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Flow: For Love of Water

The film features interviews with water and community activists Maude Barlow, Peter Gleick; and, scientists Ashok Gadgil, Rajendra Singh, and Vandana Shiva.


Agua Caliente, El Salvador

The Salvadorian government had plans to build a hydroelectric dam north of the town, the Cimarron Hydroelectric project, that would have diverted flow from the Lempa River and would have increased the flow of water downstream into the Metayate River.

Andhakaranazhy

These shutters,operated by Traction motors help to regulate the flow of saline water entering into the neighboring paddy fields of Thuravoor, Pattanakad, Ezhupunna, Kuthiathode panchayats connected to the back waters.

Balgarevo

Later in mid-19th century large families from Kotel, Elena and Yambol regions follow the 'emigration flow' from inner Bulgaria to Dobrudja and settled in the village.

Barcoo River

The waters of the river flow towards Lake Eyre in central Australia while those of rivers further east join the Murray-Darling basin and reach the sea in South Australia.

Bardepur

Kosi canals flow westward through this village, crossing National Highway 105 (Darbhanga-Jaynagar).

Beginnings: The Lost Tapes 1988–1991

CD Universe noted that Shakur's "flow and lyrical content are more reminiscent of late-1980s/early-1990s icons like Big Daddy Kane and Rakim" than of the later songs of 2Pac himself.

Blanche River

and flow west under Ontario Highway 11, turns south, heads through Kenogami Lake, then back under Ontario Highway 11 at the settlement of Kenogami Lake, flows under the Ontario Northland Railway (ONR) mainline and past Kenogami Lake Station, enters the municipality of Kirkland Lake and reaches the community of Swastika.

Bogie River Hills

Smaller alluvial plains are located on the Bowen and Bogie rivers which flow through the subregion into the Burdekin River.

Brownout

Redout, affected vision due to increased blood flow to the head

Byrd Polar Research Center

Ice sheet flow into the ocean is increasing and in western Antarctica, the ice stream is draining into the Ross Ice Shelf with marked acceleration.

Constantine Pozrikidis

Pozrikidis, Boundary Integral and Singularity Methods for Linearized Viscous Flow, Cambridge University Press (1992).

Continuous emissions monitoring system

SO2 emissions must be measured in pounds per hour using both an SO2 pollutant concentration monitor and a volumetric flow monitor.

Cross-flow turbine

Vertical axis wind turbines also have the flow pass through the turbine transversely

CUSEC

Cusec or cubic feet per second, a measure of flow rate.

Doppler echocardiography

The poor lateral resolution in the B-mode image also results in poor lateral resolution in flow estimation.

Dragalevska River

The river flows from the lower northern part of Torfeno Branishte Nature Reserve on Vitosha Mountain, and passes by Kominite area; at the northern foothills of Vitosha the river crosses the village of Dragalevtsi (now part of Sofia, from which the river takes its name), then join few other minor rivers to form Slatinska River, and flow into Perlovska River which in turn flows into Iskar River in the northeastern outskirst of Sofia.

Eas a' Chual Aluinn

When in full flow it is over three times higher than Niagara Falls.

Echelmeyer Ice Stream

The name was changed from Ice Stream F by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2002 to honor Dr. Keith A. Echelmeyer of the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who studied the flow of Marie Byrd Land ice streams, 1992–93 and 1994–95, as well as the fast flow of surging glaciers in Alaska and Greenland.

Embudo, New Mexico

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) gauging station at Embudo, to measure the flow of the Rio Grande, was the first (USGS) stream gauging station and was established by John Wesley Powell in 1888.

Fanning

Fanning friction factor, a dimensionless number used in fluid flow calculations.

Flow sensor

Hall effect sensors may also be used, on a flapper valve, or vane, to sense the position of the vane, as displaced by fluid flow.

Genetic studies on Sri Lankan Tamils

Furthermore, a study looking at genetic variation of the FUT2 gene in the Sri Lankan Tamil and Sinhalese population, found similar genetic backgrounds for both ethnic groups, with little genetic flow from other neighbouring Asian population groups.

Georgina River

The Georgina River is the north-westernmost of the three major rivers of the Channel Country in Central West Queensland that flow in extremely wet years into Lake Eyre.

Hallingdalselva

A number of rivers flow into the Hallingdal River including the Votna, Lya, Hemsil, Todøla and Rukkedøla.

Higley Flow State Park

The park is located on Higley Flow, a body of water which is an impoundment of the Raquette River.

Honda RC143

In contrast to the RC142, the aircooled, four-stroke, twin cylinder engine of the RC143 was canted forward by 35° to improve cooling and increase air-flow to the newly designed Keihin carburettors.

