Sentence examples for vast watershed from inspiring English sources

Compared to the extraordinary Potomac and its vast watershed, the Thames, Seine, Rhone, and Garonne were mere "rivulets".

In the vast watershed region west of the Hudson River, federal regulations, passed last spring and tougher than previous ones, will continue to apply.

To promote the expanded usage, the city's Department of Environmental Protection, which oversees activities in the vast watershed, has dispatched its employees to town hall meetings and country fairs around the state.

The problem is that the Mississippi's vast watershed (covering 43percentt of the entire lower 48 United States) and much of America's agricultural heartland are sick as well.

The Everglades is simultaneously a vast watershed that has historically extended from Lake Okeechobee 100 mile south to Florida Bay (around one-third of the southern Florida peninsula), and many interconnected ecosystems within a geographic boundary.

The vast watershed of the Mississippi River ranges from Montana in the west to New York state in the east.

The mountains and hills that make Los Angeles beautiful also create a bowl for smog, as well as gullies and canyons for vast watersheds -- and a perfect playground for the wild hot winds.

That amount of land is just a drop in the bucket for the vast Mississippi watershed, but Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack thought it was promising enough to invite the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa P. Jackson, to visit one of the farms in the program.

But at the same time, its reliance on volunteers like the lieutenant places time constraints and other limits on its performance -- which is why New York City's Department of Environmental Protection is no longer sending it to patrol the vast New York watershed areas considered vulnerable since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Mr. Meacham, a cave diver and researcher originally from Austin, Tex., has explored the aquatic inner workings of the Yucatán since 1995, mapping long underwater caverns and studying the effects of development and pollution on the Yucatán's vast subterranean watershed.

As a challenge to its purpose both as an educational and community institution, the Harbor School invented the Billion Oyster Project, an ecosystem services initiative of the New York Harbor Foundation, that would engage its students in a hands-on activity to reconnect the harbor to the 30 million people living within its vast urban watershed.