Sentences with phrase «future water scarcity»

Future water scarcity will be compounded by the region's rapid population growth, which is the highest in the nation.

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Future Ready Singapore, 12 February 2015: As the international corporate community rethinks the way it conducts business to address global challenges, solving water scarcity and managing water use could be the top untapped opportunity that will have the biggest positive impact on societies.

With increasing water scarcity, constrained natural resources and declining biodiversity, we need to protect the future by making the right choices.

However, rising water scarcity — made worse by climate change — could impact the Indian manufacturing sector's future ability to meet Chinese consumer demand.

«I would be most interested in seeing into the future to determine what effects global warming, weather change, overpopulation and scarcity of clean drinking water [have] in store for humanity,» Bennett wrote.

An exhibition of inventions, artwork and artifacts explores our relationship with water and how the world might cope with future scarcity of this invaluable resource

Future scarcity affected by climate change will most likely lead to different water pricing needs than the schemes we know from the past.»

Thanks to the volunteers who are running weather@home on their personal computer, a large number of present and future drought events in the UK are being created within the project «MaRIUS» (Managing the Risks, Impacts and Uncertainties of drought and water Scarcity).

All of us who work on water issues and are concerned about the drought and water scarcity must come together on this critical piece of legislation and ensure a brighter future for California and the world.

However, other factors related to climate change — such as water scarcity or insect infestations — may act to stifle future forest fire activity by reducing growth or otherwise killing trees.

One study has calculated that if present trends continue, 1.8 billion people will be living in absolute water scarcity by 2025, while a full two thirds of the human population will face water stress.With agriculture currently accounting for some 72 % of human water use it seems likely that such steps to reduce water consumption will become a desirable provision of vertical farming in the future.

Key evidence sources we have used to consider how risks related to flooding, water scarcity and heatwaves may change in the future, which have informed and been referenced in our 2012, 2013 and 2014 adaptation progress reports, are set out below:

Dimick cited water and food scarcity, pointing to the effects of countries that have lots of money but little water: «They are in the business of trying to buy up land or long - term leases on land in other continents so they can secure a future food supply.»

While satellites say the delta has had a net - loss of water storage over the course of most of the 21st century, climate models used to predict water scarcity into the future often say the region gained water.

His current research includes a global assessment of the sustainability of future food production under socioeconomic and climate change, and water scarcity.

The IPCC has already concluded that it is «virtually certain that human influence has warmed the global climate system» and that it is «extremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface temperature from 1951 to 2010» is anthropogenic.1 Its new report outlines the future threats of further global warming: increased scarcity of food and fresh water; extreme weather events; rise in sea level; loss of biodiversity; areas becoming uninhabitable; and mass human migration, conflict and violence.

declares that the «problem of water scarcity is going to escalate worldwide in the foreseeable future»

Youth from Guatemala, Mexico, Indonesia, San Salvador and Haiti are wondering if in the future, there will be water scarcity and extinction of animals in those countries.