surface-water drainage
71Water Resources Development Act of 1990 — The Water Resources Development Act of 1990 (WRDA 1990), USPL|101|640, was enacted by Congress of the United States on November 12, 1990. [ [http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi bin/bdquery/D?d101:30:./temp/ bd7563:@@@D summ2=m |/bss/d101query.html| Public… …
72Water spot — A water spot is an area of dried mineral deposits left on a surface after being allowed to air dry. Water quality, specifically the amount and type of minerals in the local water supply as measured by the total suspended solids or TSS test and… …
73Water Closet — Toilette Pour les articles homonymes, voir Toilette (homonymie). Toilettes à chasse d eau avec siège, en Europe …
74water-lain moraine — A terminal, end, or recessional moraine formed subaqueously by a glacier that terminated in a water body (e.g., glacial lake, sea, or ocean). A water lain moraine may occur at the present land surface as a result of isostatic rebound or lake… …
75internal drainage — Drainage in a closed basin and not reaching the sea [16]. It is common in maturely karsted terranes where surface water bodies are relatively nonexistent …
76water table — noun The level, underground, below which the ground is saturated with water Syn: phreatic surface, drainage basin …
77drainage basin — the total surface land area drained by a stream or river; often used in the sense of the water bodies in the basin. Not a watershed which is strictly an elevated boundary area separating tributaries draining to different river systems …
78water-collecting area — catchment basin (the entire area from which drainage is received by a river or a lake; most generally used in reference to surface runoff) …
79irrigation and drainage — ▪ agriculture Introduction artificial application of water to land and artificial removal of excess water from land, respectively. Some land requires irrigation or drainage before it is possible to use it for any agricultural production; other… …
80Acid mine drainage — Yellow boy in a stream receiving acid drainage from surface coal mining. Acid mine drainage (AMD), or acid rock drainage (ARD), refers to the outflow of acidic water from (usually abandoned) metal mines or coal mines. However, other areas where… …
