Sentences with phrase «national water policy»

India's government is in the process of revising its national water policy, and a draft recommends changing the «heavy under - pricing of electricity» to more closely reflect actual costs.

TESTIMONIES Recommendations to Congress for Fundamental Changes in National Water Policy On December 8, 2011, Pacific Institute President Dr. Peter Gleick testified in Washington, D.C. before the before the Subcommittee on Water and Power of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources — Hearing on Opportunities and Challenges to Address Domestic and Global Water Supply Issues.

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National policies should be created to incentivize producers to change the way they manage their farming systems and adopt natural water retention measures used in organic agriculture such as green cover and intercropping as well as diversifying farmers» crop and income base so they have something to fall back on when drought strikes.

Wanting to test the away - from - the - bench waters without losing all chance of returning to academia's fold, American Amanda Staudt took a 1 - year science policy postdoc with the National Research Council.

The study, which is being conducted under the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund program, is the first time the EPA has undertaken its own water analysis in response to complaints of contamination in drilling areas, and it could be pivotal in the national debate over the role of natural gas in America's energy policy.

Kibler now works as a researcher at the International Centre for Water Hazard & Risk Management in Tsukuba, Japan, and as an Associate Professor at Japan's National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo.

The high seas, international waters outside of national jurisdictions, will be the focus of a new panel that hopes to influence United Nations policy.

«The need for China to include «virtual water» in its national policy has been pointed out.

Ifremer's research supports the deployment of maritime policies: implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), human and animal health policies, the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), aquaculture and national biodiversity strategies.

Following the sixth goal of the SDGs for 2030, which seeks to ensure available and sustainable water management, the creation of a World Water Tribunal aims to control, evaluate, monitor, and implement water policies at the local, regional, and national swater management, the creation of a World Water Tribunal aims to control, evaluate, monitor, and implement water policies at the local, regional, and national sWater Tribunal aims to control, evaluate, monitor, and implement water policies at the local, regional, and national swater policies at the local, regional, and national scale.

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A National Clean Water Commission of blue - ribbon experts in law, engineering, sciences, health, technology, finance and economics to recommend new national goals to replace the tired and expired goals of current federal water laws, and a policy and business plan to implemeNational Clean Water Commission of blue - ribbon experts in law, engineering, sciences, health, technology, finance and economics to recommend new national goals to replace the tired and expired goals of current federal water laws, and a policy and business plan to implement Water Commission of blue - ribbon experts in law, engineering, sciences, health, technology, finance and economics to recommend new national goals to replace the tired and expired goals of current federal water laws, and a policy and business plan to implemenational goals to replace the tired and expired goals of current federal water laws, and a policy and business plan to implement water laws, and a policy and business plan to implement them.

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Gleick explained how water and energy are linked, how limits to the availability of both resources are beginning to affect one another, and how recognizing this link when developing national energy and water policies can lead to many substantial economic and environmental benefits.

Nothing in the Energy Policy Act changes the requirements of environmental laws such as the Endangered Species Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Clean Air Act.

First is regulation that could strand assets in several ways: direct regulation on carbon led by authorities at the local, national, regional, or global level; indirect regulation through increased pollution controls, constraints on water usage, or policies targeting health concerns; and mandates on renewable energy adoption and efficiency standards.

Given that people on Brulle's side of the Global Warming / Climate Change argument have been making false claims for decades — for example, that New York and Washington would be under water by the year 20004 — and given that the mass media sound daily alarms about the climate threat, the statement in the National Research Council report that «some» information sources are «affected» by campaigns opposed to policies that would limit carbon dioxide emissions is scant foundation for believing a massive conspiracy exists.5

The report calls for improved efficiency of water use, better knowledge development and training, the integration of climate - smart production models, increased investment in agricultural development and harmonization of national policies and actions.

Industry activity is subject to a number of federal and state laws, including the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Air Act and the National Environmental Policy Act.

Key regulations governing shale development include: Clean Water Act; Clean Air Act; Safe Drinking Water Act; National Environmental Policy Act; Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act; Endangered Species Act and the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

With the support of the U.N. Development Programme, he had initiated Pakistan's National Climate Change Policy, a new umbrella policy for managing a wide range of issues including disasters, human health, water, agriculture and biodivePolicy, a new umbrella policy for managing a wide range of issues including disasters, human health, water, agriculture and biodivepolicy for managing a wide range of issues including disasters, human health, water, agriculture and biodiversity.

The report says global climate change is projected to produce «insufficient water supplies, shifting rainfall patterns, disruptions to agriculture, human migrations, more failing states, increased extremism, and even resource wars,» all of which pose an urgent threat that must be addressed in national security policy.

One of the goals of the National Climate Change Policy is to enhance awareness, skills and institutional capacity, particularly at the provincial level, on issues such as water and disaster management, and disaster risk reduction.

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He served as professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (1971 — 94); distinguished research professor at the Institute for Space Science and Technology, Gainesville, FL (1989 — 94); chief scientist, U.S. Department of Transportation (1987 — 89); vice chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Oceans and Atmosphere (NACOA)(1981 — 86); deputy assistant administrator for policy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1970 — 71); deputy assistant secretary for water quality and research, U.S. Department of the Interior (1967 — 70); founding dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences, University of Miami (1964 — 67); first director of the National Weather Satellite Service (1962 — 64); and director of the Center for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Maryland (1953 — 62).

