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
“As people like to say in the basin, lawsuits aren’t going to generate any water,” Mr. Udall says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
This differs from the Arctic, where an ocean basin is enclosed by surrounding land.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
Steam rose from the basin and it made Moss sweat, but he couldn’t stop.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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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
Over time, tectonic deformation, erosion, burial beneath sedimentary basins, and a younger episode of volcanic activity during the Eocene obscured much of the evidence of its existence.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 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
The aqueduct seemed to make the city’s founding river not just obsolete but dangerous, so construction began on catch basins, dams and reservoirs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Not the silvery catches that swam and somersaulted in the wooden basins that lined the market at the foot of the Mountain of Ten Thousand Steps.
From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord
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