basin
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The 40 million residents of the Colorado River basin and nonresident beneficiaries of its water supply, including most Californians, will have to do more with less as global warming causes more and deeper droughts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Polo was also one of three hurricanes churning away in the same basin at the same time, along with Odalys and Nolo.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Across the Atlantic in Africa, the situation deteriorated in the Congo basin, where rainforest loss reached 2.4 million hectares -- near the same level of deforestation as the Amazon for the first time.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
In April, the Amazon River basin reaches its seasonal maximum for rainwater, holding about 2,400 gigatons.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Laughing at my own overwrought imagination, I moistened the paper in the basin water and worked the stamp gently free.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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McLachlan said half of the company’s exploration capital is now spent in frontier basins, or those that are undeveloped, up from roughly 20% a few years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Gulf Coast refineries benefit from lower-cost crude coming from Texas oil basins such as the Permian and Eagle Ford.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026
"It was interesting to see that some of the same signatures that we observe in modern oil and gas basins are also there and preserved in 2-billion-year-old samples."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Los Angeles County uses a network of 27 spreading grounds, where artificial basins fill up when storms send torrents cascading down from the mountains into the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026
She made her way along its flank to where a rope ladder hung down from the worn leather saddle beside one of the water basins.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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