Sentence examples for water upstream from inspiring English sources

The system is supposed to automatically monitor the water upstream and downstream but "we're nowhere near that," Serrano said.

Austin locals, who know that what goes into the water upstream invariably comes out downstream, had another idea.

Within a basin, the water upstream may be useful for irrigation, industrial or domestic use.

Once spectacular, the cataract has lost much of its volume because water upstream has been diverted for irrigation.

This minimal flow is a result of a further complicating factor: the members of the commission are pledged to maintain enough flow to prevent the intrusion of salt water upstream of Trenton.

The Klamath Tribes have recently received favorable rulings in state administrative courts on lawsuits they first filed in the 1970s to gain control of the water upstream.

In an unprecedented legal claim in Europe, Saul Luciano Lliuya demands that RWE pay part of the costs for urgent protective measures as his home lies in the floodpath of the Palcacocha lake which is damming glacial melt-water upstream of his home in the town of Huaraz, in Peru's Cordillera Blanca, or white mountain range.

When the Aswan High Dam was built across the Upper Nile in the 1960's, international teams managed to rescue ancient temples and other monuments from the rising waters upstream.

Critics of the project say that the dam has created environmental hazards and note that historic landmarks have been lost in the waters upstream.

Other reasons may include "drift" of sensitive organisms from low-TDS waters upstream into the sampling zone, a factor that will vary from site to site.

Wetland ecosystems are considered as potential ecological solutions for increasing the capacity of watersheds to store runoff waters upstream, and thereby, decrease risk of downstream flooding.