Sentences with phrase «lack of water drove»

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At some point, we face catastrophic climate destabilization, lack of water and arable land to grow food as well as loss of oil energy to drive our civilizations.

This morning, having just returned again from Uganda and dealing with the rural poverty and lack of clean water, I drove past the dumb sign again and found myself wishing it was a Coca - Cola sign also!

The lack of electricity and water, the drive - by shootings, the explosions that more than rattled our windows — they shook our souls.

It's really difficult to tell sometimes when kids are ready to cook — some are extremely precocious and are able to compete like old pros on shows like Masterchef Junior, others lack the interest or even the drive to boil a kettle of water.

Record dry spring could drive up wheat prices, and lack of water may force nuclear reactors to shut down

Back again this time with Hell or High Water, Mackenzie continues to display an ability to take tired genres and reinvigorate them with a nuance that has been sorely lacking from a lot of male - driven thrillers in recent years.

Likewise, the Ridgeline's 8.2 - inch ground clearance and lack of a low range for its four - wheel drive might elicit snickers from off - road extremists, but we were able to bash bumps and tackle steep climbs and water crossings without incident.

«Miami Beach is at such grave risk of sea water flooding today that it should preemptively be declared a disaster zone — not because of global - warming - driven sea level rise but due to a seeming total lack of sensible civil engineering standards and sensible building codes.»

Favorable energy economics are just one of solar's many benefits — including less water use, lack of requirement for a centralized grid in undeveloped regions, low cost, zero air pollution, and in providing a mitigation for the rising problem of global climate change (which is primarily driven by human fossil fuel burning).

We could see from horizon to horizon from the Buddha tower and watched the massive black cloud appearing in the far distance being driven by the wind towards us, which on reaching us poured rain into all the ingenious levels of gutters and channels designed to capture it as it passed over the city abandoned from lack of water.