Sentences with phrase «global water use»

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

Consumption of water for agriculture — which constitutes more than 90 percent of global water use — has increased 19 percent.

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This implies that risks are not too big or overarching (like resource scarcity, rising levels of atmospheric CO2, or global warming) but are more focused e.g. extreme weather, increased greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture or from energy use, or a lack of fresh water.

Future Ready Singapore, 12 February 2015: As the international corporate community rethinks the way it conducts business to address global challenges, solving water scarcity and managing water use could be the top untapped opportunity that will have the biggest positive impact on societies.

You may not think much about this, but a tremendous amount of global resources — such as energy, minerals, chemicals and water — are used to make a single item of clothing, electronic gadget, or household item.

By: Dylan Slater 20th May 2016 Global consulting engineers and scientists SRK Consulting have prepared a manageable system and training programme, which is designed to simplify the process of aligning personnel responsible for implementing and renewing a mining water use licence (WUL) →

Making use of these benefits is WaterAid, a global nonprofit working towards providing potable water, and ensuring proper sanitation and hygiene to those who can't afford it.

Agriculture accounts for 65 percent of the global use of fresh water.

Launched in 2009, the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) is a global partnership founded by organizations such as The Nature Conservancy, Pacific Institute, and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) dedicated to promoting the responsible use of freshwater.

Global Water Engineering has partnered with Chokyuenyong Industrial in Thailand to cut effluent COD pollution levels at its cassava production plant by more than 95 percent while extracting gas from its wastewater to power its boilers and generate electricity for its own use and to sell back to the provincial grid.

The LCA examined the effects of a 1 kilogram industry - average corrugated product manufactured in 2014 on seven environmental impact indicators: global warming potential (greenhouse gas emissions), eutrophication, acidification, smog, ozone depletion, respiratory effects, fossil fuel depletion; and four inventory indicators: water use, water consumption, renewable energy demand, and non-renewable energy demand.

Mr Bambridge will also highlight one of CST Wastewater Solution's major recent projects, the installation of the world's first GWE COHRAL ™ (Covered High Rate Anaerobic Lagoon) using Global Water Engineering (GWE) technology, represented by CST in Australia and New Zealand.

The 2014 program schedule included: culinary demonstrations centered around adventurous flavors and new menu trends; presentations and panel discussions focused on sustainable agricultural practices, the role of wheat in our diet vs. seekers of gluten - free options, and water issues affecting food production; discussions on how American menus are often shaped by millennials, health and nutrition concerns, and global cuisines; a Friday field trip to the CIA Farm in St. Helena and through Marin and Sonoma Counties to visit Pozzi Ranch, Dutton Ranch (where Valley Ford Cheese Company joined), and Gourmet Mushrooms with tastings and presentations by the farmers as well as farm bureau and land trust experts; and the exciting and interactive Saturday Market Basket Exercise, where attendees were divided into six teams to develop menu concepts using sponsor products for the following categories:

CCN is embarking on an environmental initiative that will see it use technology from international green energy leader Global Water Engineering to harvest biogas (methane) energy from waste water to replace fossil fuels and provide reliable base load energy while simultaneously achieving much cleaner efflWater Engineering to harvest biogas (methane) energy from waste water to replace fossil fuels and provide reliable base load energy while simultaneously achieving much cleaner efflwater to replace fossil fuels and provide reliable base load energy while simultaneously achieving much cleaner effluent.

Building on current programs and efficiencies that reduce water and energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, the new Bacardi Limited global platform, Good Spirited: Building a Sustainable Future, reinforces the Company's leadership in corporate social responsibility (CSR).

Research shows that a majority of global consumers, and especially Millennials, support companies that are committed to minimizing environmental impacts and that prioritize sustainable approaches to operations.2 To share more about its water initiatives, Fetzer Vineyards developed a new page on its website containing facts about agricultural water use and details about the company's water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, water initiatives, Fetzer Vineyards developed a new page on its website containing facts about agricultural water use and details about the company's water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, water use and details about the company's water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, Water Future in the United States on March 22, 2016.

Results achieved over hundreds of plants globally have achieved removal of organic waste from discharge water of between 70 - 99 per cent, with many of the plants installed by Global Water Engineering also capturing the organic waste converted to methane and using it to power boilers and electricity generawater of between 70 - 99 per cent, with many of the plants installed by Global Water Engineering also capturing the organic waste converted to methane and using it to power boilers and electricity generaWater Engineering also capturing the organic waste converted to methane and using it to power boilers and electricity generators.

The Global 100 Index is determined by using 12 sustainability indicators, including energy, water and waste productivity, innovation capacity, employee turnover and safety performance.

Based on the Coca - Cola system's global water replenishment projects to date, the system is balancing the equivalent of an estimated 94 percent of the water used in its finished -LSB-...]

And lost and wasted food consumes about one quarter of all water used by agriculture, requires cropland area the size of China, and generates roughly 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

The Coca - Cola Company and its global bottling partners (the Coca - Cola system) have met their goal to replenish, or in other words balance, the equivalent amount of water used in their global sales volume back to nature and communities.

