Sentences with phrase «demands for water»

The Alberta WaterPortal, through sponsorship from the Alberta Real Estate Foundation, Enbridge, and Veolia, developed case studies, an interactive simulation, and Sankey diagram for users to explore the implications of the convergence of demands for water in the Bow River Basin.

The Dialogue recognises how the close interaction between water, energy and food — the nexus — has led to new demands for water infrastructure and technology solutions.

Whatever the complaint, all of these water - use systems are in place now, all with demands for water.

Today's demands for water are such that there is little left of the river when it eventually empties into the Mediterranean.

This page provides an in - depth case study into the competing demands for water in the Ica Valley Basin in Peru.

At the dawn of the 21 st century, with unprecedented population growth and its ensuing competing demands for water, arable land, housing, education, and economic development, spatial analysis has become more critical.

Furthermore, although many parts of the world enjoy economic growth and better well - being, with these gains come greater demands for water and more pollution.

Across the United States, the team found that water supplies are already stressed (i.e., demands for water outstrip natural supplies) in 193 of the 2,103 watersheds examined.

In predicting how climate will affect irrigated crop yields in the future, the researchers also consider factors such as population and economic growth, as well as competing demands for water from various socioeconomic sectors, which are themselves projected to change as the climate warms.

«Because the demands for water usage in the U.S. are going to change in the next 5 years, it is likely that toilets will be required to use less water than they use now,» McHale says.

Extended dry conditions commonly result in high demands for water resources both for agriculture and the environment, whilst a series of wet years or successful watering events typically result in lower demands.

With climate change, growing populations, and rising affluence, the demand for water is likely to grow substantially in the years ahead.

When exercising, the body increases its demand for water due to the increased demands of work in addition to losing water through sweat.

But global demand for water has grown sixfold over the past century.

I am working on watershed protection in Kenya through my nonprofit Rooted in Hope, so I understand firsthand that Pedro's work can potentially change the lives of millions, as the demand for water continues to increase.

The company started in 1985 serving clients in Canada and the United States but very quickly gravitated to the developing countries where the demand for water infrastructure was greatest.

«Although our territory was n`t directly damaged, there was a huge demand for water in the Southeast,» Frankenberg recalls.

«By all accounts, conditions for a sale of temporary water allocations in the Gwydir are favourable, with strong demand for water and high prices paid for other recent sales.

He said there was also an ever increasing demand for water for horticulture around Swan Hill, which authorities would be unable to supply.

Record rainfall and growing concern over the politics of the Murray Darling Basin have not been enough to dent the values and demand for water entitlements in Australia's booming farming regions such as the Murrumbidgee.

All across California the demand for water used in agriculture and fire protection has increased tenfold, to -LSB-...]

According to him, Indeed, within an ever increasing population and a drive to self - sufficiency in food production, the demand for water supply and sanitation service will continue to increase thereby requiring an innovative and holistic approach towards closing the access gaps.

A spokesperson said: «Our experience is that sharing waters are more commonly a point of cooperation rather than conflict and we will continue to work in this area given the increasing demand for water.»

Potanovic says he hopes the money from the rate increase goes toward reducing demand for water and conservation measures.

Increased temperatures trigger more evaporation from reservoirs, and accelerate water loss from soils needed for agricultural production — all factors that boost demand for water, he added.

Even without a proper accounting of overlapping water supplies, the plan warned that demand for water could «outstrip existing supplies» by 2035 unless the state pursued dramatic solutions like desalinating and piping in ocean water or artificially seeding clouds to make it rain.

Demand for water outstrips supply; the stretch of the Jordan river I saw was empty.

In six charts presented in the document, there is no scenario the Water Authority could conceive in which demand for water does not significantly outstrip the current supply, unless it completes the pipeline and begins to harvest water from other parts of the state.

Without policies to allocate finite supplies of water more efficiently, control the burgeoning demand for water and reduce wastage, water stress will intensify where water is already scarce and spread to regions of the world — with impacts on economic growth and the development of water - stressed nations.»

Given the large number of water users, the growing demand for water resources, the variety of stakeholders involved and the increasing intensity of climate change impacts, collective action and shared solutions are needed to alleviate the pressure on the environment, business and communities.

At the height of summer, its demand for water exceeds 200 million litres per day, more than twice the off - season average.

When the projections for declining oil production are overlaid with the increasing demand for water, the risks become severe.

So there's this idea of peak demand for water, like we are familiar with peak demand for electricity at certain times and lower demand at certain times where we can level those things out to make the whole system more efficient.

In the Andes, these problems are exacerbated by demand for water for irrigation.

Even if the Southern Nevada Water Authority meets its 20 percent conservation target by 2035, in that time the demand for water will still grow to the point where there will be essentially no surplus available in case of drought or other spikes in water use, Ahmad reported.

Wind power reduces demand for water — heavily used by conventional generators — and that protects a resource particularly threatened in the Southwest.

Nearly one in 10 U.S. watersheds is «stressed,» with demand for water exceeding natural supply, according to a new analysis of surface water in the United States.

Nearly one in 10 U.S. watersheds is «stressed,» with demand for water exceeding natural supply, according to a new, CIRES - led analysis of surface water in the United States.

With world population expected to increase as much as 50 percent over the next half century, analysts are indeed worried that increasing demand for water, coupled with industrialization and urbanization, will have serious consequences both for human health and the environment.

«The key for Los Angeles to potentially reach water independence would be to simultaneously increase local water supply while bringing down local demand for water,» said Katie Mika, a postdoctoral scholar at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and one of the study's lead researchers.

««The arid lands of southwestern North America will imminently become even more arid as a result of human - induced climate change just at the time that population growth is increasing demand for water, most of which is still used by agriculture,» said Richard Seager, Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and one of the lead authors of the study.

The growing global demand for food and bio-energy, and the recent rises in food prices, slow down progress in reducing poverty, but increase demand for water from the agriculture and energy sectors.

Demand for water remains high, particularly in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

While the demand for water is growing, revenues and profits from water demand does not come without serious investment on the behalf of a water utility.

The demand for water and electricity is growing.

Realizing the demand for a water taxi service, the directors of 3 Stars Tour Ltd decided to supplement the tender company by investing in vessels for a local water taxi.

However, the demand for water for residential purposes is rising exponentially as America's population increases.

The demand for water in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan already exceeds the flow of the two rivers by 25 percent.

Population shifts, increased competition and demand for water has increased, so that's made this drought worse than it might have been.»

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.