Sentences with phrase «further decreased water»

The study notes that a 99 % population increase since 1950 combined with a 127 % increase in water use has further decreased water availability, making it increasingly difficult to replenish water supplies after a drought.

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Further, the floating bay ice decreased, allowing easier flow from the ice sheet into the water.

But the balance between DVMs and the limited deep - water oxygen supply could be easily upset, Bianchi said — particularly by climate change, which is predicted to further decrease levels of oxygen in the ocean.

Similarly, maize grown in Utah, now only yielding 40 percent of the optimal expected yield, will decrease to 10 percent with further climate - driven water deficits.

Both the area of water covered by sea ice and the thickness of the ice have been decreasing in recent years, and thinner ice is blown farther and faster by the wind.

Our spatial analysis further highlighted that some parts of the estuary were more vulnerable to decreased water quality.

As revealed by Schools Week yesterday, the proportion of new schools being built with fire - preventing sprinklers has halved to just 35 per cent since 2010, a figure that could decrease even further if this watered down version goes ahead.

The decrease in net income was due to higher raw materials, marketing and selling costs, along with the company's decision to transition its focus away from groundwater pumping equipment to surface water pumping equipment, which further increased costs.

Re 9 wili — I know of a paper suggesting, as I recall, that enhanced «backradiation» (downward radiation reaching the surface emitted by the air / clouds) contributed more to Arctic amplification specifically in the cold part of the year (just to be clear, backradiation should generally increase with any warming (aside from greenhouse feedbacks) and more so with a warming due to an increase in the greenhouse effect (including feedbacks like water vapor and, if positive, clouds, though regional changes in water vapor and clouds can go against the global trend); otherwise it was always my understanding that the albedo feedback was key (while sea ice decreases so far have been more a summer phenomenon (when it would be warmer to begin with), the heat capacity of the sea prevents much temperature response, but there is a greater build up of heat from the albedo feedback, and this is released in the cold part of the year when ice forms later or would have formed or would have been thicker; the seasonal effect of reduced winter snow cover decreasing at those latitudes which still recieve sunlight in the winter would not be so delayed).

With climate change leading to further decreases in already scarce resources like arable land and water, poor populations are going to be pushed further to, or even over, the edge.

Accordingly, upwelling of waters acidified by anthropogenic CO2 has led to a further decrease in surface pH, as reported in the eastern Pacific Ocean along the west coast of North America, from central Canada to northern Mexico, where shoaling of the layer of seawater undersaturated with aragonite increased the frequency and magnitude of coastal acidification associated with upwelling events (Feely et al. 2008, 2010).

(Both cause plant cover to decrease which causes soil moisture decreases often making storms less frequent, less regular, less predictable and more intense, further decreasing plant cover, reducing or killing crops, eroding soil (leading to decreased fertility, water pollution, etc.) and spiraling down into desertification and the creation of wasteland from what had been a fertile, verdant landscape.

Water metering (at a cost of $ 1.8 million) was far cheaper than building new infrastructure to meet «business as usual» demand, because it would decrease water consumption by 30 per Water metering (at a cost of $ 1.8 million) was far cheaper than building new infrastructure to meet «business as usual» demand, because it would decrease water consumption by 30 per water consumption by 30 per cent.

Renewable energy sources, such as photovoltaic electricity and water heating systems, further decrease the overall energy consumption within the home.