In many instances, the impacts from these events have been exacerbated by rapid unplanned urbanisation, overcrowding, lack of inclusive growth and planning, poor maintenance and lack of upgradation
of old infrastructure.
Cuomo proposed a $ 10 billion renovation of John F. Kennedy International Airport and surrounding roadways on Wednesday, his latest salvo in a roughly $ 100 billion push statewide to bring
decaying old infrastructure into the modern era.
The same kind of transformation that turned those expensive, clunkers into powerful computers in every pocket is happening now in energy, he says, with new technology
leapfrogging old infrastructure.
The financial cost has not been great, while the price of electricity in SA has increased, the increases are no greater than elsewhere and have been ascribed mainly to the costs of
updating old infrastructure in the transmission system, rather than having anything to do with the cost of building and integrating wind power.
Second, less developed countries may take advantage of renewable technologies to «leapfrog» almost entirely
over older infrastructures.
If other large cities
with older infrastructures are leaking on a scale comparable to Washington, D.C — and Jackson's group has similar data from Boston that suggests they are — leaky city pipes make a significant contribution to methane in the atmosphere.
Margin expansion reflects process innovation and initial decommissioning of old infrastructure
I'm collapsing
the old infrastructure and the new infrastructure into one.
We need to deal with our 100 - year -
old infrastructure and our trains.
But the crisis in Flint, where dangerous levels of lead were found in drinking water in February 2015, has raised serious questions about water quality in cities like Buffalo that have
older infrastructure.
«We have a new reality when it comes to these weather patterns; we have
an old infrastructure and that is not a good combination,» Cuomo said.
We have two problems on the water system: we have
an old infrastructure and there are actually health hazards in our water systems because we did a lot of manufacturing for a lot of years.
The Highway Superintendents Association, he explained, has been lobbying the state government to make more money available through
its older infrastructure program, the Consolidated Local Street and Highway Improvement Program, or CHIPS.
But when you have
an old infrastructure system, when you have the cold come in, it shows you where your problems are.»
Old infrastructure can create new challenges as well as inconveniences.
«This is a significant piece of 50 - year -
old infrastructure that needs to be completely replaced,» Tom Rhoads told the Environmental Protection Committee.
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Old infrastructure, old pipes in particular, can kill people,» Edwards said.
Edwards argued that the crisis in Flint, Michigan shows that
old infrastructure, especially old pipes, has the potential to significantly harm or kill people, due to both lead exposure and through exposure to dangerous bacteria that grows in old pipes.
Godoy believes that although such institutions have their place and that
the old infrastructure around the «madoguchi» system is still highly influential, they are beginning to wane slightly in the digital age.
New York's subway is struggling with
old infrastructure and overcrowding.
March 7, 2017 • After five years of historic drought, the unprecedented amount of snow and rain falling now in California is a true test to some of the country's
oldest infrastructure.
A common problem with delivering eLearning to places with limited internet connectivity is that organizations try to make today's internet technologies work on twenty - year -
old infrastructure.
Is it lack of parent involvement, inadequate discipline, inadequate qualified teachers, or
old infrastructure.
By destroying what we have already built and forcing us to repair or write off
old infrastructure, natural disasters undermine our ability to invest in the future.
Another can be if you live in an older area with
older infrastructure, such as water lines that can burst and end up flooding your home.
It's been such a huge financial success that other cities, like D.C. and Atlanta, are creating their own «adaptive reuse» parks from
old infrastructure.
And as tech companies focus more and more on markets with slower,
older infrastructure (like India), apps like Duo will become ever more important.
As Bank Innovation points out, Apple is using tokenization and NFC to modernize
an old infrastructure and open up new long - term possibilities.