surface water

collocation in English

meanings of surfaceand water

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surface
noun
uk /ˈsɜː.fɪs/ us /ˈsɝː-/
the outer or top part or layer ...
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water
noun
uk /ˈwɔː.tər/ us /ˈwɑː.t̬ɚ/
a clear liquid, without colour or taste, that falls from the sky as rain and is necessary for animal and ...
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Examples of surface water

surface water
The removal of surfacewater was a secondary function, though house drainage would not have been seen as a responsibility of any commission.
Variation in surfacewater salinity from 22 point measurements along a 1.1-km transect that crosses the 1-ha plot (a).
Effective technical and management strategies adapted to specific locations, addressing conjunctive management of surfacewater, groundwater and rainwater, as well as urban, and agriculture-ecosystem interfaces.
The frozen ground and river also provided a sediment and surface-water control barrier.
First, it identifies many opportunities for resource and investment savings from implementing integrated surfacewater-groundwater management.
The surfacewater received agricultural and domestic sewage discharges upstream.
Analysis was performed on forestry-related workers as a representative occupational group with exposure to surfacewater but not to livestock animals.
More than 70 per cent of the surfacewater (rivers) near cities is polluted.
The melted subsurface water, and the injected vaporized water will contribute to a global surfacewater layer meters or more in depth.
At sufficient stellar flux this will lead to the rapid evaporation of all surfacewater.
This also shows how open surfacewater was confined to the alluvial deposits.
In the areas with limited access to surfacewater, access to groundwater is a significant function of recharge.
Because of the inadequacy of surfacewater, aquacultural farmers are forced to pump groundwater, which has caused severe ground subsidence problems.
If so, the annual maximum temperature could be used as a measure for the surfacewater content to be expected for each epoch.
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