Sentences with phrase «low water supply»

Intense droughts can lead to destructive wildfires, failed crops, and low water supplies, many of which are deeply affecting southern areas of the United States and other parts of the world.

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The state's snowpack reserves, which typically supply California's farmers and residents with roughly a third of their water, lingered at their lowest level in history in 2015.

Oil companies operating in Mexico's deep waters must use national suppliers for 8 percent of the projects by 2025, the government said on Tuesday, a relatively low rate meant to Continue Reading

Similarly, the closer your home is to a police station; a fire station; and, water supply, the lower your insurance premium can be expected to be.

The Menindee Lakes are currently being managed by the New South Wales Department of Primary Industries — Water to conserve the currently limited water supply for local towns, water users and the environment of the regulated Lower Darling RWater to conserve the currently limited water supply for local towns, water users and the environment of the regulated Lower Darling Rwater supply for local towns, water users and the environment of the regulated Lower Darling Rwater users and the environment of the regulated Lower Darling River.

Supplies for organic grain are at all time low with seasonal difficulties, retiring farmers and water allocations reducing the number of growers in Australia.

• Source our iconic ingredients sustainably; • Improve the livelihoods of small farmers who grow McCormick's iconic herbs and spices; • Champion equality for women and people of color through supplier diversity programs, educational programs and employee focused initiatives; • Reduce the company's environmental impact by lowering our carbon footprint, decreasing water use, reducing solid waste and developing sustainable packaging innovations.

Highlights of these 2025 goals include McCormick's commitments to: — Source 100 percent of branded iconic ingredients sustainably; — Improve the livelihoods of 90 percent of smallholder farmers who grow McCormick's iconic herbs and spices; — Champion equality for women and people of color in leadership, and empower women farmers across the company's supply chain; and — Reduce the company's environmental impact by lowering its carbon footprint, decreasing water use, reducing solid waste and developing sustainable packaging innovations.

Some companies who also sell organic coconut water will use conventional coconut water if organic supplies run low during the low season and not alert their clients that they are doing so.

And even if your home's water supply consistently tests low for lead, that can change in an instant, according to experts.

Since I've struggled with low milk supply and do nt have an abundant store of breast milk, I substituted breast milk with 1/4 cup whole milk plain yogurt mixed with 3/4 cup water and added 1/4 tsp cinnamon.

The water will not only help you drink less, but it will also help lower your blood alcohol level and thus lower the amount of alcohol in your supply.

I was eating lactation cookies and was drinking plenty of water to keep up my low milk supply but nothing was going to help.

With our water and food supply running low, I just breastfed and breastfed my son... If our child had been dependent on milk formula, I would have taken part in looting, too....

At Nsawam Adoagyiri in the Eastern region where a reservoir which supplies water to the area has gone low, residents have had to resort to the polluted Densu River for water.

Spain, in particular, is at risk for water shortages — during a 2008 drought, when Barcelona's water supplies ran low, emergency water had to be delivered to the city via ship.

Position Description: The Riverkeeper Ambassador Program is a community - oriented, grassroots, environmental program designed to raise awareness about the needs of the Hudson River and it's tributaries, and the drinking water supply of New York City and the lower Hudson Valley.

Authorities have attributed the situation to the lowering level of water in the various hydro dams and the piecemeal natural gas supply from Nigeria.

Speaking at an advocacy dialogue with traditional leaders in the region for the elimination of harmful social and cultural practices, Ms Amidu said research showed that quality education, improved sanitation, nutrition, maternal and child health, and access to water supply also recorded low rates.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. today called upon the New York State Canal Corp. to take pro-active steps to reduce the amount of water flowing out of Hinckley Reservoir due to the extremely low water level in the reservoir, which serves as the major drinking water source for the Utica region and also supplies water to the Erie Canal.

Oswego's mayor is asking city residents to conserve water, saying the city's water supply is at critically low levels.

New York City will adjust its procedure of testing for lead in the water supply of schools, after experts said the city's methods could lower the levels found.

Matthews saw this take place in Nepal, where low water levels rendered a brand - new dam project ineffective and cut off the water supply farther downstream.

Other possible explanations for the decline, which is being caused by a low survival rate of seal pups, include a change to the food supply owing to warming waters; competition for food from large fish called jacks; or the possibility that the reserve is simply too new for its ecosystem to have settled down.

