Freshwater in a sentence

Freshwater The Amazon River in Brazil A freshwater ecoregion is a large area encompassing one or more freshwater systems that contains a distinct assemblage of natural freshwater communities and species.

When climate conditions are balanced, the movement of freshwater stops saltwater from infiltrating bodies of freshwater.

Statement pieces in the collection include a necklace with freshwater pearls and nearly one total carat of diamonds, and a bracelet with freshwater pearls and more than two total carats of diamonds.

The criteria for applications to the fund were also broadened to cover freshwater catchment restoration and freshwater improvements, spreading the funding available for waste minimisation thinner.

The demolished Freshwater residence from which the stone came had happened to be the once home of Robert Hooke who lived in Freshwater - the well known inventor and scientist and contemporary of Isaac Newton.

The park is often overrun with motorboats tearing up sea grass; it suffers from a lack of clean freshwater from the north because of human diversions, while ocean storm surges in the south contaminate the freshwater marshes with salt water.

Because the salt water coming in from the sea is denser than freshwater, the water in the Baltic is stratified, with salt water at the bottom and freshwater at the top.

Berne & Levy, Principles of Physiology Bicarbonate in the environment In freshwater ecology, strong photosynthetic activity by freshwater plants in daylight releases gaseous oxygen into the water and at the same time produces bicarbonate ions.

Freshwater and saltwater pearls Freshwater and saltwater pearls may sometimes look quite similar, but they come from different sources.

If too much ground water is pumped near the coast, salt-water may intrude into freshwater aquifers causing contamination of potable freshwater supplies.

The Global 200 preceded Freshwater Ecoregions of the World and incorporated information from regional freshwater ecoregional assessments that had been completed at that time.

There are several marine dolphins whose ranges include some freshwater habitats, but these five are the only dolphins who live only in freshwater rivers and lakes.

Above average spring freshwater flows to the bay, along with hot temperatures and weak winds in the summer, provide the ideal conditions for the dead zone to grow larger and last longer.

Additionally, freshwater biodiversity conservation is most effective when user groups, such as angling clubs, take responsibility and are supported in their efforts by authorities, associations, and science.

A Forestry England spokesperson said: "Hatchet Pond is the New Forest’s largest body of fresh water and home to some of the UK’s rarest wetland plants and freshwater animals.

After hatching in freshwater, they spend an average of three years maturing in the Pacific, where many are snagged by commercial fishermen, before migrating back to their spawning grounds, where conditions are more ideal to give birth.

And what John is referring to is a number of years ago, we did as a community project invested in a freshwater system for Arequipa, the second largest city in Peru.

A southeast Greenland polar bear on a glacier, or freshwater, ice is seen in this handout photograph taken in September 2016.

At Freshwater Habitats Trust, we’ve been mapping spawn sightings and collecting data on breeding frogs and toads for more than a decade.

But as rising global temperatures melt Arctic ice, the resulting influx of cold freshwater has thrown a wrench in the system – and could shut it down entirely.