Sentences with phrase «does water scarcity»

At what point does water scarcity translate into food scarcity?

Not exact matches

The report doesn't predict when or where the water scarcity will become an issue.

Do you live in a small town or city where there is scarcity of usable water?

What did the revolts brought to the people in those countries any thing other than continuos unending revolts and demonstrations scarcity of essential commodities and products adding to the sky high prices... While other essential needs such as electricity power supply, water, gas, diesel, petrol are being used as a pressure tool by the opposition or the ruling party to keep people mad on the streets rather than going home seeing to their daily living making and minding their own businesses... but what business will continue with such chaos and disorder...?

A report from the Lords science and technology committee warns the # 22 billion sustainable communities plan, which will see new homes built in four main areas, did not take the issue of water scarcity into consideration early enough.

The good news is though that I think he does feel that it is still possible to take some kinds of actions to respond to problems of climate change, to do a better job of trying to conserve top soil, to try to address the problems of water scarcity all over the world and so forth; that we can actually head off a lot of these problems.

«Importing water - intensive goods from one water - scarce region to another doesn't solve the problem of water scarcity — it just shifts the pressure to other regions,» says co-author Klaus Hubacek, a researcher at the University of Maryland and an alumnus of the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program.

This LIFE project is demonstrating that it can be done, by helping five municipalities in the Basque region to increase their resilience to heat waves and water scarcity.

Scarcity and quality of water present cause for concern, but saving water doesn't seem to excite like saving energy does.

I took the briefest of looks at the 8 - page summary, and did notice some mention of climate change; sounded like the report's authors were primarily concerned about it exacerbating water scarcity.

One thing Kerry's warning didn't highlight was an equally damning absence, alongside those scarcities of water or food: the absence of smart policymaking across the board.

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.

This book tackles an increasingly crucial question: What can we do about the seemingly intractable challenges confronting all of humanity today, including climate change, global hunger, water scarcity, environmental stress and economic instability?

Unlike natural gas plants, small renewable projects do not have devastating environmental and climate impacts that aggravate food and water scarcity and desertification, issues with which much of sub-Saharan Africa already struggles.

The U.N. population projections do not consider how the environmental problems we create, such as water scarcity and climate change, may limit our ability to grow.

Fixing water scarcity could do the same.

In the UN's definition, water scarcity does not mean only drought.

Idso did not mention how rising temperatures and growing water scarcity might affect plant growth under climate change.