Sentences with phrase «local lack of water»

Both processes occur in regions of the ocean that are naturally low in oxygen, or anoxic, due to local lack of water circulation and intense phytoplankton productivity overlying these regions.

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Israel's practices in the Jordan Valley are a case in point: settlers monopolise access to water and grow scores of palm trees for dates; and they also farm fish, grow passion fruit, bananas, etc. — on deprived land where locals lack the ability to farm for themselves.

By 2008, harvests at one local hatchery declined by about 80 percent because acidic waters and a lack of carbonate essentially made it impossible for baby oysters to form their shells.

State Superintendent Paul G. Pastorek acknowledged that lack of local support was a likely factor in the state's final score, but he said he does not want to water down any of the state's proposals in order to garner more buy - in for a round two Race to the Top bid.

As droughts have worsened, water bottling companies like Coca - Cola, PepsiCo, andNestlé are finding themselves under the microscope of public opinion for taking public water resources, packaging them for substantial profit, and then failing to adequately respond to public concerns about their local impacts, lack of transparency of data sharing, and their role in helping share the burdens imposed by water shortages and drought.

The SAB finds that the EPA did not support quantitatively its conclusion about lack of evidence for widespread, systemic impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources, and did not clearly describe the system (s) of interest (e.g., groundwater, surface water), the scale of impacts (i.e., local or regional), nor the definitions of «systemic» and «widespread.»

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