Sentence examples for control of rivers from inspiring English sources

In the north, in states such as Punjab and Haryana, local governments are fighting for control of rivers.

The scarcity of water has caused political tensions, with states in northern India battling over control of rivers.

France has also set up a monitoring committee for its energy industry, as the authorities are concerned about the impact on electricity supplies and the control of river flows.

Like Norman E. Borlaug (1970), the agronomist who spurred the "Green Revolution," Carter has made concrete improvements in the lives of the Third World's poorest, via the Carter Center's unglamorous, little-known, and successful programs for the control of river blindness and the eradication of guinea-worm disease.

c Sudden change of course of the Jamini River inferring to structural control of river.

Many applications in support of water management decisions require hydrodynamic models with limited calculation time, including real time control of river flooding, uncertainty and sensitivity analyses by Monte-Carlo simulandons, and long term simulations in support of the statistical analysis of the model simulation results (e.g. flood frequency analysis).

Its placement at the head of the Iron Gate gorge allowed for easy control of river traffic.

Canberra's plan in 2007 to take control of the rivers from the four states through which they flow has stalled amid bickering and political rivalries.

Yet at least since the cities of ancient Sumeria went to war over control of their rivers — long before tales of Moses parting the Red Sea or the Flood described in the Bible — water has been a principal source of conflict.

Union General Henry Halleck hoped to regain control of western rivers as a means of piercing Confederate defenses, and in early February 1862 he sent General Ulysses S. Grant and Commodore Andrew Foote on a joint endeavour to capture Forts Henry and Donelson.

Palestine must have... the control of its rivers and their headwaters".