Sentence examples for system of rivers from inspiring English sources
Peninsular Malaysia is drained by an intricate system of rivers and streams.
Heavy rains overloaded an extensive system of rivers and creeks, resulting in heavy flooding across the region.
Those advantages are the result of a gorgeous feature of the universe that determines its destiny and permeates space like a vast, three-dimensional system of rivers, tributaries, streams, creeks and rivulets: the cosmic web.
"It's like a big sponge, soaking up and releasing an enormous amount of water, feeding a huge system of rivers, streams and wetlands," said Henry Tepper, state director of the Nature Conservancy in New York.
In The Atlantic, Drew Ramsey and Tyler Graham explain the rise of vegetable oils: Before highways and before railroads, America conducted her commerce via steamship over water through a system of rivers, canals, and lakes.
White Sea Baltic Canal, Russian Belomorsko-baltiysky Kanal, system of rivers, lakes, and canals in northwestern Russia that connects the White Sea to Lake Onega, where it joins the Volga-Baltic Waterway.
Commerce was greatly facilitated by a road network and system of river transport that had been expanded and improved under Roman administration.
Along this waterway a system of river routes developed in the 4th to 6th century ce as a "route from the Varangians to the Greeks," connecting the Black Sea with the Baltic and linking the Slavs with both the Mediterranean and the Baltic peoples.
France is an interesting case because this country already had a mature system of river basin management in place before the WFD came into force.
A relict system of river channels had already been identified by Molengraaf and Weber (1919) and further documented by several other investigators, including Kuenen (1950) and more recently by Solihuddin (2014) who reviewed past evidence together with new bathymetric data.
Lake Chad is fed by three major streams, the Komadugu Yobe, Logone, and Chari, but these are in danger of having their waters captured by the drainage systems of rivers that flow in opposite directions.
