Sentence examples for on watercourses from inspiring English sources

Planted forests may have adverse as well as beneficial effects on watercourses, e.g. by reducing hydroelectricity output.

The increasing efforts to reduce the environmental impact on the Amazon's natural resources are focusing on watercourses that pass through effluents with high concentrations of heavy metals.

Anthropogenic alterations to terrestrial habitat (e.g., urbanization, deforestation, agriculture) can have a variety of negative effects on watercourses that flow through disturbed landscapes.

The trust said it had voiced concerns about the impact the development may have on watercourses in the area, and how that could affect flooding issues in the future.

Mr. Steiner is drafting a final site plan and must obtain a wetlands permit because of watercourses on the property, but town officials are strongly behind the proposal.

Previous work on the automatic identification of watercourses was typically based on grids, focused on natural landscapes, and used mostly the slope and curvature of the terrain.

However, this species plays a dominant structural role in the urban network of green ways and on the banks of watercourses.

This study is important because Bruijnzeel (2004) warned of the lack of studies investigating the effects of vegetation on the flow of watercourses at large temporal and spatial scales.

There are also a growing number of Micro hydro systems on smaller watercourses, especially in more remote rural locations.

The Environment Agency has powers to manage flood control on main rivers, which are defined by a series of statutory main river maps, and for water quality on all watercourses.

In the Sept. 17, 1955, issue of The New Yorker, Mr. Hersey also wrote that, in Winsted, "nearly all the Main Street stores backing on the watercourse were surmounted by rickety wooden tenements, mostly three or four stories high, many of them connected to each other on the river side by continuous wooden porches".