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… water as well as comparable numbers concerned with land drainage, river improvement and inland navigation. In other … trend for water management to be undertaken on a drainage basin approach. South Africa with its statutory … Best known historically for operating irrigation and drainage systems, recent years have seen a significant …

… been drowned by a new reservoir and those in the upper drainage have mostly been cleared. Capture of young birds for … headwaters of the MacArthur River and the Nicholson River drainage, with occasional extralimital records from farther … of the Perija Mountains (to ll^N) , and south to the Nechi drainage and Puerto Berrio in the middle Magdalena Valley; …

… of such wetlands, and actions such as re- versing drainage and re-vegetating denuded areas can significantly … review of the empirical evidence, Irrigation and Drainage 53, 1, 1–15. IEA. 2010. World Energy Outlook 2010. …

… systems, with a total length of more than 3,000 km, a drainage area of some 950,000 km2 and a total available … have no access to a piped sewage supply – the main drainage channel for the city, enter the top end of the … engineers showed that this would involve constructing a drainage system and pumping station, deepening and widening …

… and mangrove revivals, strengthened zoning laws, increased drainage capacity and wind specific building codes. For … Salt marshes are lands characterized by particular drainage patterns because of different soil types and … flushing since minor alterations of the shape and the drainage of salt marshes can disrupt the equilibrium and the …

… for the execution of permanent improvements such as drainage or the drilling of tubewells, with varying … technology, agricultural development (irrigation, drainage, land consolidation, etc.), agricultural … of vast waterlogged areas through the control of drainage and flooding, has proved extremely profitable to …

… in drylands that intercept seasonal water flow, or block drainage channels). Lakenheath Fen nature reserve in England … years10. See also Case Study 1 (Finland) where artificial drainage ditches were removed and vegetation cleared to restore wetland meadows. b. Work on the scale of drainage basins/watersheds where possible, considering both …

… recognise that the topography of the land determines the drainage basins and water divides. The catchment is defined … Other related terms include watershed, river basin and drainage basin. A catchment is also the basic unit of the … exposing downstream communities to flash-flooding. Drainage and infilling of wetlands also prevents natural …

… can make disasters worse… • Canalizing rivers and limiting drainage reduces the natural floodplain sponge effect and …

… effective under conditions of significant restructuring drainage system lands. The aim of such drainage systems was disqualification of excessive amounts of … in the world - 3,4%). In the course of the large - scale drainage of peatlands and active peat extraction, especially …