Sentences with phrase «impact on aquatic ecosystems»

However, hydroelectric facilities can still have a major impact on aquatic ecosystems.

The main objective of Go ECO is for dive centres to minimise their impact on the aquatic ecosystem whilst contributing to environmental, economic and cultural conservation.

Potential implications include impacts on aquatic ecosystems, agriculture, forestry, alpine tourism and water quality.

Not exact matches

Early indications suggest environmental water has been able to limit the impact of what could have been disastrous for a number of aquatic species and their ecosystems and scientists on the ground have reported that fish are using the refuges created.

Moreover, agricultural intensification has had major detrimental impacts on the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of the world.

But, as scientists report in ACS» journal Environmental Science & Technology, «fracking» operations could have impacts on water quantity because they are withdrawing these large amounts of water from nearby streams, which house aquatic ecosystems and are used by people for drinking and recreation.

The findings make use of experiments conducted as part of The Jefferson Project at Lake George testing the potential impacts of road salt and leaf litter on the health of aquatic ecosystems.

Current water management practices are very likely to be inadequate to reduce the negative impacts of climate change on water supply reliability, flood risk, health, energy, and aquatic ecosystems (very high confidence)[3.4, 3.5].

A range of impacts on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems has been suggested under climate change (see, for example, Leemans and Eickhout, 2004), some of which are summarised in Table 9.1 (for further details see Chapter 4; Nkomo et al., 2006; Warren et al., 2006).

Jan developed recommendations to the Puget Sound Partnership on the use of innovative financial mechanisms for the recovery of the Puget Sound ecosystem, worked with the Puget Sound Restoration Fund to establish a payments for services pilot for nitrogen removal by shellfish in Puget Sound, assisted BC Hydro develop performance measures for their long term environmental goal, and led studies evaluating impacts of flow alteration on aquatic ecosystems for King County.

Hydropower has some well - known environmental impacts, especially on rivers and aquatic ecosystems, but it produces few or no air contaminants, whereas burning natural gas emits many pollutants, including climate - changing greenhouse gases.