Sentence examples for sparse water from inspiring English sources
Throughout the 19th century, displaced communities of Khoekhoe and Oorlams from the Cape had made their way into South West Africa, competing for the sparse water and grazing land.
The plan has ignited a fierce debate about potential increases in population, traffic, demands on sparse water supplies and air pollution in close proximity to a World Heritage Site prized for panoramic views of multihued canyons shaped by the erosive forces of water and wind.
It was a year of biblical firestorms in the West and historic flooding across the South, and while there was temporary relief from drought in California, long-term predictions remain dismal for those relying on the sparse water resources of the Southwest.
National-scale analysis of the NAWQA data has demonstrated that nitrogen loading to the land surface was significantly related to nitrogen yields to streams (Fuhrer and others 1999) and possibly could be used as a surrogate for nutrient concentration in streams with sparse water-quality data.
Endosperm space become sparse after water uptake, and almost all starch granules inflated, indicating that storage starch gradually degraded to provide energy for germination.
Groundwater is typically used to augment sparse surface water supplies in the arid, lower Basin, and across the entire Basin during drought [ Hutson et al., 2004; Kenny et al., 2009].
The resilient longhorn, able to survive on sparse foliage and water, has endured in Texas for more than 100 years.
A new computation procedure is needed to deal with this sparse amount of water level data provided by the most data loggers relative to seismological data.
The initial poor discrimination of burned observations (pixels) among other classes (such as sparse vegetation and water) is enhanced in some of the higher order principal components.
Sheep are able to subsist on sparse forage and limited water.
In much of southern Africa the dry season, from May to November, is peak safari time, with roads open, wildlife coming to water and sparse vegetation making viewing easier.
