changed incrementally over the years but are structured by the interstate agreements to divide the rRiver basin has come to refer to a monstrous volume of federal statutes and agreements, court precedents and state laws and regulations that can differ from place to place and have changed incrementally over the years but are structured by the interstate agreements to divide the riverriver.

Using publically available data about wind speed and water vapor flux from real - world atmospheric rivers over the Atlantic, the scientists created a computer model consisting of thousands of moving virtual air particles and found a close match between the complex swirls — the Lagrangian coherent structures — made by the air particles and the patterns made by the real atmospheric rivers.

While atmospheric rivers vary in size and shape, those containing large amounts of water vapor, strong winds, and that stall over watersheds vulnerable to flooding, can create extreme rainfall and floods.

«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.