Sentences with phrase «global drinking water supplies»

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Now a thriving local startup, Pipeguard, which was founded by a small team of MIT students, could keep as much as 20 percent of the world's drinking water supply from getting lost — and prevent global crises like the catastrophic water shortage in South Africa.

The researchers focused their global simulations on the U. S. and modeled the country's evolving economic activities in different geographic regions to determine the water requirements for five main sectors: thermoelectric cooling; public supply, such as for drinking water and other public utilities; industrial demand; mining; and irrigation.

Global urbanization poses new water - related challenges — chief among them supplying clean drinking water, disposing of wastewater, and managing extreme precipitation.

In Mongolia, U.S. scientists are studying climate clues in ancient tree rings to help answer a crucial question: How will global warming affect Asia's monsoon rains, which supply water for agriculture and drinking to half the world's population?

Which forms the basis for the IPCC claim of high climate sensitivity (mean value of 3.2 C), resulting in significant global warming (up to 6.4 C warming by 2100), «extreme high sea levels», increased «heat waves», increased «heavy rains» and floods, increased «droughts», increased «intense tropical cyclones» — which, in turn, lead to crop failures, disappearance of glaciers now supplying drinking water to millions, increased vector borne diseases, etc. (for short, potentially catastrophic AGW — or «CAGW»).

The melting of glaciers will affect people around the world, their drinking water supplies, water needed to grow food and supply energy, as well as global sea levels.

The Delaware estuary is unfortunately a perfect example of how higher sea levels due to warmer global temperatures will endanger water supplies for millions of people — around 15 million in this particular area.According to Blue Living Ideas, the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary has completed a study on the impacts higher sea levels will have on drinking water, as well as tidal wetlands and shellfish.