Sentences with phrase «waters vast distances»

Our civilization has been created by harnessing mountain streams behind dams, pumping our limited groundwater, and conveying these waters vast distances to support expanding populations.

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At the same time, we use a lot of energy to move and treat water, sometimes across vast distances.

But Richard Pyle, a researcher at Hawaii's Bishop Museum, said he and other scientists have concluded that the ecological interconnectedess of the region — including the fish larvae that are dispersed on currents, and the sharks and other pelagic fish that travel vast distances — extends beyond federal waters.

This Water of ours, in Jupiter or Saturn, would be frozen up instantly by reason of the vast distance of the Sun.

The vista on offer takes in the amazing blue water of the Coral Sea that lies between Horseshoe Bay and the Palm group of islands and on a clear day Hinchinbrook Island in the vast distance.

Embodying the «grounding» of Los Angeles's water and power infrastructure, which span vast distances, Δ is of the landscape — a bit of sediment washed down from the San Joaquin River Delta and a transplant from the source.