Sentences with phrase «growing water crisis»

UNDP and the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation release white paper detailing the need for environmental conservation to help address a growing water crisis.

World Water Day, on March 22, is recognized by the United Nations to focus attention on the growing water crisis.

Portlanders inspired to do something about the growing water crisis are invited to participate in the fourth annual Walk for Water on Saturday, March 24, 2012 at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry along the banks of the Willamette River.

But there's another category of local architecture that might not be as famous, and that is currently being threatened by the growing water crisis in India: the magnificent stepwell.

Katie Valentine at Think Progress looks at the growing water crisis in the US Southwest, where New Mexico's Elephant Butte reservoir «currently holds just 3 percent of the water it held in the 1980s and 1990s»

Yet capturing and reusing wastewater for municipal and household use, agricultural and industrial production, and recharging depleted aquifers is precisely what researchers writing in the latest issue of Science suggest needs to happen in order to address the world's growing water crisis.

We're facing a growing water crisis in the Middle East, especially in Jordan and in some of the Arab areas adjoining Israel.

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There is a grave environmental crisis in air quality (life expectancy in polluted northern cities is five and a half years lower than in the cleaner south), water and soil (one survey showed that 10 per cent of arable land was unsafe to grow crops on).

A combination of growing populations and food, energy and water shortages will reach crisis point by 2030, the government's chief scientific advisor will say later today.

«The loss of heat and hot water is a humanitarian crisis, it's a state of emergency, it's a management failure of the highest magnitude,» said City Councilman Ritchie Torres, a Bronx Democrat who grew up in public housing in the 1990s and said he's never seen the system in worse shape than it is now.

Across the East China Sea, west of Japan and its ongoing crisis, sits the growing Qinshan nuclear power plant, where four new pressurized - water reactors are under construction in addition to the five already operating on - site.

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 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 grwater 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 grwater 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 Growing Blue, a group created by Veolia Water in consultation with the United Nations, Columbia University and water conservation grWater in consultation with the United Nations, Columbia University and water conservation grwater conservation groups.

A growing population and rising incomes have increased demand for fresh water, while a four - year drought has created what Shalom Simhon, the agriculture minister, calls «a deep water crisis.»

They do particularly pick on processed meats, but in terms of global crises: «There is a... tsunami brewing, namely, we are seeing the confluence of growing constraints on water, energy, and food [supplies] combined with the rapid shift toward greater consumption of all animal source foods,» which, they note, are «inefficient, wasteful, and polluting.»

Science correspondent Fred Pearce provides our most complete portrait yet of the growing world water crisis and its ramifications.

In this groundbreaking book, veteran science correspondent Fred Pearce focuses on the dire state of the world's rivers to provide our most complete portrait yet of the growing world water crisis and its ramifications for us all.

«It's absolutely correct that the growing meat intensity of diets around the world is one of the issues connected to this global crisis, not only because of the CO2 involved but also because of the water consumed in the process.»

The east Mediterranean island faces an unprecedented water crisis which has seen reservoir reserves plunge dangerously low and desalination plants unable to cope with growing demand.

Human population growth, growing demand for water, and declining biodiversity are other issues wrapped up in the warnings of a coming food crisis.

Can we sustainably provide food, water, and energy to a growing population during a climate crisis?