Sentences with phrase «on urban water»

For starters, read the Los Angeles Times article describing how his drought restrictions focus on urban water use while agriculture is by far the biggest water user.

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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.

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.

Also offers Climate Ventures 2.0, a 12 - week program for entrepreneurs focused on innovations in climate adaptation and resilience, particularly impacting food, agriculture and water in urban areas.

The Danube and Wien rivers were analyzed, the water supply renewed, an urban railway network built, gas and electricity laid on.»

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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

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.

Roger Kjelgren is focused on high value horticulture production and water conservation in urban areas.

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

Insufficient water not only harms trees, but allows other problems to have an outsized effect on trees in urban environments.

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.

Future City Dongtan China watches over every drop of water On a small, thinly populated island about 14 miles off the coast of Shanghai, a city is rising that could spell salvation for the 1 billion people expected to live in China's urban areas by 2045.

This so - called urban health advantage is usually attributed to better access to health care and improved overall infrastructure, such as clean water, safety and education.But many of the globe's cities are already bursting and actually offer a far worse quality of life to those on the lower end of the income spectrum, whose plights can get overshadowed in large - scale statistics.

During the long dry season farmers here depend on irrigation to water their vegetable crops, growing lettuce and tomatoes, green beans and onions, mangos and melons for urban markets all over the country and for export to Europe.

Booming energy sector speculation, combined with rising demands from growing urban centers and diversions to the Southwest, has put pressure on water sources.

While the focus of this research was on Chaco Canyon, the researchers found the conclusions for water management systems and kinship mobility relevant to modern urban centers built in arid environments anywhere and anytime in the world.

«Jordan's ability to satisfy future urban and agricultural water demands will be stressed by cascading effects on its freshwater supply,» said study co-author Steven Gorelick, the Cyrus Fisher Tolman Professor in Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences.

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.

Author Nikolaos Ntoulas explained that although turfgrasses meet the three requirements of plants recommended for use in urban environments (aesthetics, function, and recreation), these grasses have seldom been evaluated on extensive green roofs due to their high water demands.

«We simulated virtual water trade based on virtual - water - poor regions (urban centres, such as Rome) demanding grain from the nearest virtual - water - rich region (agricultural regions, such as the Nile basin) in the network,» explains Dermody.

According to the 2014 Joint Monitoring Report on global progress against the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) on water and sanitation, more than half of the global population lives in cities, and urban areas are still better supplied with improved water and sanitation than rural ones.

He has published in numerous social science and environmental science journals on topics of land and water management, biodiversity conservation, climate adaptation, residential development, and urban resilience.

Dynamic simulation of water resources in an urban wetland based on coupled water quantity and water quality models

Urban Decay 24/7 Naked Basics Double - Ended Liner in Crave / Venus (Crave on the water line and Venus in the inner corner)

For a brighter pop of purple on the lash line, I applied Urban Decay Plushie to top lash line and water line, then applied one coat of NARS Audacious Mascara.

This one puts him back in the water, only this time on an island off of the coast of Thailand, where an urban legend of a paradise beach proves itself true.

Featuring plenty of eye catching tourist attractions surrounded by the urban sprawl of a community on the decline, Dafoe spends his days desperately trying to keep his business as the manager of a rundown motel above water.

So when AI moves away from the placid confines of the suburban Swinton home and into the wild and woolly world of such locales as the neon - drenched, hedonistic urban center known as Rouge City or — in the film's most stunning sight — a Manhattan that is all but completely submerged in water, Osment's David remains a captivating companion on an increasingly strange and surreal journey.

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«This is a big deal, because storm water in urban areas falls on the ground and typically ends up somewhere else,» explains Newman.

92, Ed.D.» 95, applied to the Ed School to start her doctorate in the Urban Superintendents Program, she was reading a magazine for principals and saw a poster with a young child standing on a shore looking across the water into the distance.

