Sentence examples for draining river from inspiring English sources

Floods and landslides mainly occurred in areas with three specific characteristics: steep slopes, draining river valleys, and locations with soft and clayey rock layers.

The modified vegetation cover plays an important role on the runoff processes and on the discharge of the draining river systems.

This paper presents a new methodological approach in the analysis of the influence of the North Atlantic circulation on the flood magnitude of the Tagus River, the largest Atlantic draining river of the Iberian Peninsula.

The second mechanism involves drainage reversals; a climate-induced shift in which formerly Atlantic draining river systems catastrophically shifted to assume an opposite direction of outflow into the Pacific.

Secondly, incidents occurred along draining rivers such as in the Rhine Valley on the western state border, as well as the Neckar Valley in the Stuttgart region and east of Mannheim.

It takes water to make everything, and the explosion of demand for all manner of products is draining rivers, shrinking lakes and depleting aquifers.

Although migration over long distances through the Straits of Gibraltar is possible, we cannot exclude alternative possibilities associated with past connection between headwater captures of Mediterranean and Atlantic draining rivers, migration through artificial canals, or non-documented human-mediated transport related with stocking.

Humans today literally move mountains, drain rivers, clear forests and change the atmosphere.

Doug Obegi, a staff attorney with the environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council, said the 40% standard falls short of what is needed to build sustainable fish populations in the heavily drained rivers.

The presence of greenback cutthroat trout in eastern draining rivers, or rivers draining to the south in the case of Rio Grande cutthroat, indicate transfers of populations through headwater connections and subsequent isolation.

The longest Pacific-draining river that is wholly within Canada is the Fraser.