Sentences with phrase «new water security»

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Peter moves from the security of fixed, failed reality — «We fished all night and have nothing» — into full, uncontained reality — The water is deep and dark, spurring Peter to sense the gap between his world and Jesus» new creation.

While in August, the founder of the $ 870 million Duxton Asset Management, Ed Peter, also launched a $ 99 million raising for a new water entitlements fund to be listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and position itself to expand across the Murray Darling Basin.

We also thank the state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, state DOT, state Office of Emergency Management, state Department of Environmental Conservation, Albany County Sheriff (for drone observations), Warren County Soil and Water, New York State Police, Warren County Sheriff, Thurman Fire Department, Johnsburg Fire and EMS, Warrensburg Fire and EMS, Stony Creek Fire and EMS, Garnet Lake Fire Department, Warren County DOT, Warren County Office of Emergency Services Brian LaFlure and Amy Hirsch, state Forest Ranger Callee Baker, Thurman Resident Teddy Baker and our own Thurman Highway Department Crew.

At 9:30 a.m., Commissioner Basil Seggos and New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Representatives will announce the start of «Operation Clear Passage», a three - day, multi-agency Homeland Security exercise and water quality / navigational - boating enforcement event on Lake Champlain, Treadwell Bay Marina, 214 Bouchard Drive, Plattsburgh, NY 12901, west shore of Lake Champlain.

But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation of people losing livelihoods to desertification - many are finding new routes to water security with key implications for food access, economic resilience, and climate change.

Water shortages are being felt around the world yet impacts vary in different places, said Gleick, adding that the human, economic, and environmental costs of doing nothing, especially in the face of climate change and environmental security threats, are high and require «new thinking.»

«The staff has contended pretty much all along that they will have to meet the same security requirements as all of the large reactors,» says Michael Mayfield, director of the Division of Advanced Reactors and Rulemaking in the NRC's Office of New Reactors, noting that a timeline for licenses could be expedited if such reactors are simply scaled down versions of existing light water reactors that do not require new regulatioNew Reactors, noting that a timeline for licenses could be expedited if such reactors are simply scaled down versions of existing light water reactors that do not require new regulationew regulations.

Newly open waters will also change shipping lanes, affect oil exploration, and create new challenges to national security.

But there is growing evidence that pressures on water resources associated with poor management, increasing populations, and human - caused climate changes are now influencing regional security in new and disturbing ways.

A new study has revealed more about the mechanisms behind this process — knowledge that could prove useful in crop production in light of global concerns around food and water security.

There is media fervor and, more distressingly to our protagonist, there is a full investigation by the National Transportation Security Board to determine what went wrong and whether or not Sully made the right decision to attempt the dangerous water landing rather than try to either return to LaGuardia or land on the runway of New Jersey's nearby Teterboro Airport.

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FM - CD Stereo system, Day / Night Shades, Rear Vision System w Color Monitor, Security Safe Additional Amenities: Exterior Entertainment System with 22» TV & AM - FM - CD Stereo systemBack - up Camera, Power Heated Mirrors, Fog Lights, 10,000 lb Hitch with electronic brake controllerCruise Control, Automatic Traction Control, Anti-Lock Braking System Deluxe Full Body Paint GPS Navigational System, SEE - Vision System CB Radio & Antenna Lighted VIP Smart Wheel Leather Power Pilot & Large Co-Pilot Seat w / power footrestPower Sunvisors, Adjustable Pedals 50 Amp Power Distribution Center 12.5 kW Diesel Generator on Power Slide, 3000 Watt Inverter, Four New 6V House Batteries Battery Maintenance Charging System Solar Panel w / Regulator, Surge Protector Manabloc Water System, Aqua Hot Heating System, Central Water Purifier Flush Mounted Tinted Dual Pane Windows Keyless Entry System w / Remote Roof Mounted Air Horns Marble / carpet floor (2) Storage Bay Slide - Out Trays Blue Ox 5000 lb tow bar with braking systemOriginal invoice upon rewater in door, InstaHot water faucet, Additional Freezer in basement Living Room Amenities: 42» Plasma TV, Bose DVD / CD / Stereo / Home Theater Surround Sound System, In Motion DSS System, Cable Ready, (2) Sofa jack knife beds, Power Silhouette Shades in Living / Dining Area Bathroom Amenities: Corian Counter Tops, Electric China Toilet, Glass Shower Enclosure, Combination Washer / Dryer Bedroom Amenities: King Bed, Vanity, 22» LCD Flat Screen TV, DVD / VCR Player, AM - 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Rep. Frelinghuysen, who represents the 11th district of New Jersey, is in his ninth term of office and serves on the House Appropriations Committee and three key subcommittees: Energy and Water Development, Defense and Homeland Security.

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The lots all have underground power, city water and will be included in the HOA of the new lots we are getting ready to start developing on the North side of Placencia Caye and will have access to all the associated amenities, like 24 hour shuttle boat, use of development golf carts on the mainland, large community pool, bar, workout room and security.

