flood plain

The people of Malabo, in the flood plains of Mongu, my home, should also be allowed to participate in every child's right to an education.

Poplar-based smallholder agroforestry has transformed the flood plains of Siyang County into a mosaic of green activity on the landscape.

a fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds.

People living in mountainous regions and near fertile flood plains close to rivers are usually hurt by the annual rains.

Now the traditional owners and scientists are trialling ways to get rid of it, even burning plots on the flood plains.

It is a small, shoaling cyprinid, native to the flood-plains of the Indian subcontinent, where it is found in shallow, slow-flowing waters.

Many were built on flood plains, meaning residents are stuck in a mosquito-infested open sewer after every heavy rain.

Flood protection demands embankments, or dams, or protected flood plains, or houses that rise and fall with the waters.

Other considerations are flood plains, active earthquake areas, and hurricane and tornado risks.

Of course the [main] reason that we're seeing flooding is because we've built on a lot of flood plains.

Like those on land, the submarine waterways carve out channels, tributaries, flood plains, rapids and even waterfalls.

After that, state buy outs of property on flood plains left fewer residences in danger of future floods.

Nearby river valleys, flood plains, and salt lakes appear in tones of beige and brown.

Dry gravelly or stony places, especially on riverbeds and flood plains; 3600-4700 m. Gansu, Qinghai, Xizang [Bhutan, N India, Nepal].

On the outer loops of some curves, the river overflows onto nearby flood plains.

What most surprised the research team is that the earthworks appear in both the region's flood plains and the uplands.

Valley bottoms, flood plains, river banks and terraces; 3400-4400 m. Qinghai, Sichuan, Xizang.

He pointed to some "frankly daft planning decisions" where new homes were being built on flood plains.

A tenth of English homes stand on flood plains.

In the UK, too, opposition has been growing to the use of flood plains for new housing.

in general , wetlands include areas of lowland , flood plains with water that is fresh , brackish or salt.

Numerical simulation of sediment transport in unsteady flow of river networks in flood plains

Thickets on slopes, sparse forests, montane valleys, stream sides, flood plains;

The flood plains near and far are spotted with wild animals: six hundred buffalo grazing across a grassy plain;

Meadows, flood plains, gravel areas, disturbed areas;

Time to use insurance to stop people building on flood plains