Humans often increase storage capacity by constructing reservoirs and decrease it by draining wetlands.

Environmentalists blame industries that have drained wetlands and dumped poisons into shallow bays.

Canal Street takes its name from a channel established there in the early 1800's to drain wetlands in the middle of Manhattan island.

Draining wetlands to reduce populations of insects and other vectors.

Humans often drain wetlands in the name of development, housing, and agriculture.

The ditches were first dug during the Depression to drain wetlands of standing water where mosquitoes can breed.

These were dug as early as the 1890s to drain wetlands for farming and to supply water to mills in Camas.

Anyone who really wants to stop methane needs to start draining wetlands.

Hollow-post mills driving scoop wheels were used in the Netherlands to drain wetlands from the 14th century onwards.

The same farm measure included the "swampbusters" provision that withdrew all federal subsidies to farmers who drained wetlands.