Sentences with phrase «own fresh water supply»

Cities, because of their concentrated populations, put a huge strain on natural resources like fresh water supplies.

We all share 1 % of the world's fresh water supply.

Like many other parts of the world, Israel has a critical need to increase fresh water supplies.

Even if you ignore the ridiculous expense necessary to build dikes around the whole city, there's no plausible way at this point to prevent rising seas from penetrating the porous limestone underneath the city and infiltrating its fresh water supply.

It is becoming increasingly apparent how fortunate we are to live by one of the world's largest fresh water supplies.

At a public forum at Southold Town Hall Tuesday night, SCWA representatives, county Legislator Al Krupski (D - Cutchogue) and members of the Town Board all spoke about the importance of protecting the North Fork's fresh water supply.

In New York State, 12.3 % of the total fresh water supply comes from groundwater.

Finally, we should invest in developing technologies like desalinization and other filtering processes capable of cost - effectively increasing our fresh water supply.

Ascension Island wasn't the only outpost of the British Empire to worry about its fresh water supply (7 June, p...

The dry spell intensified an ongoing legal battle among Georgia, Florida and Alabama over fresh water supplied by the Apalachicola - Chattahoochee - Flint River Basin, which runs through the three states.

«The public has the right to know about the oil industry's use of limited fresh water supplies,» said Senator Fran Pavley, the bill's author.

«Given that we will need to adapt to more uncertain fresh water supplies, a problem that the state of California is currently grappling with, we need to find ways to correct misperceptions to help people adapt to temporary or long - term decreases in freshwater supply,» Attari said.

We here in North America have polluted and diverted our fresh water supplies far beyond nature's capacity to restore the flows, notably in the West where sprawling, thirsty metropolises have grown up in deserts where the only way water can be provided is to siphon it from other regions.

Needless to say, water is of primary importance to our survival, and protecting access to and the quality of fresh water supplies will likely become more and more of a challenge in the coming years.

The team is also planning to evaluate the effect of different pollution mitigation scenarios on long - term changes in snow cover and fresh water supply.

Increased meat consumption in the developing world is fast depleting fresh water supplies, according to a secret report first released by WikiLeaks.

Without forests, our fresh water supply would be further threatened.

Rabbits always need to have a fresh water supply readily available to them in order to keep them hydrated and healthy.

You're stranded on a deserted island and your food and fresh water supply is dwindling fast.

It is well featured by the fresh water supply from the ground and flow over to the sea.

Our fresh water supply is somewhat limited, and we ask that guests conserve water when possible.

If we are incorrect then the down side will be reduced Health Care cost associated with airborne carbon pollution, asidification of the Oceans and end contamination of Fresh water supplies with sewage!

Anyway, the bit I will quote indicates the importance of these glaciers to the fresh water supply of Asia.

unlike myself, someone who would truly like to mitigate the damaging effects of overpopulation (and air pollution, and fishery depletion, and diminution of the fresh water supply), it's important to understand that there are powerful interests:

someone could explain why there haven't been any hurricanes in the South to replenish the fresh water supply in the southeast since AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH can out

Realization that we must reduce the current CO2 amount has a bright side: effects that had begun to seem inevitable, including impacts of ocean acidification, loss of fresh water supplies, and shifting of climatic zones, may be averted by the necessity of finding an energy course beyond fossil fuels sooner than would otherwise have occurred.

There are far bigger fish to fry: overpopulation, fresh water supply, suburban sprawl (urbanization is GOOD Amy.

I think we will be heading on to 10 and 11 billion people by the end of the century; at which point ordinary food and fresh water supply will probably... uh, I don't know...

The drought is deepening in Cali and our fresh water supply is being stretched to the limit.

In America's Magic City, the rising seawater is leaking into, and contaminating, fresh water supplies above and underground.

The safe level of atmospheric carbon dioxide is no more than 350 parts per million, if we want the diversity of other species on the planet to survive — as well as «amenities» that humans require, such as fresh water supplies, stable coastlines and a normal degree of extreme weather events.

Let a low pressure system be centered over the islands at an extreme high tide, and seawater will flood the islands and salt up the fresh water supply.

It's not just suede shoes this threatens, as anticipated sea - level rise in Florida will also impact the state's tourism, real estate, and fresh water supply.

«Reduced black soot emissions, in addition to reduced greenhouse gases, may be required to avoid demise of Himalayan glaciers and retain the benefits of glaciers for seasonal fresh water supplies,» Hansen said.

In South Asia, the melting of Himalayan glaciers jeopardizes fresh water supplies for more than one billion human beings.

Sea level rise has led to increased risk of extreme flooding, as well as salt - water contamination for the state's fresh water supply.

While rain and snow would still help replenish Asian rivers in the absence of glaciers, the change could hamper efforts to manage seasonal water resources by altering when fresh water supplies are available in areas already prone to water shortages.

Many of those glaciers, especially in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, and Sierras, provide most of the freshwater that the populations below the mountains depend upon — yet this fresh water supply is vanishing.

So, not only does using less electricity save you money and reduce global warming impacts, but it also protects our precious fresh water supplies.

It would contaminate fresh water supplies with salt.

The effects of glaciers melting are largely detrimental, the principle impact being that many millions of people (one - sixth of the world's population) depend on fresh water supplied each year by natural spring melt and regrowth cycles and those water supplies — drinking water, agriculture — may fail.

The structure has a fresh water supply, waste water treatment system, tri-fuel power supply, and an energy efficient heating and cooling system.

The Premier also doesn't agree with my opposition to shale gas hydraulic fracturing — a process that will drastically reduce fresh water supplies in north - eastern BC and substantially increase greenhouse gases.

The wind might finally be at the back of the landowners and environmentalists who for years have warned that the pipeline, which will carry bitumen from Canada's carbon bomb known as the tar sands, is a threat to fresh water supplies and the climate.

Jones lectures about photography as a tool for conservation, and her work both as an educator and photographer are significant parts of the struggle for managing our fresh water supplies, ensuring fresh water for all, and using images to hammer home the importance.

The LA Times made it abundantly clear why the pipeline is a risk to fresh water supplies such as the Ogallala aquifer.

Image credit:: Tumbling Green Popcorn, Flickr, a2thegeezus By George Grattan Earlier this week I joined a number of Earthwatch colleagues and other interested filmgoers at a screening of the documentary Flow, an emotionally powerful (but narratively flawed) examination and indictment of the privatization of fresh water supplies throughout the world.

Online searches would tell me about the important function of the Amazon River Basin, which holds one - fifth of the world's fresh water supply and produces 20 billion tons of water vapor each day making it a key player in regulating the world's climate.

Rising sea level will have a huge impact, since half the world's population lives within 60 km of an ocean and increased flooding contaminates fresh water supplies and increases the threat from waterborne diseases.

Rather than starting with the most radical procedures, Lomborg argues that we should first focus our resources on more immediate concerns, such as fighting malaria and HIV / AIDS and assuring and maintaining a safe, fresh water supply - which can be addressed at a fraction of the cost and save millions of lives within our lifetime.