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We’re up approximately 7.5 million acre feet in California storage since last year at this time, so already a significant gain in water supply and this snowpack is going to benefit those reservoirs, as opposed to melt in the spring, but it will be a challenge to manage all this snowpack. I mean, there’s been record snow and a lot of these rivers have limited channel capacity downstream, so getting that water out safely is going to be a challenge. – Brett Whitin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Albuterol is one of those things that if there’s a patient who needs it, you want to have it all the time. So there’s always that potential for the market to respond and react in a way that that will then create downstream shortages of other sizes or presentations of a product. – Jessica Daley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
PFAS migrating downstream would be my biggest concern. – Kimberly Garrett	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Park rangers found an injured hiker who had been pulled downstream several hundred yards. – Jonathan Shafer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We are trying to work with the incident command for these wildfires to do a real assessment, we see there are thousands of fish floating downstream, but we really are having a difficult time figuring out how bad it is. – Craig Tucker	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Debris and vehicles washed downstream in the Middle Prong of the Little Pigeon River from the campground. – Perrin Anderson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The agricultural demands downstream have actually been higher this year because it was a warmer and drier spring than normal, so their demands have been higher. – Patti Aaron	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Due to the epidemic outbreaks, some companies in some areas temporarily reduced production or stopped production, which also affected the normal production and operation of both upstream and downstream companies. – Zhao Qinghe	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Inevitably, this is going to create a large number of people with newly diagnosed diabetes, this has really serious downstream ramifications and would require care for a lifetime. ... I think we need to be prepared to really build the capacity to deal with these patients. – Ziyad Al-Aly	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Rather than quarantine that whole classroom, you just test them in a serial fashion to make sure that you didn't have an exposure that led to a downstream case and so you can actually use testing to prevent quarantines. – Scott Gottlieb	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Once a fire occurs, what you’re doing is removing vegetation, and we often get heavy rainfall events. All of that exposed soil gets carried downstream and we have these direct impacts of erosion, sedimentation on our marine ecosystems. So it really hammers our coral reefs as well. – Clay Trauernicht	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You can think of it as concrete where the water is not being absorbed into the soils ; it's all just running off, downstream of those fire scars all that water is running off, some debris as well from the fire, and that can clog culverts. Those areas are susceptible to flash flooding more so than those areas that haven't been burned. – Tim Steffen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
After a fire, depending on the intensity of the burn, it causes the soil to be hydrophobic. The majority of this burn was a moderate severity burn, so that does cause hydrophobic soil and then also after the fire, there's a lot of debris and that tends to be a lot of the problem when that's moving downstream. – Carl Melford	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I liken it to a daisy chain, long and very fragile daisy chain, it emanates from Cape Canaveral, and then it goes out into space and around the moon and circles it back in. And it's got all these links in it, and if one link fails, well, all the rest downstream are useless. So for eight days, to and from, there was always one thing coming up, the next big event which could ruin you, be the end of you. That was how it worked. – Michael Collins	Found on CNN 2 years ago
As we care for patients, we are constantly learning and adjusting recommendations as new scientific information is released. In the case of pap smear guidelines, we are intent on balancing benefits and harms to patients, part of the concern with younger aged testing is the downstream testing with colposcopy, biopsy and then the intervention of removing or ablating a portion of the cervix which has been linked to an increased risk of premature birth. – Lauren Demosthenes	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The more things people put on their lists, the more open they are to creating goal conflict and its sort of negative downstream effects. – Jordan Etkin	Found on CNN 3 years ago
When these kinds of mental exercises are taught to people, it actually changes the function and the structure of their brain in ways that we think support these kinds of positive qualities, and that may be key in producing the downstream impact on the body. – Richard Davidson	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We are telling people who are downstream, Garissa all the way to Tana River - things are worsening, we are asking them to move. Let them not wait for water, because this is historical. – Energy Minister Charles Keter	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
China's actions must go well beyond periodic releases of water, there needs to be long-term change in dam operations to prioritize the ecosystem services vital to the livelihoods of downstream communities. – Pianporn Deetes	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I've been talking with electronics manufacturers since the end of January and they were already spinning up resources to monitor it and address it, a lot of it is around information capture — let me increase the frequency in which I'm talking to my suppliers so I can prepare my downstream customers. At the same time, I'm going to try to find some other suppliers and talk to my customers and see if there's alternatives that they are aware of or are willing to do. – Shawn DuBravac	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We want to keep our unique and broad supply chain from upstream to downstream, but we can't make hundreds of billions of yen of investment now in copper mines where development cost is expected to increase even further. – Seiichi Murayama	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Mining and concentration is actually one of the easier steps, the real challenge is actually downstream in separations. – Roderick Eggert	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The immediate concerns for our communities are those living downstream of the river -- their ability to take water from the river, drinking water. – Topia Rameka	Found on CNN 4 years ago
All that water is still headed downstream. – David Roth	Found on Reuters 5 years ago

We’re up approximately 7.5 million acre feet in California storage since last year at this time, so already a significant gain in water supply and this snowpack is going to benefit those reservoirs, as opposed to melt in the spring, but it will be a challenge to manage all this snowpack. I mean, there’s been record snow and a lot of these rivers have limited channel capacity downstream, so getting that water out safely is going to be a challenge.

