Sentence examples for which waterway from inspiring English sources

It is, however, unclear by which waterway haplochromine cichlids once colonized Lake Kivu.

Then came two Supreme Court decisions that left uncertain which waterways were protected by the law.

The court did not define which waterways are regulated, and judicial districts have interpreted the court's decisions differently.

WOTUS essentially represents the Obama Administration's attempt to clarify which waterways are governed by the Clean Water Act.

The changes would give states greater leeway in deciding which waterways need to be cleaned and how rapidly to do the job.

Thousands of the nation's largest water polluters are outside the Clean Water Act's reach because the Supreme Court has left uncertain which waterways are protected by that law, according to interviews with regulators.

Two years ago, the Obama administration issued the Waters of the United States rule to clarify, once and for all, which waterways should be subject to oversight under the Clean Water Act.

The problem is that the law never defines precisely which waterways are included in the federal government's jurisdiction — leaving the question about the scope of the law to bureaucrats and, ultimately, the courts.

As a test of which waterways and wetlands might fall under the Clean Water Act, it ruled out those that were completely isolated and whose sole qualification for federal jurisdiction was their use by migratory birds, the one standard the court explicitly rejected.

The rule clarified the reach of the 1972 Clean Water Act after Supreme Court decisions in 2001 and 2006 created confusion over which waterways the law applied to.

Thousands of the nation's largest water polluters are outside the Clean Water Act's reach because the Supreme Court has left uncertain which waterways are protected by that law.