Sentence examples for surface ponds from inspiring English sources

A rainfall deficit last year — the short rainy season ended early, and rains were rare and irregular — left the land without the surface ponds that many of Niger's 17 million people, most subsistence farmers, depend on.

Several dozen isolated populations exist in northeastern Mexico, with some living in surface ponds and streams and others in caves and underground waterways.

Most sample locations were chosen close to populated areas, principally around the perimeter of Polder 32 where residents had constructed surface ponds and tubewells.

Also, recent evidence suggests that crab burrows in surface ponds in Bangladesh may penetrate the impermeable mud cap, leading to localized freshwater recharge [15].

The efficiency of artificial surface ponds (SPs) for managed aquifer recharge (MAR) is mostly controlled by the topmost portion of the soil.

Groundwater recharge by (contaminated) surface water is consistent with reports of contamination of tubewell water by pathogens on Polder 32 and with previous studies that showed that surface ponds in the region are a source of recharge water and labile carbon [20].

Overland flow is generated at a point on a hillslope only after surface ponding takes place.

Future analyses of terrace moisture dynamics may additionally include simulations of root water uptake, surface ponding, and runoff.

Surface ponding occurs if water flux from rain or snowmelt, increases the infiltration capacity of the soil.

Solution of the Green-Ampt equation for rainfall events of varying magnitude indicated that an increase in rainfall intensity leads to more surface ponding and overland flow.

The results showed that, for subsurface drainage systems under the condition of continuous surface ponding, macro-pores increased the hydraulic head in the deep soil, which in turn reduced the hydraulic gradient between the surface and deep soil.