Sentences with phrase «over water allocation»

Pearce is a good storyteller: tales ripple through the book about how the Libyans are creating a great artificial river in the Sahara, how the ancient ziggurat at Ur was saved from bombing in the recent Gulf War, and how a tribunal in Valencia has been resolving disputes over water allocation continuously since medieval times.

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«This sale of allocations has reduced the amount of Commonwealth environmental water available in the Gwydir by around six percent in 2017 - 18, leaving sufficient water to be carried over to support future environmental watering priorities.

Just like irrigators, environmental water holders and manager plan for the likelihood of reduced water allocations by deliberately using carry over (where it is available) from the previous water year, to support the environment during a forecast dry year.

Trade Option 1 [S. 106 (2)-RSB-: Environmental watering objectives have been met and either: the water can not be carried over; or keeping the allocations is likely to result in future allocations being reduced.

A Watchful Eye Over Australia's Water Throttled by a water crisis that threatens Australia's future, the Australian government in 2008 launched a $ 10 billion campaign that is radically transforming the way water is handled at every level, from allocations for agriculture to the faucet flow rate in Sydney high - rWater Throttled by a water crisis that threatens Australia's future, the Australian government in 2008 launched a $ 10 billion campaign that is radically transforming the way water is handled at every level, from allocations for agriculture to the faucet flow rate in Sydney high - rwater crisis that threatens Australia's future, the Australian government in 2008 launched a $ 10 billion campaign that is radically transforming the way water is handled at every level, from allocations for agriculture to the faucet flow rate in Sydney high - rwater is handled at every level, from allocations for agriculture to the faucet flow rate in Sydney high - rises.

Disagreements over the allocation of water among countries that share river systems is a common source of international political conflict, especially where populations are outgrowing the flow of the river.

It finds that climate change will potentially destabilize transboundary river basins, and outlines the linkages among climate change, water variability and security; identifies elements in treaty design that could reduce conflict; and assesses the resilience of treaties ratified between 1948 and 2001, examining the effect of institutional and allocation mechanisms under conditions of variability on cooperation and conflict over time.

It outlines the linkages among climate change, water variability and security; identifies elements in treaty design that could reduce conflict; and assesses the resilience of treaties ratified between 1948 and 2001, examining the effect of institutional and allocation mechanisms under conditions of variability on cooperation and conflict over time.

Already, Georgia is involved in three separate federal cases over allocation of water from Lake Lanier, a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers managed reservoir that serves as the primary water source for metro Atlanta and is now 13 feet lower than normal.