Sentences with phrase «potable water resources»

Overwash accumulating each year will also damage the infrastructure on these islands, making it much harder for potable water resources to recover from storm events.

So, we don't have time to sit and slowly change things, and the only way to reduce consumption and atmospheric carbon in ways that do it fast enough to limit SLR to 10 ft. or so, avoid destruction of global potable water resources, and create equity and justice within a new, sustainable paradigm is rapid simplification.

Not exact matches

And, in our relationship to the natural world, short - term exploitation of the earth's bounty becomes our birthright, whether or not its result for our children might be shortages of life - sustaining resources such as topsoil and potable water.

That is also why the Gas Industry Conglomerates are buying up «Water Resources» in many parts of the country so they will have a monopoly on potable water as well — T. Boone Pickens comes to Water Resources» in many parts of the country so they will have a monopoly on potable water as well — T. Boone Pickens comes to water as well — T. Boone Pickens comes to mind.

To help Singapore meet its water needs, the ETI carries out R&D related to the production of potable water, upgrading current water resources to higher standards, industrial wastewater treatment and recycling, and production of ultrapure water.

Add in such factors as energy demands vs energy supply, shortcomings in potable water, a population that is projected to hit 9 billion from the present 6.5 billion by 2050, regional (and possibly global) conflicts over resources.

What happens then is anyone's guess, but resource conflicts over access to potable water aren't outside the realm of possibility.