Sentence examples for impounded water from inspiring English sources

The reservoirs contain the bulk of the world's impounded water.

Where there's flooding of places where there are swamps and impounded water.

Firstly, there is a short acceleration due to the reservoir pressure level; i.e. the depth of impounded water.

Outbursts from impounded water bodies produce large and geomorphically significant floods affecting the Earth as well as other planetary surfaces.

In some cases, costly pumping stations have been installed to lift the impounded water over the levees and into the main river.

The major producing regions were located in rural areas of the northeast, in proximity to Zürich Winterthur and Sankt Gallen Appenzell Glarus, near sources of impounded water that provided mechanical energy for running the machines.

The impounded waters of Lake Mead, extending for some 115 miles (185 km) behind Hoover Dam, provide reserves for the southeastern area.

The ancient city, in a fertile oasis irrigated by the impounded waters of the Maʾrib Dam, has been called "the Paris of the ancient world".

As early as the 17th century, Norwich's impounded waters fueled some of the first industrialism in New England, powering grist mills, textile mills and more.

From the headwaters of the Finlay River, which flows into Williston Lake (the impounded waters of the Peace River) west of the Rocky Mountains, the entire river system runs for 2,635 miles (4,241 km) through the lake-strewn Canadian north to empty into the cold and often-frozen waters of the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean.

These mosquitoes often breed in stagnant water commonly found in ditches, rice fields, and impounded waters associated with human populations [ 2, 3].