Sentence examples for freshwater basins from inspiring English sources

It takes about 20,000 litres of water to make a single T-shirt and a pair of jeans, putting significant pressure on local rivers and freshwater basins.

The partnership has resulted in improved ecological health of seven of the world's most important freshwater basins while improving Coca-Cola's water efficiency by more than 20%.

In general, low-sulfur coal formed in continental, freshwater basins (such as the Green River and Powder River basins of the western United States) possesses much lower levels of sulfates than coal from basins adjacent to marine environments.

These interventions will stop the over-extraction of freshwater basins for agriculture and allow Amman to use water from Amman-Zarqa basin rather than importing from the non-renewable Disi basin, shared by Jordan and Saudi Arabia, with an infrastructure covering a 300 km.

Since 2005 his corporate Tan Yan Kee Foundation has been repairing or building freshwater basins in North Luzon to improve water quality, conservation, irrigation and fish production.

Primary freshwater fishes are strictly confined to freshwater basins, limiting their dispersal capacity.

FOR years dirt bikers have been roaring down scrub-oak trails in Speonk to a popular place called the Water Hole, a freshwater basin that filled from the bottom when sand miners dug so deep they hit an aquifer.

In the IJsselmeer, or IJssel Lake, formed from the southern part of the Zuiderzee, four large polders, the IJsselmeer Polders, with a total area of about 650 square miles (1,700 square km), were constructed around a freshwater basin fed by the IJssel and other rivers and linked with the sea by sluices and locks in the barrier dam.

All samples were grouped according to (A) lake/river from which individuals were collected, (B) the freshwater basin containing each lake/river, and ocean (Pacific or Atlantic) into which each basin, (C) currently drains, or (D) histocially drained [i.e. ancient refers to the conditions before the last glacial maximum (LGM) approximately 10,000-20,000 BP].

Last June it announced an ambitious collaboration with WWF, a global environmental organisation, to conserve seven major freshwater river basins.

Coca-Cola, which makes Dasani purified water, has increased recycling and reduced the weight of plastic bottles, instituted numerous energy-efficiency projects and is working with the World Wildlife Fund on projects to conserve seven freshwater river basins.