Sentences with phrase «severe water crisis»

Economic development bravado aside, folks won't be moving all the way to Detroit should there be a severe water crisis.

The South African city has been all over headlines due to its severe water crisis, but it's not alone.

Government accused of ignoring increasingly severe water crisis as it gives green light to more coal plants in bid to tackle electricity shortages

In 1984, he enlisted a small group of farmers to dig wide, shallow wells (about 26 ft. / 8 m in diameter) for each other in his home province of Uva, which has suffered a prolonged and severe water crisis since the British Empire ordered its soldiers to destroy all its reservoirs — as well as chop down every fruit - bearing tree and kill all men aged 18 and over — in retaliation for the Uva — Wellassa Uprising of 1817 — 1818.

Yet California and Arizona — the two states water experts say are facing the most severe water crises — continue to count and regulate groundwater and surface water as if they were entirely separate.

After that I will go back to China to employ advanced analytical methodologies and techniques to address severe water crises in China.

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He is researching the post-hurricane mental health crisis and says that suicidal thoughts have been reported the most often in remote communities, where power outages and access to food and water have been most severe.

As Wall Street profits remain sky high and fat cat bonuses are doled out on silver spoons, the world's poor are struggling to deal with a climate crisis that they did not cause, facing increasingly severe droughts, floods, crop losses and water shortages.