Sentence examples for rising water levels from inspiring English sources

Rising water levels threaten not only this important relationship but also the infrastructure that supports the city.

They coveted professional basketball teams, Hollywood movie-producer credits, and "private-jet escape routes to New Zealand" (in case of rising water levels, plague, or a proletarian revolt).

They know perfectly well that rising water levels will have something to do with people who have settled where an ancient riverbed once stood.

During a storm in 1999, rising water levels in the Gironde River led to severe flooding at the French plant Blayais, shutting down some safety systems.

The rising water levels of the Ganges were about to submerge the cottages they were staying in when a security guard alerted them, Ms. Mehta said.

The play's most polemical element might be its design, which in the recent Roundabout Theater Company production featured rising water levels actually washing away parts of the set.

The official, Liu Yuan, told China National Radio that rising water levels in the reservoir had made adjacent land increasingly unstable.

Titled "Destiny Intertwined," the installation is supposed to alert audiences to the rising water levels that threaten both Tuvalu and Venice.

So on top of predation by a range of birds and mammals, there is a risk that rising water levels, commonplace in the Highlands, will wash the eggs out.

It has been estimated that rising water levels would force the relocation of 50,000 people, mostly from ethnic minorities such as the Yi, Lisu and Miao, whose way of life in the canyon has changed little for centuries.

The costs of environmental damage often seem abstract: a skeletal polar bear floating on an iceberg thousands of miles away, or the threat of rising water levels some decades in the future.