Sentences with phrase «allocation of water resources»

April 6, 2007 - How anthropogenic climate change will impact the arid regions of Southwestern North America has implications for the allocation of water resources and the course of regional development.

[Ned Breslin from Water for People] is less concerned about corporations going overseas looking to buy control of water — he thinks water companies have realized not much money is to be made in doing that, and they are more interested in management contracts than outright ownership — but the bigger question might be allocation of water resources, which until now has been sort of a free - for - all.»

Specifically, the allocation of water resources across regions and sectors at the global level remains largely unaccounted for in long - term modeling.

Water in the Middle East is no longer just an environmental concern but also a fraught political issue, as allocation of water resources and wastewater treatment develop into additional sources of conflict between Israel and its neighboring countries.

In his view, nations and regions have access to examples of relatively good regulatory and legislative structures to address conflicts and the allocation of water resources among competing states.

Not exact matches

(2) When a change to the Basin Plan would result in a change in the reliability of the water allocations in relation to the water resources of a water resource plan area, the Basin Plan identifies the change and may also specify the Commonwealth's share (if any) of that change in reliability.

To put the interest payments on the debt in context, we should note that the entire allocations in the 2016 budget to the Ministries of Roads and Highways, Trade and Industry, Food and Agriculture, Water Resources, Works and Housing, Youth and Sports, and Ministry of Transport amounted to a total of GH cents 2.1 billion.

The ability to continue production will depend on how cropping systems adapt to the lower water allocations and stricter management of that resource.»

The organization met with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar Tuesday to discuss their stake in the allocation of Colorado River water resources (E&E Daily, July 19).

Countries will continue to face tough decisions on water allocation — how to balance competing demands from households, farmers, industry, ecosystems and hydro - power — to optimise the use of this finite resource.

Michael J. Scott et al., «Climate Change and Adaptation in Irrigated Agriculture — A Case Study of the Yakima River,» in UCOWR / NIWR Conference, Water Allocation: Economics and the Environment (Carbondale, IL: Universities Council on Water Resources, 2004); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, «Global Warming to Squeeze Western Mountains Dry by 2050,» press release (Richland, WA: 16 February 2004).

62, no. 1 — 3 (January 2004), pp. 75 — 113; Michael J. Scott et al., «Climate Change and Adaptation in Irrigated Agriculture — A Case Study of the Yakima River,» in UCOWR / NIWR Conference, Water Allocation: Economics and the Environment (Carbondale, IL: Universities Council on Water Resources, 2004).

It is time to recognize the serious California drought for what it is: a bellwether of things to come; a harbinger of even more serious challenges to California water resources allocation, management, and use.

His research on the ecology of saline Mono Lake in the Eastern Sierras led to a decision by the State Water Resources Board to decrease allocations of water that could be diverted from the lake's feeder streams and added to the Los Angeles water suWater Resources Board to decrease allocations of water that could be diverted from the lake's feeder streams and added to the Los Angeles water suwater that could be diverted from the lake's feeder streams and added to the Los Angeles water suwater supply.

Breslin states that the UN's declaration of water as a basic human right will «force countries to deal with the allocation of scarce resources.

They have worked with peoples to identify principles of resource conservation and allocation so that those principles can inform water policy, land - use planning, environmental controls, and structures of business organization in Indigenous settings.

the status of Indigenous water rights, particularly native title water rights, remains unresolved and limits Indigenous peoples access and allocation to water resources

However, access to economic development for the Indigenous peoples of the Murray - Darling via their lands and waters has to date been significantly limited by the priority of water allocations being given to industrial and agricultural activities, and the policy barriers to having their rights to their lands, waters and natural resources recognised, including the recognition of native title.

facilitate and advocate for the participation of the ten Indigenous Nations within the different levels of government in natural resource management and planning, particularly ecological restoration projects, and lobbying for Indigenous water allocations