Sentence examples similar to throw dams from inspiring English sources

"They build their estates in low-lying areas that are supposed to be reservoirs," he said, "and they throw up a dam or a dike, and they block the flow where the water is supposed to go in rainy season".

Flood control, for example, requires officials to throw open a dam's gates; doing so means irrigation water or power production is lost.

A new upstream dam can throw a spanner into the most carefully constructed local water allocation plan.

With this cultural attitude we clear-cut forests, dam rivers, throw garbage and even nuclear waste into the ocean as well as enslave, torture and murder billions of other animals, and our excuse is that it is economically viable.

India worries that China is throwing up huge dams in Tibet that might divert water from rivers flowing over the border.

If so, I'll throw myself off the nearest dam.

We want to ask him about his three ex-wives, the future of the aristocracy, and whether he has days where he'd like to throw his titles in the dam and bog off to live with the Chacma baboons of Mozambique.

This work describes a global computational analysis of a published Dam knockout microarray alongside other publicly available data to throw insights into the extent to which Dam regulates transcription by interfering with protein binding.

The final safety valve is a spillway — three hundred feet wide, half a mile long — that the dam's controllers can throw open to prevent an imminent breach.

In a dire warning this week, the World Wildlife Fund said a new dam planned for Laos will throw the population of Mekong River dolphins into peril.

"They might as well throw their money into one of the rivers they want to dam.