Sentences with phrase «because water resources»

For companies, this creates completely new challenges, because water resources are essential both for production as well as for other local users with whom these resources are shared.

Not exact matches

Cities, because of their concentrated populations, put a huge strain on natural resources like fresh water supplies.

Because they got their back to the water and their face to the sand, surrounded by enemies without natural resources,» McKenna said.

I mostly was thinking utilities until I wrote this piece and found many other water resources related companies that seem like a better alternative because fo future growth possibilities.

Mr Bambridge said the successes with FAST technologies were also significant, because of their low maintenance operational efficiency at remote locations such as mining and energy installations and commercial and recreational facilities operating in areas where water is a precious shared resource and where there may be water table quality issues.

It places considerable emphasis on soil and plant research because of the strengths in these areas on the Waite and Roseworthy Campuses which house the Faculty of Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences of the University of Adelaide, the CSIRO Land & Water and the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI).

Compared to cane sugar, cultivation of stevia also requires fewer resources like water and land because products need less of it to achieve a sugar - like taste as parts of the stevia leaf are 400 times sweeter than regular sugar, she claimed.

The protests are because the company, which is the holder of a «Least Ethical Company» award (left), is criticised for practices including destruction of water resources, marketing baby foods inappropriately, trade union busting and other issues (click here).

There's no extra water usage or resource consumption in my perspective because family cloth is just part of my existing laundry commitments in the house.

This is important because overdrawn water resources can become saline or otherwise degraded, ruining farmland and causing other problems.

This drop is of concern because snow cover is important to soil moisture and water resources in many regions.

If we're talking about human beings dying because of water resources, because of famine, it's Africa.

The natural systems that provide oxygen, clean water, food, storm and erosion protection, natural products, and the potential for future resources, such as new genetic stocks for cultivation, must be protected, not just because it is part of good stewardship but also so that they can take care of us.

International companies are also being pitted against one another because of water shortages and competition for existing resources.

These problems already play a significant role in many wars and internal conflicts — either directly, as in the sharing of water resources, or indirectly as when populations are displaced because of soil degradation.

In global agriculture, 35 percent of annual water is wasted because of «poor resource management.»

It is also a significant resource for Mexico, because the United States is legally required to ensure its southern neighbor receives 1.5 million acre - feet — the unit used to measure water resources — of water annually.

The issue of water is a «non-starter,» said Tim Zenk, vice president of corporate affairs for Sapphire Energy, because no one in the industry uses freshwater resources.

governance failures in the world has affected the groundwater and the world is thirsty because it is hungry need real commitments to take sustainability to conservation and improvemente of water resources

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Because of lack of resources classrooms are overcrowded, school facilities unsanitary and run down, and students lack clean drinking water.

My reasoning is that this was touted as the most interesting of the former ITT companies because of the company's focus on products related to water resources, which everyone knows is a future growth area, i.e. a «story stock» if there ever was one.

If your dog would never walk on a particular track again because he once stepped on a prickle there, it would be disadvantageous, especially if that track was the only way to get at an important resource like food or water.

Community cats live in an area because the resources - food, water, shelter - are there to support them.

Because of this, in impoverished communities where children already have limited access to food, clean water, and other important resources, the possibility of receiving music education is rare or even non-existent.

In much of the 3rd world, Andy's example of girls gathering firewood and water is typically a situation where a culture that used to live somewhat comfortably and with stability, through a combination of foraging, pastoralism, and small - scale agriculture or horticulture, is now seriously out of balance because unplanned modernization prompted huge population increases at the same time that resources were taken away by competing cultures.

Humans have traditionally settled in harm's way because natural hazards are associated with resources that we need, like water and food.

«If the water level in the Euphrates continues to decrease, there will be a disaster in July because it will not be possible to irrigate crops,» warned Aoun Thiab Abdullah, director of the National Centre for Water Resouwater level in the Euphrates continues to decrease, there will be a disaster in July because it will not be possible to irrigate crops,» warned Aoun Thiab Abdullah, director of the National Centre for Water ResouWater Resources.

Soil water is perhaps the most precious resource of the Earth because if it becomes destroyed or disappear there will be neither food nor water for terrestrial plants and animals like people.

