Sentence examples for create more land from inspiring English sources

Originally, the idea was to build canals to drain off water that was excessively salty or polluted, and to create more land that could be cultivated.

THE army of workers operating along what used to be Macau's waterfront is conducting "land reclamation": dumping sand into the water to create more land on which to build ever more casinos, resorts and hotels in the formerly Portuguese playground.

Sending sediment-rich water into the marshes helps create more land in the sinking delta.

In 1962, the lake was completely drained to create more land for agriculture.

Settlement of urban areas in South Florida was facilitated by large drainage projects intended to create more land.

After the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, we restored native vegetation, using natural systems to grow healthy roots, remediate the soil, stop erosion, trap sediment to create more land mass, and attract marine life and mammals back to this habitat.

So why not create more agricultural land by building upwards?Such is the thinking behind vertical farming.

Many of these ships were later destroyed and used for landfill to create more buildable land in the boomtown.

Those that didn't dodge reporters entirely were quick to change the subject to the purported benefits of mountaintop removal to create more flat land for industrial and commercial development (in a region where less than 10percentt of the more than 1 million acres of mountains that have already been flattened has been used for economic development).

The rationale was that the Hook had already been defaced, so why not finish the job, make a nice road along the Hudson, create more usable park land and earn money for other parks at the same time.

OO "Hidden" Sources of Climate Changing Emissions: Agriculture and Waste Disposal - global animal agriculture, rice cultivation, and waste disposal help create more emissions than Earth's land can now absorb, says a new study.