Sentences with word «overpumping»

If we can get the market to tell the truth, to have market prices that reflect the full cost of burning gasoline or coal, of deforestation, of overpumping aquifers, and of overfishing, then we can begin to create a rational economy.

Kaminsky worries that Long Island's aquifer is being overpumped in some places.

As overpumping depletes aquifers and increasingly extreme weather events destroy crops, it becomes ever more likely that food is the weak link that could bring down our global civilization.

In her book Pillar of Sand, Sandra Postel, using data for India, China, the United States, North Africa, and Saudi Arabia, estimated the annual water deficit in terms of aquifer overpumping at over 160 billion tons per year.

These include water tables falling as a result of overpumping for irrigation, the loss of fertile topsoil due to overplowing, and weather patterns becoming less predictable as the planet warms.

The new law has received cheers from San Joaquin Valley farmers and jeers from the environmental community and Delta - area residents worried about overpumping from the environmentally sensitive Bay Delta.

If countries that are overpumping do not move quickly to raise water use efficiency and stabilize water tables, then an eventual drop in food production may be inevitable.

A World Bank study of India's water balance notes that 15 percent of its grain harvest is produced by overpumping.

There was some deforestation, but overpumping of water was virtually unheard of, overfishing was rare, and carbon emissions were so low that there was no serious effect on climate.

Scores of countries are overpumping aquifers as they struggle to satisfy their growing water needs.

Overpumping has seriously degraded the Coastal Aquifer, which is entirely in Israel, deepening Israel's dependence on the two aquifers in the West Bank and increasing its reluctance to end the occupation.

We are overpumping groundwater, we have already built more dams than we can afford economically and environmentally, and we have tapped nearly all of the accessible rivers.

Without rain to irrigate croplands, growers repeatedly turn to underground aquifers, but the overpumping has taken a toll, causing water tables to drop dramatically.

Consider, for example, the overpumping of aquifers.

My first guess for «salinity intrusion» in Bangladesh would be overpumping of a thin layer of fresh water over salt... and my first guess for «coastal erosion» in Micronesia (Kosrae) would be reef modification / destruction.

Today, groundwater supplies up to 50 percent of California's water, but the state's prolonged drought has led to the overpumping of groundwater, overdrafting the Central Valley's aquifers.

In fast - growing Yemen, the population has increased four-fold over the last 40 years while the overpumping of aquifers has helped shrink the country's grain harvest by one third.

Today some 18 countries, containing half the world's people, are overpumping their aquifers.

Earth Policy Institute estimates that some 130 million Chinese are being fed with grain produced by overpumping — by definition, a short term phenomenon.

The overpumping of aquifers for irrigation temporarily inflates food production, creating a food production bubble that eventually bursts when the aquifer is depleted.

Overpumping, like overplowing, is also taking a toll.

Iran, a country of 70 million people, is overpumping its aquifers by an average of 5 billion tons of water per year, the water equivalent of one third of its annual grain harvest.

At the national level, 51 percent of all the water extracted from underground is from aquifers that are being overpumped.

Since the overpumping of aquifers is occurring in many countries more or less simultaneously, the depletion of aquifers and the resulting harvest cutbacks could come at roughly the same time.

A World Bank study indicates that China is overpumping three river basins in the north — the Hai, which flows through Beijing and Tianjin; the Yellow; and the Huai, the next river south of the Yellow.