Sentence examples for river resources from inspiring English sources

A 2009 report for the CIA concluded that "the likelihood of conflict between India and Pakistan over shared river resources is expected to increase", though it added that elsewhere in the region "the risk of armed interstate conflict is minor".

India and Pakistan have contested one another's access to the Indus River system; a 2006 study commissioned by the Defense Department said, "for over a half century, bitter rivalry over river resources" has arguably "been one of the leading causes of full-scale warfare between them".

A third factor is the use of river resources, namely water and sediment, for nourishing the degrading coastal wetlands of the states of Louisiana and Mississippi.

Large sediment inputs can cause pronounced variations in sediment storage and flux in a drainage network and lead to deformation of alluvial forms and impacts on river resources.

Despite global advancement, the problems associated sustainability have not been sufficiently addressed, due to mismanaged governance, poorly implemented policies, lack of suitable data and over-exploitation of river resources.

Humans responded by diversifying their subsistence strategy: eastern Iowa saw a shift towards river resources, and western Iowa towards Plains resources.

Water temperature is a fundamental property of river habitat and often a key aspect of river resource management, but measurements to characterize thermal regimes are not available for most streams and rivers.

A rich literature describing the upper and lower Mekong basins has existed for some time, but until the 1950s the river's resources were treated chiefly in local studies of navigational access to urban areas.

Oversight of the Manantali Dam, as well as other dams along the Sénégal, is the responsibility of the Organization for the Development of the Sénégal River, which comprises Mali, Senegal, Mauritania, and Guinea; the group is also tasked with management of the river's resources.

The proposed dam, known as the Xayaburi for the province in Laos where it is located, is a test case for a 1995 agreement signed by Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam to share the river's resources — its fish, water and the minerals carried by the silt that fertilize the soils of places like the Mekong Delta.

The available river water resources are getting depleted and being adversely affected both qualitatively and quantitatively (Sati and Paliwal 2008; Desai and Tank 2010; Shrivastava et al. 2013).