Sentences with phrase «with runoff water»

These ions are carried with runoff water and ultimately reach the ocean.

Braised duck, springy pesto, shiitake mushrooms grown with runoff water (making them more sustainably - farmed), and a tangle of thyme.

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The village has made an arrangement with the vernal and autumnal moods of the river: the houses and shops know how much the river rises with the spring runoff of the snow water and with the fullness of the autumn rains.

We filled our hands with cold running water from glacial runoff, drinking deeply.

The project will focus on improving farm productivity and profits while reducing water pollution associated with agricultural runoff.

Overflowing sewers, runoff from chemical plants and seepage from toxic waste sites have created a hazardous stew in the waters covering much of the nation's fourth largest city, and officials are just beginning to grapple with the health problems looming.

Under state and federal mandate, East Hampton Town must design and implement a comprehensive program to deal with stormwater runoff, ensuring that it does not transport pollutants into water bodies such as...

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An analysis of water and climate data from 1901 to 2008 from 100 large water basins around the world revealed more water loss to the atmosphere and less water runoff compared with conclusions from earlier studies.

You can wash off the contamination with soap and water — the traditional method — but that creates sizable reservoirs of radioactive runoff, which in turn has to be trapped, treated, and stored away for centuries.

Otherwise, storm runoff gets contaminated with benzene and other harmful chemicals and can infiltrate into adjacent soil patches or form stormwater that may end up in natural bodies of water.»

Metals have long been known to concentrate in sewage, which mixes toilet water with effluent from industrial manufacturing, storm runoff, and anything else flushed down the drain.

Along with invasive cyanobacterial fungus and algae, poisonous runoff, rising ocean levels, acidic waters and overfishing are taking their toll on the reefs and the marine life they support

A new study led by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science reveals that land use in the watersheds from which this «dissolved organic matter» originates has important implications for Bay water quality, with the organic carbon in runoff from urbanized or heavily farmed landscapes more likely to persist as it is carried downstream, thus contributing energy to fuel low - oxygen «dead zones» in coastal waters.

One major problem with conventional «horizontal» farms is loss of water to runoff.

Zedler's contractors planted all three tracts with similar species to see how the vegetation would absorb and clean water runoff during storms.

Warmer water coupled with the increased nutrients from permafrost and soil runoff could bolster aquatic life.

Pollution of the ocean by runoff from the land and the fouling of the air with carbon dioxide (which is warming the ocean and acidifying it) are accelerating and expanding the threats to the world's coastal waters.

He says he's stingy with water so that he has very little runoff.

«A plant can only uptake about 20 percent of the nutrients applied through soil, with the remainder either forming stable complexes with soil constituents or being washed away with water, causing runoff.

Beyond the benefits to individual homeowners, rainwater harvesting can also be good for the local community, as it reduces the erosion, flooding and pollution runoff associated with heavy rainfall, and lessens reliance on public water supplies, alleviating some of the burden on utilities.

For instance, during extreme weather events, sewage pipes overflow with added storm water runoff, resulting in wastewater dumping into local bodies of water or the ocean.

In this study, the team first set up and validated CLM4 in terms of runoff generation at the global scale; then, they calibrated the parameters associated with the irrigation module that features dynamic groundwater pumping in CLM4 at the global scale against water use data compiled by the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) from census information.

The thickness of the remaining, multi-year ice, along with its geographic location, will make it more difficult to melt than the ice that was spread across the Arctic, and exposed to Pacific and Atlantic ocean currents, along with runoff from fresh water rivers.

Beyond that, the negative impact on soil, coupled with the toxic runoff to water supplies in largely rural impoverished communities causes even more health problems for innocent residents.

These robust and thriving plants are never sprayed with pesticides, herbicides nor subject to runoff water pollution.

Living out here in the sticks I am blessed with a nearby artesian spring and fresh watercress growing in the cold runoff water.

When pesticides and herbicides are used on fields, the runoff contaminates the soil and local water with arsenic.

The decision came after 8 rounds of voting involving a close runoff among several top films including Guillermo del Toro's THE SHAPE OF WATER about the rescue of an alien creature from the clutches of cruel scientists in a cold war with the Russians, and also earned a BEST ACTRESS AWARD for Sally Hawkins as a mute cleaning lady whose sympathetic performance spoke volumes.

