Sentence examples for upper basin from inspiring English sources

The river has reduced its flow because the blocking of the upper basin by terminal moraines during the Upper Pleistocene.

The upper basin is the basin of Venice.

Spring snowmelt in the river's upper basin provides the majority of the annual discharge.

The only significant economic activity is gold mining in the upper basin.

The upper basin provides a minimum annual flow of 8.23 million acre feet to Arizona, Nevada and California.

In the upper basin an extensive network of ponds aids irrigation; these ponds are also used for raising fish.

The towboat Mississippi is more than halfway down the Atchafalaya now — beyond the leveed farmland of the upper basin and into the storied swamp.

The Loire Basin has a temperate maritime climate, with no consistent dry season and with heavy precipitation, including winter snowfall, in the highlands that occupy its upper basin.

The closed depressions in the upper basin receive from less than 8 to about 12 inches (less than 200 to about 300 mm) annually.

It lay within the ancient district of Cerdagne, or Cerdaña (the upper basin of the Segre River), of which it was capital until 1177.

(The upper-basin states Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and a tiny corner of northern Arizona still take less than their theoretical entitlement).