Sentences with phrase «future availability of water»

Not exact matches

It is important to capitalise on good storage volumes and environmental water availability in wetter years in order to build ecological resilience — the ability of river, wetland and floodplain ecosystems to withstand and recover from the impact of future droughts.

This decision has been made following an analysis of the availability of environmental water to meet current and future environmental needs in the Gwydir catchment.

This challenge is significant when viewed through the context of future land, water, energy and nutrient availability; water quality concerns; policy barriers; and a general decline in the research investment that drives productivity.

The agenda must address universal health - care coverage, access and affordability; end preventable maternal, new - born and child deaths and malnutrition ensure the protection, promotion and support of exclusive breastfeeding for six months and continued breastfeeding with adequate complementary feeding for 2 years and beyond ensure the availability of essential medicines; realize women's reproductive health and rights; ensure immunization coverage; eradicate malaria and realize the vision of a future free of AIDS and tuberculosis; reduce the burden of non-communicable diseases, including mental illness, nervous system injuries and road accidents; and promote healthy behaviours, including those related to breastfeeding, water, sanitation and hygiene.

The discoveries of these proteins and genes have the potential to address a wide range of critical agricultural problems in the future, including the limited availability of water for crops, the need to increase water use efficiency in lawns as well as crops and concerns among farmers about the impact heat stress will have in their crops as global temperatures and CO2 levels continue to rise.

Other high - risk hot spots include Mexico, northeast Brazil, southern Africa and West Africa, assessed by indicators like future water availability, number of days above 30 degrees Celsius, length of the growing period, reliable growing days and high or low rainfall.

The paleoclimate data, which included mainly changes in the oxygen isotopes of the calcium carbonate deposits, were then compared to similar records from other caves, ice cores, and sediment records as well as model predictions for water availability in the Middle East and west central Asia today and into the future.

IPCC AR4 WG1 SPM says (under «Fresh water resources and their management» of «C. Current knowledge about future impacts») In the course of the century, water suppries stored in glaciers and snow cover are projected to decline, reducing water availability in regions supplied by meltwater from major mountain ranges, where more than one - sixth of the world population currently lives.

The solution to a sustainable future will always be walking a tightrope between a need for population control & free markets until geothermal strategies for base load power transplants fossil fuels and indeed until better water availability and a host of other finite resources become magically available.

- our almost - total inability as a species to calculate said risks, and what that deficiency means for the rest of the list - ocean degradation and ecosystem collapse, i.e. losing the things that we rely on, as well as causing irrevocable harm to a world we can't just create anew - rising GHG levels - water quality and availability across the globe - ensuring our communications networks are sustainable, which probably falls under the wider umbrella of energy - the fact that we are still unable to provide basic food, shelter, medicine and education to billions as it is, without the additional stresses of what the future may bring

«There has been growing concern that switching land use to rubber cultivation can negatively impact the soil, water availability, biodiversity, and even people's livelihoods,» she says, «But this is the first review of the effects on biodiversity and endangered species, and to estimate the future scale of the problem in terms of land area.»

This announcement mark the first large - scale commercial effort to develop CSP in China, something that has been on somewhat of a slow track for two main reasons; (1) Limits of water availability: How eSolar and its Chinese partners deal with the issue of the water - energy nexus (I precisely highlighted concentrated solar thermal as a technology that would run up to limits of water availability in a previous post, «Charting China's Water Future: Closing China's water availbility gap results in $ 21 billion in net savings «-RRB- since t Read the full water availability: How eSolar and its Chinese partners deal with the issue of the water - energy nexus (I precisely highlighted concentrated solar thermal as a technology that would run up to limits of water availability in a previous post, «Charting China's Water Future: Closing China's water availbility gap results in $ 21 billion in net savings «-RRB- since t Read the full water - energy nexus (I precisely highlighted concentrated solar thermal as a technology that would run up to limits of water availability in a previous post, «Charting China's Water Future: Closing China's water availbility gap results in $ 21 billion in net savings «-RRB- since t Read the full water availability in a previous post, «Charting China's Water Future: Closing China's water availbility gap results in $ 21 billion in net savings «-RRB- since t Read the full Water Future: Closing China's water availbility gap results in $ 21 billion in net savings «-RRB- since t Read the full water availbility gap results in $ 21 billion in net savings «-RRB- since t Read the full story

Overall, there is low confidence in the projections of specifically how climate change will impact future precipitation on a subregional scale, and thus in projections of how climate change might impact the availability of water resources.

Engineering hydrologists design structures to cope with future uncertainty (e.g. reservoirs) of water availability and water related risks.

This has implications for the reliability of future climate projections and impact assessments, including water availability for hydropower generation, the length of the malaria transmission season, and future crop yields.

Our current approach to water management doesn't adequately integrate climate change projections into estimates of future water supply or designs for new water infrastructure, yet climate change will have a bigger impact on water availability than any single El Niño or La Niña cycle.

A first in Alberta, the Alberta Nexus Project analysed strategic plans as well as existing watershed and industry data within the Bow River Basin to create an interactive simulation that shows the influence of future water demand on overall water management and availability on a regional basis.