Sentence examples for tributaries from inspiring English sources

There are approximately 1,250 tributaries that service the main river, 17 of which are more than 1,000 miles long.

Streams and even some ditches – so long as they are considered tributaries that connect to larger bodies of water downstream– are considered "water of the United States" (also known as #WOTUS), and subject to regulation.

In every direction was river, little tributaries inviting exploration.

Last year reporters from the official Xinhua news agency conducted interviews along the Huai's tributaries, discovering foul-smelling oily black water, dead fish and polluted wells.

The Ganges and one of its main tributaries, the Yamuna, which runs through Delhi, were allotted over half of this cash.

What with France's state-owned electricity company pulling out of a huge project to build a hydropower plant on one of the tributaries of the Mekong, it looks like the regime's biggest problems lie overseas.

These floods infused the river with sediment, carved its beaches and built its sandbars.However, in the four decades since the building of the Glen Canyon dam, just upstream of the Grand Canyon, the only sediment that it has collected has come from tiny, undammed tributaries.

All, he says, are "swelling tributaries funnelling into the exaflood".

Under a treaty of 1944, Mexico is meant to give Texas access to at least 350,000 acre-feet of water each year from the river and its tributaries.

Finally, toward the western edge of the watershed, the tributaries reach across Guangxi into Yunnan provinces where the people have yet to get into the flow of China's voyage of development.

The Thames has been polluted for centuries: in 1383 Parliament taxed households whose latrines emptied into the river's tributaries.