Sentences with phrase «said lack of electricity»

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U.N. special envoy for Palestinian rights Richard Falk said Tuesday the lack of electricity for 1.7 million residents in Gaza Strip is sparking a catastrophe.

The lack of broadband, she said, leads to a competitive disadvantage for residents, health care providers and businesses, and is just as important as roads and electricity.

«Water shortages from lack of electricity are common in today's conflicts,» says the ICRC.

GeneXpert also requires a constant and uninterrupted flow of electricity, lacking in many developing nations, although Weyer says studies are under way to attempt to power the machines with batteries and solar energy.

«As a region, Africa is in an unparalleled energy crisis rife with electricity deficiency, lack of access, and high costs,» said Wu.

Many of Vanacore's colleagues still lack electricity, «so when I was coming to AGU, I left my house keys at the network, so our analysts and students can use my house to do laundry and take a hot shower,» she said.

He said that in the event of a disaster, to give an extreme example, lack of electricity or other would mean an inability to access all those books.

McPherson explained her «I Know It By Heart» exhibition, which is currently open at Rome's Dorothy Circus Gallery until the end of July, saying: «The paintings ended up taking an adventure towards visual manifestations, literally things coming out of their yes, with aurora, rays of viruses, smoke, water, electricity, or even a lack of visual contact with eyes covered or a glance away from the viewer.

A further 255 million people are served by health centres without electricity in sub-Saharan Africa, it says, where over 30 % of facilities lack power.

The country has built a sophisticated energy industry that underpins its economy, despite lacking infrastructure enabling it to rely on electricity imports or natural gas flowing from international pipelines,» said Claude Mandil, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), today in Seoul at the launch of Energy Policies of IEA Countries — Republic of Korea 2006 Review.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) and others have pressed to close the nearby Indian Point nuclear power plant, but the mayor said city residents get more than 8 percent of their electricity from the facility and lack a ready substitute.

The Left dissembles while, «even today,» says Menton,, «over 1.2 billion people, 20 % of the world's population, lack access to electricity.»