In addition to turning up the heat in its longstanding dispute with Britain over control of the Falkland Islands, the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner also nationalised a Spanish-controlled oil company without providing a penny of compensation and sparred with Ghana over the impoundment of a naval frigate.This week Argentina added Israel to its list of burnt bridges.
Man-made lakes or reservoirs may result from the building of a dam within a natural catchment area or as a complete artificial impoundment.
A common type of temporary storage impoundment for hazardous liquid waste is an open pit or holding pond, called a lagoon.
Although the majority of hydroelectric plants depend on the impoundment of rivers, tidal power still could play a role, albeit minor, in electric power generation during the coming years.
Santa Rosa Lake is an impoundment on the Pecos at Los Esteros Dam.
Water loss by impoundment and evaporation and by diversion (chiefly for irrigation) have diminished discharge at the mouth of the Volga compared with natural conditions, and this has contributed to an almost steady decline in the level of the Caspian Sea since 1930.
Council Grove Lake, created by the impoundment of the Neosho, is just northwest of the city.
The initial park was created in 1968 out of the amalgamation of Lake Pedder National Park (created in 1955) and the Huon Serpentine Impoundment, which had inundated Lake Pedder owing to the construction of a hydroelectric dam.
A show of the nudes, in December, caused a sensation when it was threatened with impoundment by police, for the offense of displaying pubic hair.
As a young county agent in Wyoming, he had helped ranchers through drought after drought, and he deeply believed in the impoundment of water.
The resulting slurry of waste ends up in impoundment ponds, often near valley heads in former mountaintop-removal sites.
