Sentence examples for maintaining river from inspiring English sources

This intergovernmental body is charged with maintaining river flow, and its members are New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey.

Sustaining adequate environmental flows (e-flows) is a key principle for maintaining river biodiversity and ecosystem health, and for supporting sustainable water resource management in basins under intensive human activities.

Thurrock Council accepted that the problem was where the sewer outfall met an Environment Agency maintained river.

Combining this conception with the studies by Bruijnzeel (2004), Wickel (2009) and Wickel and Bruijnzeel (2009), it can be seen that the degradation of riparian vegetation reduces the organic matter content in these soils and leads to an even further decrease in the ability to maintain river flows during dry seasons.

It maintained river levels above Boston, and helped to scour the channel below it.

Rich people will pay to maintain rivers, but not if they fear losing their land.

Groundwater has three major roles in our environment: providing the baseflow that keeps most rivers flowing all year long, maintaining good river water quality by diluting sewage and other effluents, and as an excellent source of water supply, providing over 75percentnt of the potable supply in some regions.

An operation of maintaining a river estuary at a depth sufficient for navigation, for example, may at the same time greatly improve its capacity for the drainage of upland floodwaters.

This study considered ecological operation targets, including maintaining the river environmental flow and protecting the spawning and reproduction of the Chinese sturgeon and four major Chinese carps.

Thirdly, a sufficient natural area is needed to give the area a river corridor influence, maintain the river's ecological continuity, and keep this natural area undisturbed by zoning.

Mr. Daschle is trying to protect the $85 billion recreation industry in up-river states, where lakes, streams and reservoirs favored by anglers are often drained to maintain high river flows for barges on the lower stretches of the river.