Meaning of Nansi | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A lake in Jining, Shandong, China.
2. A district of Tainan, Taiwan.

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“Nansi Lake is also part of the South-North Water Transfer Project, a multi-billion dollar effort to move Yangtze River water through canals and reservoirs into the Yellow River watershed in arid northern China. Nansi Lake helps convey some of that water and serves as a storage point on the project’s eastern route, which began operating in December 2013.”

“Nansi Lake is also a recipient of medical, sewage treatment plant, livestock and aquaculture wastewater, which are the major sources of antibiotic pollution. In 2009, the aquaculture area of the Nansi Lake Basin reached 735.01 km2 with 0.495 million fishery products, and the numbers of cows, pigs and chickens were 0.95, 7.2 and 105 million heads, respectively (Wang et al., 2015). According to the report, the amount of antibiotics in medical wastewater in Jining is as high as μg·L−1 (Sun, 2015), and antibiotics have been found in pig faeces from a farm in Heze, which had the highest concentration of 764.4 mg kg−1 (Pan et al., 2011). The wastewater is mainly transmitted through inflowing rivers into Nansi Lake, and approximately 200,000 m3 of domestic sewage and 600,000 m3 of industrial wastewater are discharged every day (Wang et al., 2016a, 2016b).”

“Nansi Lake Basin is located in the southwest of Shandong Province, China, which is a typical area affected by fluorosis due to high F⁻ in drinking water. It is reported high fluoride groundwater is widely distributed in the plain area on the west side of the Nansi Lake, and its prevalence is closely related to the hydrogeological conditions, climate, and geomorphology (Liu et al., 2021; Xu et al., 2020; Gao et al., 2019; Liu et al., 2018).”

“The vulnerability of Annan, North, West Central, Rende, and Nansi is ranked as secondary high, and the vulnerability of Baihe, Danei, Yujing, and South is intermediate.”

“Samples from Jhongpu, Fanlu, Nansi and Yuzing show an average tritium concentration of 1.33 TU (Table 4), which is marginally lower than the precipitation of Central Taiwan (1.6 TU)reported by Peng et al. (2007).”

“It's 25km of rolling pitch from the start of the 175 to Nansi.”

“The bold attacks launched by armed insurgents against police stations incurred the wrath of the Japanese authorities and escalated into large-scale conflicts spanning the districts of Nanhua, Nansi, Yujing and Zuozhen.”

“The Nansi District was formerly known as the "Jiaba Community", and was one of the early territories of the Taivoan, as well as where the Zou resided. Later, due to the invasion of the Siraya tribe, the community members later migrated out to regions such as Gongguan, Paoziliao (Kaohsiung County), and Daciouyuan. During the time of the Japanese occupation, because of its location at the west of the "Nanzihsian River", it was therefore renamed Nansi ("si" meaning "west"). A village and village hall were established here, under the governance of Sinhua District of Tainan Province. After the war in 1945, it was renamed Nansi Township, and was changed to Nansi District after the merging of Tainan City and County on December 25th, 2010.”

“City government data showed that some districts were inundated with more than 600mm of rain over 24 hours, with Nansi District (楠西) receiving 700mm.”

“Department of History student Yun-Pei Lien, who had gone to Nansi Junior High School, admitted that she had previously known nothing about Nansi District.”

“Nineteen of the aftershocks — which were concentrated in Tainan’s Nansi (楠西) and Nanhua (南化) districts — exceeded magnitude 4 on the Richter scale, it said.[…] The Tainan City Government said that the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Foundation had visited Nansi District and provided breakfast for people who have been displaced by the main earthquake.”

“The CWA noted that the lowest temperatures recorded early Monday were 8 C in Tainan’s Nansi District and 9.1 C in Kaohsiung’s Shanlin District. Officials said more areas could see similar or lower readings in the coming days.”

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