Sentence examples for downstream city from inspiring English sources

After the levee was breached in May, a flood threat to the downstream city of Monroe subsided.

Are downstream city dwellers immune from fracking chemicals in their water supplies?

She said Duke was working closely with Danville, Va., the nearest downstream city.

In Danville, Va., the downstream city closest to the spill, officials say normal filtering of river water had rendered drinking water safe.

Waters have been allowed to flow into some of the relocation zones, but the current flood has not reached the stage at which officials must open dikes and divert water into large inhabited areas to prevent catastrophe in downstream cities.

The spill, which first occurred two weeks ago, prompted a rush on bottled water in several downstream cities and prompted worries that the contamination could reach as far as Hong Kong and Macao.

The spatial assessment of risk reveals how the risk is distributed between upstream and downstream cities.

These overgrazed soils can't hold the monsoon rains, leading to floods that endanger downstream cities and farmlands across China and Southeast Asia.

Under these conditions, the Department of Environmental Protection wants to know the background concentration of contaminants in this river in order to satisfy the requirement of those downstream cities.

However, part of the water used in California cities will be collected and reused by other downstream cities, but this is not taken into account since Californian norms do not call for the calculation of consumptive use (which is more complicated to calculate than in Las Vegas because of the local configuration).

Since the filling of the reservoir in 2003, the Three Gorges Dam has supplied an extra 11 cubic kilometres of fresh water to downstream cities and farms during the dry season.