Sentences with phrase «annual loss of water»

The annual loss of water from a reservoir in arid or semiarid regions, where evaporation rates are high, is typically equal to 10 percent of its storage capacity.

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The annual water loss would amount to about.0025 inches, about the thickness of a sheet of paper, the news release said.

Nearly a quarter of all food calories produced for humans are never consumed, resulting in about $ 1 trillion in annual economic losses, significant greenhouse gas emissions and inefficient use of water, land and other resources.

The drought that is devastating California and much of the West has dried the region so much that 240 gigatons worth of surface and groundwater have been lost, roughly the equivalent to a 3.9 - inch layer of water over the entire West, or the annual loss of mass from the Greenland Ice Sheet, according to the study.

It is an estimation of the current (as of 2000) existing rate of annual deaths reasonably attributable to climate change, albeit from a limited subset of climate - related health impacts: malaria due to an increase in the geographic range of disease - bearing mosquitoes, malnutrition associated with loss of agricultural productivity, water - borne diarrheal diseases, and deaths from flooding, McMichael says.

The effect of climate at the annual or interannual scale defines the net gain or loss of carbon by the biota, its water status for the subsequent growing season, and even its ability to survive.

The Sierra Nevada's mountain peaks have risen measurably since 2012 as the Earth's crust rebounds from the net loss of 63 trillion gallons of water — an amount equivalent to the entire annual ice melt of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

North Cascade glaciers annual balance has averaged -0.54 m / a of water equivalent from 1984 - 2006, a cumulative loss of over 12.4 m in glacier thickness or 20 - 40 % of their total volume since 1984 due to negative mass balances.

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