Sentences with phrase «of urban water»

Urban forests can improve the quality of urban life and livelihood in many ways, providing both tangible (e.g. food, energy, timber, fodder) and less tangible environmental and societal benefits and services, like its contribution to urban greening, nature conservation and biodiversity management, improvement of the urban microclimate (less dust, more shade, lower temperatures), provision of opportunities for recreation, maintenance of buffer zones and protection of urban water resources.

RUAF partners IGSNRR, IWMI and IPES implemented research on productive reuse of urban water (including storm and wastewater) in urban agriculture in Beijing (China), Accra (Ghana) and Lima (Peru); RUAF partner ETC (the Netherlands) systematised the results of the three studies.

More than that the objective is to integrate management of the urban water cycle — sewage treatment and effluent reuse, stormwater treatment and recycling and potable water supply to maximize utility, efficiency, cost effectiveness and ecological sustainability — for which I have won awards.

The concomitant monitoring of the complex of urban water system elements makes it possible to grasp the entirety of relations among the various components of the urban water cycle and so develop a holistic approach to solving urban water problems.

More than 40 % of all urban water suppliers reduced their water use by 30 % or more.

This technical document aims to present the impacts of climate change upon urban water, particularly upon the performance of the urban water supply, wastewater and storm water infrastructure, through compiling existing studies on climate change and water resources.

To better understand the complexity of urban water systems in less developed nations, the Pacific Institute and the Institute for Social and Environmental Transition released a detailed analysis last week on the water situation in Indore.

A vision of urban water buses as rendered by students from KTH and Stockholm's University College of Arts, Crafts and Design.

She then introduced keynote speaker Marc Edwards, the Charles P. Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech and a nationally renowned expert in the chemistry and toxicity of urban water supplies in the United States.

The Lebanese civil war, fought in the streets of Beirut, exhibited another side of the vulnerability of urban water supplies.

Not exact matches

Another Super Bowl first - timer, Fiji Water makes its debut at the big game this year with an ad pitching the water as «Nature's Gift» while showing images of the Fiji islands juxtaposed with urban cityscWater makes its debut at the big game this year with an ad pitching the water as «Nature's Gift» while showing images of the Fiji islands juxtaposed with urban cityscwater as «Nature's Gift» while showing images of the Fiji islands juxtaposed with urban cityscapes.

While every drop of urban citizens» water is measured and most residential lawns are nearly grassless and brown, farmers — including non-U.S. farmers — can essentially divert river water or other natural water sources as much as they like to grow their crops, even if these crops are then exported to feed foreign cows.

Over the next two weeks, academics, innovators, business leaders, public officials and youth organization representatives will convene at workshops in San Francisco, Sao Paulo, London, Johannesburg, Oslo, Abu Dhabi, Mumbai and Shanghai to identify tangible opportunities related to five risks threatening our communities: extreme weather, continued lock - in to fossil fuels, urban breakdown, lack of fresh water and continued rise in non-communicable diseases.

One of the things that we have been seeing is that with more urban development, which leaves less space for water to go, and when water falls on concrete and streets it has [fewer] places to go rather than it falling on a wetland.

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.

Dr. Hill is currently on the boards of the California Water Service Group, Rand Corporation, Jenessee Center, Los Angeles Urban League (emeritus board) and Goodwill Industries of Southern California (advisory).

In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cities.

During his 41 years at Calvary Baptist, Barbour served on a variety of city policy - developing committees, including the Chester Water Board and the Citizens Council on Urban Renewal.

For instance, the steady destruction of our natural forests, pasture lands and inland coastal water bodies has not only meant increased economic poverty for millions of tribals, nomads and traditional fisherfolk, but also a slow cultural and social death: a dismal change from rugged self - sufficient human beings to abjectly dependent landless laborers and squalor - stricken urban migrants.

Various experiences in many continents of the world show that mobilisation in favour of the reaffirmation or recognition of water, gas and electricity, of education, health, urban transport, rail as common public goods and services, pays off over time.

In Black Mesa, Arizona, the proposal to construct six large, coal - burning electric plants and three strip mines meant that the health risks of air and water pollution would be suffered by a predominantly native American population, but the power generated would be distributed to distant urban areas.

(After Hero Trinity had passed beyond its own dangerous threshold, its pastor wrote, using marine imagery, «The troubled waters receded, the dry land of urban mission appeared, and the people walked out upon it in faith.»)

