Sentence examples for degradation of river from inspiring English sources

Due to the world wide degradation of river catchments and their related aquatic resources the development of integrated management strategies has become an important issue.

Local scour modelling is an important issue in environmental engineering in order to prevent degradation of river bed and safeguard the stability of grade-control structures.

Local scour is crucial in the degradation of river bed and the stability of grade control structures, stilling basins, aprons, ski-jump bucket spillways, bed sills, weirs, check dams, etc.

The degradation of river ecosystems has been proposed as one of the major reasons for the inability of salmon to maintain their populations.

The environmental consequences of intensified agricultural production include the depletion and degradation of river and groundwater, reduced soil quality, and water and soil contamination with chemical fertilizers and pesticides.

Non-point source pollution is one of the crucial causes leading to degradation of rivers and lake water quality; therefore, it has been studied in depth worldwide.

Only by changing the mindset of the powerful mining lobbies the degradation of the river can be prevented.

Rapid development of the townships in the surrounding vicinity of the lower reach may also have added to the increased runoff and to an extent enhancing the degradation of the river water quality.

To date, the treatment has halted further degradation of the river and increased sediment storage, with the test reach now storing, on average, 40 more000 m2 more sediment than in the control.

Nevertheless, the Petitcodiac Watershed Monitoring Group noted in 2001 that this growth is one of the main factors for the ongoing "environmental degradation" of the river.

The region served as a major fishing attraction until a decline in water quality occurred in the 1940s, and since then further degradation of the river and its sources have occurred.