News tagged with water reservoir
Direct drinking water recycling could prevent floods
The use of a more streamlined process to recycle wastewater could have saved Brisbane from severe flooding in 2011 and mitigated recent flood risks in New South Wales, a leading water expert says.
Apr 17, 2012 |
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Extreme droughts could increase by 15 percent in Spain by the middle of the century
A team at the Polytechnic University of Cartagena has designed a new method for calculating drought trends. Initial results suggest that by the year 2050 there could be a 15% increase compared to the droughts ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Better weather forecasting -- now
Accurate precipitation forecasts are crucial to predicting flooding and to ensuring fresh water supply for human consumption. Being able to estimate the inflow of water into reservoirs is also essential to the efficient generation ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 30, 2011 |
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Central China drought worst in over 50 years: reports
Central China's worst drought in more than 50 years is drying reservoirs, stalling rice planting, and threatens crippling power shortages as hydroelectric output slows, state media said Wednesday.
May 25, 2011 |
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Drought rattles farmers in eastern China
Yu Ruicheng's weathered face creases with worry as she stands on her dry wheat field in eastern China, where a record drought is threatening to send soaring global food prices even higher.
Feb 25, 2011 |
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Mayan pool in the rainforest: Archaeologists find huge artificial lake with a ceramic-lined floor
Archaeologists from the University of Bonn found a water reservoir the size of a soccer field, whose floor is lined with ceramic shards, in the Mexican rainforest. It seems that in combination with the limestone on top, the ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Aug 26, 2010 |
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Underground Forces: Deformation Processes in Gravel Deposits
Deformation bands in the gravel layers of the Eisenstadt-Sopron Basin form as a result of heterogeneous displacement in the surrounding sediment. This is caused by gradients in the deformation intensity, which ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 21, 2010 |
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Research discovers underground pockets of water, natural gas
(PhysOrg.com) -- Look out below! That's the warning a University of Alberta geophysics researcher has for hydrocarbon and water drillers after discovering uncharted land forms beneath the surface of the province. Deep valleys, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Future of West water supply threatened by climate change, says new study
As the West warms, a drier Colorado River system could see as much as a one-in-two chance of fully depleting all of its reservoir storage by mid-century assuming current management practices continue on course, ...
Jul 20, 2009 |
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