Bottling and selling drinking water has grown into a big business in India over the last 15 years with steadily rising demand from country's thousands of urban and semi urban centres.

In the mood for a drink, Tom's Urban bars are the best «watering holes» on the Strip with a great selection of handcrafted cocktails, craft beers, fine wines, and signature «to go» drinks.

Environmental water is a highly practical way of protecting and restoring valuable environmental assets that exist in a highly productive irrigated agriculture and urban and rural communities.

«Parents could begin with a discussion of current events and the news, reading children's books about important historical figures who have championed social equalities, encouraging children to participate in small acts to conserve water and resources, and visits to urban and rural areas,» she says.

Marquette Park Lagoon has also been the best body of water for urban anglers to catch largemouth bass, big bluegill, carp, warmouths — and even northern pike, taken every year on live bait or artificials.

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

An 1884 newspaper illustration, for example, depicted a skeleton disguised as a fruit seller offering produce to little children, suggesting that raw, unboiled fruits and vegetables led to cholera.17 The actual culprit, especially in such turn - of - the - century urban metropolises as New York City, with its inadequate, overloaded water and sewer systems, was most likely bacteria residing on the outside of the produce, or contaminated water or milk that happened to be ingested, rather than anything in the produce itself.18 Given the laxative effect of fruits and vegetables if consumed in excess, however, it is understandable that people assumed fresh produce might contribute to diseases with symptoms that included diarrhea.

It was launched in Pakistan in 1999, following a series of seminars organised by Nestlé PR company that suggested urban water supplies were contaminated and other bottled water tainted.

Given the structural damage caused by the earthquake to water supply systems, there is an additional risk of water borne diseases affecting large numbers of the urban, rural and displaced populations.

Supplements Epidemic Dysentery Controlling Cholera Diarrhoea and Drugs Persistent Diarrhoea Refugees and Displaced Communities Shigellosis Teaching tools and techniques Breastfeeding Practical Hygiene Children's Poster Competition Weaning Water and Sanitation Immunisation Growth Monitoring Photographic Competition Results Oral Rehydration Therapy Subject Index Aetiology Cholera Escherichia Coli Parasites Rotavirus Shigella Drug therapy Antimicrobials Epidemiology Health education and training Health education Training Immunisation Laboratory services Nutrition Breastfeeding Feeding and diarrhoea Growth monitoring Vitamin A Malnutrition and diarrhoea Weaning General Oral rehydration therapy Management of diarrhoea Infants Formula Measuring ORS Sanitation and hygiene Handwashing Latrines Survey and evaluation methods Traditional remedies / local beliefs Urban health Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Behaviour Water supply Water purification Women

Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition New York State Assembly NYS Assembly Community Resource Exchange (CRE) SCO Family of Services HCCI Chinese American Planning Council, Inc Heights and Hills Citizen Action of New York ROCitizen New York Association on Independent Living ATLI - Action Together Long Island NYSCAA New York Immigration Coalition Catholic Charities of Chemung & Schuyler Counties CDRC Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS Catholic Charities Professional Staff Congress Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley New York State Network for Youth Success NAMI Albany County Central Federation of Labor Food & Water Watch Jewish Family Service Metro New York Health Care for All Alliance for Positive Change MercyFirst Center for Independence of the Disabled in New York, Queens (CIDNY) SiCM — Schenectady Community Ministries Coalition for the Homeless CIDNY Citizen Action of NY PEF Retiree Urban Parhways, Inc Community Food Advocates PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 New York StateWide Senior Action Council Early Care & Learning Council Urban Pathways African Services Committee Day Care Council of New York New York State Community Action Association Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc The Radical Age Movement United Neighborhood Houses

A 2014 Demographic and Health Survey report by the Ghana Health Service and the Ghana Statistical Service has revealed that 43 % of Ghana's urban dwellers depend on sachet water as a source of drinking water.

As I speak, as of 2015, urban water supply had been taken to a whooping 80 % of the population.

The Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources has attributed a key part of Ghana's sanitation problems, especially in urban areas, to a debt of GHc 892 million.

Electricity coverage; we moved it significantly to above 80 %, water coverage, same significantly to above 80 % in terms of water coverage from independence to 2009 both rural and urban were hovering about the 50 % s. we take Inflation; just in January it was hovering around 13 % there about, at the time NPP was leaving office it was 18 %.