Gleick wrote a book (US water policy) with a foreword by William K Reilly who is Chairman of the Board of WWF, director of DuPont, Conoco Phillips, National Geographic and more, and a visiting professor somewhere.

«Texas Decision Could Double Wind Power Capacity in the U.S.,» Renewable Energy Access, 4 October 2007; coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; an average wind turbine operates 36 percent of the time; Iceland geothermal usage from Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16; European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China's solar water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21), Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Philippines from Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), «World Geothermal Power Up 50 %, New US Boom Possible,» press release (Washington, DC: 11 April 2002).

Most of the environmental policy progress in the US over the last 40 years has come through «green drift,» i.e., through agencies like the EPA adapting and expanding America's foundational green laws — the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act — to address new propolicy progress in the US over the last 40 years has come through «green drift,» i.e., through agencies like the EPA adapting and expanding America's foundational green laws — the Clean Air and Clean Water acts, the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act — to address new proPolicy Act — to address new problems.

She has prepared Environmental Impacts Statements, Operations Plans, Monitoring and Mitigation Plans, and Deep Water Port Applications and is very familiar with the requirements of and compliance with federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and guidelines for projects related to offshore energy development including National / State Environmental Policy Acts (Environmental Assessment / Environmental Impact Statements), Marine Protection Research and Sanctuaries Act, Clean Water Act (including National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System), Coastal Zone Management Act, Water Resources Development Act, Endangered Species Act, Magnuson - Stevens Act, Rivers and Harbors Act, and the Oil Pollution Act.

Under the «Air Quality Regulation» category, the Chamber promises to «Oppose efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions through existing environmental statutes, including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act.»

On the opening morning of the inaugural National Adaptation Forum, I was eating breakfast at a stand - up table in the exhibition hall when a mustachioed man of middle age plopped his cherry Danish next to my pile of conference literature, a mess of pamphlets and reports with titles likeGetting Climate Smart: A Water Preparedness Guide for State Action, and Successful Adaptation: Linking Science and Policy in a Rapidly Changing World.

As President Trump puts infrastructure in the spotlight, American Rivers will be urging Congress to reject the President's proposals to weaken bedrock environmental laws such as the National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, and Clean Water Act.

note 43, and Global Wind Energy Council, Global Wind 2006 Report (Brussels: 2007), p. 4, with capacity factor from National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Power Technologies Energy Data Book (Oak Ridge, TN: DOE, August 2006); Flemming Hansen, «Denmark to Increase Wind Power to 50 % by 2025, Mostly Offshore,» Renewable Energy Access, 5 December 2006; Global Wind Energy Council, «Global Wind Energy Markets Continue to Boom - 2006 Another Record Year,» press release (Brussels: 2 February 2007), with European per person consumption from European Wind Energy Association, «Wind Power on Course to Become Major European Energy Source by the End of the Decade,» press release (Brussels: 22 November 2004); China water heaters calculated from Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, Renewables Global Status Report, 2006 Update (Washington, DC: Worldwatch Institute, 2006), p. 21, and from Bingham Kennedy, Jr., Dissecting China's 2000 Census (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, June 2001); Iceland National Energy Authority and Ministries of Industry and Commerce, Geothermal Development and Research in Iceland (Reykjavik, Iceland: April 2006), p. 16.

Since taking office, Bush has moved to review, weaken, or undo a host of the Clinton administration's environmental - protection policies dealing with global warming, air and water pollution, national forests, and national monuments.

«The nation needs a National Flood Insurance Program that helps, rather than hinders, people's efforts to move to higher ground, particularly in light of sea - level rise and climate change,» says Rob Moore, a senior policy analyst in NRDC's Water program.

Erika E. Malmen (Boise) is a member of the Environment, Energy & Resources practice, representing clients in permitting, compliance, and litigation under various statutes including the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Clean Air Act (CAA), Federal Land Policy & Management Act (FLPMA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Provided by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), and available through independent agents, this policy provides coverage for flood damage related to high waters, hurricanes and excessive rain runoff.

Typically, water that comes from the bottom up — such as an overflowing river — is covered by a separate flood insurance policy, which can be purchased from the federal government's National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), and from some private insurers.

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The proffered national legislative regime framework should be applied to all climate change and water policy and processes, including domestic and international negotiations relating to carbon, water and environmental markets.

These procedural rights are particularly significant in determining whether and at what level Indigenous people are engaged in negotiations concerning state - wide land use policy including water management, infrastructure, national parks, agricultural activities etc..

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The core of the recent national water reforms is that water is part of Australia's «natural capital», where new regimes include, in most jurisdictions, the separation of water access entitlements from land titles, separating water delivery from regulation, implementing revised water management policy and legislation and environmental benefit.

6.6 That Australian governments commit to a framework that provides for Indigenous participation in water policy that includes national principles for engagement with Indigenous peoples, including:

[58] It is hoped that this forum will result in a formally recognised national Indigenous representative water body [59] and will include a range of Indigenous groups not limited to those already engaged in water policy.

[3] This has resulted in little to no involvement by Indigenous people in state, territory and national consultation processes, and the development of water policy.

The experience of MLDRIN in negotiating with governments about significant degradation of the Murray - Darling River Basin will be crucial to the national dialogue about water and climate change policy development.

These issues include national Indigenous water management, policy and planning.