| But the best form of water storage is in the ground, not in huge surface reservoirs created by damming rivers. |
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| By damming runoff, poor ridge layouts may aggravate surface drainage problems. |
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| This is a reservoir of approximately 800 acres formed by damming the River Wolf. |
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| Since we began damming our inland rivers we have doubled our water consumption with each generation. |
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| The European Union has adopted a general opt-in rule aimed at damming the flow of information. |
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| For example, by increasing the amount of stagnant water surfaces, damming policy has caused the number of parasite diseases to rocket. |
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| The first Report of the Public Service Integrity Officer is damming in its indictment of the existing regime. |
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| International projects to eradicate the crop will rely on damming the mighty Kabul and Konar rivers for irrigation and electricity. |
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| Flooding occurs upstream from the damming itself as a lake forms behind the dam. |
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| In addition, water quantity is affected by temperatures that increase evaporation, by development, by damming and by removing it from its source. |
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| The project threatens to forcibly evict the remaining 25.000 members of the Dard Shin people, who are strongly opposing the damming of the Gurez valley. |
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| Ethiopia has staked its development on damming the Blue Nile and other rivers. |
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| Can you bring anything to light for this committee about problems with hydroelectric, with damming on any of these river systems? |
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| Deal's congressional district includes Lake Sidney Lanier, created in the 1950s by damming the upper Chattahoochee River, about 50 miles northeast of Atlanta. |
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| Water availability is a major challenge as the Lusitu river which used to be a perennial river has virtually dried up largely due to damming activities in Mazabuka up stream. |
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| As an alternative, creating an artificial water damming constitute a strong adverse impact on this fragile environment. |
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| This technique, commonly referred to as cash damming, readily allows taxpayers to trace borrowed money to specific uses. |
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| The glowing report follows the damming inspection in November 1999 which said the school was failing to give its pupils an acceptable standard of education. |
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| Lake Waco, formed in 1923 by damming the Bosque River, is a recreational spot just west of the city. |
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| Nearby, a smaller lake was created by damming a tributary creek. |
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| From some of the testimony I heard, it was at about the time of the hydroelectric dams, or the damming of the Peace River, that they started noticing a gradual decline of Lake Athabasca. |
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| Hydroelectric power generation requires the damming of rivers and often the diversion of water flow from a section of river between the impoundment and the power plants, or from other drainages to the impoundment. |
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| Water was gathered by damming a stream to create a millpond. |
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| Trees which have fallen across a stream should be trimmed or removed if they result in damming or creation of a stream diversion, which can increase downstream erosion and sedimentation. |
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| This involves diverting the whole flow into a container such as a bucket or barrel by damming the stream and recording the time it takes for the container to fill. |
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| If you live in an area where ice damming occurs, use ice and water shield. |
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| Once the cash damming technique is in place, Mike will use that part of his revenues that would have normally gone toward paying his business expenditures, to make an additional mortgage payment on his personal residence. |
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| Should there be renewed activity in the form of lava flows, damming of the Iskut River could be a significant hazard to current mining operations along the river. |
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| Woody debris across the stream width may cause future damming. |
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| Local environmental impacts from New Zealand's energy production include the loss of environmental and cultural values from the damming of almost ever major river system and many smaller ones. |
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| Frequently, the cash damming technique described in ¶ 16 is not followed or available and borrowed money is deposited to one account and commingled with other cash. |
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| A three-hour drive south of Bamako takes you to Sélingué, a town on the banks of Lake Sélingué, a reservoir created from the damming of the Sankarani River. |
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| The government is ill-equipped to monitor industrial pollution or water diversion resulting from activities such as damming outside of its borders, in India for example. |
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| Some of these can be seen in damming of the river as well as illegal fishing activity. |
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| Otherwise, surface water is restricted to a few large storage dams retaining and damming up these seasonal floods and their runoff. |
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| This smaller tarn has also been raised by damming, but in this case the original user was the Coniston Copper Mines. |
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| The reservoir was formed by damming the Afon Clywedog, a tributary of the River Severn. |
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| The largest is Loch Ken which arises from the damming of the Water of Ken. |
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| The first phase was to construct the aqueduct with a capacity of ten thousand gallons a day, and to raise the level of Thirlmere by damming up its natural exit to the north. |
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| Damming interrupts the flow of rivers and can harm local ecosystems, and building large dams and reservoirs often involves displacing people and wildlife. |
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