Sentences with phrase «most areas the water»

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This is the third and most extreme mass bleaching event in 18 years to strike the Great Barrier Reef, and in each case, the areas that suffered the worst bleaching were the areas where the water was hottest for the longest period of time, Hughes said.

With risks ranging from extreme weather, water shortage, and unsustainable urbanisation to non-communicable disease, youth unemployment, and the global food crisis, we recommend you consult all three Global Opportunity Reports and seek out the risk areas most relevant for you.

Images of the flooded metropolises of Houston, Jacksonville, and San Juan with overtopped dams, billowing sewage, and flooded homes show that torrential rain can be one of the most devastating consequences of hurricanes, especially in urban areas where concrete makes it harder for water to drain and where people can drown.

Across most of the region — in Sudan, Somalia, Niger, Senegal, Nigeria's Niger Delta area, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia — the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization in 2006 identified tension or outright violence over the use of water - rich land or water itself.

National Director for Sri Lanka, Dhanan Sennathirajah, told Premier: «The biggest challenge right now is access to the areas [affected] because some of them are in mountainous terrain and most of the roads have got washed away or they are under five or six feet of water.»

I pray for the rains to go where they are needed most, and hope that they will not continue to deluge areas that do not need the waters.

The need to provide food, water, minerals, fuel and other necessities for such increasing numbers of people will place pressures on virtually all areas of the earth and demand the most careful planning and management of natural resources.

In remote areas, accessing drinkable water requires people — most often women and children — to spend many hours a day carrying heavy, unhygienic and non-ergonomic containers on their head and shoulders.

Most likely, however, is that he was told that the area past the first down line was nothing but shark - infested waters.

Not a military school, despite its name (it was known as Mr. Gunn's School a century ago), The Gunnery stands in the hills above Washington, Conn., some seven miles from Lake Waramaug, the most placid body of water in the area.

While we can't technically speak to her credentials as a fine lass, we feel pretty safe in declaring her the Bay Area's most promising girls water polo talent since the graduation of another Danville native — Olympic gold - medalist Maggie Steffens.

Transport links to Monks Cross would have to be massively improved for one as it is too far a walk for most and a distinct lack of watering holes in the area will surely have an impact!

Some of CCM's most popular exhibits include: Dinosaur Expedition, where kids can dig for dinosaur bones in an authentic excavation pit; WaterWays, an interactive system of pulleys, pumps, and pipes showcasing the wonders of water; Kids Town, an early - learning exhibit featuring a real CTA bus, mini-grocery store and kid - sized cityscape; Pritzker Playspace, an area designed specifically for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and their parents; Play It Safe, a realistic firehouse and fire truck that invites families to learn about fire safety through play; and Skyline, a National Science Foundation - funded exhibit that explores the science, engineering, art, and technology that keep Chicago's tallest buildings standing.

In this final post of the water birth series, I highlight the areas we need to continue to research to ensure hydrotherapy and water birth are offered to the most women possible, and that water birth is practiced in the safest way possible.

Most reported cases have been ascribed to the use of contaminated well water for preparation of infant formula.1 — 3 Fifteen million families in the United States obtain their drinking water from unregulated wells.4 In a survey of 5500 private water supplies from 9 Midwestern states, 13 % of the wells were found to have nitrate concentrations > 10 mg / L or 10 ppm nitrate nitrogen, 5 the federal maximum contaminant level.6 It is estimated that 2 million families drink water from private wells that fail to meet the federal drinking - water standard for nitrate, and 40000 infants younger than 6 months live in homes that have nitrate - contaminated water supplies.4 In urban areas, municipal wastewater - treatment discharges (a source of nutrients) on surrounding farmland aggravate the problem.7

Most every person reading this who has used formula for infant feeding lives in the luxury of an area where access to clean water is not an issue and where, if you can not afford formula, there are government programs in place to provide formula for you.

So then, if we don't like the unexpected chill of cold water or cloth, then why do so many adults repeatedly wipe down the sensitive skin of their babies (and in their most sensitive areas) with cold baby wipes?

Mr. Apoya expressed concern over the silence of the Community Water and Sanitation Agency about the development, since most of the areas listed to have the boreholes fall under their jurisdiction.

On my trip through the area I saw smaller «driveway» bridges that had buckled and a trailer or two in low - lying areas that most certainly had taken on water.

Syracuse has tried to cut down on the number of water main breaks by developing a predictive analytics model to determine where breaks are most likely to occur based on the age of pipes and the frequency of breaks in the area.

Most voters, however, agreed on the areas where Syracuse is failing: An overwhelming 84 percent rated the conditions of city roads, water pipes and infrastructure as fair or poor.

The Cortlandville Town Board is considering legislation that would prohibit gas stations from being built above the most critical areas of the town's water supply.

