Sentence examples for amount of river from inspiring English sources

The New England Fishery Management Council on Thursday approved the region's first cap on the amount of river herring that can be caught by industrial trawlers.

Fifty plants at the phenostage were introduced to the treatment pod, which were removed at the end of each test and stored at ambient temperatures within an amount of river water in large plastic bags.

This is aggravated by the fact that a large amount of river water has been diverted for irrigation in the entire basin area, altering the river fluxes that are essential to maintain the health of the delta ecosystem.

If both models are used in a combined approach, the amount of river load (TU Index) as well as the relative spatial distribution of rill and interrill erosion processes (RUSLE) can be described with sufficient precision.

Salinity of the surface waters can be influenced by the amount of river water flowing into the oceans, yet no computer models of ancient ocean circulation had included this variable.

Earlier studies of the Black Sea water column have shown that isotope compositions of oxygen and hydrogen are determined by mixing the inflow of high salinity waters from the Sea of Marmara having characteristic isotopic signatures of δ18O = 1.58‰ and δD = 10.26‰ [10] with freshwater input, which represents the amount of river runoff and precipitation modified by evaporation.

Estuaries are an important segment of the biogeochemical cycle as they regulate the amount of river-borne major and minor elements entering the coastal environment and ultimately the deep ocean.

Of course they choose a couple who paid to have an unsightly fire hydrant moved from the front of their Boston house, and who sought to divert huge amounts of river water to supply their sprawling Idaho lawn.

One is approval for water managers in the Las Vegas area, which gets 90percentt of its water from the Colorado, to get a greater share of Lake Mead water in exchange for financing a reservoir in California to capture large amounts of river water destined for Mexico but beyond that country's entitlement by treaty.

He also believes that some of the bigger tar sands companies are rich and innovative enough to surmount the technological challenges they face in dealing with carbon emissions and other climate change challenges, such as the predicted shortage of the massive amounts of river water required to separate oil from the tar sands.

The Persian Gulf receives only small amounts of river-borne sediment except in the northwest, where immense quantities of silt are deposited by the Tigris, Euphrates, and Kārūn rivers and other smaller streams as they empty into the gulf, by way of the Shatt Al-'Arab.