– Brett Whitin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Albuterol is one of those things that if there’s a patient who needs it, you want to have it all the time. So there’s always that potential for the market to respond and react in a way that that will then create downstream shortages of other sizes or presentations of a product.

– Jessica Daley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

PFAS migrating downstream would be my biggest concern.

– Kimberly Garrett

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Park rangers found an injured hiker who had been pulled downstream several hundred yards.

– Jonathan Shafer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are trying to work with the incident command for these wildfires to do a real assessment, we see there are thousands of fish floating downstream, but we really are having a difficult time figuring out how bad it is.

– Craig Tucker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Debris and vehicles washed downstream in the Middle Prong of the Little Pigeon River from the campground.

– Perrin Anderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The agricultural demands downstream have actually been higher this year because it was a warmer and drier spring than normal, so their demands have been higher.

– Patti Aaron

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Due to the epidemic outbreaks, some companies in some areas temporarily reduced production or stopped production, which also affected the normal production and operation of both upstream and downstream companies.

– Zhao Qinghe

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Inevitably, this is going to create a large number of people with newly diagnosed diabetes, this has really serious downstream ramifications and would require care for a lifetime. ... I think we need to be prepared to really build the capacity to deal with these patients.

– Ziyad Al-Aly

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Rather than quarantine that whole classroom, you just test them in a serial fashion to make sure that you didn't have an exposure that led to a downstream case and so you can actually use testing to prevent quarantines.

– Scott Gottlieb

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Once a fire occurs, what you’re doing is removing vegetation, and we often get heavy rainfall events. All of that exposed soil gets carried downstream and we have these direct impacts of erosion, sedimentation on our marine ecosystems. So it really hammers our coral reefs as well.

– Clay Trauernicht

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You can think of it as concrete where the water is not being absorbed into the soils ; it's all just running off, downstream of those fire scars all that water is running off, some debris as well from the fire, and that can clog culverts. Those areas are susceptible to flash flooding more so than those areas that haven't been burned.

– Tim Steffen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

After a fire, depending on the intensity of the burn, it causes the soil to be hydrophobic. The majority of this burn was a moderate severity burn, so that does cause hydrophobic soil and then also after the fire, there's a lot of debris and that tends to be a lot of the problem when that's moving downstream.

– Carl Melford

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I liken it to a daisy chain, long and very fragile daisy chain, it emanates from Cape Canaveral, and then it goes out into space and around the moon and circles it back in. And it's got all these links in it, and if one link fails, well, all the rest downstream are useless. So for eight days, to and from, there was always one thing coming up, the next big event which could ruin you, be the end of you. That was how it worked.

– Michael Collins

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As we care for patients, we are constantly learning and adjusting recommendations as new scientific information is released. In the case of pap smear guidelines, we are intent on balancing benefits and harms to patients, part of the concern with younger aged testing is the downstream testing with colposcopy, biopsy and then the intervention of removing or ablating a portion of the cervix which has been linked to an increased risk of premature birth.

– Lauren Demosthenes

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The more things people put on their lists, the more open they are to creating goal conflict and its sort of negative downstream effects.

– Jordan Etkin

Found on CNN
3 years ago

When these kinds of mental exercises are taught to people, it actually changes the function and the structure of their brain in ways that we think support these kinds of positive qualities, and that may be key in producing the downstream impact on the body.

– Richard Davidson

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We are telling people who are downstream, Garissa all the way to Tana River - things are worsening, we are asking them to move. Let them not wait for water, because this is historical.

– Energy Minister Charles Keter

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

China's actions must go well beyond periodic releases of water, there needs to be long-term change in dam operations to prioritize the ecosystem services vital to the livelihoods of downstream communities.

– Pianporn Deetes

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I've been talking with electronics manufacturers since the end of January and they were already spinning up resources to monitor it and address it, a lot of it is around information capture — let me increase the frequency in which I'm talking to my suppliers so I can prepare my downstream customers. At the same time, I'm going to try to find some other suppliers and talk to my customers and see if there's alternatives that they are aware of or are willing to do.

– Shawn DuBravac

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We want to keep our unique and broad supply chain from upstream to downstream, but we can't make hundreds of billions of yen of investment now in copper mines where development cost is expected to increase even further.

– Seiichi Murayama

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Mining and concentration is actually one of the easier steps, the real challenge is actually downstream in separations.

– Roderick Eggert

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The immediate concerns for our communities are those living downstream of the river -- their ability to take water from the river, drinking water.

– Topia Rameka

Found on CNN
4 years ago

All that water is still headed downstream.

– David Roth

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles

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