Sentence examples for headwater region from inspiring English sources

Food-Energy-Water Security in the Three Rivers Headwater Region: Integrating Science, Data and Decision Tools to Manage Under a Changing Climate and Development Pressures.

We empirically analyze the design, implementation, and outcomes of the ecological restoration program in the Three-Rivers Headwater Region in China, a large-scale conservation scheme aimed at restoring degraded grasslands and improving local livelihoods.

In the headwater region of the uppermost basin, the mainstream flows through the northern Qamdo Block, which is composed mainly of Triassic–Jurassic shallow-marine carbonate, basaltic, and fluvial sedimentary rocks (Yin and Harrison 2000; Xia et al. 2011).

In 2005, Qinghai Authority started the "Ecological Protection and Construction Project in the Three Rivers Headwater Region" under the guidance of the state council.

It's an area where the Yangtze, Yellow, and Mekong Rivers all originate -- called the Three Rivers Headwater Region, or because of its high altitude, the "Water Tower of China".

Lü Zhi, founder of the Shan Shui Conservation Center, an NGO that has worked on protecting the Three Rivers Headwater Region, told Chinese media that the number of livestock in Yushu reached its peak in 1979, steadily declining since then.

In particular, the existence of erodible sedimentary rocks in the headwater regions yields high SY.

Most of the potential sites for large dams already have been utilized, and smaller dams in the headwater regions are now being constructed.

The Mantiqueira Range region is one of the most important Brazilian headwater regions, from which a great number of springs flow to form one of the most important watercourses for São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Minas Gerais States.

Reasonable explanations related the discharge of the Nile to precipitation in the headwater regions, as snow (Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, c. 500 428 bce) or from rain that filled lakes supposed to have fed the river (Democritus of Abdera, c. 460 c. 357 bce).

Cuffey and Shuster used a computer model to test various scenarios and concluded that only one fit the data: Glaciers initially scoured the U-shaped valleys on the flanks of the mountain range, and only later began eating away at their headwater regions, including cirques and drainage divides.