Sentences with phrase «of available water»

Enjoy relaxing by the pool, or try one of the available water sports, including snorkeling, diving and sailing.

In places where energy production requires a large share of available water, the energy - water connection can turn into a collision — with dangerous implications for both.

With this information, plant breeders will know which individuals to choose as parent stock for crops that can survive droughts by making the most of the available water.

Basically it is all about using underground solutions to manage temporal variability of available water resources.

Across the Murray - Darling Basin, on a proportional basis, the Commonwealth had used more and carried over less of its available water since commencing operations in 2008 — 09.

To deal with a predicted 20 percent drop in precipitation in some of the country's major watersheds, Jordanian officials also aim to «maximize the use of available water through water conservation... and substitution of freshwater with reclaimed water for agriculture.»

The production of food through agriculture uses 80 % of the available water supply in the U.S., meaning that uneaten food leads to a significant amount of wasted water.

The places that will be hardest hit are the places that already have high water stress (a high fraction of available water already in use) and a low capacity of the community to adapt (ie, economic resources, water management plans).

Across the Basin, on a proportional basis, the Commonwealth used more and carried over less of its available water for each of the five years between 2008 - 09 and 2012 - 13.

The researchers do know that the presence of certain aerosols plays a large role in the formation of ice that leads to precipitation, but they also need to tease out the importance of that with other factors, like the amount of available water vapor and vertical storm winds.

(Water stress occurs in an area where more than 40 percent of the available water from rivers is unavailable because it is already being used — a situation that currently affects about a third of the global population, and may affect as many as half the people in the world by the end of the century if the current pattern of water use continues).

Given the continuous dryness and subfreezing temperatures, and the lack of available water, even in summer, it is unlikely that any microbial communities can grow in these soils.»

Specifically, he is interested in how vegetation and agriculture drive the apportionment of available water and energy and are thus a primary control on hydrologic processes.

A highlight of Turks and Caicos vacations is definitely the wide range of available water sports.

The total amount of available water will also be lower than we're used to, says Tara Garnett, at the Public Library of Science's blog.

But the model can identify a solution that increases the area of wetland habitat with the best use of available water, labor and financial resources.»

In the short run, our choices for what kind of power plants we build can contribute to freshwater supply stress — by committing an imbalanced share of the available water to power plant use — and can affect water quality, by increasing water temperatures to levels that harm local ecosystems, for example.

In their new study, the ETH researchers in the group headed by Sonia Seneviratne's, professor for land - climate dynamics, take into account the specific climatic properties of land surfaces, where the amount of available water is limited when compared with the ocean.

water - use efficiency carbon gain in photosynthesis per unit water lost in evapotranspiration; can be expressed on a short - term basis as the ratio of photosynthetic carbon gain per unit transpirational water loss, or on a seasonal basis as the ratio of net primary production or agricultural yield to the amount of available water

It can be expressed on a short - term basis as the ratio of photosynthetic carbon gain per unit transpirational water loss, or on a seasonal basis as the ratio of net primary production or agricultural yield to the amount of available water.

We assume that the fraction which runs off lies within 0 and 50 % of the available water.

The supply of available water can't keep with the demands we place on it.