Like a good bit of the country, it has C. The quick development of its tourism.been reclaimed (开垦) from the sea. Bahrain's D. Its need to develop non-oil industries.eagerness for such projects is easy to understand:its natural land are a is just 665 square kilometers.(A)2. What...
Soil structure and land drainage within the reclaimed ground. 1.7.2 Contaminated land It is not unusual for industrial land or land formed from tipped waste to be contaminated to some degree. Heavy contamination will have to be dealt with as a particular engineering problem: i.e. to seal, bu...
To venture an answer, I first proceed by asking: what exactly is being 'reclaimed' here in reclamation? Why should the creation of 'new' land need to be enacted in the idiom of a 're'? Though reclamation purports to create land 'from sea', key to this land-making is not saltwater ...
For the next few centuries, the Dutch worked to slowly push back the water of the Zuiderzee, building dikes and creating polders (the term used to describe any piece of land reclaimed from water). Once dikes were built,canalsand pumps were used to drain the land and to keep it dry. ...
“This is a huge loss for our families. Before, we could catch enough to survive for months,” he said, adding his income had plummeted since the 1990s, before the construction of a huge shopping mall and factories on land reclaimed from the sea. ...
Other countries in Asia are also embarking on mega-reclamation works. The Philippines is reclaiming 1,010 acres from the sea for its New Manila Bay and Sri Lanka is building a new financial district called Colombo International Financial City on reclaimed land. ...
a A piece of reclaimed land is called polder, and Holland has thousands of polders. Some are very large, but others are quite small. There are farms on many of the polders. Corn and other crops grow well on the drained land, and it gives good grass for cattle. Many small towns and...
The first area to be reclaimed was the land to the southeast of Beach Street in Georgetown. This began as a series of ghauts (alleys) running perpendicular to the sea some time before 1803; this was further extended to include what is the present-day Weld Quay by 1883 (City Council of...
Location Cell phone waiting area, west side of grassy area near corner of parking garage Project Type Sculptural object Possible Themes Environment, land-based, site-specific, climate, reclaimed materials, Indigenous culture recognition Public Experience Visible from car while waiting and in passing, ...
While the significance of reducing emissions is not easily overstated, the envi- ronmental footprint of energy production and utilization is far from limited to greenhouse gases. For example, working with local communities and govern- ments to ensure mined land is successfully reclaimed is a ...