We preserve water, oceans, and natural resources in the face of certain climate change because we know there is no other choice but to learn how to cooperate with Nature.

A few more projects are expected to be completed in 2014 - 16; however, several other announced projectes have since been cancelled or suspended because of a number of challenges such as environmental impacts on desert wildlife and water resources, cost - competitiveness, and delays in transmission development.

In fact, since the RFS expanded renewable fuel volumes in 2007, over 1/3 of corn production and nearly 1/4 of the oil produced from soybeans have been diverted to biofuels.1 As the EPA points out, «because many biofuel feedstocks require land, water, and other resources, research suggests that biofuel production may give rise to several undesirable effects.»

The whalers shifted from Cape Cod to the Arctic because «just as in 2010 the oil - well drillers were in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico rather than up on shore, the easy - to - get resource had been exhausted.»

For example, as long as the rise in global average temperature stays below 3 degrees Celsius, some models predict that global food production could increase because of the longer growing season at mid - to high - latitudes, provided adequate water resources are available.

«I will continue to support their efforts because green roofs help improve the quality of our region's critical water resources, particularly by reducing stormwater runoff in highly urbanized areas.»

This is because plants in arid regions already use water more judiciously than in other areas, but increasing CO2 levels also drives them to use scarce water resources more efficiently as well.

Although water scarcity will increase, the Southwest will also see increased frequency and altered timing of flooding because of increased intensity of rainfalls when they do occur, leading to increased risks to people, natural resources, and infrastructure.

Alertnet: Malnutrition is worsening in developing countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and India because of the impacts of climate change — particularly on water resources, a key input for producing food for more than a billion people in the region.

Corp of Engineers has had to spill excess water so that the local PUD's could meet the alternative energy quota and buy wind, wasting an abundantly available and cheap resource, because somehow the Obama administration doesn't consider Hydro as alternative / clean energy.

Because wind, solar and water resources are free, there are no fuel costs to these renewables.

«Temperature control is just starting to get traction as a climate change adaptation idea — largely because it has momentum as a strategy for dealing with threatened or endangered salmonids below dams,» says David Purkey, U.S. Water Resources Group Leader at the Stockholm Environment Institute in Davis, Calif..

In addition, from an impacts standpoint, droughts have a much broader range of impacts on human activities today than in the past because of today's greater demands on limited water resources.

That's because of its association with land and water resource concerns, waste toxicity and food crop competition.

Saskatchewan farmers and rural governments have always been stewards of the province's natural resources, because they know that protecting the long - term health of the land, water and air not only assures their economic future, but also sustains the rural landscape for generations to come.

We know the climate is changing because of human emissions of greenhouse gases and we know our water resources are especially vulnerable.

With the exception of salmon, they also tend to have the worst environmental impacts, because producing them requires the most resources - mainly chemical fertilizer, feed, fuel, pesticides and water - and pound for pound, they generate more polluting manure.

It will be interesting (and sad) to see when fossil fuels no longer have the value they do today (because of their unintended damage to the earth's climate), and when at the same time they turn out to be the cause of Texas» downfall as a wealthy and powerful state, i.e. when unrelenting water resource issues (and here and here) drive half the population away, and leave the state a shell of its once arrogant self.

Because much of the cost will be realized after the emissions occur, the funds would have to be invested in order to produce resources in the future to compensate or make the best of conditions then; this can be investment in infrastructure (aquaducts and flood water management planning) and such things as R&D for drought / flood resistant crops, efforts to save ecosystems (those parts that will survive the climate change, or otherwise planting trees, etc, where they will do well in the future, or otherwise reducing other stresses so that ecosystems will be more resilient to climate change)(remember that ecosystems provide us with ecosystem services), etc, and / or investment in the economy in general so that more resources will be available in the future to compensate for losses and pay for adaptation.

Professor Reif wrote, «As the Pentagon describes it, climate change is a «threat multiplier» because its direct effects intensify other challenges, including mass migrations and zero - sum conflicts over existential resources like water and food.»

The change in the number of people under high water stress after the 2050s greatly depends on emissions scenario: substantial increase is projected for the A2 scenario; the speed of increase will be slower for the A1 and B1 emissions scenarios because of the global increase of renewable freshwater resources and the slight decrease in population (Oki and Kanae, 2006).