Comparatively, Ghana, under the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for a period of seven (7) years, between 2009 and 2015, increased Urban water coverage from 58.5 % to 76 % while Rural water coverage was increased from 56.5 % to 76 %.

By close of the year 2008, they left behind water coverage of 58.5 % and 56.5 % for Urban water coverage and Rural water coverage respectively.

In 15 years, in fact: they were fighting seats won in their 2008 high - water mark, in broadly urban seats, after two years of being in government at a time of tough spending cuts.

In the year 2001, the erstwhile New Patriotic Party (NPP) inherited water coverage of 56 % and 41 % for Urban water coverage and Rural water coverage respectively.

The Vice president is to start with the inauguration of the 61 km Dauran - Birnin Magaji - Kaura Namoda road, township roads and semi urban water projects in Bakura and Zurmi local government areas this month.

List of Supporting Organizations: • African Services Committee • Albany County Central Federation of Labor • Alliance for Positive Change • ATLI - Action Together Long Island • Brooklyn Kindergarten Society • NY Immigration Coalition • Catholic Charities • Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens • Catholic Charities of Buffalo • Catholic Charities of Chemung / Schuyler • Catholic Charities of Diocese of Albany • Catholic Charities of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse • CDRC • Center for Independence of the Disabled NY • Children Defense Fund • Chinese - American Planning Council, Inc. • Citizen Action of New York • Coalition for the Homeless • Coalition on the Continuum of Care • Community Food Advocates • Community Health Net • Community Healthcare Network • Community Resource Exchange (CRE) • Day Care Council of New York • Dewitt Reformed Church • Early Care & Learning Council • East Harlem Block Nursery, Inc. • Family Reading Partnership of Chemung Valley • Fiscal Policy Institute • Food & Water Watch • Forestdale, Inc. • FPWA • GOSO • GRAHAM WINDHAM • Greater New York Labor Religion Coalition • HCCI • Heights and Hills • Housing and Services, Inc. • Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement • Jewish Family Service • Labor - Religion Coalition of NYS • Latino Commission on AIDS • LEHSRC • Make the Road New York • MercyFirst • Met Council • Metro New York Health Care for All • Mohawk Valley CAA • NAMI • New York Association on Independent Living • New York Democratic County Committee • New York State Community Action Association • New York State Network for Youth Success • New York StateWide Senior Action Council • NYSCAA • Park Avenue Christian Church (DoC) / UCC • Partnership with Children • Met Council • Professional Staff Congress • PSC / CUNY AFT Local 2334 • ROCitizen • Schenectady Community Action Program, Inc. • SCO Family of Services • SICM — Schenectady Community Ministries • Sunnyside Community Services • Supportive Housing Network of New York, Inc • The Alliance for Positive Change • The Children's Village • The Door — A Center of Alternatives • The Radical Age Movement • UJA - Federation of New York • United Neighborhood Houses • University Settlement • Urban Pathways, Inc • Women's Center for Education & Career Advancement

The funds have been awarded to municipalities and Soil and Water Conservation districts to address major sources of water pollution and habitat degradation in dozens of urban, suburban and rural communiWater Conservation districts to address major sources of water pollution and habitat degradation in dozens of urban, suburban and rural communiwater pollution and habitat degradation in dozens of urban, suburban and rural communities.

«He has a soaring affection among the youth and downtrodden with his Various empowerment programs and communities development projects which include Bursary awards and Scholarship, provision of Pipeborne water, provision of Electricity to rural and urban communities across the state, provision of non-higher price cab for taxi drivers, weekly empowerment of widows and aged.

But in April, the Legislature approved a watered - down resolution that made funding of the program contingent on the county receiving a $ 3 million federal grant from Department of Housing and Urban Development.

He previously taught and conducted research on water conservation in irrigated urban landscapes and the water use behaviors of woody and herbaceous plants.

She currently is a principal investigator and co-lead of the Engineering Thrust of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Re-Inventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt).

In spite of such known urban pressures on health as air and water pollution, water shortage, overcrowding, poor housing, the stresses of city transportation and the generally accelerated pace of city life, there is no substantial evidence from the National Health Survey that the overall health of the urban resident is worse than that of the rural resident.

Poverty atlases that map the extent of privation have existed for decades as a means to alert urban leaders to areas lacking basic services, such as water, electricity and sanitation.