Environmental conservation

Environmental conservation

Terms related to protecting natural resources including plant and animal species as well as their habitat for the future.

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transient non-community water systems

Environment; Environmental conservation

Public water system which (a) serves 15 or more service connections but does not serve 15 service connections used by the same persons for more than six months per year or (b) serves an average of at ...

transient tracers

Environment; Environmental conservation

Chemical elements (often radioactive) or compounds that have finite lifetimes. Atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s released large quantities of radionuclides ...

transmissivity

Environment; Environmental conservation

The rate at which water of a prevailing density and viscosity is transmitted through a unit width of an aquifer or confining bed under a unit hydraulic gradient. It is a function of properties of ...

transpiration

Environment; Environmental conservation

Process by which water that is absorbed by plants, usually through the roots, is evaporated into the atmosphere from the plant surface. See also evaporation and evapotranspiration.