Sentence examples for fresh surface water from inspiring English sources

Great Nicobar is the only island in the territory with a significant amount of fresh surface water.

The virus is believed to have arrived in 2002 or 2003 in the Great Lakes, which hold 20percentt of the world's fresh surface water.

Together, the five Great Lakes account for 20percentt of the world's supply of fresh surface water, and an estimated 40 million people get their water from the lakes' basin.

The five Great Lakes hold 95percentt of the fresh surface water in the United States and provide drinking water for more than 33 million people in the United States and Canada.

It has no fresh surface water supplies and very limited renewable groundwater.

The flow cells got the same feed (extensively pre-treated fresh surface water) and operational conditions (temperature, pressure and membrane flux) as the full-scale installation.

The overall Cl flux is calculated as 660 kg/ha/y, implying a time scale of exposure of these soils to fresh surface waters of 2000 years.

Two sources of highly saline water enter the Indian Ocean via the Arabian Sea, one from the Persian Gulf and the other from the Red Sea, and sink below the fresher surface water to form the North Indian High Salinity Intermediate Water between 2,000 and 3,300 feet (600 and 1,000 metres).

The pore water profiles of "background" species, namely Cl, Na, K, Mg and Sr, increased monotonically with decreasing elevation in the ASS profile, suggesting upward diffusion, from estuarine-formation pore waters at lower elevations in the profile, towards fresher surface waters.

For 2005, most of the fresh-surface-water withdrawals--about 41%--were used in the thermo-electric power industry to cool electricity-generating equipment.

Although rainfall is low, Sismiut has abundant natural supplies of fresh, drinkable surface water, collected from a reservoir under Alanngorsuaq.