Peconic Estuary Program director Alison Branco said most of the time when she talks to farmers, they want to do the right thing for water quality because they all live in the area with their families, but for many, implementing all the practices that affect water quality is just «prohibitively expensive»

The study also should marry the two areas Cuomo identified as his most challenging — the environment and terrorism — by evaluating whether the Lloyd aquifer, our deepest and most pure source of water, should be considered a strategic asset that must be reserved as much as possible for emergency use, for example, in the event New York City's water supply is disrupted.

... Most job losses will hit research areas dealing with oceans and atmosphere, land and water, manufacturing, and a digital technology group called Data61.»

The reason: the Mississippi now flows through a conduit roughly half the width of its channel that existed before most of the levees were built, which means more water passes faster through a narrower area.

Water scarcity will affect most of Asia, and higher temperatures will lower rice yields in some areas by shortening the growing season.

Five species of invasive gobies populate wide areas of freshwater and brackish waters in Central Europe — the species that is most common to the region around Basel, Neogobius melanostomus, even figures among the 100 worst invaders in Europe.

The Southern Nevada Water Authority's most recent 50 - year water plan once again aims to outline how the area's water resources can meet the needs of its population and ecoWater Authority's most recent 50 - year water plan once again aims to outline how the area's water resources can meet the needs of its population and ecowater plan once again aims to outline how the area's water resources can meet the needs of its population and ecowater resources can meet the needs of its population and economy.

In a country like Bangladesh, where most people live in coastal areas, the opposite is true — there's too much water, and sometime in this century some of those coastal cities will disappear.

In two of those cases, the Canadian drilling company EnCana, which bought most of the area's wells after they were drilled and assumed liability for them, is either supplying fresh drinking water to the residents or has purchased the land.

The five - week - long 2008 Okmok eruption in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska was explosive due to the interaction of the magma with the abundant water inside the caldera, producing billowing clouds that deposited most of the tephra as fine - grained ash within 10 km of the vent area.

Although many hypotheses have been put forward, most of them focus on the impact of current variables such as reef area and water temperature.

That's the 140,000 - square - kilometer area that feeds many of Texas's major rivers, such as the Nueces, Frio, Guadalupe, and Llano, as well as the Edwards Aquifer — possibly the most critically important water resource for the state.

«The nine plants approved by the government — most of which are located in desert or semi-desert regions in Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia — will consume more than 200 million tons of water annually and could worsen water shortages in areas that already are under significant water stress.»

«It's in the suburban areas where you see the most water savings,» Jones said.

You can eliminate anything on the 70 % of the planet that's water, everything poleward of 57 ° latitude over which UARS does not orbit, and for all practical purposes the empty areas of the world, such as the Amazon, most of Australia, the Sahara, the Tibetan Plateau, much of Siberia, and even a lot of the western interior of the United States.

Across their range, northern raccoons are typically one of the most common mammals, especially in areas that have water or human development nearby, supplying streams or rubbish for them to forage through.

At the most fundamental level, the ecological footprint incorporates six measurements — city cover, carbon dioxide pollution, farm fields, fisheries, forests and rangeland — to reveal «the aggregate area of land and water ecosystems required by specified human populations to produce the ecosystem goods and services they consume and to assimilate their carbon waste.»

A nationwide analysis of water use over the past 30 years finds that there is a disconnect between rural and urban areas, with most urban areas becoming more water efficient and most rural areas becoming less and less efficient over time.

Remote - sensing devices that are sensitive to minute variations in the water content of soil revealed the footprints of vanished houses, water tanks, canals, and even historic rice fields, leading researchers to conclude that Angkor is most likely the world's largest archaeological site, a sprawling low - density metropolis covering an area larger than New York City.

Most previous studies have indicated the dominate role of water usage in changes in the lake surface area.

The most recent plan provides a policy platform for the protection of marine ecosystems and the restoration of fisheries within China's exclusive economic zone — an area of coastal water and seabed to which China claims exclusive rights for fishing, drilling, and other economic activities.

Scientists hypothesize that releases of toxic volcanic gases rendered the area's air and water lethal to most life in a short time.

Some of the shallow - water seeps are likely to be in now - submerged areas that were methane - producing wetlands during the most recent ice age, when sea levels were more than 100 metres lower than they are today.

«If we take the whole coastal system (the parts you can see once the water recedes like the beaches, dunes, and back - barrier areas, as well as the parts you can not see under the water) most likely Harvey caused some areas to loose sediment and others to gain,» says Figlus.

Less oxygen dissolved in the water is often referred to as a «dead zone» (in red above) because most marine life either dies, or, if they are mobile such as fish, leave the area.

The most common source of exposure to excess manganese is drinking water from wells, because groundwater in some areas is naturally high in manganese.

The project therefore represents one of the most plausible approaches to enhancing crop yield and increasing resilience in the face of reduced land area, decreased use of fertilizers and less predictable supplies of water.

The Ralph / Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array (LEISA) aboard New Horizons observed Pluto's surface from a range of 108,000 km to show areas where water ice is most abundant as well as possibly detecting areas that are depleted in methane.