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However, it could now flush silt from its reservoirs without prior warning - potentially causing damage downstream in Pakistan.

Regional Water Quality Control Board found that the charred silt does not contain wildfire-related chemicals at levels considered to be dangerous to human health, the health department concluded.

I wanted to show her what I learned: that we are never alone among the tadpoles, silt and stones, that we belong to nature too.

Municipal wells typically draw drinking water from hundreds of feet underground, often tapping into aquifers that lie beneath impermeable clay and silt layers called aquitards.

Prior to the 11th Century, the Cholas had been one among the many squabbling powers that dotted the Kaveri floodplain, the great body of silt that flows through India's present-day state of Tamil Nadu.