catchments

The FAO believes a kind of cash-for-work scheme could be utilized to build up famine-resistant infrastructure such as water catchments, while providing people with the resources to protect their most vital assets.

Aiding Somali Herders a Factor in Fighting Famine 2011

But the barrier is now operating close to capacity, raising fears that any increase in the floods flowing through local catchments could cause a catastrophic failure.

A 174-Foot-High Dam Is Master of Brisbane's Fate David Fickling 2011

Freshwater systemsAction: Protect catchments and restore natural water flows in freshwater systems, particularly the Murray-Darling Basin

Biodiversity 100: actions for Australia Guillaume Chapron 2010

Given the special constraints of China's rapidly growing cities, Chi Sage designed for not only large catchments, but also smaller areas of large cities, looking for volume to achieve scale.

MIT Entrepreneurship Review: What American Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Their Foreign Counterparts MIT Entrepreneurship Review 2010

Designing for multiple smaller catchments, including individual buildings, Chi Sage achieves structural reliability that prevents a single failure from crippling overall performance.

MIT Entrepreneurship Review: What American Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Their Foreign Counterparts MIT Entrepreneurship Review 2010

Generally apparent effects of these threats include loss of biodiversity, rapid deterioration in land cover, and depletion of water availability through destruction of catchments and aquifers.

Prince Charles and Rainforest Fund: Protecting African ecosystem by swapping debt 2010

I indicated to him that Somerset stretches from Bath right the way down to Lands End which is a huge area and certainly one of the biggest county catchments on the circuit.

Somerset chief executive slams Test match grounds over Twenty20 proposal 2010

Designing for multiple smaller catchments, including individual buildings, Chi Sage achieves structural reliability that prevents a single failure from crippling overall performance.

MIT Entrepreneurship Review: What American Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Their Foreign Counterparts MIT Entrepreneurship Review 2010

The rivers 'water flow is characterized by wide seasonal fluctuation, partly because of rainfall irregularity, but also because of erosion and deforestation of catchments.

Haiti 2010

The university's imminent introduction of the A* grade, in order to distinguish between the ever-increasing numbers of children with A grades, there is every chance that this will, again, work against candidates from state schools, particularly those secondaries which do not select, or band, or draw their pupils from middle-class catchments.

The awful truth: to get ahead you need a private education 2010