Sentences with phrase «addresses water crises»

Additionally, the possibility of legislation addressing the water crisis in Hoosick Falls appeared to effectively die after Sen. Kathy Marchione decided to amend her legislation at the last minute, blocking her own chamber from voting on it before its scheduled adjournment.

My strong interest in research, especially in environmental systems analysis and optimization, as well as my strong will to address the water crisis in China, drew me to my current area of research; more than 8 projects I have led or participated in enabled me to appreciate considerable savings benefited from engineering optimization.

The Michigan Department of Education said that about $ 4,200 of that $ 20,166 was meant to address the water crisis.

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More than 350 leading college entrepreneurs and 150 world leaders gathered at the Kairos Global Summit in New York City earlier this year to collaborate and create innovations and business models that address key global issues, including clean water, the global financial crisis, energy consumption, natural disasters, healthcare and more.

ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo didn't mention the epicenter of New York's water - quality crisis during his State of the State tour, waiting until last week's budget briefing, 39,000 words later, to address the crisis in Hooksick Falls.

Preserving New York's vast natural resources, addressing the climate crisis head - on, and protecting our air and water are more important than ever,» Niccoli said.

Clinton called the Flint water crisis «immoral,» and demanded that Congress approve $ 200 million in emergency aid to address the community's battle with lead - contaminated water.

In a letter addressed to state Assemblyman Robert Sweeney (D - Lindenhurst), Suffolk County Legislator Al Krupski — the initial author of the letter, which was written late last month — said «the overpopulation of white - tailed deer is a crisis which has plagued the East End of Long Island for many years, negatively impacting not only human health, but water quality, biodiversity, private property, the economy and the agricultural industry.»

Speaking to a crowd of around 2,000 who waited for hours in the cold to hear the address at Cohoes High School in the Albany area, Clinton focused on economic issues, saying she'd push for rebuilding crumbling infrastructures, and mentioning the ongoing water crisis in nearby Hoosick Falls.

Edwards delivered the meeting's keynote address focusing on U.S. public water health crises, including the ongoing lead water crisis in Flint, Michigan that began in 2015 and the lead water crisis in Washington D.C., in 2000 - 2004 both of which he helped uncover.

A plan to drill into aquifers in the mountains near Cape Town, South Africa, to address the city's water crisis could harm the region's rich biodiversity, ecologists say.

Yet capturing and reusing wastewater for municipal and household use, agricultural and industrial production, and recharging depleted aquifers is precisely what researchers writing in the latest issue of Science suggest needs to happen in order to address the world's growing water crisis.

After that I will go back to China to employ advanced analytical methodologies and techniques to address severe water crises in China.

He is also on the first board to address the Flint water crisis.

One recent example of the power of these entities is the effort by the Local 370 plumbers union in Flint, Michigan to address the disastrous water quality crisis.

Proceeds from the bottled water edition will benefit organizations that are directly addressing with the water crisis, including the United Way of Genesee County and Hydrate Detroit.

Some of these are addressed in the present issue: the geopolitics of peak oil (John Bellamy Foster), the production of biofuels as a liquid fuel alternative and its consequences (Fred Magdoff), the economics of climate change (Minqi Li), the science of climate change (John W. Farley), the ocean crisis (Brett Clark and Rebecca Clausen), the problem of large dams (Rohan D'Souza), and the world water crisis (Maude Barlow).

And in making this plan happen, the rich countries must take the lead: Focusing Just on the Economy is Short - Sighted The report says that efforts to revive the world economy alone are essential «unless new policy initiatives also address other global challenges — reducing carbon dependency, protecting ecosystems and water resources, alleviating poverty — their impact on averting future crises will be short - lived.»

That's the grim finding of a report issued by the UN last week, and it's one of the main reasons that 120 countries have convened in Istanbul for a World Water Forum in order to address the burgeoning crisis.

UNDP and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation release white paper detailing the need for environmental conservation to help address a growing water crisis.

In his written testimony, Admiral McGinn cited a number of scenarios that could come to pass if we fail to address the climate problem: rising humanitarian crises and conflicts in Africa exacerbated by drought, food insecurity, and extreme weather; social conflict and northern migration in Latin American driven by food shortages and land degradation; millions of refugees driven northward by intense coastal typhoon damage in Bangladesh; and external and internal unrest in Asia compounded by unreliable water supplies from the shrinking Himalayan glaciers.