Sentence examples for flood cycle from inspiring English sources

Officials are now planning to build sediment diversion projects that mimic the natural flood cycle so that sediment and freshwater can rebuild and sustain Louisiana's coastal wetlands.

They are more concerned about better regulation of the river that would allow the natural flood cycle to replenish the delta, they said.

The annual flood cycle in the Okavango Delta is the basis of subsistence of the local population, providing water, arable land and wetland resources.

The annual flood cycle is an important driver of ecosystem structure and function in large tropical rivers such as the Amazon.

The dam will end the river's natural flood cycle, which herders and farmers have relied on for centuries, and reduce the water level in Lake Turkana, the organisation says.

In the spring, when snow and ice begin to melt, the rivers of the Greater Caucasus and some of those of the Lesser Caucasus begin a flood cycle that may last six months.

The reproductive cycle of this species is linked to the annual rhythm of precipitation and flood cycles.

The drought and flood cycles on the Great Plains were caused by farming practices that disturbed the natural vegetation.

Some large dams alter flood cycles and downstream flows; some pollute rivers, remove nutrients and alter the water temperature.

The flood cycles passed on the salts that accumulated from evaporation and passed new layers of silt onto the farmlands around the marshes.

Egyptians organized no large projects to control the Nile, and they did relatively little in terms of irrigation, relying on annual flood cycles.