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Given all the oversimplified assertions over the years about Himalayan glaciers in a warming global climate, it's great to see a committee assembled by the National Academy of Sciences weigh in on the question with some data - based findings in a new report, «Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security.»

The new infrastructure also would improve safety and security in Arctic waters, which is one of the goals the United States set when it assumed the Arctic Council chairmanship in April.

Ceres» new food and beverage sector report commends leadings companies on climate goals, but calls for bold plans across the sector in sustainability, water conservation, and human rights security.

Excerpted from Chapter 8, «Reversing China's Harvest Decline,» in Lester R. Brown, Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in and Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2005), available for free downloading and purchase at www.earth-policy.org/books/out.

Climate change will have a profound impact on human health by placing new pressures on food and water security in nations around the world.

(11/15/07) «Ban the Bulb: Worldwide Shift from Incandescents to Compact Fluorescents Could Close 270 Coal - Fired Power Plants» (5/9/07) «Massive Diversion of U.S. Grain to Fuel Cars is Raising World Food Prices» (3/21/07) «Distillery Demand for Grain to Fuel Cars Vastly Understated: World May Be Facing Highest Grain Prices in History» (1/4/07) «Santa Claus is Chinese OR Why China is Rising and the United States is Declining» (12/14/06) «Exploding U.S. Grain Demand for Automotive Fuel Threatens World Food Security and Political Stability» (11/3/06) «The Earth is Shrinking: Advancing Deserts and Rising Seas Squeezing Civilization» (11/15/06) «U.S. Population Reaches 300 Million, Heading for 400 Million: No Cause for Celebration» (10/4/06) «Supermarkets and Service Stations Now Competing for Grain» (7/13/06) «Let's Raise Gas Taxes and Lower Income Taxes» (5/12/06) «Wind Energy Demand Booming: Cost Dropping Below Conventional Sources Marks Key Milestone in U.S. Shift to Renewable Energy» (3/22/06) «Learning From China: Why the Western Economic Model Will not Work for the World» (3/9/05) «China Replacing the United States and World's Leading Consumer» (2/16/05)» Foreign Policy Damaging U.S. Economy» (10/27/04) «A Short Path to Oil Independence» (10/13/04) «World Food Security Deteriorating: Food Crunch In 2005 Now Likely» (05/05/04) «World Food Prices Rising: Decades of Environmental Neglect Shrinking Harvests in Key Countries» (04/28/04) «Saudis Have U.S. Over a Barrel: Shifting Terms of Trade Between Grain and Oil» (4/14/04) «Europe Leading World Into Age of Wind Energy» (4/8/04) «China's Shrinking Grain Harvest: How Its Growing Grain Imports Will Affect World Food Prices» (3/10/04) «U.S. Leading World Away From Cigarettes» (2/18/04) «Troubling New Flows of Environmental Refugees» (1/28/04) «Wakeup Call on the Food Front» (12/16/03) «Coal: U.S. Promotes While Canada and Europe Move Beyond» (12/3/03) «World Facing Fourth Consecutive Grain Harvest Shortfall» (9/17/03) «Record Temperatures Shrinking World Grain Harvest» (8/27/03) «China Losing War with Advancing Deserts» (8/4/03) «Wind Power Set to Become World's Leading Energy Source» (6/25/03) «World Creating Food Bubble Economy Based on Unsustainable Use of Water» (3/13/03) «Global Temperature Near Record for 2002: Takes Toll in Deadly Heat Waves, Withered Harvests, & Melting Ice» (12/11/02) «Rising Temperatures & Falling Water Tables Raising Food Prices» (8/21/02) «Water Deficits Growing in Many Countries» (8/6/02) «World Turning to Bicycle for Mobility and Exercise» (7/17/02) «New York: Garbage Capital of the World» (4/17/02) «Earth's Ice Melting Faster Than Projected» (3/12/02) «World's Rangelands Deteriorating Under Mounting Pressure» (2/5/02) «World Wind Generating Capacity Jumps 31 Percent in 2001» (1/8/02) «This Year May be Second Warmest on Record» (12/18/01) «World Grain Harvest Falling Short by 54 Million Tons: Water Shortages Contributing to Shortfall» (11/21/01) «Rising Sea Level Forcing Evacuation of Island Country» (11/15/01) «Worsening Water Shortages Threaten China's Food Security» (10/4/01) «Wind Power: The Missing Link in the Bush Energy Plan» (5/31/01) «Dust Bowl Threatening China's Future» (5/23/01) «Paving the Planet: Cars and Crops Competing for Land» (2/14/01) «Obesity Epidemic Threatens Health in Exercise - Deprived Societies» (12/19/00) «HIV Epidemic Restructuring Africa's Population» (10/31/00) «Fish Farming May Overtake Cattle Ranching As a Food Source» (10/3/00) «OPEC Has World Over a Barrel Again» (9/8/00) «Climate Change Has World Skating on Thin Ice» (8/29/00) «The Rise and Fall of the Global Climate Coalition» (7/25/00) «HIV Epidemic Undermining sub-Saharan Africa» (7/18/00) «Population Growth and Hydrological Poverty» (6/21/00) «U.S. Farmers Double Cropping Corn And Wind Energy» (6/7/00) «World Kicking the Cigarette Habit» (5/10/00) «Falling Water Tables in China» (5/2/00) Top of page

