Sentences with phrase «like fresh water supplies»

Cities, because of their concentrated populations, put a huge strain on natural resources like fresh water supplies.

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When you can stroll over to a tap whenever you like and help yourself to a glass of clear, cool water, it is hard to believe that one of the biggest business opportunities of the 21st century — and one of the best opportunities for business to give back to society — lies in supplying fresh water.

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.

unlike myself, someone who would truly like to mitigate the damaging effects of overpopulation (and air pollution, and fishery depletion, and diminution of the fresh water supply), it's important to understand that there are powerful interests:

Also access to year round supply of low cost water is of crucial importance in urban agriculture as well access to (composted or fresh) organic materials and other sources of nutrients (like wastewater).

However our supplies of fresh water, like other resources, are finite and under threat.

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