Sentence examples for downstream water quality from inspiring English sources
Edward C. Hopkins, a policy analyst at the Sierra Club, said: "The E.P.A.'s own scientists have concluded that dumping mining waste into streams devastates downstream water quality.
Results indicate constructed wetlands can improve downstream water quality though sequestration or processing of pollutants.
Concentrations of chlorides, specific conductance, and TP are the only downstream water quality evidence of discharge.
Further, the sediment trapping portion of sediment budget represents an important ecosystem service that profoundly affects downstream water quality.
The water discharged by hydropower facilities is a matter of increasing concern due to poor downstream water quality.
A load reduction of 55% would be needed at the tile discharge to meet downstream water quality objectives.
Dams alter aquatic ecology and river hydrology upstream and downstream, affecting water quality, quantity and breeding grounds (Helland-Hansen et al., 1995).
There is no question that moving the water intakes upstream from their present downstream locations would do much to improve the quality of the water being pumped south.
The influence of vegetation type on groundwater level fluctuations and evapotranspiration has rarely been quantified for contrasting plant communities concurrently although it has implications for downstream water yield and quality.
The study is divided into three phases: (1) application of WQIBA and CCME WQI to the river stretch between upstream and downstream to evaluate water quality index of selected parameters; (2) establishing the correlation between the water quality index and the different parameters; and (3) to identify the most critical parameters affecting the water quality of the river.
And frankly, dam removal has its own environmental downsides including removal of flat water reservoir, local wetlands drainage, resultant habitat modification, sediment release, increased stream turbidity, distribution of accumulated toxins downstream, temperature and water quality issues -- negatives hopefully to be overcome by restoration of the long-term natural process.
