Runoff
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Do they, perhaps, include green infrastructure, so that we can take
runoff
and water that's going out of our houses and clean it and filter it and grow urban street trees?
As evident in this slide from Lake Nabugabo in Uganda, the agricultural
runoff
from this crop, which goes into these buckets, is the sole source of drinking, cooking and bathing water for this village.
The roofs not only temper urban heat island impact but they save energy, and therefore money, the emissions that cause climate change, and they also reduce stormwater
runoff.
But if you do not look at grasslands but look down into them, you find that most of the soil in that grassland that you've just seen is bare and covered with a crust of algae, leading to increased
runoff
and evaporation.
The gravity force pulls down the
runoff
from the highest point to the lowest point.
The
runoff
on the green roof then falls through wetlands with the native water plants that can help filter and help clean water.
And you can see how this process generates very little
runoff
and produces a colorfast pigment without the use of any chemicals.
We've got some
runoff
from a sewage plant farm.
It's a river that carries with it all the things that rivers tend to carry these days: chemical contaminants, pesticide
runoff.
In addition to, I think, doing a beautiful adaptive reuse, they tore up some of the parking spaces, put in bioswales to collect and clean the runoff, put in a lot more sidewalks to connect to the neighborhoods.
The Chesapeake Bay currently suffers significant ecological degradation from farm runoff, industrial pollution, and other factors.
For once, the pollsters were right: the two favored candidates – Macron and the National Front’s Marine Le Pen – advanced to the second-round
runoff
on May 7.Gone is the sense of anxiety that had attended the weeks, days, and hours before the election, owing to fears that France would wake up to a second-round choice between the far-right Le Pen and the far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
But bottling the
runoff
from glaciers in the Alps, the Andes, the Arctic, the Cascades, the Himalayas, Patagonia, the Rockies, and elsewhere is not much better, as it diverts that water from ecosystem services like recharging wetlands and sustaining biodiversity.
Add to that chemically laced
runoff
from the new artificial islands, and China’s activities are devastating the South China Sea ecosystems.
And while opinion polls have the pro-EU Emmanuel Macron beating Le Pen decisively in the election’s second-round
runoff
on May 7, it is hard to be confident in the outcome of a two-person race, especially given Russian President Vladimir Putin’s support for Le Pen.
Likewise, the destruction of crucial wetlands and inadequate infrastructure to contain flooding means that rainwater
runoff
has nowhere to go.
The Varieties of Populist ExperienceLONDON – Emmanuel Macron’s decisive defeat of Marine Le Pen in the French presidential
runoff
was a major victory for liberal Europe.
While Jean-Marie made it to the second-round
runoff
in 2002, he ended up losing badly when the center and the left united behind Jacques Chirac.
Many remain confident that she will be defeated in the runoff: Macron is projected to win 63% of the vote in a head-to-head contest against Le Pen.
And while those polls suggest she would be defeated in the second-round
runoff
by a more moderate conservative challenger, center-left voters who are fed up with austerity, the political establishment, and German dominance may yet rally behind her.
A
runoff
now seems inevitable, but who Lula's opponent will be remains unclear.
The rise of former President Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister, General Ahmad Shafiq, who will enter the presidential
runoff
alongside the Muslim Brothers (MB) candidate Mohamed Morsi, has raised eyebrows across the political spectrum.
The MB must now try to persuade the 10.7 million voters who supported Aboul Fotoh and Sabbahi to back Morsi in the
runoff
against Shafiq.
It had long been expected that Juppé, the mayor of Bordeaux and a former prime minister under President Jacques Chirac, would beat the other frontrunner, former President Nicolas Sarkozy, in a second-round
runoff.
But the United Nations climate panel’s latest assessment tells us precisely the opposite: for “North America, there is medium confidence that there has been an overall slight tendency toward less dryness (wetting trend with more soil moisture and runoff).”
If, however, the opposition parties resolve their differences and manage to stitch together a firm common platform, they could force Jonathan into a
runoff.
While Rouhani was the favorite, few anticipated his large margin of victory (by winning 57% of the vote, he precluded a runoff).
Similarly, “micro-catchment rainwater harvesting” – which uses particular slopes and contours to increase
runoff
from rain and concentrate it in a planting basin where it is effectively “stored” in the soil – is useful for dryland ecosystems where most precipitation is lost.
An independent centrist standing in his first election, Macron saw off the established parties’ candidates in the first round two weeks ago and won nearly two-thirds of the vote in the
runoff
against the far-right National Front’s Marine Le Pen.
Like Chirac – who faced Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie, in the second round in 2002 – Macron won the
runoff
by a landslide not because he swept French voters off their feet, but because many could not bring themselves to vote for the National Front.
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