Sentences with phrase «destruction of water resources»

I was in the audience at the Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum and raised both the baby milk issue and Nestlé's destruction of water resources in Brazil under his watch.

Nestlé, which has been designated as the «Least Ethical Company» globally, is infamous for practices including destruction of water resources; aggressive marketing of infant formula and other baby foods in violation of the World Health Organization's International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes and subsequent WHA resolutions; trade union busting and infiltrating public interest organizations critical of Nestlé's predatory practices.

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).

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Our food, shelter, clothing, access to clean air and clean water, and personal safety and security are all totally dependent on our natural resources and they are all in danger of irreparable destruction.

So, we don't have time to sit and slowly change things, and the only way to reduce consumption and atmospheric carbon in ways that do it fast enough to limit SLR to 10 ft. or so, avoid destruction of global potable water resources, and create equity and justice within a new, sustainable paradigm is rapid simplification.

Instead of focusing on the nearly immeasurable moment when a species ceases to exist, he and other biologists say, science should focus harder on the forces that lead toward extinction — the destruction or fragmentation of habitat, the introduction of invasive species, the appropriation of water or other vital resources.

The widespread scarcity, gradual destruction and aggravated pollution of freshwater resources in many world regions, along with the progressive encroachment of incompatible activities, demand integrated water resources planning and management.

The worst result from this environmental destruction was the ethnic clashes witnessed recently between the pastoral Maasai and the farming Kikuyu over use of the dwindling water resources at the base of the escarpment.

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) reported that «it is more appropriately dubbed the «R.I.P. Act,» as it would kill a nearly - complete public rulemaking process to restore Clean Water Act safeguards against pollution and destruction for a majority of the nation's waterways.»

Growing and processing sugar is the first step of making rum — and it's also one of the most environmentally destructive — resulting in soil degradation and erosion, the overuse and pollution of local water resources, the spread of pesticides and fertilizers, emissions of greenhouse gases, and habitat destruction.