Sentence examples for original wetlands from inspiring English sources

Seven states, it said, have lost more than 80percentt of their original wetlands.

Since European colonization 150 years ago, as much as 90 percent of the country's original wetlands have been drained to make way for towns, farms and roads.

Compared with more than a century ago, the Doñana area has lost roughly 80 per cent of its fresh water supply, Ms Hernandez says, although 60 per cent of the original wetlands have also disappeared over those years.

Further explain that although ill-informed distrust of wetlands let to the destruction of more than half of America's original wetlands, they are, in fact, a "vital link between water and land," according to the EPA.

Restoring and creating 20,000 40,000 ha (50,000 100,000 acres) or 5 10% of the original wetlands in the Black Swamp to optimize nutrient reduction could reduce phosphorus loading by 480 960 metric tons/year or 18 37%percentt of the annual phosphorus loading by the Maumee River to Lake Erie.

More than half of America's original wetlands have been destroyed or degraded to make way for urban development and farming.

The channelization of the Everglades around 1948 caused the reduction of the original wetland areas by up to 50%, with related declines in dependent wildlife.

This assumption was also supported by the successful detection of anammox bacteria in the Honghe wetland sediment (unpublished data), where the original wetland has been protected from human impact since.

Settlers build a dam across a valley to power a grist mill, and a pond forms behind the dam, inundating the original valley wetland.

The degradation process reduces the original heterogeneity of natural wetlands.

The original non-aerated HSSF wetland system, commissioned in 2001 had a design cBOD5 loading rate of 374 kg/day at a flow rate of 40 l/s (Revitt et al., 2001; Richter et al., 2003).