Sentences with phrase «depletion of water supplies»

And while there is some evidence that fracking has contributed to the depletion of water supplies in drought - stricken Texas, a study by Carnegie Mellon University indicates the Marcellus region has plenty of water and, in most cases, an adequate system to regulate its usage.

Not exact matches

This project is critical to the future of Baghdad's oil industry as it will supply well injection water to six fields in southern Iraq to boost yields and slow depletion.

Irena Wosk, the Coordinator of the CII - CIDA partnership on environmental technologies, said that for South India, the focus was on water supply: the depletion of aquifers and contamination of groundwater are the major issues.

Moreover, the transformation of farming into an agribusiness has brought with it a host of environmental problems, including ground water depletion and contamination, soil toxification, and contamination of food supplies.

unlike myself, someone who would truly like to mitigate the damaging effects of overpopulation (and air pollution, and fishery depletion, and diminution of the fresh water supply), it's important to understand that there are powerful interests:

Augment the Renewable Energy Guidelines by, for instance, requiring wind energy developers to comply with more rigorous criteria including scientific research on setback allowances, noise, wind velocity, human health issues, property values, agricultural animal productivity and welfare, air traffic flight paths (commercial passenger and cargo plus light aircraft including air ambulance), environmental and ecological impact, health and safety issues for domestic animals, longterm adverse effect of cement pedestals on ground water, depletion of finite local aggregate supply and induced seismic activity on faults.

And now, right on cue, comes this article from Isabel Hilton on Guardian Environment http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/jan/20/real-scandal-himalayas in which she states, among other things, that: «Kyrgyzstan, scientists predict, will lose 80 % of its water supply» [from glacier depletion] which provokes the following comment from the excellent MrEugenides: «This figure comes from an article Isabel herself wrote on 6 October 2009, quoting a local bureaucrat as saying that water supplies were under pressure from a variety of factors from river diversion and increased water usage to climate change.