Water was «read» by their mind, heart, sensorial attitude, into a valuable process of transdisciplinary knowledge.3 The visit to The Water Tower4 of the town and its museum facilitated the real knowledge of the objects and instruments that were used during the centuries by the rural and urban civilization concerning the use of water; the creative workshops facilitated unexpected «meetings» between poetry, music and painting in the artistic imaginary frame of water; the presentations revealed the magic powers of the water as they are known in folklore, mythology and also the astonishing Bible significations of the water and its use in religious rituals; the scientific outlook on water brought forward for discussion its physical - chemical properties, its role in the human metabolism and in all living beWater was «read» by their mind, heart, sensorial attitude, into a valuable process of transdisciplinary knowledge.3 The visit to The Water Tower4 of the town and its museum facilitated the real knowledge of the objects and instruments that were used during the centuries by the rural and urban civilization concerning the use of water; the creative workshops facilitated unexpected «meetings» between poetry, music and painting in the artistic imaginary frame of water; the presentations revealed the magic powers of the water as they are known in folklore, mythology and also the astonishing Bible significations of the water and its use in religious rituals; the scientific outlook on water brought forward for discussion its physical - chemical properties, its role in the human metabolism and in all living beWater Tower4 of the town and its museum facilitated the real knowledge of the objects and instruments that were used during the centuries by the rural and urban civilization concerning the use of water; the creative workshops facilitated unexpected «meetings» between poetry, music and painting in the artistic imaginary frame of water; the presentations revealed the magic powers of the water as they are known in folklore, mythology and also the astonishing Bible significations of the water and its use in religious rituals; the scientific outlook on water brought forward for discussion its physical - chemical properties, its role in the human metabolism and in all living bewater; the creative workshops facilitated unexpected «meetings» between poetry, music and painting in the artistic imaginary frame of water; the presentations revealed the magic powers of the water as they are known in folklore, mythology and also the astonishing Bible significations of the water and its use in religious rituals; the scientific outlook on water brought forward for discussion its physical - chemical properties, its role in the human metabolism and in all living bewater; the presentations revealed the magic powers of the water as they are known in folklore, mythology and also the astonishing Bible significations of the water and its use in religious rituals; the scientific outlook on water brought forward for discussion its physical - chemical properties, its role in the human metabolism and in all living bewater as they are known in folklore, mythology and also the astonishing Bible significations of the water and its use in religious rituals; the scientific outlook on water brought forward for discussion its physical - chemical properties, its role in the human metabolism and in all living bewater and its use in religious rituals; the scientific outlook on water brought forward for discussion its physical - chemical properties, its role in the human metabolism and in all living bewater brought forward for discussion its physical - chemical properties, its role in the human metabolism and in all living beings.

The winter 2010 People Speak Poll, conducted in conjunction with the Center for Urban Initiatives and Research at UWM and The Business Journal Serving Greater Milwaukee, focuses on water issues including quality, quantity, governance, and economic...

But Commissario Brunetti is not a foreigner, so his Venice illuminates the paradox of living in the world's most beautiful urban setting built — not just on water — on danger and menace.

Based on the knowledge of urban morphology, this study analyses how human systems have affected the transformation of natural water processes in the Kaoping River Delta.

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The working donkey or horse is vital to carry supplies (water, food and building materials) to the outlying villages; including most of Kabul's surrounding urban areas that are built on the side of the unforgiving mountain terrain.

Ride up on a tourist bus, to the Incan City of Machu Picchu, Wonder of the Modern World, located among abrupt mountains and almost inaccessible places, presenting a set of houses, squares, stairways, towers, walls, water fountains, ceremonial places, such as the Intiwatana (Solar observatory), sacred temples and benched terraces, with an incredible urban harmony, displaying the Incan engineering's high level of development.

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Yes, NYC is a major urban area, but it's also on the water, and while the East River is so toxic you'll get superpowers after a dip, there are tons of aquatic activities that demand the swimmers.