| 单词 | catchment basin |
| 例句 | Often the local resistance networks were ephemeral, mere “catchment basins” for K.G.B. counterintelligence. When America’s Cold War Strategy Turned Corrupt 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z For New York sea gates alone won’t fix the city’s problems any more than will porous streets with catchment basins and waterproof vaults under sidewalks to secure electrical systems. Critic’s Notebook: Changes Needed After Hurricane Sandy Include Politics 2012-11-19T23:00:17Z When they detect signs of an impending desert storm, tortoises will clamber to areas where they have gouged catchment basins in the sand. California's Mojave Desert tortoises hurtle toward extinction. Why saving them is so hard 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The Netherlands is now filled with such catchment basins, many a boon to daily life but doubling as reservoirs for when the rivers swell. To Avoid River Flooding, Go With the Flow, the Dutch Say 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z The lawsuit by the local agencies seeks to force the federal government to upgrade the capacity of the pumps in the river as well as catchment basins in nearby canyons. Ongoing spill in Mexico flooding Tijuana River with millions of gallons of raw sewage 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The mall was controversial in part because it threatened to clog traffic, and because it was built near a rain catchment basin that serves to regulate the city’s seasonally heavy rainfall. Mexico City: newly opened Artz Pedregal shopping mall collapses 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z For years, wood charcoal burners had been destroying this forest, the catchment basin for the Lilongwe River, the source of the capital’s water. Poverty, Drought and Felled Trees Imperil Malawi Water Supply 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z Many local officials and homeowners have been busy preparing for a wetter-than-average winter, clearing culverts and catchment basins and stocking up on sandbags. First in series of storms forecast for Southland expected to hit Sunday night 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z The Green Sports Alliance has seen venues in other states install catchment basins that collect and save rainwater for reuse. Drought spurs sports to look at water use on fairways and fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z But this is precisely what scientists discovered when they examined the histories of 420 catchment basins in the US spanning the period 1948-2001. Water goes 'missing' with snow loss 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z Will it remain an incubator of greatness, or become a catchment basin for the already great and their regressing-to-the-mean descendants? Currents: Is New York Only for the Successful? 2013-08-09T13:15:12Z Geology.—The southern portion of the county, embracing the Moorfoot Hills and a large part of the catchment basin of the Gala Water, lies within the Silurian tableland of the south of Scotland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z Its value as a flood catchment basin is somewhat uncertain, as it is used as a storage feeder for Morris Canal. The Passaic Flood of 1903 For the catchment basins are being so conscientiously cleared of their timber that the two rivers cannot but suffer a great diminution in volume. Old Calabria |
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