Sentences with phrase «fresh water production»

Water + Energy > Fresh Water Production Creating new freshwater sources using renewably powered wastewater treatment and desalinisation offer a crucial opportunity to meet the demand for fresh water while providing new and essential markets for clean energy.

One of them was fresh water production as a new sustainable market opportunity.

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Headquartered in Bodrum, Turkey, Kiliç Deniz is the largest aquaculture company in the Mediterranean region, specializing in sea water (sea bream, sea bass, and blue - fin tuna) and fresh water (trout) fish production.

Organic cotton produced in 2013/14 saved the equivalent of nearly 95,000 Olympic - sized swimming pools of fresh water compared to non-organic production.

In order to get from farm to fork, pigs require fresh water for things like feed, drinking and processing during the final stages of production.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

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The consequences of global warming may be lower food production, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, worse weather conditions and poor access to fresh water.

More fresh water in the surface water layers makes it harder for the nutrient - rich bottom water to rise to the upper layers where the sunlight ensures the production of plankton algae in summer.

Greenland's ice sheet melts and sends large amounts of fresh water into the coastal waters, where it is of major importance for local production but potentially also for global ocean currents.

From the ocean, the fresh water flows into the Greenland fjords where is influence local circulation with impacts on the production and ecosystem structure.

Instead, the report focuses on problems that are likely to disproportionately hit developing countries: coastal inundation from rising sea levels, plummeting food production and associated malnutrition, unprecedented heat waves, increasing fresh water scarcity, more frequent and intense tropical cyclones, and the loss of biodiversity.

A new study shows how huge influxes of fresh water into the North Atlantic Ocean from icebergs calving off North America during the last ice age had an unexpected effect — they increased the production of methane in the tropical wetlands.

In many countries the production of food and other agricultural commodities accounts for over 80 % of fresh water use.

Although I think I already know the answer to this question, I will ask it anyway as I am concerned about a fad in my community in Costa Rica where people have obtained low production sugar cane presses to obtain the water, glucose / fructose, minerals etc. from fresh cut cane sugar and drinking it with purported health benefits.

Low levels of the vitamin have been linked with decreased testosterone production in males, so it may be wise to regularly consume Vitamin D rich foods such mushrooms and fresh water fish.

In an effort to adapt the solar still for more efficient production of fresh water, the United States Government has underwritten the cost of a new «multiple - effect» still installed at Puerto Penasco, Mexico, on the Gulf of California.

Similar to 6, 7, and 9 above, «We recognize that climate change, left unaddressed, is expected to threaten food production from land and sea, to limit fresh water availability, to cause more severe weather including cyclones, droughts and floods, to increase life - threatening illnesses, to endanger biodiversity» and so on.

Cities require extensive farmland, food transportation systems, extensive energy production, fresh water systems that affect the land surrounding the city for thousands of square miles, and intense waste management.

According to a River Network report in June, electricity production by coal, nuclear and natural gas power plants is the fastest - growing use of freshwater in the U.S., accounting for more than half of all fresh, surface water withdrawals from rivers.

We can take the examples of food production or fresh water or energy production.

Research on specific cities and products yield data like the following: in Hanoi, 80 % of fresh vegetables, 50 % of pork, poultry and fresh water fish, as well as 40 % of eggs, originate from urban and peri-urban areas (Nguyen Tien Dinh, 2000); in the urban and peri-urban area of Shanghai, 60 % of the city's vegetables, 100 % of the milk, 90 % of the eggs, and 50 % of the pork and poultry meat is produced (Cai Yi - Zhang and Zhang Zhangen in Bakker et al. 2000); in Java, home gardens provide for 18 % of caloric consumption and 14 % of proteins of the urban population (Ning Purnomohadi 2000); Dakar produces 60 % of the national vegetable consumption whilst urban poultry production amounts to 65 % of the national demand (Mbaye and Moustier 1999).

The production of biofuels requires staggering amounts of fresh water, several times more than fossil - fuel energy production.

The amount of fresh water consumed for world energy production is on track to double within the next 25 years, the International Energy Agency (IEA) projects.

In contrast, if regional shortages of fresh water develop due to biofuel production, water refugees and water conflict will most definitely occur.

• Even without major change in atmospheric and oceanic circulation, local shifts in centers of production and mixes of species in marine and fresh waters are expected as ecosystems are displaced geographically and changed internally.

rooflite intensive ag contains a perfect balance of micro and macro nutrients, as well as the critical water - holding capacities that are a necessity for the production of fresh and healthy fruits, vegetables and herbs in an urban setting.

She added that shipping in fresh water would raise the cost of production and make the company less competitive in a market where organic foods are already more expensive.

Globally we have already passed peaks or are soon to be facing them in copper, phosphorous, fish catches, grain production, per capita fresh water and uranium to name but a few.

Sapphire Energy has not provided many details publicly about its technology except to say that it doesn't need fresh water to grow the algae and that it has assembled a team with expertise in cell biology, plant genomics, and algal production.

Depleting fossil fuel reserves, depleting mineral reserves, widespread devastation of eco systems, depletion of biodiversity, acidification of oceans, dwindling fresh water resources, food production to food demand ratio becoming more acute, and of course the primary driver for all of the above continued increase in the world's population.

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