Breach of the new rules will be punishable by fine. "We are in uncharted territory in terms of the rate at which (water) has been declining. In fact, in the last 12 months we only received 10 percent of the water in our dams that we ordinarily would," Berejiklian told reporters on T...
Through a reassessment of global dam failure records since 1900, this investigation profiles the risk of failure for large dams, identifying a recent increase that is especially important in tropical and monsoon climate regions with low gross domestic product. ...
Cape Town, South Africa's legislative capital and the oldest city with more than 3.7 million residents, in 2018 faced a difficult situation that it could be the first city in the world to run out of water after a three-year drought led to low capacity of dams that supply the city. The...
Dams(水坝) need water to make electric-ity(电). Firemen need water to put out(扑灭) fires. Peopleneed to drink water every day. Water helps our bodies to work.We need water to swim. Fish need water to breathe(呼吸).Water helps us in many ways. So we need to keep our waterclean!
通读全文以及第一段“The humble be aver could hold the key to saving our water, according to a new research that has found how their dam building skills protect the rivers threatened by climate change.”(一项新的研究发现,不起眼的海狸可能是节约水资源的关键,它们的筑坝技能如何保护受气候变化威胁...
Living in one of the most water-scarce countries in the world, Yemenis are facing aggravating water crisis as the years-long war has decimated the country's infrastructure. Water networks, water tanks, and dams have been bombed and shelled or fallen into terrible disrepair. ...
Overall, we find that ICESat-2 slightly underestimates storage variability relative to CDWR storage observations thanks to our use of a conservative water mask, though, importantly, this underestimation is consistent across all water bodies. Extended Data Table 1 Water level variability in lakes ...
(1.6 billion U.S. dollars) project in 2001. A set of measures were adopted such as saving water, converting farmland into grassland, providing treatment for dry riverways and building dams. In addition to those measures, industrial and agricultural use of water in cities and counties along the...
The humble beaver (海狸) could hold the key to saving our water, according to a new research at has found how their da m building skills protect the rivers threatened by climate change. The research, done on the rivers in Colorado, found the wooden banners built by beavers raise water lev...
根据后文“Scientists in Peru are now studying old-style methods of water storage, which don’t require dams, in hopes of ensuring a steady flow of water to Lima—Peru’s populous capital that’s periodically affected by water shortage. The study may help convince those who favor concrete-cen...