Sentence examples for widespread river from inspiring English sources

But environmentalists, lawyers and some politicians have warned that the restoration effort could become a pretext to finance the same kind of boondoggles that lay behind widespread river straightening in the first place.

The construction of pool-type fishways has greatly increased in recent years in response to widespread river fragmentation by man-made structures.

The extent and intensity of post-Euro-American alteration of freshwater environments in the United States has resulted in widespread river metamorphosis toward more geomorphically and ecologically homogenous systems.

The rains caused widespread river flooding and resulted in 32 mudslides.

Many rice fields in the region were destroyed due to widespread river flooding.

Along its path, Japhet dropped heavy rainfall that caused widespread river flooding.

A clean-up programme designed primarily to benefit people was good for other species too.Even after sewage treatment had become widespread, rivers were still being poisoned by industrial effluent and pesticides.

Short and intense rainstorms generate floods in widespread dry river valleys, i.e. wadis, where soils have good infiltration capacity [25], [26].

Such thawed areas extending all the way through permafrost are widespread under rivers and sites of recent rivers in the discontinuous zone of permafrost and under major, deep rivers in the far north.

Comprehensive field surveys have also shown that intersex fish are widespread in British rivers [ 54, 55].

Bamboo groves, varying greatly in height and extent, are widespread, particularly in humid river valleys.