Sentence examples for extensive drainage from inspiring English sources

The Romans, too, built extensive drainage systems, covering the holes with vented stones.

Its extensive drainage system makes possible the Krasnoyarsk and Sayan hydroelectric stations, among the largest in the world.

If heavy rainfall is not probable during critical stages of crop growth, less extensive drainage improvements may suffice.

It was only during the Industrial Revolution that increasingly crowded and polluted European cities again took up the mantle of creating extensive drainage systems.

Habitat loss stemmed from extensive drainage of wetlands and from agriculture-induced eutrophication of the wetlands, which destroyed open, submergent native reeds.

Southeast Asia's landscape is characterized by three intermingled physical elements: mountain ranges, plains and plateaus, and water in the form of both shallow seas and extensive drainage systems.

In the first such continent-wide survey, scientists have found extensive drainages of meltwater flowing over parts of Antarctica's ice during the brief summer.

As a large receiving basin, the Gulf of Mexico receives extensive drainages from five countries (U.S., Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, and Cuba), including over two-thirds of the U.S. watershed.

By about 7000 bce sedentary agriculture with extensive swamp drainage and irrigation was practiced in the highland basins.

The results showed that extensive subsurface drainage in the RRV would likely increase the magnitude of smaller peak flows while decreasing the magnitude of larger peak flows.

Our analysis also suggested that extensive subsurface drainage could move more water from the watershed to the rivers in the fall season, creating more storage capacity in the soils.