Sentences with phrase «agricultural water efficiency»

Gleick testified that Pacific Institute work on urban and agricultural water efficiency show that existing, cost - effective technologies and policies can reduce state demand for water by 6 - 8 million acre - feet, or around 20 percent, findings that have been adopted in the California Water Plan, and new work details effective solutions in conservation and efficiency that can save one million acre feet of water in the shorter term.

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So our next real push where water is concerned is to improve the water - use efficiency of agricultural practices.

2025 GOAL: Improve the water - use efficiency of our direct agricultural supply chain by 15 % in high - water - risk * sourcing areas, a volume approximately equivalent to the entire water use of all PepsiCo direct operations

The discoveries of these proteins and genes have the potential to address a wide range of critical agricultural problems in the future, including the limited availability of water for crops, the need to increase water use efficiency in lawns as well as crops and concerns among farmers about the impact heat stress will have in their crops as global temperatures and CO2 levels continue to rise.

Need for strong public outreach Agricultural production accounts for the greatest amount of global water consumption, and in this sector the authors suggest a variety of efficiency proposals such as improved irrigation systems and switching to crop varieties that consume less water.

They need to tackle difficult policy issues, such as development of water markets and pricing, expansion of water efficiency and productivity programs, elimination of government subsidies that encourage inefficient or unproductive water use by cities and farms, and agricultural reform.

Agricultural and municipal demands are spread among many users, for example, allowing flexible changes in water use and efficiency of use.

Second, since nearly 80 % of the world's water resources are used to support agriculture, continued improvements in agricultural and irrigation conservation and efficiency should be an important focus for research, development, investment and cooperation.

This could lead to agricultural drought and suppressed crop yields.15 This would also increase thermoelectric power plant cooling water temperatures and decrease cooling efficiency and plant capacity because of the need to avoid discharging excessively warm water (see also Ch.

water - use efficiency carbon gain in photosynthesis per unit water lost in evapotranspiration; can be expressed on a short - term basis as the ratio of photosynthetic carbon gain per unit transpirational water loss, or on a seasonal basis as the ratio of net primary production or agricultural yield to the amount of available water

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.

Not only do the economic climate models need to predict policy shifts, population growth, and the pace and type of climate changes to come — more droughts, more severe storms, higher temperatures in some places and lower in others, etc. — but they also try to quantify things such as agricultural and forestry losses, damage from catastrophic storms, utility costs, savings from efficiency improvements, water shortages, and sometimes even the economic consequences of refugee flows.

But the good news is that we've seen improvements in agricultural water - use efficiency over the past 40 years.

«That includes upgrading agricultural and urban water - use efficiencies by doing things like recycling our waste water.