Sentences with phrase «international water shortages»

Before long, he came across HydroPreneur, an initiative set up by the Singapore government to improve global access to clean drinking water and find solutions to international water shortages.

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United Nations officials and the International Red Cross have reported that there is a shortage of food and water for those who have fled their homes.

International companies are also being pitted against one another because of water shortages and competition for existing resources.

In the coming years, water shortages might also lead to interstate war, said Marcus King, a professor at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs who authored the chapter on weaponizing water.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), an independent organization that provides economic, development and humanitarian assistance around the world in support of the foreign policy goals of the United States, predicts that by 2025, one - third of all humans will face severe and chronic water shortages.

Bloomberg Philanthropy's Global Scholars program even helps students from different countries collaborate on solving international problems, like water shortages or food security.

The international response to the problem has failed to grasp that serious consequences such as reduced crop yields and water shortages are now inevitable, he said.

With water shortages and air pollution posing increasingly grave threats to the Middle East, artists in the region are working to make environmental issues more visible, both at home and in international

It is, in military parlance, a «threat multiplier»: It will increase energy demands, intensify water shortages, and strain international relations.

Now, scientists meeting at World Water Week in Sweden are reinforcing and broadening that point, saying that without serious reforms to the way many Asian countries manage water chronic food shortages may result — even without the impact of climate change on water supplies: Food & Feed Demand to Double by 2050 In Revitalizing Asia's Irrigation, the International Water Management Institute and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization say that food and animal feed demand in Asia is expected to double by 2050 and that relying on trade to supply this will «impose a huge and politically untenable burden on the economies of many developing countries.&rWater Week in Sweden are reinforcing and broadening that point, saying that without serious reforms to the way many Asian countries manage water chronic food shortages may result — even without the impact of climate change on water supplies: Food & Feed Demand to Double by 2050 In Revitalizing Asia's Irrigation, the International Water Management Institute and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization say that food and animal feed demand in Asia is expected to double by 2050 and that relying on trade to supply this will «impose a huge and politically untenable burden on the economies of many developing countries.&rwater chronic food shortages may result — even without the impact of climate change on water supplies: Food & Feed Demand to Double by 2050 In Revitalizing Asia's Irrigation, the International Water Management Institute and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization say that food and animal feed demand in Asia is expected to double by 2050 and that relying on trade to supply this will «impose a huge and politically untenable burden on the economies of many developing countries.&rwater supplies: Food & Feed Demand to Double by 2050 In Revitalizing Asia's Irrigation, the International Water Management Institute and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization say that food and animal feed demand in Asia is expected to double by 2050 and that relying on trade to supply this will «impose a huge and politically untenable burden on the economies of many developing countries.&rWater Management Institute and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization say that food and animal feed demand in Asia is expected to double by 2050 and that relying on trade to supply this will «impose a huge and politically untenable burden on the economies of many developing countries.»

In Morocco's Oum Er Rbia River basin, a key agricultural region suffering from water shortages, the government and the World Bank are working together to «make irrigation in the basin more sustainable, more profitable, and more resilient to climate change» by limiting growers to a fixed — but reliable — amount of water consumption, subsidizing efficient irrigation equipment, and connecting farmers with domestic and international markets.