Sentences with phrase «local water demand»

«Los Angeles needs to reduce local water demand while also transforming its water supply infrastructure to maximize recycled water, groundwater supply and stormwater capture.»

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«It's good to see New York State acknowledge the growing demand for local, sustainable food,» said Food and Water Watch Northeast Region Director Alex Beauchamp.

The local council's priority project this year included a focus on providing employers with on - demand access to advanced cloud computing resources, modernizing water infrastructure to help industrial businesses improve efficiency, and creating jobs through expanding the region's manufacturing industry.

Fed up with the seeming inaction of their local and state government, or in this case the adults, the students of Hoosick Falls High School held an emergency meeting to demand that Governor Cuomo help them find a reliable safe source of drinking water, that did not come in a plastic bottle.

ALBANY — Angry residents from Hoosick Falls stormed into the state Capitol on Wednesday to demand a full accounting of why the state, federal and local government took so long to warn them about the dangerous toxic chemicals in their water.

And from a water management standpoint, it's an entirely different way of thinking — to manipulate the local climate in order to manipulate water demand.»

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

The water crisis is being driven by several factors: climate change, an expanding population, local mismanagement and a greater demand on farmers.

In those cases, other causes of water shortages came into play due to local factors, such as increased water demand, population growth or methods used for irrigating the crops.

«The key for Los Angeles to potentially reach water independence would be to simultaneously increase local water supply while bringing down local demand for water,» said Katie Mika, a postdoctoral scholar at the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and one of the study's lead researchers.

Another important advantage of using more local water is that it would reduce the region's demand for energy.

Then they examine the supply and demand issues around their local water source (s), and they meet a hydrogeologist who introduces students to some of the issues around the sustainability of...

The local luxury hotels and the villas that climb the slopes behind the resort mean there's a big demand for, and supply of, water sports and diving facilities.

Realizing the demand for a water taxi service, the directors of 3 Stars Tour Ltd decided to supplement the tender company by investing in vessels for a local water taxi.

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.

Apart from relying upon imported freshwater and local yield as well as seawater (for flushing) to meet its demand needs, Hong Kong has been exploiting reclaimed water, recycled grey water (including rainwater) and desalinated water in order to enhance the sources of its water supply infrastructure.

If climate change contributes to the failure of small local water sources, such as hand - dug wells, or to inward migration, this may also cause increased demand on regional water supplies.