Sentence examples for seawater from inspiring English sources

Those with children to carry bring still less, having paid €1,200 £8755) to make the journey from the Turkish mainland; 40 to 45 people in unsafe, 15ft plastic dinghies, floors lined with plywood, damp with seawater.

Some of the flooded areas were on new developments along the riverbanks, atop mangrove forests that had once slowed the approach of seawater and could absorb excess water.

GBR has been subject to severe disturbances, including COTS outbreaks, mass coral bleaching and declining growth rates of coral due to increasing seawater temperatures, terrestrial runoff, tropical cyclones, and coral diseases.

If you do, seawater forces its way into your lungs and you sink like a rock.

The molluscs produce proteins which combine with ions of calcium and carbonate in seawater.

The seawater in a graphene desalination system would need a pressure of about 28 bar (400lb per square inch).

But the thought of using it to recharge aquifers let alone to pipe it direct to people's taps is currently more than Angelenos can stomach.Yet, an hour's drive to the south, water officials in Orange County recently opened a $480m recycling plant for recharging local aquifers and injecting the product into the littoral water table to prevent further incursion of seawater.

A litre of seawater has billions of viruses in it.

Modern genetic techniques can obtain DNA sequences from these viruses, but that cannot tie a particular virus to a particular host.To do so, Dr Giovannoni (pictured) borrowed a technique from homeopathy: he diluted some seawater to such an extent that, statistically speaking, he expected a 100-microlitre-sized aliquot to contain only one or two viruses.

According to Mar Fernández-Méndez of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, in the summer of 1982 a column of Arctic seawater with a cross-sectional area of a square metre fixed 26 milligrams of carbon a day.

The ships would drag turbines through the sea to provide electricity that would both drive the cylinders and power pumps that sprayed the atmosphere with seawater, suitably broken up into droplets.Such ships would weigh 300 tonnes.