Runoff from agriculture and development, pollution from septic systems and sewers, and other human-related activities increase the flow of both inorganic nutrients and organic substances into ecosystems.

Runoff quickly flooded agricultural areas and much of this water made its way into several subdivisions in Edinburgh.

Runoff of manure can also find its way into surface water such as lakes, streams, and ponds.

Runoff from the Goesan side eventually flows into the Han River, which passes through Seoul to meet the Yellow Sea at Incheon.

Runoff from the Recreation Center site is piped underground beneath Highway 19 and into the Retention Pond.

Runoff of excess nutrients into waterways can also occur, which is harmful for the environment.

Runoff from roads, parking lots, and yards can carry animal wastes to streams through storm sewers.

Variants of Instant Runoff voting can be designed to reflect the same rules as a two-round voting system.

Runoff voting can be influenced by strategic nomination ; this is where candidates and political factions influence the result of an election by either nominating extra candidates or withdrawing a candidate who would otherwise have stood.

Runoff from rainfall can lead to heating via conduction from the surface which the water is flowing over.

Runoff can leach through permeable soils to vulnerable aquifers that tap ground water sources for human consumption.

Runoff voting is less vulnerable to vote splitting, yet vote splitting can occur in any round of runoff voting.

Runoff from sewage, urban land use, and fertilizers can also contribute to eutrophication.

In the United States, The lag time in which street sweepers responded can be pinpointed to the Runoff Report of 1998.

The Borda count can be combined with an Instant Runoff procedure to create hybrid election methods that are called Nanson method and Baldwin method.

Instant Runoff Voting would elect the 2nd-worst choice, because the central candidates would be eliminated early.

Twenty-three of the 28 functional constituencies use single-member district plurality to elect their members, one ( Labour ) applies the Block vote ( with three seats to be filled ), and four, dubbed special functional constituencies, use the preferential elimination system ( aka Instant Runoff Voting ).

Runoff voting is intended to reduce the potential for eliminating " wasted " votes by tactical voting.

For example, the politics of Australia are largely two-party ( if the Liberal Party and National Party are considered the same party at a national level due to their long-standing alliance ) for the Australian House of Representatives, which is elected by Instant Runoff Voting, ( known within Australia as preferential voting ).

; Runoff: The variety of ways by which water moves across the land.

*" Preliminary Delineation of Sub Watersheds and Storm Water Runoff " by Anna Hermesmeyer

Runoff from seasonal rains and groundwater springs forms desert arroyos, desert fan palm oases, freshwater marshes, brine lakes, desert washes, ephemeral and perennial streams, and riparian vegetation communities dominated by cottonwood, willow, and non-native tamarisk.

The Nationwide Urban Runoff Program ( NURP ) is a research project conducted by the US Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) between 1979 and 1983.

These different releases of Runoff typically had had little or no relationship to each other in terms of how formatting commands and arrangement of text was performed except that they all used the convention of separating presentation text from Runoff commands by indicating a command to Runoff by beginning the line with a period.

; Global Runoff: Continental Comparisons of Annual Flows and Peak Discharges ; published 1992 by Catena Verlag.

Economic measures such as increased taxes on " the rich and corporations ", " strong regulation " of the financial industry, " regulation and public ownership of utilities ", and increased federal aid to cities and states ; opposition to the Iraq War and other military interventions ; opposition to free trade treaties such as the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ); nuclear disarmament and a reduced military budget ; various civil rights provisions ; campaign finance reform including public financing of campaigns ; and election law reform, including Instant Runoff Voting.

Other versions of Runoff were developed for various computer systems including Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-11 minicomputer systems running RT-11, RSTS / E, RSX on Digital's PDP-10 and for OpenVMS on VAX minicomputers, as well as Sperry Unisys Univac 90 / 60 mainframe using the EDT text editor under the VS / 9 operating system.

A growing body of water research during the late 1970s and 1980s indicated that stormwater runoff was a significant cause of water quality impairment in many parts of the U. S. In the early 1980s EPA conducted the Nationwide Urban Runoff Program ( NURP ) to document the extent of the urban stormwater problem.

Runoff mitigation systems include infiltration basins, bioretention systems, constructed wetlands, retention basins and similar devices.

Runoff voting is also sometimes used as a generic term to describe any system involving a number of rounds of voting, with eliminations after each round.

* Nationwide Urban Runoff Program ( NURP ) – US stormwater research project

Runoff elections for legislative seats were held on April 21.

Runoff voting involves two rounds of voting.

Runoff voting is used to find the winner.

Runoff voting encourages candidates to appeal to a broad cross-section of voters.

Runoff voting is designed for single seat constituencies.

Runoff advocates counter that voters first preference is more important than lower preferences because that's where voters are putting the most effort of decision and that, unlike Condorcet methods, runoffs require a high showing among the full field of choices in addition to a strong showing in the final head-to-head competition.

His inability to make headway against the de facto two-party system as an independent in that election would later lead him to become an advocate for Instant Runoff Voting, helping to found FairVote in 1992.

* Slow kinds: Runoff from sustained rainfall or rapid snow melt exceeding the capacity of a river's channel.

Runoff elections were held in February 1993, and the leader of the Hery Velona movement, Albert Zafy, defeated Ratsiraka.

Runoff from the western slopes of these mountains provides water to the county's cities and agricultural areas.

Runoff containing wild cat faeces and litter from domestic cats flushed down toilets are possible sources of oocysts.

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Nutrient Transport in Surface Runoff from a Subalpine Watershed, Lake Tahoe Basin, California.

* Nationwide Urban Runoff Program ( U. S. research program )