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 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 construction of pool-type fishways has greatly increased in recent years in response to widespread river fragmentation by man-made structures.
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.
In western Madagascar, the cyclone dropped 232.2 mm of rainfall in 24 hours in Majunga, which damaged rice fields in the region after causing widespread river flooding.
Our current knowledge base is inadequate to rule out the potential for disruptions to wastewater treatment, widespread river pollution, degradation of drinking water quality, and the spread of antiviral and antibiotic resistance.
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.
Short and intense rainstorms generate floods in widespread dry river valleys, i.e. wadis, where soils have good infiltration capacity [25], [26].
