damming

Speech parts

1. damming - Noun

2. damming - Verb

Derived from dam

Meaning

of Dam

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All were dug by a continental ice sheet that drove through the area, deepening some river channels to form lakes, and damming others with debris. Source: Internet

Gifford Pinchot, Breaking New Ground, (1947) p. 32. Muir and the Sierra Club vehemently opposed the damming of the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite in order to provide water to the city of San Francisco. Source: Internet

Beavers and salmon Sockeye salmon jumping over beaver dam Beavers also function as ecosystem engineers; in the process of clear-cutting and damming, beavers alter their ecosystems extensively. Source: Internet

The United Nations estimates that around one million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction, at least in part because of damming, river pollution, diversion for industrial agriculture and overfishing. Source: Internet

Canalization modifies the stream to carry traffic more safely by controlling the flow of the stream by dredging, damming and modifying its path. Source: Internet

For example, the damming of rivers for mills cut off upriver towns from fisheries; logging and clearing of forest in watersheds harmed local fisheries downstream. Source: Internet

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