Sentences with phrase «on the water supply»

Irena Wosk, the Coordinator of the CII - CIDA partnership on environmental technologies, said that for South India, the focus was on water supply: the depletion of aquifers and contamination of groundwater are the major issues.

After four to six months, your child may need additional iron, then after six months, depending on your water supply, a fluoride supplement may be recommended as well.

Similarly, there are other groups raising concerns about Nestlé trade union busting activities, impact on water supplies and spying on campaign groups.

Iron supplements are typically added by four to six months of age, and depending on your water supply, the doctor may recommend a fluoride supplement at six months.

«The mayor can't place a monitor on the governor's decrepit state prisons, or his failing upstate jobs programs, or on the water supply in Hoosick Falls,» de Blasio's press secretary Eric Phillips said.

«We need the state health department to focus on the water supply issues fast... State health dept seems to be relying on negotiations between the mayor and the company,» Enck wrote in a November 13 email to colleagues.

There are no assurances that the amount of water required to run the operations of such a facility will not place a significant strain on the water supply of the neighboring communities and the County.

They have an outsized impact on water supplies, agricultural productivity and other factors related to human health and well - being.

The agreements, likely to involve 15 regencies or provincial governments by the end of June, cover technology transfer and technical advice on water supply and waste treatment.

But all these countries have seasonal and local pressures on water supplies that threaten wetlands.

«There's substantial disagreement on possible future yields of energy crops,» he said, as well as questions on the consequences of growing biofuels on water supply.

In May, Michael Arceneaux, deputy executive director of the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies, began a one - person campaign to educate Congress that high - profile bills under consideration, notably those involving carbon cap - and - trade systems, had serious effects on water supplies that were not being considered.

Basically Israel would control the tap on the water supply to Amman.»

Jackson has tracked the dramatic transformation toward energy independence and the pressing questions swirling around fracking's impact on water supplies.

Increasing flexibility Water in the West is governed through archaic systems of rights, in which senior rights holders get first dibs on water supplies, which they lose to junior rights holders if they don't use them all up.

In Ecuador's capital, Quito, and the cities of La Paz and El Alto, on the Bolivian Altiplano, millions of people depend on water supplies fed by retreating glaciers.

«It can also be reassuring to receive data on their water supplies from an objective, university resource.»

Water in the West is governed through archaic systems of rights, in which senior rights holders get first dibs on water supplies, which they lose to junior rights holders if they don't use them all up.

In one sentence: Regions that depend primarily on irrigation from surface water will be more vulnerable to drought as the impacts of irrigation on water supply are most significant during times with low water flow, according to climate modeling research from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

And regions that depend primarily on surface water irrigation (rivers, lakes, reservoirs) will be more vulnerable to drought as the impacts of irrigation on water supply are most significant during times with low water flow.

As a protein source, beans are a more Earth friendly food when considering their impact on our water supply.

You just input your zip code and click on your water supplier and you'll see the results of testing.

We start this morning with a great breakfast, making sure we stock up on our water supplies.

Examples include forecasting climate variability and its impacts on water supplies, studying the spread of infectious diseases, searching for microbial - based alternative fuels, and the science and economics of carbon sequestration.

Sanitation and agriculture and industry all depend on the water supply, as does basic energy generation.

-- temperature increases will also likely exacerbate the impacts of climate change on water supply.

The bottom line — in sync with other recent analysis — is that the region is seeing a mix of changes, with glaciers growing in some places and shrinking in others and impacts on water supplies mostly inconsequential for decades to come.

In light of increased pressure on water supplies, frequent drought conditions, and a changing climate, farmers and ranchers are having to either adjust their practices to more sustainable ones or to face the very real possibility that their livelihoods are in jeopardy.

«Effects of a Carbon Dioxide - Induced Climatic Change on Water Supplies in the Western United States.»

Items on impacts on water supplies due to the disappearance of glaciers started appearing only in 1997.

I have been conducting a major study yet to be released this fall on water supply sustainability in the Rio Grande Basin, a complementary piece to another one that I did last spring that was more - heavily on the Lower Colorado River Basin.

Hydropower capacity has increased by slightly more than 1 % over the past decade, although actual hydropower generation can vary noticeably by season depending on water supply conditions.

Now, a dam can no longer be justified based on power generation, but one can be justified based on water supply, and that is being done.

Current water management practices are very likely to be inadequate to reduce the negative impacts of climate change on water supply reliability, flood risk, health, energy, and aquatic ecosystems (very high confidence)[3.4, 3.5].

The impacts on water supplies, croplands, and wildlife habitat lands would be devastating.»

Several studies focused on the Colorado River basin showed that annual runoff reductions in a warmer western U.S. climate occur through a combination of evapotranspiration increases and precipitation decreases, with the overall reduction in river flow exacerbated by human demands on the water supply.

Impact of Climate Change on Water Supply — Water saving irrigation in China — Upper East Region, Northern Ghana 7.

What is the impact on water supplies?

To be sure, we here at Ecocentric are very sensitive to the connection between water and energy, including electricity generation's alarming dependence on water supplies.

Global warming is increasing the strain on water supplies in California through rising temperature, even in wet years.

However, a meaningful exploration of drought must go beyond supply issues to include water demands, adaptability, policy, and the two - way feedback of humans on both water supply and regional demands.

«With global temperatures warmer now than they were at the beginning of the last century, that means our temperatures are warmer too, which increases the rate of evaporation and increases the demands on water, increases the stress on the water supply, and also leaves us more susceptible to breaking the high - temperature record, which we've been doing lately,» Nielsen - Gammon said.

The research cited in all three articles was conducted by Bren School graduates Ning Jiang, Season Martin, Julia Morton, and Skyler Murphy (all MESM 2015) for their Group Project titled «The Bathtub Ring: Implications of Low Water Levels in Lake Mead on Water Supply, Hydropower, Recreation, and the Environment.

Many of the biggest drains on our water supply come not from the kitchen tap but from inside the fridge of a typical home: ice cream, fresh meat and soft drinks, says Dutch scientist Arjen Hoekstra, who coined the term «water footprint» and founded the international Water Footprint Network in 2008.

In places like California, the Southwest U.S. more generally, Australia and parts of Brazil, record heat is exacerbating drought and leading to more stress on our water supplies and forests.

If temperatures are not kept down then Africa faces a range of devastating threats such as crop yield reductions in places of as much 50 % in some countries by 2020; Increased pressure on water supplies for 70 — 250 million people by 2020 and 350 — 600 million by 2050; The cost of adaptation to sea level rises of at least 5 — 10 % of gross domestic product.

We're seeing the dire consequences climate change can have on our water supplies right now in places like Cape Town, South Africa.

The IPCC in its Summary for Policymakers (IPCC 2001), Tyson and Gatebe (2001), Schulze, Meigh and Horan (2001) and New (2002) predicted that global warming resulting from increasing greenhouse gas emissions, will have serious, adverse effects on water supplies, and that floods and droughts will increase in magnitude and frequency.

Its impacts result from the interplay between the natural event (less precipitation than expected) and the demand people place on water supply, and human activities can exacerbate the impacts of drought.

They talked about the effects of population pressure, increased energy demand, climate change, and agriculture on water supplies and quality, and the need to «rethink our ideas about the relationship between food, water, and the environment.»