Sentences with phrase «shortages of fresh water»

Water Shortages Increase for US Counties by 2050 Due to Climate Change New research in the Journal of Environmental Science & Technology shows «more than 1 in 3 counties in the United States could have a «high» or «extreme» risk of water shortages due to climate change by the middle of the 21st century... 7 in 10 of the more than 3,100 US counties could face «some» risk of shortages of fresh water for drinking, farming, and other uses.»

In contrast, if regional shortages of fresh water develop due to biofuel production, water refugees and water conflict will most definitely occur.

But shortages of fresh water are arguably the greater near - term environmental threat in many corners of the globe.

Actually, the whole global warming problem could be summarized as being a global over-population problem — it is, after all, the exploding human population that is driving the growing energy needs, causing the negative environmental impacts, and in the process, also causing a shortage of fresh water.

Labeling issues such as reduced agricultural productivity, loss of biodiversity, pollution and the looming shortage of fresh water as «impacts of global warming» leaves the public confused and susceptible to propaganda by groups who oppose environmental regulation of any kind.

Pakistan, the country is actually on the verge of a critical shortage of fresh water.

It is driving the rapid depletion of fossil fuel resources with a dramatic increase in associated emissions and consequent climate change; it is accelerating the loss of biodiversity and widespread extinction of species; it is intensifying the growing shortage of fresh water to meet human needs.

There is also a shortage of fresh water — as populations grow, so does the need for more water.

Not exact matches

Thanks to Mother Nature's rich waters, tropical paradise islands like Bali will never have a shortage of fresh, delicious seafood.

By 2025, droughts, food shortages and scarcity of fresh water will plague large swaths of the globe, from northern China to the Horn of Africa.

Also, the animals, cattle, sheep and horses are in pain due to the shortage of food; grasses, and fresh vegetation and perhaps most vital, water.

On another page, entitled «Impacts of Climate Change», the Met Office states: «Higher temperatures, fresh water shortages, higher sea levels and extreme weather events will each affect regions differently.

Perhaps by the end of the century half a billion people will face severe food and fresh water shortages because of past emissions.

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.

-RSB- than the most water - efficient biomass technologies, implying that the development of biomass energy technologies in scale sufficient to be a significant source of energy may produce or exacerbate water shortages around the globe and be limited by the availability of fresh water.»

The panel was drawn together to discuss water's role the «iron triangle» of water / energy / food, especially in light of how by 2025, there will be major fresh water shortages across the world, and yet we are completely unprepared for it.