Breaking New Ground: A Personal History (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2013) Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2012) World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2011) Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2009) Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2008) Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2006) Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2005) Plan B: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2003) The Earth Policy Reader (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2002) with Janet Larsen and Bernie Fischlowitz - Roberts Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth (W.W. Norton & Co., NY: 2001) Plan B Updates:

New evidence leaked over the weekend proved what many water protectors already suspected: private security and local police used surveillance...

New evidence leaked over the weekend proved what many water protectors already suspected: private security and local police used surveillance and other counter-terrorism measures against their peaceful resistance of the Dakota Access Pipeline on Standing Rock Sioux land.

Environment Expert: More than 75 % of the countries in Asia and the Pacific are experiencing a serious lack of water security, with many of them facing an imminent water crisis unless immediate steps are taken to improve management of water resources, says a new study prepared jointly by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Asia - Pacific [continue reading...]

Science Alert: Ocean warming has already affected global fisheries in the past four decades, a new international study has found, driving up the proportion of warm - water fish being caught and posing a threat to food security worldwide.

-- Report, Grist, Six Retired Admirals & Five Retired Generals WASHINGTON (AP)-- Global warming poses a «serious threat to America's national security» and the U.S. likely will be dragged into fights over water and other shortages, top retired military leaders warn in a new report.

At a time when excessive pressures on the earth's land and water resources are of growing concern, there is a massive new demand emerging for cropland to produce fuel for cars — one that threatens world food security.

In effect, the competition for land and water, in the form of land acquisitions, has crossed national boundaries, opening a new chapter in the history of food security.

Homeowners can also save between 5 and 20 percent on their premiums by making changes to their homes that increase safety and security, such as installing new house wiring, protective roofing materials, natural gas and water leak detectors and burglary and emergency event alarm systems.

This year, they'll finally be releasing the Ring Alarm Security Kit (originally the Ring Protect) as well as motion sensors, night lights, outdoor lighting, smoke and water leak detectors, and new wireless, standing smart cameras for a holistic way to keep an eye on your home all in one app.

Home automation manufacturer Fibaro today announced a new set of HomeKit - enabled products that offer basic motion detection and home security, as well as a Flood Sensor, which the company calls «the first water sensing and leak detection device in the Apple HomeKit ecosystem.»

«Samsung continues to raise the bar in the Android market with the Galaxy S9 offering convenient new security features such as face recognition and iris scanning to unlock the phone, water resistant technology, wireless charging and amazing new camera functions which are all innovations we know Optus customers will love,» he said.

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I've had an alarm system put in, two new security / storm doors (old ones were missing), some new blinds, a couple of new light fixtures and I had most all of the plumbing gutted and replaced including a new hot water heater.

Talk of smart homes — houses with computers that regulate lighting, security systems, appliances, even bath - water temperatures — isn't new.

Sign up for services: Cable TV, phone, internet, home security, garbage, electricity and water are some of the services you'll have to sign up for as the new owner of a home.

Home was built in 2001, and underwent massive upgrades in 2015, including installation of new furnace, water heater, washer / dryer, dishwasher, security surveillance camera system, recessed lighting throughout, built - in speaker / intercom system throughout the house.

Amenities \ Community Pool, Approval Information \ 1 - 2 Weeks Approval, Construction Type \ Cbs Construction, Design \ First Floor Entry, Development Name \ KEYS COVE, Equipment \ Appliances \ Disposal, Equipment \ Appliances \ Electric Water Heater, Equipment \ Appliances \ Smoke Detector, Folio Number \ 10 -79-29-014-0620, Front Exposure \ East, Furnished Info (List) \ Unfurnished, Housing - Older Persons Act \ No HOPA, Interior Features \ First Floor Entry, Listing Type \ Exclusive Right To Rental, Lot Description \ Less Than 1 \ 4 Acre Lot, Miscellaneous \ Electric Water Heater, Municipal Code \ 10, Parking Description \ 1 Assigned Space, Parking Description \ 2 Spaces, Pet Restrictions \ Maximum 20 Lbs, Pets Allowed \ Yes, Pool Description \ Community Pool, Renewable Rental \ Yes, Rent Period \ Year, Rental Deposit Includes \ 1st Mo2 Security Deposit, Rental Payment Includes \ Association Fee, Section \ 29, Sewer Description \ Sewer, Status \ Active - Available, Style \ Condo \ Co-Op \ Annual, Subdivision Name \ SHOMA CONDO AT KEYS COVE, Water Description \ Municipal Water, Windows \ Treatment \ Blinds \ Shades, Year Built Description \ New Construction

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.