Sentence examples for Watersheds from inspiring English sources

BY BUILDING dams in the Himalayas, Chinese engineers are tinkering with one of the world's great sets of watersheds.

Altogether, such interventions would add up to about 54m tonnes of less reactive nitrogen, about 28% of what was created in 2005.Already cap-and-trade schemes are springing up in some American watersheds because of concern about the spread of dead zones.

You correctly refer to the problem of "fuzzy" water rights but then refer to harvesting rain and developing watersheds as means of "extending water rights to people who have traditionally lacked them".

According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, at least 13m hectares of forest providing control of watersheds and a repository of potentially useful industrial and medicinal compounds in plants, animals and micro-organisms is lost to agriculture every year in developing countries.Intensive micro-organisms iseduces genetic diversity.

Widespread deforestation of watersheds, for example, has increased the run-off of sediments and nutrients that impede coral growth by suffocating reefs or making them overgrown with algae.

Some non-governmental organisations see the answer in mobilising local communities to harvest rain and develop watersheds.

Environmentalists fear that wild areas will be ruined and wildlife habitat and watersheds damaged; sportsmen worry about access to the woods.

Diversified ecosystems protect watersheds, local rainfall, food supply and soil.

Although the red arrival was meant to mark a watershed moment of diary-marking and tins stuffed with pads, my 28-day count soon fell by the wayside, as my periods became nothing more than an annual event.

"This was one of those moments when people from all sides of politics needed to realise that a watershed had been reached".

Alan Pardew: basking in a personal watershed moment after turning January's position – Newcastle 10th, Palace 18th – into Palace 11th, Newcastle 12th.