Sentences with phrase «of scarce water resources»

Touting the apparent success of the project, World Bank president Robert Zoellick said, «The return of the North Aral Sea shows that man - made disasters can be at least partly reversed, and that food production depends on the sound management of scarce water resources and the environment.»

They have a big problem of chronic over-use of scarce water resources, both for farming and rapidly expanding cities.

The Loa River water system of northern Chile's Atacama Desert, in the Antofagasta region, exemplifies the high stakes involved in sustainable management of scarce water resources.

Not exact matches

Some farmers and city leaders worry that the fracking boom is consuming too much of a scarce resource, while others see the push for production as an opportunity to make money by selling water while furthering the nation's goal of energy independence.

The National Association of Retail Grocers of Australia recently highlighted that Australia's food and grocery industry is «at a crossroads» as population - driven demand grows faster than food production, pointing to challenges ahead for sustainable development.1 Water is one of the most significant and increasingly scarce resources that producers need to meet this demand.

Water is the most scarce resource in the whole of South - Asia.

QUENCHING SOCIETY»S THIRST Freshwater is becoming a scarce resource in much of the world, including Yemen, where residents get water from a public tap.

Over the long term, net exporters may want to alter trade policies to avoid creating their own water shortages or raise prices to reflect the cost of increasingly scarce water resources.

The Fertile Crescent has been plagued with scarce water resources throughout history, Gleick said, adding that the region also has a long history of conflicts over water.

The project studies water resources in the Phoenix area with the goal of understanding decisions about scarce water resources and their impacts: How do water managers think about climate uncertainty?

«As surface water sources became more scarce during a given climate cycle, the only species to survive may have been those with adaptations for sufficient mobility to discover a new and more persistent groundwater source, or those already settled within home range of such a resource,» co-author Professor Gail Ashley, Rutgers University (US), said.

Dana Kolpin of the US Geological Survey in Iowa City says that the findings highlight the complex issue of antibiotic - resistance genes, which will continue to be of concern as treated effluent becomes more widely used in regions that have scarce water resources.

This leads to greater chances of food crises, particularly in nations where land and water resources are scarce and therefore food security strongly relies on imports.

The study also examined the impact of international exports on water resources, showing that production of international exports in China's top exporting regions also draws on water resources in water - scarce northern provinces.

Reducing the use of animal products can have a considerable impact on areas suffering scarce water resources, as meat production requires more water than other agricultural products.

He is a leading scientist on global water resources, and strategies to build resilience in water scarce regions of the world, with more than 15 years experience from applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 100 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability.

With the number of visitors to the northern Cambodian province approaching 2 million a year, increasing pressure is being put on the scarce water resource.

The surrounding desert makes water a scarce and vitally important resource, but even this couldn't push the people of Gerudo Town to control or master their spring in any real sense.

These games set up a hostile environment where you start with nothing, they make the human players more of a threat than the creatures, they normally give you guns, and they make food and water scarce resources.

WRI: Water is a scarce resource in India, especially in the state of Maharashtra, where most rainfall is limited to the monsoon season from June through September.

Water resources, already over-tapped in many areas, will become even scarcer as a result of increased evaporation and snowmelt caused by higher temperatures, affecting agriculture, hydroelectric power plants, and water availability in growing cities such as Phoenix and Las VWater resources, already over-tapped in many areas, will become even scarcer as a result of increased evaporation and snowmelt caused by higher temperatures, affecting agriculture, hydroelectric power plants, and water availability in growing cities such as Phoenix and Las Vwater availability in growing cities such as Phoenix and Las Vegas.

Clearly the election doesn't change California's severe drought, and nor will it change the proactive steps that many companies are taking to adapt to the new normal of ever - scarce water resources.

However, traditional wet - cooled CSP plants often consume a large amount of water which especially causes a challenge in arid areas where water resources are scarce.

Making better use of a scarce and / or expensive resource is a laudable aim, whatever the resource... energy... food... water etc etc..

Part IV: «Climate Change and Water: Rights and Runoff» presents Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Corporate Environmental Management Gary Libecap and Assistant Professor of Hydrology Christina Tague in a discussion about the complexities of managing the ever - increasing demands placed on scarce water resouWater: Rights and Runoff» presents Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Corporate Environmental Management Gary Libecap and Assistant Professor of Hydrology Christina Tague in a discussion about the complexities of managing the ever - increasing demands placed on scarce water resouwater resources.

With water particularly scarce in many Muslim countries, Islamic environment ministers agreed at a recent conference that «finding a solution was one of the «most important duties of our time»» — something that Arwa Aburawa of Green Prophet says could be achieved by reconnecting to Islamic water - management principles that hold that «every human has a right to clean water to quench their thirst and also that water is precious resource which must not be wasted even during abundance.»

And greater than the impact on winter tourism, the expected variability in precipitation is likely to bring greater conflict for scarcer water resources — after all, the glaciers of Europe provide 40 % of the continent's fresh water.

It's a tactical retreat after decades of cropping that exhausted scarce water resources.

Breslin states that the UN's declaration of water as a basic human right will «force countries to deal with the allocation of scarce resources.

World Water Day falls within National Water Week, the awareness campaign by the Department of Water and Sanitation, which emphasises the need for sustainable management of this scarce resource and the role water plays in eradicating poverty and under - development in South AfWater Day falls within National Water Week, the awareness campaign by the Department of Water and Sanitation, which emphasises the need for sustainable management of this scarce resource and the role water plays in eradicating poverty and under - development in South AfWater Week, the awareness campaign by the Department of Water and Sanitation, which emphasises the need for sustainable management of this scarce resource and the role water plays in eradicating poverty and under - development in South AfWater and Sanitation, which emphasises the need for sustainable management of this scarce resource and the role water plays in eradicating poverty and under - development in South Afwater plays in eradicating poverty and under - development in South Africa.