Sentences with phrase «global water problems»

PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS • Completed 8 water conservation projects within 18 months, three months before the set deadline • Created awareness of global water problems amongst 29 states within 3 years • Coined the well - known buzzword «Wet - Water», now being used by 84 conservation units across the globe • Decreased water - borne diseases in Washington by 44 %, by employing water purification initiatives

Develop recommendations for the U.S. role in identifying and addressing global water problems, including how to significantly accelerate efforts to meet the large and devastating unmet basic human needs for water in poorer countries.

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The problem is the Fed has chosen to get their water from the small 2 % inflation pond, which has been steadily shrinking over the last several decades (not global warming, but instead dropping 10 year rates).

United Nations scientists state that raising animals for food is «one of the major causes of the world's most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.»

Fisheries are crashing, deforestation is causing a whole complex of problems, the weather is becoming less favorable because of global warming, fresh water is becoming scarce, species are disappering, arable land is deteriorating.

The Fritz ™ Water Vest is an out - of - the - box solution for a significant global problem.

United Nations scientists state that raising animals for food is «one of the major causes of the world's most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.»

Organic agriculture counteracts resource depletion (soil, water, energy, nutrients), contributes positively to the problems associated with climate change and desertification and can help to maintain and enhance biodiversity at a global scale.

Such underinvestment not only slows scientific advancement, it also threatens the nation's ability to address pressing global problems such as food, water and energy shortages, climate change and disease.

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.

We can view these advancements as opportunities for our global society to tackle complex problems, such as energy demands, food and water security, and disease.

By looking at the problem on a global scale, we have calculated that if four of these strategies are applied at the same time we could actually stabilize the number of people in the world who are facing water stress rather than continue to allow their numbers to grow, which is what will happen if we continue with business as usual.»

As to reasons for the decline, most analysts point to a range of factors including diversions of river water for farming, pollution, the intermingling of wild salmon with weaker, disease - ridden hatchery fish, and global warming — which creates some problems and exacerbates others.

Global warming is going to make California's water problem much worse, Cayan and a team of researchers reported this past year.

«But, by looking at the problem on a global scale, we have calculated that if four of these strategies are applied at the same time we could actually stabilize the number of people in the world who are facing water stress rather than continue to allow their numbers to grow, which is what will happen if we continue with business as usual.»

According to Peter Gleick and Meena Palaniappan, writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, water availability is a growing global problem, especially in regions like the Western U.S. where «almost all major rivers and aquifers and already tapped out.»

The problem is that we don't have global data on the cleanliness of drinking water, says study leader Joe Brown of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.

Governments or businesses can pose any of the pressing problems facing the world — global warming, the ageing population, water shortages — and can invite entrants to pitch solutions to a panel of experts in that field.

Rapid advances since then could help scientists peer more deeply into the atomic structure of the water as policymakers search for local and global solutions to the overwhelming problems caused by acidification.

Moore warns that we are facing seemingly insurmountable problems: rising energy costs, escalating competition for arable land for agrofuels, the grow of invasive species, the herbicide / glyphosate - resistant superweeds effect, aquifer depletion, and end of cheap water as global warming melts glaciers, and the weakening effectiveness of fertilizers on yield growth.

Bloomberg Philanthropy's Global Scholars program even helps students from different countries collaborate on solving international problems, like water shortages or food security.

Also, evidence of the affects of global warming from many parts of the world speaks for itself — melting ice, droughts, increasing water supply problems in big cities like Barcelona etc..

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.

They are an ever growing and never ending mess that is loaded with germs, toxics and drugs and are the major cause of global water pollution and attendant health problems.

According to Frederica Perrera, a professor and director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, there has been a notable increase in development problems in children worldwide that parallels the increase in toxic contaminants in water, air, soil, and consumer goods, as well as the mounting effects of global warming.

I would submit to you that to the extent that we have a global warming problem, and you want to say that there's no global warming problem, I think that you must agree with me that we have a problem with a billion human beings having Tuberculosis, with three and a half billion human beings living on less than $ 5 a day, with three to four billion human beings not having access to reliable water supply, safe water supplies, that we are pushing the carrying capacity of this planet pretty hard.

