Sentences with phrase «implications for water»

Implications for water arise from regulatory issues as well as health and safety.

Crétaux, J.F., A.V. Kouraev, F. Papa, M. Bergé - Nguyen, A. Cazenave, N. Aladin, and I.S. Plotnikov, 2005: Evolution of sea level of the big Aral Sea from satellite altimetry and its implications for water balance.

That has worrying implications for water security in the West, as the globe warms up.

«Consequently, tropical cyclone activity across the western Caribbean may remain essentially stable over the current century, which has important implications for water availability in this region.

National Research Council; Division on Earth and Life Studies; Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Board on Atmospheric Studies and Climate; Water Science and Technology Board; Committee on Population; Committee on Himalayan Glaciers, Hydrology, Climate Change, and Implications for Water Security

Africa's climate seems destined to change, with far - reaching implications for water resources and agriculture,» Bette Otto - Bliesner of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) said.

The answer, they found, is mostly yes and the reasons why have big implications for water managers (and the rest of California).

«This has some pretty severe implications for water - quality criteria,» she said.

Their findings, which also aim to shift how flood risks are communicated, could have fundamental implications for water managers, agricultural interests and the people who live in flood - prone regions.

«Chance find has big implications for water treatment's costs and carbon footprint.»

This increase in algae growth and chlorophyll means that water quality is worse for the same amount of nitrogen, which has big implications for water quality targets and clean up plans.

Not exact matches

In sum, what started last April with a call to action to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to prevent a mega fossil energy project from threatening a primary source of fresh water has grown into a public interest campaign with powerful implications for energy development, the environment, and the rule of law.

The most that can be said is that the Court's decision presumed for the sake of discussion a competent patient's right to decline food and water, but did so without examining the implications of such a right or its constitutional status.

«7 Bennett gives as examples of middle axioms for our time the need of international collaboration in the United Nations, the maintenance of balance between free enterprise and government control of economic power, the removal of racial segregation in the churches and its progressive elimination in society.8 Provided such middle axioms are taken for what they are, as Christian «next steps» and not as a watered - down version of the full implications of the love commandment, they can be extremely helpful in the quest of a fuller justice as this is actuated by Christian love.

Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, David Papps, said the trade in the Goulburn followed detailed consideration of the environmental conditions locally and across the Murray - Darling Basin, as well as implications for irrigators and their communities.

Commonwealth Environmental Water Portfolio Management Plan: Macquarie River Valley 2017 - 18 sets intentions for 2017 — 18 in a multi-year context by identifying the longer - term flow regime to meet environmental demands, documenting what has occurred in the previous three years and considering the implications of 2017 — 18 intentions for demands in future years.

Commonwealth Environmental Water Portfolio Management Plan: Lachlan River 2017 - 18 sets intentions for 2017 - 18 in a multi-year context by identifying the longer - term flow regime to meet environmental demands, documenting what has occurred in the previous three years and considering the implications of 2017 - 18 intentions for demands in future years.

Commonwealth Environmental Water Portfolio Management Plan: Northern Unregulated Rivers 2017 - 18 identifies intentions for use in 2017 ‑ 18 in a multi-year context by identifying the longer - term flow regime to meet environmental demands, documenting what has occurred in previous years and considering the implications of 2017 ‑ 18 intentions for demands in future years.

Short term projects have focussed on determining whether selected watering actions are meeting their intended ecological objectives and understanding the implications for environmental water delivery.

Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder, David Papps, said the trade in the Gwydir followed detailed consideration of the environmental conditions locally and across the Murray - Darling Basin, as well as implications for irrigators and their communities.

Meanwhile, environmental and population changes have major implications for issues including food and nutrition security, access to clean water and sanitation, and natural disasters.

My aim here is not to debate the safety of water births, but to consider the implications for submerging a small baby in water.

Later this month, and for the second time during his five years in office, Gov. Andrew Cuomo will make a decision that has enormous implications for the future of Western New York's water resources.

But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation of people losing livelihoods to desertification - many are finding new routes to water security with key implications for food access, economic resilience, and climate change.

