As the fifth-longest river and the most sediment-laden river in the world, the Yellow River in China supports agriculture and human survival, irrigating 13% of the nation’s crops with just 3% of the ...

Godavari, the most important river in peninsular India, has seen a dramatic decline in its sediment load over the past five decades, aggravating coastal erosion along the Bay of Bengal where it ...

Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Vol. 3, No. 1 (January to June, 2009), pp. 1-6 (6 pages) Abstract: Without a doubt the carried sediment load by a river is the most important factor in ...

The UNH water balance and transport model (WBM), based on the STN-30p network, provides a fundamental structure for analyzing the water and sediment flux distribution by river basin, continent, ...

Rivers are an integral part of the hydrologic cycle and are the major geologic agents which erode the continents and transport water and sediments to the oceans. Thus rivers constitute an important ...

The rapid decrease of the sediment load in the Mekong River has been largely caused by hydropower dams. WWF in Vietnam last week said suspended sediment load decreased from 160 million tons to 75 ...

A dredging crew digs sediment from the bottom of the Cuyahoga River to keep the shipping lanes clear over the six miles from the lake to the steel mill. (Gus Chan/Plain Dealer file photo) CLEVELAND, ...

The Pantanal represents 1.8% of Brazil's total area, occupying 150,000 square kilometers in Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul states. With a mixture of floodable and non-floodable savannas, meadows, ...

Godavari, the most important river in peninsular India, has seen a dramatic decline in its sediment load over the past five decades, aggravating coastal erosion along the Bay of Bengal where it ...