Agricultural and urban runoff from the watershed or drainage basin is the primary source of excess phosphorus, which exacerbates algae blooms in Lake Champlain.

While the slower growth preserved the quality of life for most residents and prevented the urban sprawl notorious in the Los Angeles basin, housing in the Santa Barbara area was in short supply, and prices soared: in 2006, only six percent of residents could afford a median-value house.

There is only one aquifer in the drainage basin, at Fetcham, which means that the majority of the water in the river is from surface drainage, particularly from Gatwick Airport and the urban areas of Horley and Crawley, and that the flow rate responds rapidly to rainfall.

Retention basin for controlling urban runoff

This is a storm water retention basin, fed by the Oldbury Arm, providing an important urban habitat.

The south area of the hill looking at the Athens basin was included in the urban design of Vrilissia and the street layout approved was implemented.

The metropolitan urban railway ( Metro line 1 stations Kallithea and Tavros ), the tram ( stations Kallithea and Tzitzifies ), and numerous bus and trolley-bus lines along the Thieos, Syngrou and Poseidonos Avenues connect Kallithea to almost every destination in the Athens basin.

The urban core of the former city of Sudbury lies on the southern outskirts of the basin.

Forests, often cut for timber, cover about 81 percent of the basin and farms account for 6 percent, while range, wetlands, water, and urban areas cover a combined 13 percent.

The urban expansion of Stockholm provided perfect conditions for De Geer and his colleagues, who made good use of numerous exposures of laminated sediment in the many pits and cuttings that exposed the glacial lake sediments of the Baltic basin.

Nearly the entire drainage basin is in urban and suburban areas, with areas of intensive residential and industrial development.

According to the Anuário Estatístico do Brasil ( IBGE ) the Doce basin has a population of about 3, 100, 000, with the urban population making up 68. 7 % of the total population.

A balancing lake ( also " flood basin ") is a term used in the U. K. describing an element of an urban drainage system used to control flooding by temporarily storing flood waters.

The growth of a major urban, industrial centre in an enclosed basin has created significant air and water quality issues for the valley.

Some archaeologists such as Charles Maisels believe that the example of Harappan civilization ( in the Indus river basin ) proves that a sophisticated, complex urban society could exist without any centralized state authority, but this idea is disputed by other archaeologists.

In the Thiva – Tanagra – Malakasa basin, Eastern Sterea Ellada, Greece, which supports many industrial activities, concentrations of chromium ( up to 80 μg / L Cr ( VI )) and Inofyta ( up to 53 μg / L Cr ( VI ) were found in the urban water supply of Oropos.

Originally from Colombia, Cumbia has been well-known and appreciated in Argentina for a long time, but it gained nationwide scope and attention when it became popular among the lower-class people in main urban centers, the large cities of the Río de la Plata basin, in the 1990s.

This geological history probably contributed to the dramatic cichlid speciation that characterises its ecology, as well as that of other African Great Lakes, although some researchers dispute this, arguing while Lake Victoria was at its lowest between 18, 000 and 14, 000 years ago, and it dried out at least once during that time, there is no evidence of remnant ponds or marshes persisting within the desiccated basin.

The rise of civilization was assisted by the local ecology of well-watered alluvial soil, as well as by the transportation network provided by the Coatzacoalcos River basin.

* River Dolphin Research Program — Amazon innovative research project totally devoted to the study of the ecology and conservation of river dolphins in the Amazon basin, based in the Federal University of Western Pará ( UFOPA ).

Recent and ongoing work include, glass eel ( the larvae of freshwater or American eels ) recruitment in the Delaware River basin, the ecology and genetics of bridal shiner ( a fish that's endangered in Pennsylvania ), and the impacts of flow management ( dam releases ) in the Upper Delaware River to native and introduced fish populations.

The final plan is still uncertain, however, along with the final effect it will have on the Pantanal and the ecology of the entire Río de la Plata basin is currently undetermined.

In 2001 the Arizona Corporation Commission denied a request to build a power plant in the basin, citing environmental and ecology concerns and objections by the, people of Wikieup and Hualapai Nation.

Performance data gained from testing models towed in a long water tank ( referred to in yacht design as Ship model basin ) can suggest optimal combinations of parameters.

The more humid regions have a richer vegetation ; dense forest where the rainfall is greatest and variations of temperature least, conditions found chiefly on the tropical coasts, and in the west African equatorial basin with its extension towards the upper Nile ; and savanna interspersed with trees on the greater part of the plateaus, passing as the desert regions are approached into a scrub vegetation consisting of thorny acacias, etc.

: And its basin blue

Montrose in the north east of the county is notable for its tidal basin.

The ice reaches its maximum extent in February or March ; typical ice thickness in the northernmost areas in the Bothnian Bay, the northern basin of the Gulf of Bothnia, is about for landfast sea ice.

The Baltic Sea's salinity is much lower than that of ocean water ( which averages 35 ‰), as a result of abundant freshwater runoff from the surrounding land, combined with the shallowness of the sea itself ; indeed, runoff contributes roughly one-fortieth its total volume per year, as the volume of the basin is about 21, 000 km³ and yearly runoff is about 500 km³.

Most of its ethnically and linguistically diverse population lives in the south, with densities ranging from 54 persons per square kilometers in the Logone River basin to 0. 1 persons in the northern B. E. T.

From its low point in the Djourab, the basin then rises to the plateaus and peaks of the Tibesti Mountains in the north.

Southeast of Lake Chad, the regular contours of the terrain are broken by the Guéra Massif, which divides the basin into its northern and southern parts.

Compared to the Columbia above the confluence, the Snake is longer ( 113 %), and its drainage basin is larger ( 104 %).

Compared to the Columbia River above the two rivers ' confluence, the Pend Oreille-Clark-Flathead is nearly as long ( about 86 %), its basin about three-fourths as large ( 76 %), and its discharge over a third ( 37 %).

The British realised the importance of the city as a military cantonment and as a port for exporting the produce of the Indus River basin, and rapidly developed its harbour for shipping.

To the east, its basin is conjoined with that of Lake Huron through the wide Straits of Mackinac, giving it the same surface elevation as its easterly counterpart.

It also receives the waters from the-long Lake George, so its basin collects waters from the northwestern slopes of the Green Mountains of Vermont, the north and west slopes of the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts, and the northern most eastern peaks of the Adirondack Mountains of New York State.

Its basin competes with the Danube for water ; as a result, many of its boundaries are identical with those of the European Watershed.

A macroecosystem might involve a whole ecoregion, with its drainage basin.

As indicated by its hyphenated name, Nilo-Saharan is a family of the African interior, including the greater Nile basin and the central Sahara desert.

With Constantinople as its capital and vast control of lands around the Mediterranean basin, the empire was at the center of interactions between the Eastern and Western worlds for over six centuries.

It was a primary transportation route for pioneers during the westward expansion of the early U. S. The Ohio flows through or along the border of six states, and its drainage basin includes all, or part of, 14 states.

Through its largest tributary, the Tennessee River, the basin includes many of the states of the southeastern U. S.

Cultivation is sparse in the northern mountains, the southern deserts, and the western plateaus, but the Indus River basin in Punjab and northern Sindh has fertile soil that enables Pakistan to feed its population under usual climatic conditions.

Most of the country lies within its catchment basin.

In the younger Avesta, Harax < sup > v </ sup > atī is Arachosia, a region described to be rich in rivers, and its Old Persian cognate Harauvati, which gave its name to the present-day Hārūt River in Afghanistan, may have referred to the entire Helmand drainage basin ( the center of Arachosia ).