Sentence examples for pristine watershed from inspiring English sources

This area is gaining attention as the proposed location of the Pebble Mine, which could end up as the largest open-pit mine in North America and threaten thousands of acres of pristine watershed and the spawning grounds of the largest wild sockeye salmon run on the planet.

They have all reported on the bay, the mine, the salmon, and the intricate and mysterious hydrology of this unique, pristine watershed.

If they were able to access the deeper cooler parts of Malibu Creek, and also the relatively pristine watershed of Cold Creek, they might survive.

In starting the process, the agency is sending a letter to the Army Corps of Engineers, the state of Alaska and the Pebble Partnership seeking their response to the action and, more specifically, their views on why they believe the operation would not damage the pristine watershed.

In addition to the nation's largest city, the metropolitan region includes a relatively pristine watershed, the source of New York City's drinking water; substantial agricultural land in parts of northern New York, Long Island, and central New Jersey; and an estimated 1,600 cities, towns, and villages.

Our landmark legislation that preserves 400,000 acres of the pristine Highland watershed land now requires the establishment of a mechanism to protect drinking water for more than 5 million residents.

Given the pristine upland watershed, water quality conditions in the Upper Ganges River are generally good, which was confirmed by our monitoring data (Table 1).

We won't be able to rely upon pristine upstate watersheds for our drinking water forever.

One of only five cities in the country that is not required to filter its water supply, New York depends on its pristine upstate watersheds and reservoirs to deliver H20 that some have said is better than anything you can buy bottled.

The city owns about 9percentt of the county's land, which is kept pristine to protect the watershed.

Anglo American and Northern Dynasty Minerals, its Canadian partner, are scheming to construct one of the world's largest copper and gold mines, the Pebble Mine, in the watershed above Alaska's pristine Bristol Bay.