Sentence examples for amounts of river from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To make matters worse, the New England Fishery Management Council recently voted to increase the amount of river herring that can be killed incidentally.

Both the New England and Mid-Atlantic fishery management councils, which set fishing policy in federal waters from Maine to North Carolina, have placed yearly limits on the amount of river herring that can be killed in the Atlantic herring fishery.

Water managers have authorized the maximum amount of river diversions consistent with laws in place to protect crippled salmon fisheries and prevent the collapse of not just the delta but the state's entire water delivery infrastructure.

In the Sun Valley area of Idaho, where temperatures are expected to rise 4 to 11 degrees by 2070, snow is melting earlier than usual, upending the area's ski season, its water supply (it does not have reservoirs) and the timing and amount of river flows.