Sentence examples for depleted ground from inspiring English sources

Despite what Smokey the Bear taught us all about how forest fires get started, the brush fires that routinely decimate California to the tune of billions of dollars damage each year start because of depleted ground water which have left water tables dangerously low.

With the introduction of the Central Valley Project in the mid-1930s, came the Auburn-Folsom South Unit, with the purpose to "provide new and supplemental water for irrigation, municipal and industrial use, and to replenish severely depleted ground water in the Folsom South region".

As a result, top predators like reef sharks have ceased to hunt these depleted grounds.

With limited surface water and depleting ground water resources, desalination is the key to meeting the inexorable rise in demand for water resulting from economic growth and expanding populations.

Most Indian farmers still do not have irrigation systems, and waste and inefficiency have severely depleted precious ground water.

Studies in African drylands demonstrate the importance of such caveats by showing that there are non-zero tree densities where the benefits of improved soil infiltration can greatly exceed evaporation losses and can substantially increase, rather than deplete, ground water when compared to treeless areas (Ilstedt et al. 2016).

It makes little sense to reconstruct an entire village from scratch amid contaminated fields close to depleted fishing grounds for a greatly diminished population.

The exchangeable Na depleted from the ground surface to 20 m in depth and the total loss of Na coincided with the accumulation of Ca and Mg.

This majestic, stately being, which is large enough to offer shade to 500 adults, survived Columbus and survived the conquistadors and survived the Mexican Revolution, but is now suffering the consequences of air pollution and a near-depleted ground water table.

Not everyone is thrilled with the outcome: some local fishermen complained that the alterations to the coastline have depleted fish breeding grounds and pose a risk to oyster beds, claims that the RSPB and Crossrail dispute.

Chemicals have depleted the soil.