Sentences with phrase «scarce water from»

Although civil unrest is far less likely there, tension is indeed growing between political leaders in northern and southern California over who gets the increasingly scarce water from rivers, underground aquifers and snow melt, all of which are declining.

Not exact matches

«Backup power is going to be of value certainly to businesses that worry about disruptions from hurricanes, storms, or even droughts that make water scarce for utilities,» Makower says.

California's wine leaders adapting to drought and consumer shifts: California wine will hold its own in the global market despite shifts in consumer demographics, scarce water, and competition from imported wines, craft beers and cocktails, according to wine industry leaders surveyed by UC Davis..

The Australian model could be useful for California because Australia recently emerged from a decade - long drought, during which it pioneered water policies that attracted interest from water - scarce countries around the world.

Even water - rich countries, like Germany, may be economically impacted in negative ways by global water scarcity, as imports from water - scarce countries often decline during droughts.

QUENCHING SOCIETY»S THIRST Freshwater is becoming a scarce resource in much of the world, including Yemen, where residents get water from a public tap.

Currently, the most efficient catalysts for the electrochemical reaction that generates hydrogen from water are based on platinum, which is scarce and expensive.

Acknowledging the impacts and dependencies of products sourced from overseas, whether from water - scarce or water - rich areas, is of the utmost importance in today's globalized systems.

A lot of these plants are in countries like Saudi Arabia, where energy from oil is cheap but water is scarce.

Humpback whales, for example, are a species of baleen whale known for grand migrations from the upper latitudes — like Pacific waters near Alaska — to the subtropics where nutrients are more scarce, near Hawaii and Mexico.

When water resources are scarce, some elephant friends would team up to drive others they did not know away from pools.

Cholera is particularly rampant where clean water is scarce such as in the developing world, war zones and areas reeling from natural disasters.

«Importing water - intensive goods from one water - scarce region to another doesn't solve the problem of water scarcity — it just shifts the pressure to other regions,» says co-author Klaus Hubacek, a researcher at the University of Maryland and an alumnus of the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program.

This map shows the flows of «virtual scarce water» from the Xinjiang province to other provinces in China.

He is a leading scientist on global water resources, and strategies to build resilience in water scarce regions of the world, with more than 15 years experience from applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 100 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability.

In many parts of the world, where apart from food, water, medicine or homes, rights are also scarce, including education.

In the 1930's water for hobby gardening was scarce, co Mrs. Moir switched from tropical plants that required frequent watering to orchids, bromeliads and succulents.

In countries suffering from extreme poverty, basic living needs like clean water, electricity, and clean burning fuel types are scarce.

Using everything from chicken tractors to recycled gray water, and from worm composting to foraging ducks, the central effort seems to be around conserving scarce water and nutrients, building up fertile soil, and creating cooling micro-climates to protect tender crops from the desert heat.

As water becomes scarcer around the world because of mismanagement, untapped strategies are critical, from capturing runoff efficiently and wetlands development to tertiary treatment of wastewater.

The remote jungle village of La Mancalona on the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico has gone from a place where clean water was scarce, bottled water expensive and soda much cheaper to a place where they have a reliable source of purified water and a profitable business in just two years.

Here is similar reporting by an eyewitness, (from 1922) The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulafft, at Bergen, Norway.

WRI: Water is a scarce resource in India, especially in the state of Maharashtra, where most rainfall is limited to the monsoon season from June through September.

From The Conversation: In arid areas, could bats help humans find scarce, safe sources of drinking water?

The effects of human - induced climate change are being felt in every corner of the United States, scientists reported Tuesday, with water growing scarcer in dry regions, torrential rains increasing in wet regions, heat waves becoming more common and more severe, wildfires growing worse, and forests dying under assault from heat - loving insects.

And even if rainfall decreases only slightly from today's levels, evaporation typically increases as temperatures rise, so Namibia is likely to become even drier.9 As water becomes scarcer, the range and number of wildlife supported by Etosha and other national parks could decline.9

And don't forget the benefits arise from avoiding big problems, like scarcer water resources, damages to human - built environment; coastal flooding due to sea - level rise, and human - health impacts.

But dealing with the water shortages that result from drought, aquifer depletion, and the diversion of scarce water to cities is much more difficult.

It is predicted that by 2025, some 2.8 billion people will live in «water scarce» areas - a huge rise from the 1.6 billion who do now.

Researchers from Sewanee and the University of Georgia test wetlands as a means to treat wastewater in the face of a water - scarce future.

Water, a sometimes scarce element in Spain, is also used with care: rainwater deposits, and energy produced from algues are all part of the plan.

Given that Phoenix, which sits in the middle of a desert, has been suffering from a series of droughts over the last 11 years (never mind that the water levels in its rivers recently dipped to near - record lows), it seems as though it could find better uses for its scarce water supplies

Agave thrives in semi-arid wastelands — 50 % of Mexico — needs no watering or agrochemicals, requires very scarce field labor and grows well in any type of soil, even highly degraded and steep terrains, because it takes nitrogen from the air.

note 1; Craig S. Smith, «Saudis Worry as They Waste Their Scarce Water,» New York Times, 26 January 2003; grain production from USDA, op.