Sentences with phrase «national urban water»

Projects will be funded by the National Water Security Plan for Cities and Towns as well as the National Urban Water and Desalination Plan.

Not exact matches

Comparatively, Ghana, under the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for a period of seven (7) years, between 2009 and 2015, increased Urban water coverage from 58.5 % to 76 % while Rural water coverage was increased from 56.5 % to 76 %.

She currently is a principal investigator and co-lead of the Engineering Thrust of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Re-Inventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt).

In spite of such known urban pressures on health as air and water pollution, water shortage, overcrowding, poor housing, the stresses of city transportation and the generally accelerated pace of city life, there is no substantial evidence from the National Health Survey that the overall health of the urban resident is worse than that of the rural resident.

Australia uses a common national water - pricing framework, but different approaches to water pricing across states and water sectors (urban, rural, environmental).

Now a new study by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that cool roofs can also save water by reducing how much is needed for urban irrigation.

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As the world becomes more and more focused on environmental issues that cross national boundaries, such as climate change, reduced availability of clean water, increased water and air pollution, and the growth of urban heat islands, landscape architects are taking the lead in finding practical, innovative solutions that leverage natural systems.

Research on specific cities and products yield data like the following: in Hanoi, 80 % of fresh vegetables, 50 % of pork, poultry and fresh water fish, as well as 40 % of eggs, originate from urban and peri-urban areas (Nguyen Tien Dinh, 2000); in the urban and peri-urban area of Shanghai, 60 % of the city's vegetables, 100 % of the milk, 90 % of the eggs, and 50 % of the pork and poultry meat is produced (Cai Yi - Zhang and Zhang Zhangen in Bakker et al. 2000); in Java, home gardens provide for 18 % of caloric consumption and 14 % of proteins of the urban population (Ning Purnomohadi 2000); Dakar produces 60 % of the national vegetable consumption whilst urban poultry production amounts to 65 % of the national demand (Mbaye and Moustier 1999).

Major Environmental Issues: Natural fresh water resources scarce and polluted in north, inaccessible and poor quality in center and extreme southeast; raw sewage and industrial effluents polluting rivers in urban areas; deforestation; widespread erosion; desertification; serious air pollution in the national capital and urban centers along US - Mexico border.

Project partners: RUAF Foundation (coordination, the Netherlands); Applied Plant Research International of the Wageningen University and Research Centre (The Netherlands); School of Forestry of the University of Florida (USA); The International Water Management Institute (Sri Lanka); The Ministry of Agriculture, Agrarian Development, Minor Irrigation, Industries and Environment of Western Province (Sri Lanka); Kesbewa Urban Council (Sri Lanka); The Ministry of Water, Public Services and Environment, Santa Fe Province (Argentina); Municipality of Rosario (Argentina); Institute of Physics — CONICET Rosario (Argentina); The National University of Rosario (Argentina); Comune de Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina Faso); l'Institut d'Application et de Vulgarisation en Sciences (Burkina Faso); Kathmandu Metropolitan City Office (Nepal); Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (Nepal).

The Water Amendment Bill 2008, defines critical human water needs as the needs for a minimum amount of water, that can only reasonably be provided from Basin water resources required to meet: (a) core human consumption requirements in urban and rural areas; and (b) those non-human consumption requirements that a failure to meet would cause prohibitively high social, economic, or national security cWater Amendment Bill 2008, defines critical human water needs as the needs for a minimum amount of water, that can only reasonably be provided from Basin water resources required to meet: (a) core human consumption requirements in urban and rural areas; and (b) those non-human consumption requirements that a failure to meet would cause prohibitively high social, economic, or national security cwater needs as the needs for a minimum amount of water, that can only reasonably be provided from Basin water resources required to meet: (a) core human consumption requirements in urban and rural areas; and (b) those non-human consumption requirements that a failure to meet would cause prohibitively high social, economic, or national security cwater, that can only reasonably be provided from Basin water resources required to meet: (a) core human consumption requirements in urban and rural areas; and (b) those non-human consumption requirements that a failure to meet would cause prohibitively high social, economic, or national security cwater resources required to meet: (a) core human consumption requirements in urban and rural areas; and (b) those non-human consumption requirements that a failure to meet would cause prohibitively high social, economic, or national security costs.