Sentences with phrase «acute water shortage»

The hospital authorities complained of acute water shortage in the hospital coupled with unavailable accommodation facilities.

• 250 million people will be forced to leave their homes due to extreme weather disasters • 30 million people will go hungry as agriculture suffers • 1 - 3 billion people will suffer acute water shortages

Acute water shortage across the country is not a new development considering the way water is managed in the country.

This year alone, several areas namely, Nswama, HO, Kyebi, Kadeji, Nkaseimu, and Mampong have all suffered severe acute water shortage.

The Asante Mampong water projected is currently supplying about 80,000 households which hitherto, suffered from a chronic acute water shortage for almost two decades.

Nuclear desalination has been demonstrated to be a viable option to meet the growing demand for potable water around the globe, provide hope to areas in arid and semi-arid zones that face acute water shortages.

In this country where illegal logging runs rampant, forest loss from tree felling and conversion to agriculture is cited as the cause of flooding, acute water shortages, rapid soil erosion, river siltation, and mudslides that have taken lives, destroyed properties, and wreaked environmental damage.

Likewise, the projected increase in annual and multiannual warm — dry periods implies increasing risk of the acute water shortages, critical groundwater overdraft, and species extinction potential that have been experienced during the 2012 — 2014 drought (5, 20).

The state is currently experiencing a record - setting drought, which has led to acute water shortages, groundwater overdraft, critically low streamflow, and enhanced wildfire risk.

Half of the world's population will be living in areas of «acute water shortage» by 2030.