They cut a great area of very low-lying country into five islands.

In my low-lying country, the situation is very specific.

Many mills in low-lying country were built to power drainage pumps.

The city sits in low-lying country, the center of the city is about 90 m above sea level.

Low-lying countries like Bangladesh and Holland will be in serious trouble.

The low-lying country suffered from devastating floods in 1953 which killed nearly 2,000 people and caused heavy damage to property.

Gabon is a largely low-lying country with a warm, humid climate.

It would benefit both dry and low-lying countries (and all coastal cities) to ship the water.

Maldivian authorities are concerned about the impact of erosion and possible global warming in the low-lying country.

The low-lying country around Ler is subject to flooding in the later part of the rainy season, so crops must be planted early.

Maldives, Tuvalu, and other low-lying countries are among the areas that are at the highest level of risk.

It is in low-lying country by the coast, which is subject to flooding in the rainy season.

Low-lying countries and island states, whose very existence is at stake, have no doubt that sea-level rise from global warming would be dangerous, indeed, catastrophic.

On 20 March 1910 the Alice River flooded all the low-lying country and the railway line was blocked.

Because of the low-lying country in recent decades the village has experienced significant population growth that has brought almost a third of the municipal population.

The low-lying country is vulnerable to flooding and cyclones and it stands to be badly affected by predicted rises in sea levels.

Low-lying countries such as the Maldives and Tuvalu are particularly vulnerable and entire communities may become the first climate refugees.

The open low-lying country occupied by the EEF, was cut by deep wadis which were usually dry.

Bangladesh, which lies at the northern end of the Bay of Bengal, had very few casualties despite being a low-lying country relatively near the epicenter.

In the near south, cutting east-west across the low-lying country, are the Tunisian salt lakes (called chotts or shatts), which continue westward far into Algeria.

Like the Mississippi, which also traverses flat, low-lying country, the Ob flows in lazy bends and loops, and changes its course slightly when it floods.

One goal, Mr. Ebell said, should be to enable low-lying countries like Bangladesh to respond to typhoons the way Florida responds to hurricanes.

The sea broke through the dunes in many places to form the Wadden Islands, with the low-lying country behind becoming the tidal Wadden mudflats.

In general, a rising sea level is regarded as a potential threat to many regions because it might eventually inundate low-lying countries like Bangladesh and coastal cities around the world.