A water column is a conceptual column of water from the surface of a sea, river or lake to the bottom sediments.

Bottoms up!

Nepal is one of the world s poorest countries, ranking near the bottom even in the South Asian region.

The benthic zone is the ecological region on, in and immediately above the seabed, including the sediment surface and some sub surface layers.

In the next scene, you're going to see a nice coral bottom.

The bottom may be near perhaps by the end of the year.

Elsley said We started at the top of the Hollywood tree and worked our way down, and it wasn't until we got to the bottom that we actually found writers we liked.

A Palestinian state will need to be built from the bottom up.

This can be at the surface or at the bottom.

In the light of these findings, the report called for a rethinking of FDI policies lest the race to the bottom keep Africa at the bottom in perpetuity.

They have been recorded swimming for up to six hours without touching the bottom, and have travelled as far as at a stretch and at speeds of up to .

At the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.

The problem starts at the top of Muslim societies, not with the disaffected at the bottom.

Some seeds fall to the muddy bottom and germinate later in the year.

That happened because European bank regulation is still characterized by a race to the bottom.

The left wing parties are towards the bottom, the Christian parties in the centre, with the right wing parties towards the top.

We have had a huge rebound from the bottom of the world s stock markets in 2009.

Intense foreign competition and rapid technological change does not have to be a race to the bottom.

The clear trend is one of concentration of income and wealth at the top, the hollowing out of the middle, and increasing poverty at the bottom.

Hitting bottom is no reason to abandon the strong measures that have been taken to revive the global economy.

It consumes its food in the open water or in the deep, where it can be recognized by its large mouth.

A failure to help the bottom billion could fuel mass migration and global insecurity.

Yet consistent implementation is crucial to avoiding another regulatory race to the bottom.

Even as we work for peace, development must go forward.

Some rich countries, such as Spain, Portugal, Australia, and New Zealand, have fishing fleets that engage in so called bottom trawling.

The fishery regulations also address fishing capacity and bottom trawling through a sanctions regime for non compliance with conservation and management regulations.

But over the past 20 years, support for agricultural development has been declining. Only 4 of public development assistance is now earmarked for agriculture.

It's a beautiful idea. The problem is if you really believe in a society where those who merit to get to the top, get to the top, you'll also, by implication, and in a far more nasty way, believe in a society where those who deserve to get to the bottom also get to the bottom and stay there.

These are egg cases laid by a snail off the coast of Chile, and this is how many eggs they lay on the bottom.

Those at the top, in such cases, are enriched at the direct expense of those at the bottom.

There are three types of dredges (a) The dredge can be dragged along the seabed, scooping the shellfish from the ground.

China was at the bottom of the rankings 30 years ago, but at its present rate it will soon overtake Thailand.

The mass balance between sediment being transported and sediment in the bed is described by the Exner equation.

Yet, even in Palestine, the key water issue is not thirst, but arrested economic development.

We might even say that good governance is development itself.

Overall economic growth is important, but the poor should not have to wait until its benefits trickle down to them with the right anti poverty policies, governments can encourage trickle up growth as well.

Aside from banning bottom trawling and establishing a global fund for avoided deforestation, we should designate a global network of protected marine areas, in which fishing, boating, polluting, dredging, drilling, and other damaging activities would be prohibited.

A Palestinian state will need to be built from the bottom up. And what is built should not be destroyed.

They would rather distribute money to those above them on the totem pole than help those at the bottom to surpass them.

Seventh, we need to sustain political will and attention until a country has made the transition to development and sustainable peace.

Many at the bottom, or even in the middle, are not living up to their potential, because the rich, needing few public services and worried that a strong government might redistribute income, use their political influence to cut taxes and curtail government spending.

NEW HAVEN Since hitting bottom in early March, the world s major stock markets have all risen dramatically. Some, notably in China and Brazil, reached lows last fall and again in March, before rebounding sharply, with Brazil s Bovespa up 75 in May compared to late October 2008, and the Shanghai Composite up 54 in roughly the same period.

Moreover, many African countries hit bottom and rebounded from long periods of civil war and economic decline.

The share of profits earned by government from FDI operations was insignificant, the result of a race to the bottom .

It is also a belated recognition that the development as usual policies followed in Afghanistan up to now have failed.