Sentences with phrase «increase fresh water supplies»

Like many other parts of the world, Israel has a critical need to increase fresh water supplies.

Finally, we should invest in developing technologies like desalinization and other filtering processes capable of cost - effectively increasing our fresh water supply.

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Increased meat consumption in the developing world is fast depleting fresh water supplies, according to a secret report first released by WikiLeaks.

Sea level rise has led to increased risk of extreme flooding, as well as salt - water contamination for the state's fresh water supply.

«There is a bright side to this conclusion» according to the Goddard Institute for Space Studies» James Hansen, lead author on the study, «by following a path that leads to a lower CO2 amount we can alleviate a number of problems that had begun to seem inevitable, such as increased storm intensities, expanded desertification, loss of coral reefs, and loss of mountain glaciers that supply fresh water to hundreds of millions of people.»

The Premier also doesn't agree with my opposition to shale gas hydraulic fracturing — a process that will drastically reduce fresh water supplies in north - eastern BC and substantially increase greenhouse gases.

Rising sea level will have a huge impact, since half the world's population lives within 60 km of an ocean and increased flooding contaminates fresh water supplies and increases the threat from waterborne diseases.

Other problems are likely to include an increase in extreme weather events such as droughts and floods, and an increase in salt - water intrusion into fresh water supplies.