Sentences with phrase «global water»

Its cultivation spread rapidly during the industrial revolution and it is now responsible for a large part of global water pollution in rivers and coastal areas.

The results are pictures of global water vapor distributions and their changes.

It seeks a more distinctive contribution to global water challenges by forming alternative approaches to emerging issues.

Wheat, for example, accounts for 12 % of global water use for agricultural production!

With their common interest in global water scarcity, they enthusiastically decide to collaborate.

But not everyone agrees large - scale investment and industrial farming is the way to improve global water and food capacity.

Looking at the spatial and temporal distribution of global water availability and demand.

Finally, the researchers investigated whether Chinese food trade leads to global water savings.

The findings would be best ignored, except they are the only peer - reviewed global water grab assessment in existence and are already being quoted.

The energy sector already accounts for approximately 15 % of global water use.

As emissions from human activities increase atmospheric carbon dioxide, they, in turn, are modifying the chemical structure of global waters, making them more acidic.

DOE's Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) project is focused on how global water cycles, water resources, biogeochemical cycles, and rapidly changing ice or snow interact with climate systems and climate change.

These examples underscore the many options available to alleviate a growing global water crisis exacerbated by climate change, water experts said yesterday at forum in Washington, D.C., sponsored by Growing Blue, a group created by Veolia Water in consultation with the United Nations, Columbia University and water conservation groups.

Globally proven aerobic water quality and green energy technologies are also proving to be profitable, easily maintained and cost effective (with Global Water Engineering technologies, for example, proven in more than 400 projects worldwide).

A Global Water Partnership (GWP) and International Water Management Institute (IWMI) Workshop, 23 - 25 February 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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Consideration of direct human impacts on global water supply remains a poorly articulated but potentially important facet of the larger global change question.

CST Wastewater Solutions is partnering with Global Water Engineering (GWE) to deliver and install an extended wastewater treatment system for Pacific Beverages» new Bluetongue brewery in New South Wales, Australia.

Numerical experiments combining climate model outputs, water budgets, and socioeconomic information along digitized river networks demonstrate that (i) a large proportion of the world's population is currently experiencing water stress and (ii) rising water demands greatly outweigh greenhouse warming in defining the state of global water systems to 2025.

The researchers assessed the impact of diet change on global water resources over four scenarios, where the meat consumption was gradually reduced while diet recommendations in terms of energy supply, proteins and fat were followed.

«We are extremely proud of our Cabazon factory for becoming the first and only facility in North America to achieve AWS Gold certification, and to now have all five of our California facilities certified to the most rigorous global water stewardship standard in the world — this is an exceptional validation of our commitment to water and community stewardship,» said Nelson Switzer, Chief Sustainability Officer at Nestlé Waters North America.

Alliance for Global Water Adaptation Dr. John Matthews Secretariat Coordinator Water TWG Lead Specialist

Xylem (XYL) is a leading global water technology company committed to developing innovative technology solutions to the world's water challenges.

Conditions in its subsurface global water ocean are thought to be similar to those deep in Earth's oceans, where a wide variety of life thrives.

They have during the DNV GL Summer Project conceived a concept which makes a case for wave - powered desalination to help address global water scarcity challenges.

Although many researchers support Ridoutt's work, others say we don't yet know enough about global water cycles to accurately measure environmental impact.

The increasing competition for water, the dwindling supply, pollution, and the effects of climate change are examined in Running Dry: The Global Water Crisis, by Stuart A. Kallen.

This has been clearly demonstrated by partners Global Water Engineering, a world leader in clean water and green energy solutions, and CST Wastewater Solutions, a leading wastewater solution group which also employs GWE technology on major projects.

The folks over at Global Water Challenge have issued a new paper outlining the problem: Globally each day more than 300 million children — that's equivalent to the entire population of the United States — attend schools without adequate access to safe drinking water or good toilet facilities.

We must do more than just «more of the same» if we are going to truly address global water problems.»

Two digesters were installed in 1989, while a third digester from Global Water Engineering (GWE) was added in 1996 to cope with increasing production volumes at the plant.

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The CommunityWater Model (CWATM) / Development of a community driven global water model.

Thus, scientists fear that warming of global water temperatures could destabilize gas hydrates on a large scale.

So far on these comments no one has found any arguments or another side indicating that organic wastes are some minor player in global water pollution and attendant health problems so we do not need to be worrying about them burying us.

Community Water Model CWATM Development of a community driven global water model.

«Through our representation of market leading partners such as Global Water Engineering (GWE), we will further the trend toward smaller environmental footprints and conversion of industries from large energy consumers to net producers.»

PNNL researchers develop a capability to explore the interactions between future global water supplies and demands across the globe

And water is a looming crisis: a recent McKinsey report forecasts that global water demand will rise 40 % over the next 20 years.

Water Criteria development has been led by a consortium consisting of the Climate Bonds Initiative, Ceres, World Resources Institute, CDP and the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) which is supported by Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI).