Numazu is an industrial city and regional financial center, and its port is a major center of Shizuoka prefecture's fishery industry.

The prefecture's first reservoir, the Acheloos Dam over the Acheloos was under construction in 1967 and completed in the early-1970s delivering water and hydro to western part of Greece, villages were relocated at the time.

The three peninsulas are prominently visible in the prefecture's symbol, a stylized map.

They are also known for pearl farming and fish farming as well as being part of the prefecture's mikan growing industry.

The western parts are dominated by mountains and hills that are generally more than tall ; this area includes parts of Laishui, Yi, Mancheng, Shunping, Tang and Fuping Counties as well as the entirety of Laiyuan County, occupying 30. 6 % of the prefecture's area.

To the east are Yahaba, Morioka ( Iwate prefecture's capital and largest city ) and Takizawa.

Elements of the prefecture's administrative apparatus however are documented to have survived in the Byzantine Empire until the first half of the 9th century.

* 2006 – The Greek city of Volos floods in one of the prefecture's worst recorded floods.

Aomori is the only prefectural capital in Japan which has no national university, instead, nearby Hirosaki became the site for the prefecture's highest educational facility.

The prefecture's land area is 4, 167. 449 km², whereas the total land area of the municipalities actually on the island is 3, 684. 848 km², which includes that of numerous small offshore islets ( Petalion Islands ) near Euboea's southeastern tip.

This mountainous area occupies about 60 % of the prefecture's land.

The northern part of the prefecture consists of the narrow Noto Peninsula, while the southern part is wider and consists mostly of mountains with the prefecture's chief city, Kanazawa, located in the coastal plain.

* 1960 May-A tsunami caused by a quake in Chili causes damage in the prefecture's south.

The basin of the Kitakami is large and fertile providing room for the prefecture's largest cities, industrial parks and farms.

Most of the prefecture's population lives in the southern part of the prefecture, near the designated city of Nagoya.

The prefecture's name was previously alternately spelled as Hiogo.

Kagoshima prefecture's production of bonito flakes is second only to that of Shizuoka.

The prefecture's gross domestic product is approximately 4. 834 trillion yen.

Zhu-who was soon to proclaim himself as the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty-demolished the royal city ( in the centre of Suzhou's walled city ), and imposed crushing taxes on the city's and prefecture's powerful families.

55, 632 ), which in turn comprises 53. 5 percent of the prefecture's population.

It is in the prefecture's leading agricultural area, and claim's to be the biggest producer of leeks in Japan.

In the spring, this is one of the prefecture's best spots for cherry blossom viewing.

Minami-Alps is Yamanashi Prefecture's eighth city, and its population of over 70, 000 makes it the prefecture's third largest.

A museum featuring a number of indoor and outdoor exhibits including real aircraft and displays covering the history of aircraft development and Gifu prefecture's role in it.

Tsu is home to Mie University, the prefecture's only national university.

Mines need to be recognized as a major element in anti-submarine warfare employment, extended to deep water, and have their effective area per unit increased.

On average, the Atlantic is the saltiest major ocean ; surface water salinity in the open ocean ranges from 33 to 37 parts per thousand ( 3. 3 – 3. 7 %) by mass and varies with latitude and season.

The Atlantic Ocean consists of four major water masses.

The physical oceanography of the Aegean Sea is controlled mainly by the regional climate, the fresh water discharge from major rivers draining southeastern Europe, and the seasonal variations in the Black Sea surface water outflow through the Dardanelles Strait.

There, in one of the major Swiss engineering feats of the 19th century, the Jura water correction, the river, which had previously rendered the countryside north of Bern a swampland through frequent flooding, was diverted by the Hagneck Canal into Lake of Bienne.

At Phnom Penh four major water courses meet at a point called the Chattomukh ( Four Faces ).

On more modern canals, " guard locks " or gates were sometimes placed to allow a section of canal to be quickly closed off, either for maintenance, or to prevent a major loss of water due to a canal breach.

A major function of the cell wall is to act as a pressure vessel, preventing over-expansion when water enters the cell.

In the Timaeus, his major cosmological dialogue, the Platonic solid associated with water is the icosahedron which is formed from twenty equilateral triangles.

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.

In developed countries, due to nearly universal advanced water treatment and sanitation practices, cholera is no longer a major health threat.

One of the major contributions to fighting cholera was made by the physician and pioneer medical scientist John Snow ( 1813 – 1858 ), who in 1854 found a link between cholera and contaminated drinking water.

The two projects would also link the major parts of the country not served by water transport, and the main centres of the economy.

The Jordan River is the only major water source flowing into the Dead Sea, although there are small perennial springs under and around the Dead Sea, creating pools and quicksand pits along the edges.

Until the winter of 1978-79, when a major mixing event took place, the Dead Sea was composed of two stratified layers of water that differed in temperature, density, age, and salinity.

These include the amount of light available, the amount of leaf area a plant has to capture light ( shading by other plants is a major limitation of photosynthesis ), rate at which carbon dioxide can be supplied to the chloroplasts to support photosynthesis, the availability of water, and the availability of suitable temperatures for carrying out photosynthesis.

This increased runoff, in addition to eroding and degrading the land that it flows over, also causes major disruption to surrounding watersheds by altering the volume and rate of water that flows through them, and filling them with chemically polluted sedimentation.

Rail fins evolved into being and surged into popularity as riders ( Simon Anderson, most famously ) sought a solution to two major performance issues of a central " single " fin-both related to engagement of the foil: For one, a centrally-mounted fin is tilted up out of the water as the board is leaned over, and thus it loses more and more of its lift as the lean angle increases-if the lean angle is acute enough, the fin's tip can be the only area left in the water ; the tip may then rapidly stall and, having lost its lift, become disengaged from the water, leaving the board's bottom as the only control surface still operating.

In modern times, geology is commercially important for mineral and hydrocarbon exploration and for evaluating water resources ; it is publicly important for the prediction and understanding of natural hazards, the remediation of environmental problems, and for providing insights into past climate change ; plays a role in geotechnical engineering ; and is a major academic discipline.

A 2009 survey found that Europeans rated climate change as the second most serious problem facing the world, between " poverty, the lack of food and drinking water " and " a major global economic downturn ".

Cleaning up the heavy air and water pollution became a major industry in its own right.

Recent research in hydrological modeling tries to have a more global approach to the understanding of the behaviour of hydrologic systems to make better predictions and to face the major challenges in water resources management.