It also consumes about one quarter of all water used by agriculture, requires cropland area the size of China, and generates about eight per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Voltea, the global leader in electro - desalination water treatment technology, is seeing strong interest from hotels, restaurants and cafes in its new, point - of - use DiUse system for coffee, fountain drink and drinking water applications.

Food that is ultimately lost or wasted consumes about one - quarter of all water used by agriculture each year, requires cropland area the size of China to be grown, and generates about eight percent of global greenhouse gas emissions annually.

«Food that is ultimately lost or wasted consumes about a quarter of all water used by agriculture, requires cropland area the size of China, and is responsible for an estimated 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Research shows that a majority of global consumers, and especially Millennials, support companies that are committed to minimizing environmental impacts and that prioritize sustainable approaches to operations.2 To share more about its water initiatives, Fetzer Vineyards developed a new page on its website containing facts about agricultural water use and details about the company's water policy support.

As Jonathon Bloom of Wasted Food explained, the existing food system perpetuates the overproduction of commodities, artificially low prices, and disproportionate use of our resources (80 % of water, 50 % of land and 10 % of global oil is used in food production).

Mr. Brabeck boasts of his involvement in the UN Global Compact CEO Water Mandate, citing this as demonstrating his companies commitment to sustainable use of wWater Mandate, citing this as demonstrating his companies commitment to sustainable use of waterwater.

Her continuous global research and personal experience as a birthing mother and midwife are her primary motivations to expand the use of water during labor and birth.

«Food that is ultimately lost or wasted consumes about a quarter of all water used by agriculture, requires cropland area the size of China, and is responsible for an estimated 8 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

Scientists typically monitor groundwater reserves using wells, but this method fails to provide the global picture of how water levels are changing.

The latest study uses a new calibration of data taken from NASA's Moon Mineralogy Mapper, which flew aboard India's Chandrayaan - 1 spacecraft, to quantify how much water is present on a global scale.

A study published in August 2017 in Global Change Biology used data on where water accumulates and how it flows across the landscape to predict where peat might be hiding in tropical regions.

«The prospect of using metal - organic frameworks for sustainable water filtration is incredibly exciting from a public - good perspective, while delivering a better way of extracting lithium ions to meet global demand could create new industries,» said Anita Hill, CSIRO's chief scientist.

But we are facing a potential global resource crisis as the use of water has increased six-fold while the world's population has only tripled.

«We have a limited amount of water in this country to use for everything from drinking water to raising livestock, and global population and demand is growing,» said Sandia geochemist Pat Brady.

Ignacio Rodriguez - Iturbe of Princeton University and Samir Suweis of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne have built the first mathematical model of the global virtual water trade network, using the UN Food and Agricultural Organization's data on trade in barley, corn, rice, soya beans, wheat, beef, pork, and poultry in 2000.

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.

«Consequently, global «water vapor winds» are estimated from the movement of these features and used in numerical weather models to improve long - range forecasts,» Chesters said.

You can imagine that such a «sensing and response» mechanism involving CRSP and EPF2 could be used to engineer crop varieties which are better able to perform in the current and future high CO2 global climate where fresh water availability for agriculture is dwindling.»

«Climate and land use change have long been linked to changes in water yield,» said Peter Caldwell, research hydrologist for the Forest Service Southern Research Station (SRS) and primary author of the article recently published in the journal Global Change Biology.

«Due to global warming, oil exploration in the Arctic has become feasible along with the shipment of oil through the Northwest Passage, the water body between Canada and the Arctic that used to be frozen throughout the year, but has now become open for navigation in the summer,» noted Boufadel, a professor of civil and environmental engineering who specializes in the impact of oil spills on coastal regions and, more generally, on oil behavior in diverse environments.

«Currently, about 400 million people are using desalinated water and it has been projected that by 2025, 14 percent of the global population will be forced to use sea water,» said Md..

The new study is one of the first to provide a global accounting of regional and local water impacts, taking into account seasonal changes and different types of intervention, including water withdrawals, reservoir regulation, land - use change, and irrigation.

Elisabetta Pierazzo of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, and colleagues used a global climate model to study how water vapour and sea salt thrown up from an impact will affect ozone levels for years after the event.

Using an ensemble of five global hydrological models, the researchers examined the evolution of water availability, demand, and scarcity globally from 1971 to 2010.

For the first time, a map of fecal viruses traveling our global waterways has been created using modeling methods to aid in assessing water quality worldwide.

«Smart water use can boost agricultural production — we've in fact been surprised to see such sizeable effects at the global level,» says lead - author Jonas Jägermeyr from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.

The project, called CarbFix, won't act as a global warming panacea because it uses more water than some industrial sites can offer.

On a global scale, the new results suggest that humans use about 10,700 cubic kilometers of water per year, more than all the water in Lakes Michigan, Huron, Ontario and Erie combined.