In a long - awaited move designed to protect people from cancer, California on Thursday proposed a new health goal for chromium 6 in drinking water that is thousands of times lower than the amount contaminating some water supplies.

Seven years later, when the reservoir's water supply was restored to full capacity — after engineers lowered it 130 feet (40 meters) for maintenance — the area experienced an unusual series of earthquakes.

The state's normal strategy for water management calls for keeping the reservoirs low in winter, to provide protection against floods, and keeping them as high as possible in summer, to ensure an adequate supply for the giant farming operations in the Central Valley (one of the most productive agricultural regions in the world) and for arid southern California.

In California, the issue of water supply has pitted farmers against city dwellers and environmentalists, who claim that the farmers waste most of their water on low - value crops and inefficient irrigation systems.

Existing low - tech approaches can help prevent scarcity, as can ways to boost supplies, such as improved methods to desalinate water.

A team of environmental scientists hired by New York City in 2009 to evaluate fracking's environmental impact concluded that the process could be «catastrophic» to the city's water supply because it degraded water quality and exposed residents to potentially «chronic low levels of toxic chemicals.»

The pre-GERD Nile flow now barely supplies 97 % of Egypt's present water needs with only 660 cubic meters per person, one of the world's lowest annual per capita water shares.

While the specific cause of the Yosemite toad's decline is unknown, meadow restoration across the high Sierras is of importance to land managers focusing on watershed health to maintain clean and sustainable water supplies for the populations at lower elevations.

While bridgmanite is the most abundant mineral in the lower mantle, they found that it contains too little hydrogen to play an important role in Earth's water supply.

Unlike the freakish situation in California, where several years of low snowfall and rainfall are serving as a reminder of the tremendous natural variability in Pacific - influenced weather, and the need to always be vigilant when it comes to managing water supplies, the situation in Washington resembles the parched climate - changed normal for swaths of the West in the decades ahead.

«With Lake Mead at its lowest level ever, we wanted to explore whether the basin, like most other regions around the world, was relying on groundwater to make up for the limited surface - water supply.

The method consists of supplying bubbles of compressed air from a perforated pipe lowered in the water, which then rise, taking with them colder water from deeper in the ocean.

The PVC piping system developed by Brian Barkdoll, left, and Mohammad Alizadeh Fard, offers a low - tech, affordable internal piping method for drinking water supply managers to circulate water within large municipal water supply tanks to prevent against waterborne illness following large drawdowns of the tanks.

Water supplies are now so low that state officials have approved fines of up to $ 500 a day for water - wasting residWater supplies are now so low that state officials have approved fines of up to $ 500 a day for water - wasting residwater - wasting residents.

The study projects that, by 2020 and into the 2080s, Washington will experience higher temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, and lower summer water supplies.

In one sentence: Regions that depend primarily on irrigation from surface water will be more vulnerable to drought as the impacts of irrigation on water supply are most significant during times with low water flow, according to climate modeling research from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

And regions that depend primarily on surface water irrigation (rivers, lakes, reservoirs) will be more vulnerable to drought as the impacts of irrigation on water supply are most significant during times with low water flow.

Without new supplies of oxygen - rich water, conditions in lower coastal waters — where bacteria are feeding — can become suffocating.

Angelenos could lower the city's greenhouse gas emissions from water supplies by up to 70 percent by reducing the use of imported water and increasing conservation rates, the study found.

The Lancet included it in its list of neurotoxins (along with lead, arsenic, and more), and a 2012 Harvard University report found that kids in areas supplied by high - fluoride water have «significantly lower» IQs than those whose water has less fluoride.

I have noticed a low supply of coconut water at my local grocer.

In particular new mothers who are breast feeding need to be extra careful regarding the water decrease as low water levels in the body is able to change their milk supply.

Perhaps this is why so many people seem to have low thyroid symptoms; most water supplies are treated with fluoride and chlorine.

The water company could have selected another water treatment option that would have reduced TTHMs in the water supply and kept it bacteria - free, but adding chloramines to the water was the low - cost option.

d) If your municipal water supply is chlorinated or fluoridated switch from drinking tap water to a water supply which is neither chlorinated or fluoridated and contains low to non-detectable levels of naturally - occurring fluoride.

Only 20 % of global wastewater is currently being treated, leaving low - income countries hardest hit by contaminated water supplies and disease, according to the UN-Water Analytical Brief on Wastewater Management.