Sentences with phrase «of water resources»

Its mission is to support the sustainable development and management of water resources at all levels.

In this activity, students work in pairs to research the important issue of sustainable use of water resources.

This rapid change might affect the availability of water resources by altering the rates of evaporation and precipitation.

Climate factors, especially rainfall has significant impacts on availability and quality of water resources systems of the region.

In his view, nations and regions have access to examples of relatively good regulatory and legislative structures to address conflicts and the allocation of water resources among competing states.

It includes understanding the importance of agriculture, being prepared for more erratic weather patterns and understanding the depletion of water resources.

The goal of her research is to improve the resilience and sustainability of water resources and aquatic ecosystems in the face of a changing climate.

To this end it carries out research in the fields of water resources and desert soils; animal and poultry production; ecology and dry land agriculture, as well as socioeconomic studies.

It is a fundamental which has the potential to showcase various new information about the studies of water resources.

Assignment of water resources designed by experts conveys the authentic information backed by supportive evidence.

This will allow for modern assessments of water resources based on sound information systems and management approaches and it will also provide the foundation to move towards sustainable patterns of production and consumption.

To model or directly calculate the timing and magnitude of water resource storage it is essential to collect baseline data on accumulation at numerous secondary sites.

In the context of water resources management, cities and their respective water utilities are beginning to promote the reduction of water consumption, reuse of water, and recovery of materials from wastewater.

The accelerating demand pushed by demographic pressure and increasing competition for water reserves results in the risk of water resources not meeting demands.

Some projects involve developing «zero liquid discharge» plants to ensure optimum recycling of water resources, and the creation of production units for recycled plastic to secure supply source.

There is currently a ban on small - scale mining in the country following the widespread devastation of the water resources and forest reserves due to the activities of illegal miners.

The size of water resources vary greatly, even on one small property.

Similarly, some alternative transportation fuels, such as hydrogen and biofuels that require irrigation, can reduce dependence on petroleum, but at the expense of water resources.

In other words, by shifting to vegetarian diet we could secure adequate food supply for an additional 1.8 billion people without increasing the use of water resources.

From soil erosion and depletion of water resources to oceanic «dead zones» associated with synthetic fertilizer run - off and generation of major greenhouse gas emissions.

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the Indian Ministry of Water Resources reports that groundwater withdrawals exceed recharge in the three states we studied2.

After reading Plan B, the Minister of Water Resources in China invited Lester Brown to talk about the issues, which they did in Beijing.

As a result, Vice Minister of Water Resources Jiao Yong is personally heading up the team that will assess dams in the four provinces affected by the quake.

(ii) the long ‑ term average sustainable diversion limit for the water resources of the water resource plan area that is specified in the Basin Plan; and

Ice melt from Chacaltaya Glacier, located in Choqueyapu Basin, provides part of the water resources for the nearby city of La Paz, allowing the release of water stored as ice throughout the long, dry winter season (April - September).

The channels were built by the Illinois Department of Transporation Division of Water Resources after the 1972 floods and before the 1983 floods.

In 2014, Arizona's Department of Water Resources issued a plan for sustaining the state's water supply into the future.

(2) When a change to the Basin Plan would result in a change in the reliability of the water allocations in relation to the water resources of a water resource plan area, the Basin Plan identifies the change and may also specify the Commonwealth's share (if any) of that change in reliability.

I was in the audience at the Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum and raised both the baby milk issue and Nestlé's destruction of water resources in Brazil under his watch.

By the same measure, President Akufo - Addo stated that «the concern we have in Ghana, that you know about, is about the control of the water resources of our two countries», adding that these «are matters that we are going to be able to address.»

The implications help us understand the future of water resources in tropical, high elevation zones throughout the world, most notably in South America and East Africa.

At the time, the California Department of Water Resources reported that the dam itself was safe and did not pose a threat to downstream populations.

An Act to make provision for the management of the water resources of the Murray - Darling Basin, and to make provision for other matters of national interest in relation to water and water information, and for related purposes

«The portions of the West that are already stretched in terms of water resources — Arizona, New Mexico, the High Plains of Texas, the southern Central Valley — for those places that are already having problems, climate change is going to tighten the screws,» Meixner said.

Worsening drought has led to over 80 percent of water resources in Pakistan's southern Tharparker district becoming unfit for people to drink, a new study says

As for infrastructure, Mr. Larson was a strong backer of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act, passed by Congress earlier this year, which should help rebuild the nation's ports, waterways, dams and levees.

asked Danny Merkley, a farmer and director of water resources for the California Farm Bureau Federation, in an interview with ProPublica.

«Valuing preferences over stormwater management outcomes including improved hydrologic function,» co-authored by Amy Ando and her graduate student Catalina Londoño Cadavid, was published in a recent issue of Water Resources Research.

World Economic Forum points in 2015 to the over-exploitation of water resources as being the biggest global risk to human well - being and prosperity over the next decade.

The world can scarcely do without irrigation, and irrigation is scarcely possible without some regulation of water resources.