With respect to hurricane intensity, there are observed trends indicating this and model results predicting this, and while there are problems in each (data problems with hurricanes, coarse resolution in global models, etc.), theoretical arguments also make clear that there will be more energy and water vapor available in the atmosphere to cause more intense hurricanes, so a very strong case can be made for this happening.

And, unlike smog or water pollution — where solid evidence has been plain for all to see — global warming is a looming, complicated problem that never quite seems to arrive.

So, if man made CO2 is the problem and there is just too darn much of it and if clouds are primarily water vapor and have no effect on the global climate, then the cloudy / sunny day effects of solar panel bounceback heat retention are nil.

``... a highly readable and authoritative account of the problems we face from global warming to shrinking water resources, fisheries, forests, etc..

Favorable energy economics are just one of solar's many benefits — including less water use, lack of requirement for a centralized grid in undeveloped regions, low cost, zero air pollution, and in providing a mitigation for the rising problem of global climate change (which is primarily driven by human fossil fuel burning).

Actually, the whole global warming problem could be summarized as being a global over-population problem — it is, after all, the exploding human population that is driving the growing energy needs, causing the negative environmental impacts, and in the process, also causing a shortage of fresh water.

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So, for each person who might die from global warming, about 210 people die from health problems that result from a lack of clean water and sanitation, from breathing smoke generated by burning dirty fuels (such as dried animal dung) indoors, and from breathing polluted air outdoors.

However, as it became clear that biofuels were not only connected to deforestation, pollution, and greenhouse gas emissions (sometimes exceeding fossil fuels), but also competed with the global food supply and water sources, biofuels no longer seemed like a silver bullet, but a new problem facing the environment and the poor.

Answers for the human species often involve the global warming problem, as the water evaporates, but this can create more rainfall in a few areas.

Because most heating systems burn fossil fuels, which creates pollution, all the energy saved by a solar water heating eliminates the pollution that would otherwise add to our problems of poor air quality, poor health, smog and global climate change, a problem which requires immediate action.

They say there are potential economic and security problems if there are delays answering climate questions that are a priority for the United States — like whether global warming will eliminate the winter mountain snows that supply California with three - quarters of its water in summer.

We continually cut trees, throwing garbage any where we want, chemical waste from different industries are thrown in the bodies of water, smoke coming from cars, factories and even at home are not properly handled, there's still a lot of problems that we can address to each and every one but if we will not move or take any action in response to this issue our planet would die little by little, as we see earth today is now showing to us the damage we had made such as earth quake, landslide, acid rain, global warming and a lot more.

The World Economic Forum's Global Risks 2015 Report has water crises in the top 10 of the most likely and highest impact problems that we will face in the next 10 years.

One can always make the point that the problem of global warming is not one of direct temperature hazard against human beings, but against the ecossystem as a whole, glaciers with their fresh waters, animals, vegetation, etc..

Meanwhile, if there is a growing water shortage problem (whatever its cause), a global deal at Copenhagen won't help those facing it to build new water infrastructure.

In fact, when asked to name problems facing the nation, Americans would think of pollution of drinking water, the ozone hole, or the destruction of tropical forests ahead of global warming.

This is borne out by the Eco-Label criteria which found that the four environmental problems to which paints contribute the most are: • petroleum consumption for the production of titanium dioxide, resins and solvents • global warming through emissions of CO2 and VOCs resulting respectively from titanium dioxide production and from solvent paint application • atmospheric acidification due to CO2 and sulphur from titanium dioxide processing • discharges of waste into water due to titanium dioxide processing.

Human societies need energy — turn it off and chaos would result: But if we could fix the ratio without obliterating other life forms, we'd be giving ourselves enough breathing space to tackle other urgent global problems, such as clean water supply, food sufficiency, and the preservation of health - giving natural areas.

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Even at the high water mark in 2008 only a little over half of British voters thought humans were responsible for most global warming and less than half thought it a pressing problem.

«The purpose of these plans is to provide policy makers and the public with a technically - and economically - feasible pathway toward a sustainable, secure, and reliable energy infrastructure that eliminates health and environmental problems due to air, water, and soil pollution and global warming.

NO trend in global water vapour - a bit of a problem for the «positive feedback» found in GCMs.

We already know that GPS systems can make traffic flow more smoothly, they can help you drive more fuel efficiently, and they can even be applied to track global problems like climate change or water scarcity.