Sentences with phrase «falling water tables»

You only have to look at falling water tables in India and China, the pollution of Yellow and Ganges rivers, the price of oil and grain, plummeting tuna stock and the vanishing forests of the Amazon, to see that obvious truth.

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With falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures making it difficult to feed growing populations, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security.

In the Punjab, with its extensive double cropping of wheat and rice, fast - falling water tables led the state farmers» commission in 2007 to recommend a delay in transplanting rice from May to late June or early July.

While falling water tables are largely hidden, rivers that run dry or are reduced to a trickle before reaching the sea are highly visible.

With food scarcity driven by falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security.

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Among the other environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.

Many of the stresses, including expanding deserts and increasingly frequent dust storms, rising temperature, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, melting glaciers, and rising seas directly affect the food prospect.

Producing enough grain to make it to the next harvest has tested farmers ever since agriculture began, but the challenge is deepening as new trends — falling water tables, plateauing grain yields, and rising temperatures — make it difficult to expand production fast enough.

Prominent among these are falling water tables, the growing conversion of cropland to nonfarm uses, and more extreme climate events, including crop - withering heat waves, droughts, and floods.

In that first and subsequent two editions Brown does a commendable job of spelling out and interconnecting all the stresses on the Earth - eroding soils, falling water tables, rising temperatures, poverty and population pressures.

These trends include — in addition to falling water tables — eroding soils and rising temperatures from increasing greenhouse gas emissions.

In Tamil Nadu, a state with more than 62 million people in southern India, wells are going dry almost everywhere and falling water tables have dried up 95 percent of the wells owned by small farmers, reducing the irrigated area in the state by half over the last decade.

«Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas, and increasingly destructive storms,» says Brown, President and Founder of the Earth Policy Institute, a Washington, D.C. - based independent environmental research organization.