Sentences with phrase «importance of water management»

This technical document highlights the importance of water management, as growing populations, expanding cities and unsustainable natural resource management are increasing water stress on rural communities, while climate change and shocks are exacerbating flooding, landslides and saltwater intrusion into freshwater systems.

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Management of non-point source pollution is of great importance in the context of coffee agriculture, as this land use often coincides with headwater streams that influence water quality at the basin scale.

«Commonwealth environmental water is intended to be used to support the management of Australia's wetlands of international importance (Ramsar listed wetlands) and sites that support nationally threatened species — sites that may include Barmah - Millewa forests, Hattah Lakes, and wetlands throughout the Victorian - NSW Mallee region, South Australian Riverland, Lower Lakes and Coorong.

Population and Consumption: the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management sets out its position on the importance of addressing current levels of population growth, resource consumption and moving towards living within environmental limits in the UK.

«In the future, the importance of hydro projects won't be on power generation, but on water management,» Yang explained.

Nathan Davis, water and leisure team leader at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, talks about the importance of safety management during school building work.

World Water Day is held annually on 22 March as a means of focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.

Our results emphasize the importance of snow for fulfilling human water demand in many NH basins, and highlight the need to account for the full range of internal climate variability in developing robust climate risk management decisions.

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California may be an especially good place to illustrate the importance of considering natural variability in adaptation planning, since the history here of megadroughts over the past couple of millenia is both clear and very worrying from a water resource management perspective.

recognises and respects the importance of Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge and management of biodiversity and conservation, including water

The importance of adequate Indigenous representation is further highlighted by the proposed s86C of the Water Amendment Bill 2008, which provides for additional matters relating to monitoring, assessment and risk management considered in the Basin Plan.

recognises and respects the importance in Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge and management of biodiversity and conservation, including water

[169] With this in mind, it will be crucial for the Government to ensure the full and effective participation and engagement of Indigenous peoples in processes that affect our distinct rights to water and to recognise the importance in Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Management that has been exercised by Indigenous peoples for thousands of years.