Warming temperatures in the Chesapeake Bay region's streams will have implications for future shifts in water quality, eutrophication and water column layers in the bay.

«The consequences are both an altered hydrologic regime — which has implications for farming, urban water use and the environment — as well as degradation of streamwater quality,» he says.

More than just a geologic curiosity, finding water on Mars has major implications for the search for life, because the presence of H2O greatly increases the odds that living organisms once thrived on the planet, and perhaps still inhabit it today.

Appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study is the largest watershed study of its kind to date, and provides a basis for evaluating water quality and health implications and the impact of septic systems on watersheds.

The paper by Udall and Overpeck, «The 21st Century Colorado River Hot Drought and Implications for the Future,» went online Feb. 17 in the American Geophysical Union journal Water Resources Research.

The findings contradict the widely held view that soils with high water content necessarily accumulate organic matter better than dry soils, which could have implications for agricultural and wetlands conservation practices, Hall said.

Kansans who own water wells show more awareness of state water policy issues than those who rely on municipal water supplies, according to a study that could have implications for groundwater management and environmental policies.

«It was clear in my e-mail interaction with the author that this person was frightened and didn't realize that they had gotten themselves into such hot water that it could have potential implications for their position,» she says.

The study findings have implications for managing the forest composition of watersheds to ensure water supply under future climate change.

The finding of severe degradation in the basin due to reduced water flow has significant implications for managing the development of other rivers in Australia and around the world.

The way in which water flows beneath the ice sheet strongly influences the speed of ice flow, so the existence of other lakes will have implications for the future of the ice sheet.

«It could have big implications for farming, especially with climate change, where you will have water shortages and changes in environmental temperatures,» Koman says.

«This kind of ecological study identifying a positive relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services suggests that higher plant diversity will increase services from agroecosystems, and that has immediate implications for management practices and policies for sustainable agriculture, including Chesapeake Bay water quality,» Kaye said.

The novel method helps to reveal the implications of various climatic and agronomic risks, such as frost, water logging, drought and high temperature stress for crops.

A new study led by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science reveals that land use in the watersheds from which this «dissolved organic matter» originates has important implications for Bay water quality, with the organic carbon in runoff from urbanized or heavily farmed landscapes more likely to persist as it is carried downstream, thus contributing energy to fuel low - oxygen «dead zones» in coastal waters.

«Many of the world's largest rivers and most important rivers, like the Nile, for example, or even the Colorado River in the U.S., are many years not reaching their deltas, which obviously has very significant implications, not only for human water security but also for ecosystem sustainability.»

The team's findings provide one possible mechanism for an observed increase in the concentration of dissolved organic carbon in the surface waters of North America and Europe during the last few decades, and have implications for management of water quality in coastal zones worldwide.

Forward - looking analysis should consider various scenarios for environmental changes and water storage, and study the implications on the ecosystem, the report says.

The findings have implications for watersheds around the world, because irrigation accounts for 90 percent of human water use globally, and local and regional aquifers are drying up.

There could be «huge financial implications» for water suppliers, he said.

Antarctica holds about 60 percent of the world's fresh water, so any pattern of increased melting and calving has profound implications for cities and countries across the world.

They have been detected in surface water, groundwater, wastewater and even drinking water — however, the long - term implications for non-target species such as aquatic wildlife and human health are largely unknown.

Berry expresses concern over the implications for marine life of the ballast water discharged from vessels involved in the transportation of rock from the superquarries projected for the Scottish Highlands and Islands, and the problems that such discharges could present to fish farmers in the region.

«Parched West is using up underground water: Study points to grave implications for Western U.S. water supply.»

15:30 - 15:45 Unraveling groundwater and surface water interaction in Central Kenya Rift lakes: Implications for Paleohydrology Lydia A. Olaka, Andreas Musolff, Ulrich Kniess

Despite a near - average winter precipitation total for California, Oregon, and Washington, the record warmth caused most of the precipitation to fall as rain and not snow, which had implications on the drought intensification and water resource crisis during the warm months.