The water cycle poster with student guide sheet grading rubric The water cycle poster You can see a few examples my 7th grade class did in the preview Guide rubric includes 5 required areas for students to complete They must use the following keywords and definitions on the poster (these are provided on the rubric sheet) Key words are Condensation Evaporation Precipitation Transpiration Runoff Ground water Also a pre-made grading scale for easier teacher grading.

She has worked with sanitation authorities on research pertaining to impacts of disposal on coastal waters, and with the research community and municipalities on impacts of storm water runoff on nearshore coastal environments.

In these photos, the water color is tinged green with tannins from the runoff, and much of the spectacular white - sand beach is underwater.

We find that while the surface stratification strengthens with the increasing runoff, the surface mixed layer thins and warmer water is found closer to the surface.

Avoiding compacting of the soil: water is stored in the voids between soil particles, compact the soil with trampling and the rain will increasingly runoff.

With the use of a blocking system, such as a small weir, they trap water on the roof and gradually let it down the drain pipes, acting as a sort of urban wetland that temporarily stores rainfall runoff.

Availability of resources such as usable water will also depend on changing rates of precipitation, with decreased availability in many places but possible increases in runoff and groundwater recharge in some regions like the high latitudes and wet tropics.

Our land's highest, best use is probably a mixture of solar farms in the driest and poorest areas which concentrate water by runoff onto neighboring land used either to return to nature and grow grass (with cows optional) to sequester carbon by building soil and / or be periodically harvested to provide feed for cellulosic ethanol.

Agricultural runoff, in combination with increased water temperatures, has caused considerable non-point source pollution problems in recent years, with increased phosphorus and nitrogen loadings from farms contributing to more frequent and prolonged occurrences of anoxic «dead zones» and harmful, dense algae growth for long periods.

However, with improving techniques, researchers recently estimated total submarine groundwater (saline and fresh water combined) discharges suggesting a rate 3 to 4 times greater than the observed global river runoff, or a volume equivalent to 331 mm / year (13 inches) of sea level rise.

Large deployment of BECCS could also exacerbate this threat by further degrading water quality by salinization, and from fertilizer and pesticide runoff associated with production of bioenergy feedstocks.

My current work is on water - supply and food supply scarcity in the southwestern US and in Mexico due to the ongoing effects of record drought, record heat, declining annual runoff, and declining potable groundwater reserves, which together are threatening to render numerous large urban areas unable to support continuing growth, with some unable to continue to support current populations, such as those in Chihuahua, El Paso and Juarez, Las Vegas, Lubbock, Monterrey, Palm Springs, Phoenix, Tuscon, Yuma, among others.

The project will focus on improving farm productivity and profits while reducing water pollution associated with agricultural runoff.

Mechanical thinning can increase runoff at fine scales, as well as reduce fire risk and tree water stress during drought, but the effects of this practice have not been studied at scales commensurate with recent forest disturbances or under a highly variable climate.

Mechanical thinning alone or in combination with prescribed fires reduced fire risk, increased runoff, and improved tree water - stress at the plot scale [20]--[23].

Researchers in the historical Beaver Creek experiments hypothesized that lower tree densities associated with thinning would reduce evapotranspiration losses, and thereby allow more water to be available for soil moisture, groundwater recharge, and surface water runoff [29].

To notice something is going on with the world's ice sheets, you could measure melting water runoff, glacier retreat or use satellites and GPS to measure ice volume decline.

Higher runoff is expected to mobilise fertilisers and pesticides to water bodies in regions where their application time and low vegetation growth coincide with an increase in runoff (Soil and Water Conservation Society, 2water bodies in regions where their application time and low vegetation growth coincide with an increase in runoff (Soil and Water Conservation Society, 2Water Conservation Society, 2003).

Beauty, I can cut my Co2 footprint by watering with just the shed roof runoff for the next ten years.

The pits are huge, circular, moonscape scars in the earth with shaley slopes that dump runoff water into green crater lakes where no plant dares grow and no bird dares swim.