Sentences with phrase «freshwater availability»

Future changes in freshwater availability are a major concern in the context of climate change regardless of whether one lives in the middle of an enormous continent or on a tiny island.

Future changes in freshwater availability are likely to affect sustainable development across the world.

In addition, sea - level rise is projected to extend areas of salinisation of groundwater and estuaries, resulting in a decrease of freshwater availability for humans and ecosystems in coastal areas.

Mountain glaciers are receding rapidly all around the world [26]--[29] with effects on seasonal freshwater availability of major rivers [30]--[32].

Sea - level rise will extend areas of salinisation of groundwater and estuaries, resulting in a decrease in freshwater availability for humans and ecosystems in coastal areas (very high confidence)[3.2, 3.4.2].

By 2050, India is predicted to become a water - scarce country, at which point freshwater availability would fall below 1,000 cubic meters per person per year, and would begin to hamper economic development, public health, and general human well - being.

The dispersal of human populations out of Africa into Arabia was most likely linked to episodes of climatic amelioration, when increased monsoon rainfall led to the activation of drainage systems, improved freshwater availability, and the development of regional vegetation.

This time, «there is low confidence in future precipitation projections at a subregional level and thus in future freshwater availability in most parts of Asia.»

The per capita renewable internal freshwater availabilities range from over 2000 cubic meters per capita in South Sudan to less than 100 cubic meters per capita in Sudan (World Bank, 2015).

The East Coast isn't the only part of the United States that is facing freshwater availability issues.

The same basic divisions — said in hundreds of different ways in dozens of meeting rooms in the Peruvian capital — have stalled any significant move to combat climate change, though it is already affecting farm output worldwide; adding to uncertainty over freshwater availability; hastening glacier melt; raising sea levels; and making storms, floods and droughts more frequent and more severe.

«Our work will certainly sound the alarm about the possible effects of climate change on shifting patterns of freshwater availability, as well as the potential for modulating future rates of sea level rise by managing the amount of freshwater stored on land.»

Mountain glaciers are receding rapidly all around the world [26]--[29] with effects on seasonal freshwater availability of major rivers [30]--[32].

The research, which the US military helped pay for, found wave - driven overwash could devastate infrastructure and contaminate the «freshwater availability» on these islands with saltwater.

For instance, the IPCC concluded that by 2050, «freshwater availability in central, south, east and south - east Asia, particularly in large river basins, is projected to decrease».

Precipitation projections, for example, are important for many impacts studies — of freshwater availability, agricultural production, and development of water - hungry industries — but global climate models differ wildly on precipitation in African locales.