Ianthella basta

They are filter feeders maintaining a flow of water through their structure which passes out through large openings called oscula.

Kaikorai Valley College

Pupils of Kaikorai Valley College use the adjacent Kaikorai Stream for outdoor education, studying water quality and flow, learning fly fishing and monitoring waste water.

Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte

It has five (5) major rivers that flow to Panguil Bay, namely: Maranding, Panoloon, Butadon, Kidalos and Balili .

Magelang

Elo river to disgorge Mount Merbabu, Mount Telomoyo and Mount Ungaran, so it is not affected by the flow of volcanic material from Mount Merapi.

Marine current power

A 2006 report from United States Department of the Interior estimates that capturing just 1/1,000th of the available energy from the Gulf Stream, which has 21,000 times more energy than Niagara Falls in a flow of water that is 50 times the total flow of all the world’s freshwater rivers, would supply Florida with 35% of its electrical needs.

Memories of Murder

Finally, when yet another murder is committed and DNA evidence sent for processing in the United States comes back inconclusive, Seo's frustrations flow over and he snaps.

Mixing time

Blend time, the time to achieve a predefined level of homogeneity of a flow tracer in a mixing vessel

Oseen equations

Using the Oseen equation, Horace Lamb was able to derive improved expressions for the viscous flow around a sphere in 1911, improving on Stokes law towards somewhat higher Reynolds numbers.

Paparazzi: Eye in the Dark

Paul G has several tracks as well which include "Let It Flow" and "These Girls".

Pennyhole Bay

Pennyhole Bay is a stretch of water situated to the south of the ports of Harwich in Essex and Felixstowe in Suffolk, England where the rivers Stour and Orwell flow into the sea and just east of Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex.

Quantum ergodicity

The quantum ergodicity theorem of Shnirelman, Yves Colin de Verdière, and Zelditch states that a compact Riemannian manifold whose unit tangent bundle is ergodic under the geodesic flow is also ergodic in the sense that the probability density associated to the nth eigenfunction of the Laplacian tends weakly to the uniform distribution on the unit cotangent bundle as n → ∞.

Škocjan Caves

The Reka River disappears underground at Velika Dolina into Škocjan Caves and then flows underground for 34 km surfacing near Monfalcone where it contributes approximately one third of the flow of the Timavo River, which flows 2 kilometers from the Timavo Springs to the Adriatic Sea.

Spanish Fork River

In 1909, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation completed a tunnel to supplement the Spanish Fork's flow using water from the Strawberry River through the Strawberry Valley Project, part of the Central Utah Project.

SPAWN

SPAWN’s water conservation program is focused on reducing the impacts of stormwater runoff on local streams and ensuring adequate in stream flow and spawning and rearing habitat for coho salmon and steelhead in the Lagunitas Creek.

Spirometry

Turbine/Stator Rotor (normally incorrectly referred to as a turbine. Actually a rotating vane which spins because of the air flow generated by the subject. The revolutions of the vane are counted as they break a light beam)

Spring Web Flow

The Spring Web Flow project started as a simple extension to the Spring Web MVC framework providing web flow functionality, developed by Erwin Vervaet in 2004.

Sultan Iskandar Reservoir

It is fed by several small rivers, which flow in long branches, and drained over the Layang River in the Johor River.

Sycon raphanus

They are filter feeders, maintaining a flow of water through their structure which passes out through large openings called oscula.

Tennessee State Route 374

Construction is complete along the 101st Parkway segment of SR 374, which widened that part of the highway to four lanes and created an overpass with exits that allow traffic to freely flow over Wilma Rudolph Boulevard.

Third Heaven

In the Second Book of Enoch, Third Heaven is described as a location "between corruptibility and incorruptibility" containing the Tree of Life, "whereon the Lord rests, when he goes up into paradise." (chapter 8) Two springs in the Third Heaven, one of milk and the other of honey, along with two others of wine and oil, flow down into the Garden of Eden.

Two-phase flow

Can give rise to other counter-intuitive, negative resistance-type instabilities, like Ledinegg instability, Geysering, Chugging, Relaxation Instability, and Flow Maldistribution Instabilities as examples of Static Instabilities, and other Dynamic Instabilities.

Underground mine ventilation

Underground mine ventilation provides a flow of air to the underground workings of a mine of sufficient volume to dilute and remove noxious gases (typically methane, CO).

Virtual facility

The VF type of computer simulation allows detailed analysis and prototyping of air flow in the data center by making use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques.

William Hammesfahr

He also advocates using Transcranial Doppler testing (TCD) to monitor patients' progress, which involves using sound waves to measure the speed of blood flow through the brain.


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