Sentence examples for reduce river from inspiring English sources
It is designed with baffles that reduce river current inside the upward-sloping tunnel so alewives can swim through it into the river pond.
The report cited success stories in Bangladesh, Botswana, Chile, China, India, Poland, South Korea, Uganda and Vietnam, and it claimed specific achievements like helping reduce river blindness in West Africa and iodine deficiencies in China.
These forms of sedimentation, known as charlands (Chowdhury 1984; Lahiri-Dutt and Samanta 2013), further reduce river flow and cause ecological service failures.
Significant consequences in ecological engineering were obtained in several cases, such as for Ta-Chia Creek, where wire cages, tires, and boulders were installed to improve the stream habitat, and for Wu-Lao Creek, where natural water purification facilities were constructed to reduce river pollution.
They put in place programs to restore natural drainage, reduce river pollution and encroachment, and extend bridges.
The first is that most of what the Senate bill offers — flexibility to reduce river flows to the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta during emergencies in order to direct more water to Central Valley farmers — already exists.
A greatly reduced river would wreak chaos in seven states: Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California.
Since 1957 the highway connecting San Fernando de Apure with Calabozo and the densely populated north has reduced river traffic drastically.
The lowering that took place between 1929 and 1977 was attributed to climatic changes that increased evaporation and reduced river influx amplified by reservoir construction on the Volga to supply river water for irrigation and industry.
Smaller-scale fishing takes place in the Sea of Azov and the Black and Caspian seas (the Caspian sturgeon is the source of the world's finest caviar), but reduced river flows and pollution from agricultural runoff, industrial waste, and sewage dumping have thinned fish populations.
This severe water volume reduction was directly linked to reduced river runoff into the Aral Sea, reduced precipitation rates, increased evaporation rates, and increased use of the Aral Sea for irrigation purposes.
