Developed as a result of the multi-purpose resources control program of the government, vast, man-made bodies of water represent a kind of glorious fringe benefit, providing boating and fishing havens all over the country.

Drifts usually occurred in winter in an effort to escape the severe cold winds, but it could also occur in summer as the result of lack of water or grass because of a drought, or as an aftermath of a stampede.

The atom reactor, water cooled, was the result of almost a decade of research at the naval reactors branch of the atomic energy commission and Westinghouse Electric Corp..

Where a lake has formed within the basin, the water body is usually saline as a result of the internal drainage — the water has no outlet to the sea.

soil pollution from toxic chemicals such as DDT ; energy blockade, the result of conflict with Azerbaijan, has led to deforestation when citizens scavenged for firewood ; pollution of Hrazdan ( Razdan ) and Araks Rivers ; the draining of Sevana Lich ( Lake Sevan ), a result of its use as a source for hydropower, threatens drinking water supplies ; restart of Metsamor nuclear power plant without adequate ( IAEA-recommended ) safety and backup systems

Earthquakes he asserted were the result either of lack of moisture, which causes the earth to break apart because of how parched it is, or of overabundance thereof, which also causes cracks in the earth because of the excess of water.

The increasing eastward momentum imparted by the winds causes water parcels to drift outwards from the axis of the Earth's rotation ( in other words, northward ) as a result of the Coriolis force.

From a strictly aerodynamic point of view, the term should refer only to those side-effects arising as a result of the changes in airflow from an incompressible fluid ( similar in effect to water ) to a compressible fluid ( acting as a gas ) as the speed of sound is approached.

Both the lower pH and higher aluminium concentrations in surface water that occur as a result of acid rain can cause damage to fish and other aquatic animals.

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.

However, the arms are the result of an 18th-century restoration, as the original had the arms cut off in order to allow water to flow out.

When the pH of this solution rises, as a result of dilution by fresh water, these ions precipitate, forming " Yellow Boy " pollution.

Regions have water with different mineral components ; as a result, different regions were originally better suited to making certain types of beer, thus giving them a regional character.

The result is water vapor.

Neornithines may have been able to survive the extinction as a result of their abilities to dive, swim, or seek shelter in water and marshlands.

This equilibrium between carbonate, bicarbonate, carbon dioxide and carbonic acid in water can, under changing temperature or pressure conditions, and in the presence of metal ions with insoluble carbonates, result in formation of insoluble compounds.

As a result, water from the island's heavy rainfall must be stored in catchment tanks.

This inflation is a result of the passive uptake of water.

In recent decades the Cyclades islands have become popular with European and other tourists, and as a result there have been problems with erosion, pollution, and water shortages.

As a result, wet cement is strongly caustic and can easily cause severe skin burns if not promptly washed off with water.

This narrowness of definition has caused some debate over the years, and its result, the exclusion of Hebridean sites from most major syntheses, can be seen as a shortcoming which, due to superficial typologies, results in the failure to unite these sites, whose inhabitants shared the common habit of living on water.

As a result, the presence or absence of trees can change the quantity of water on the surface, in the soil or groundwater, or in the atmosphere.

Beginning in the 1960s, water inflow to the Dead Sea from the Jordan River was reduced as a result of large-scale irrigation and generally low rainfall.

The Rideau Canal was built as a result of the War of 1812 to provide military transportation between the British colonies of Upper Canada and Lower Canada as an alternative to part of the St. Lawrence River, which was susceptible to blockade by the United States.

The primary result of the Cadell Fault is that the west-flowing water of the Murray River strikes the north-south running fault and diverts both north and south around the fault in the two main channels ( Edward and ancestral Goulburn ) as well as a fan of small streams, and regularly floods a large amount of low-lying country in the area.

As a result of these two critical decisions, Professor Linda Cooke Johnson has concluded that by 1735 Shanghai had become the major trade port for all of the lower Yangtze River region, despite still being at the lowest administrative level in the political hierarchy.

As a result, the Red River Basin was ceded to the US, and the Canadian border ( now fixed at the 49th parallel ) completely demilitarised by both countries, although fears of an American conquest of Canada persisted through the 19th century.

* January 23 – Ku Klux Klan members force truck driver Willie Edwards to jump off a bridge into the Alabama River ; he drowns as a result.

Some of the city's road design is the result of the curve of the Mississippi River, hilly topography, conflicts between developers of different neighborhoods in the early city, and grand plans only half-realized.

The result was 350 men killed and nearly 1, 000 wounded and a retreat back across the Tugela River into British territory.

In some cases this can result in the channel bed eventually rising above the surrounding floodplains, penned in only by the levees around it ; an example is the Yellow River in China near the sea, where oceangoing ships appear to sail high above the plain on the elevated river.

Alongside institutionalized ethnic discrimination against Han Chinese that stirred resentment and rebellion, other explanations for the Yuan's demise included overtaxing areas hard-hit by inflation, and massive flooding of the Yellow River as a result of the abandonment of irrigation projects.

Some of these deaths occurred as the result of overly zealous photographic endeavors, some were the result of airplane collisions within the canyon, and some visitors drowned in the Colorado River.

Nearly ruined as the result of the failure of the Marion & Memphis Railroad in the early 1870s, Forrest spent his final days running a prison work farm on President's Island in the Mississippi River.

The sections of the Grand Canal we see today in Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu provinces were in large part a creation of the Sui Dynasty ( 581-618 ), a result of the migration of China ’ s core economic and agricultural region away from the Yellow River valley in the north and toward the southern provinces.

This ‘ Middle Canal ’ section runs from Huai ' an to Weishan Lake, passing through Luoma Lake and following more than one course, the result of the impact of centuries of Yellow River flooding.

Raeder, knowing that Hitler was very displeased with the Navy as a result of the River Plate, issued orders that henceforth naval commanders were not to concern themselves with the lives of their crews, and were to go down fighting.

New lock and dam structures that replaced the historic Illinois and Michigan Canal In 1892, the direction of part of the Chicago River was reversed by the Army Corps of Engineers with the result that the river and much of Chicago's sewage flowed into the canal instead of into Lake Michigan.

The changes in elevation, together with two branches of the River Svisloch result in complicated local geographic relief.

As a result, discharge statistics for the Yakima River are heavily affected by the irrigation system.

As a result, the Romans are able to strengthen their hold on the Ebro River region.

Reyes ( north of San Francisco ), but died as the result of an accident during this voyage ; the remainder of the expedition, which could have reached as far north as the Rogue River in today's southern Oregon was led by Bartolomé Ferrelo.

In 1785, as a result of a " fit of illness " in the family the young Turner was sent to stay with his maternal uncle, Joseph Mallord William Marshall, in Brentford, which was then a small town west of London on the banks of the River Thames.

When it was formed in the late 1960s the PFLP supported the established line of most Palestinian guerrilla fronts and ruled out any negotiated settlement with Israel that would result in two states between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

The Jackson River flows through the town, which as a result was once known as Jackson's River Station.