"flood" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Since the dam's completion, however, this flood cycle has been interrupted.
- The drain cycle is a reverse of the flood cycle.
- Hydroelectric dams and mega-canal projects are becoming the new standard for countries like Egypt that can no longer depend on rainfall or natural flood cycles.
- The depletion of groundwater aquifers, which is caused by the suppression of the seasonal flood cycle, is damaging the forests downstream of the dam.
- The three stages of the Egyptian flood cycle were Akhet, the time of the season of emergence, and She mu, the season of drought.
- The flood cycle was so consistent that the Egyptians timed its onset using the heliacal rising of Sirius, the key astronomical event used to set their sidereal calendar.
- Interrupting natural flood cycles to which fish have adapted over thousands of years.
- Al-Maqrīzī describes the Sphinx as the "talisman of the Nile" on which the locals believed the flood cycle depended.
- For more than 200 km downstream the annual flood cycle dominates the natural environment and human life, society and culture.
- This work will ensure that the washlands fill and empty at the appropriate points in a flood cycle.
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