Sentences with phrase «studied urban water»

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For farmers and ranchers in Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula during a six - year drought, the farther away they lived from urban areas, the more likely they were to have to make changes to cope with the dwindling supply of water, according to a Portland State University study.

While water utilities across the country spend more than $ 50 billion a year to treat drinking water, the nation spends $ 207 million a year to protect source waters and prevent pollution from sources such as urban runoff, the study says.

Environmental challenges, climate change, water and food security and urban air pollution, they are all interlinked, yet each is studied as such, separately.

This study aids in the broader understanding of the complex mechanisms that influence harmful algal bloom progression in bodies of water rich in organic nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen, and points to the direct need to reduce nutrient pollution in the face of both urban and agricultural development.

«This is the first study to look at the link between water and heat mitigation strategies in urban areas,» Vahmani said.

The study also confirmed a finding that has been emerging: that water conservation measures that directly reduce irrigation, such as drought - tolerant landscaping, can have the unintended consequence of increasing temperatures in urban areas.

Now a new study by the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found that cool roofs can also save water by reducing how much is needed for urban irrigation.

«Jordan's ability to satisfy future urban and agricultural water demands will be stressed by cascading effects on its freshwater supply,» said study co-author Steven Gorelick, the Cyrus Fisher Tolman Professor in Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences.

The study found that natural gas end use sources — like gas meters, furnaces, boilers and hot water heaters — as well as landfills, are responsible for a large portion of urban methane emissions.

Based on the knowledge of urban morphology, this study analyses how human systems have affected the transformation of natural water processes in the Kaoping River Delta.

Select Group Exhibitions 2017 Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE 2017 Buffalo in the American Living Room, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2017 All That Glitters, work on display in contemporary galleries at St. Louis Art Museum 2017 Now is the Time: Investigating Native Histories and Visions of the Future, IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2016 Culture Shift, Art Mür, Montreal, Canada 2016 From the Belly of Our Being: art by and about Native creation, Oklahoma State University Museum of Art, Stillwater, OK 2016 Back Where They Came From, Sherry Leedy Contemporary, Kansas City, MO 2016 - 15 Woven Together, Regional Studies Museum Yekaterinburg, Orenburg Museum, Surgut Museum, Chelyabinsk State Regional Studies Museum, Izhevsk Municipal Exhibition Center Gallery, Glazov, Udmurt Republic, Yamal - Nenets Museum and Exhibition Center Salekhard, Orenburg Oblast, Russia 2015 Arriving at Fresh Water, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND 2015 superusted: the 4th Midwest Biennial, Soap Factory, Minnneapolis, MN, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2014 Minnesota Biennial, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis, MN 2014 McKnight Visual Artists Fellowship Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2013 Air, Land, Seed, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM and University of Venice, Ca» Foscari, Italy 2013 Dyani White Hawk and Philip Vigil, Shiprock Santa Fe Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2012 Encoded, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN 2011 Soul Sister: Reimagining Kateri Tekakwitha, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, NM 2008 Playing, Remembering, Making: Art in Native Women's Lives, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture with School for Advanced Research Santa Fe, NM 2007 War Paint, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM

It is themed Sustainable and inclusive urban communities through urban agriculture and aims to bring together scientists from different disciplinary perspectives, studying motivations and barriers for individual and group practitioners, social, economic and environmental benefits of urban agriculture for the local communities and cities as a whole, as well as enabling and disabling factors for successful interaction between the local stakeholders in planning, accessing and using urban resources especially land and water.

This technical document aims to present the impacts of climate change upon urban water, particularly upon the performance of the urban water supply, wastewater and storm water infrastructure, through compiling existing studies on climate change and water resources.

A summary of the main results of these studies can be found in the article by René van Veenhuizen and Olofunke Cofie (2011) in Urban Agriculture Magazine titled «Sustainable use of water in urban agriculture&raUrban Agriculture Magazine titled «Sustainable use of water in urban agriculture&raurban agriculture».

A summary of the main results of these studies can be found in the article Sustainable use of water in urban agriculture.

RUAF partners IGSNRR, IWMI and IPES implemented research on productive reuse of urban water (including storm and wastewater) in urban agriculture in Beijing (China), Accra (Ghana) and Lima (Peru); RUAF partner ETC (the Netherlands) systematised the results of the three studies.

The report related to this work, entitled Increasing Financial Flows for Urban Sanitation, the 8 contributing case studies, and the Policy Recommendations will be shared at the 8th World Water Forum.

2008 -1010-NASA, Water and Energy Cycle, An observational and modeling study of a rare tornadic storm in a major central business district: Possible linkages to drought and urban land cover.

But a recent study by Purdue University in Indiana indicates that this growing land - use trend plays a role in heating up urban areas and trapping water pollution.