Sentences with phrase «on water resources»

In particular, information about both climate impacts on water resources and climate emissions from water uses is needed to guide water management decisions.

The research found that this international demand for fresh water can contribute to pressures on water resources in regions of the world that currently experience water scarcity.

However, the impact of climate change on water resources across the continent is not uniform.

The study shows that trade between these water - scarce regions tends to draw more sharply on water resources in the less developed, poorer regions.

Conventional power plants place heavy demands on our water resources — coal power consumes the most, but natural gas and nuclear power also require significant amounts.

I have a lot of experience in water treatment and site remediation business over 2 decades, especially on water resource management, water treatments both of wastewater treatment and produced water treatment.

The energy sector faces multiple threats from climate change, in particular from extreme weather events and increasing stress on water resources.

Climate change is bringing more severe droughts and floods, putting increasing pressure on water resources across the country.

Climate change, alongside numerous other pressures, is having unprecedented effects on water resources both globally and locally.

Today's electricity system can not meet our needs in a future of growing demand for power, worsening strains on water resources, and an urgent need to mitigate climate change.

Natural gas and oil are crucial parts of the energy sector but they can be a big drain on water resources.

But there is growing evidence that pressures on water resources associated with poor management, increasing populations, and human - caused climate changes are now influencing regional security in new and disturbing ways.

We intend to play an active role in the debate on water resources, water supply and water consumption, with a very critical attitude towards the current policies.

Of primary concern is the potentially damaging impact of natural gas drilling on water resources.

It is likely that climate change will have a range of impacts on water resources.

At the same time, they say pressure on water resources will continue to grow as populations increase, creating an unsustainable scenario where supply loses out to demand.

Solar and wind energy require essentially no water at a time when stress on water resources is becoming an ever larger economic and ecological issue.

It often puts a strain on water resources, and it can force local populations to compete for the use of critical resources.

Democratic Senator Daniel Moynihan of New York, who, with the Democrats now taking control of the Senate, will head the Senate Environment Subcommittee on Water Resources, said after the veto, «The President could have avoided a confrontation with the new Congress.

On Monday night, The Rockland County Task Force on Water Resource Management met at the New City Public Library to discuss important initiatives throughout Rockland County.

«The ongoing recession of Andean glaciers will become increasingly problematic for regions depending on water resources supplied by glaciered mountain catchments, particularly in Peru,» the researchers wrote.

A recent STPF Science Diplomacy Affinity Group symposium shed new light on climate change and war when an expert on water resources identified climate change as a factor that also contributes to political turmoil.

In a recent update to a study on water resource availability in South Africa, scientists are now warning that previous estimates were off and that there is even less water available than previously estimated,

Fox — who is based at the East West Center in Honolulu — warns in Science this week that the environmental consequences of these massive land use changes, particularly on water resources, could be devastating.

Comparing these conventional water footprint values would lead people to think the bag of M&M's takes a far worse toll on our water resources.

Climate change will have significant impacts on water resources around the world because of the close connections between the climate and hydrologic cycle.

MONGOLIA Oyu Tolgoi Phase 2: Plans, Issues and Risks An Overview of Oyu Tolgoi Phase 2 Mining Plans and some of the issues and risks associated with block cave underground mining, international metal price uncertainty, project power supply, and impacts on water resources used by herders.

To best represent the influence of climate variations on water resources, this chapter focuses on eight rivers and their watersheds (Figure 3 - 5; note that some watersheds — for example, Poplar River and others — extend beyond the state boundaries).

Michael J. Scott et al., «Climate Change and Adaptation in Irrigated Agriculture — A Case Study of the Yakima River,» in UCOWR / NIWR Conference, Water Allocation: Economics and the Environment (Carbondale, IL: Universities Council on Water Resources, 2004); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, «Global Warming to Squeeze Western Mountains Dry by 2050,» press release (Richland, WA: 16 February 2004).

MRD Journal: Abstract: Rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns across the Hindu Kush — Himalaya (HKH) region resulting from climate change have an influence on water resource availability and food security for the downstream population.

The model uses information on water demand and availability provided by existing global integrated assessment models at IIASA, including the Community Water Model (CWATM); the Model for Energy Supply Strategy Alternatives and their General Environmental Impacts (MESSAGE); and the Global Biosphere Management Model (GLOBIOM), and provides information on water resources development, allocation and cost to those models.

This legacy of broken promises to establish strict measures to address the growing and negative impacts on the water resources of the tar sands region, Droitsch maintains, deserves more attention and scrutiny particularly as the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is being reviewed by the U.S. State Department.

Kieft, Henk and Znaor, Darko (2000) Impact of agricultural development scenarios on water resources in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania.

And check out the American Beverage sites on water resources and recycling.

But community groups are concerned about the potential for accidents, and environmentalists about the toll nuclear takes on water resources and the wildlife killed when reactors use river or lake water for cooling — particularly at Indian Point, less than 30 miles north of New York City on the Hudson River.

Even as the Buffalo region experiences what many believe is an economic resurgence, some are convinced more efforts should be made to capitalize on water resources to create jobs and expand businesses.

The threat may not be limited to fish: Freshwater dolphins and river otters may also migrate along Amazonian rivers, and how dams affect their behavior is unknown, says Paul Van Damme, director of the Institute for Applied Research on Water Resources, a research center in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

The only Mediterranean countries classified by UNEP as likely to keep pressure on water resources low are Italy, France, the Balkan states, Greece, Turkey and Syria.

In India, for example, they underestimated the impact of the green revolution on water resources.

This thesis forms part of the «Vienna Doctoral Programme on Water Resource Systems», an interdisciplinary doctorate programme led by flood expert Prof. Günter Blöschl.

The awards ceremony will be held in Riyadh on 6 January 2013, concurrently with the 5th International Conference on Water Resources and Arid Environments (ICWRAE 5), which will run from 7 - 9 January 2013.

Urbanisation and demographic changes, environmental degradation and a lack of essential services also place huge demands on water resource managers.

The additional processes included in the JULES model will provide a more complete picture of water resources of South Asia than previously possible, allowing quantitative analysis of the effects of changes in river flow and glaciers on water resources and the implications of these changes on water availability for irrigation and therefore crop yields.

The continued deterioration of glaciers will also have inevitable consequences in the high basins — not only on water resources, but also undoubtedly on ecosystems connected to ice masses.

Roger is a lead author on a number of national and international climate assessments, including the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Global Assessment of Disasters, the UN IPCC Special Reports on Water Resources and on Extremes.