It is a fundamental which has the potential to showcase various new information about
the studies of water resources.
From climate model ensembles to climate change impacts: a case
study of water resource management in the South West of England abstract from Wiley online library.
Not exact matches
Bloomberg reports that an Ernst & Young corporate sustainability
study recently found that 76 %
of corporate representatives think
water is the top
resource at risk.
The project not only broadened the world's horizons on
water with more than 750 peer reviewed
studies and 120 graduate theses, but provided hard data on the impact
of industrial activities on the world's most critical
resource.
2017.03.20 Canadians Remain Conflicted About Our Most Precious Natural
Resource: Fresh
Water Today, as Canada Water Week kicks off across the country, RBC released its 10th annual Canadian Water Attitudes Study - an in - depth examination of how Canadians think, feel, and act in regard to our fresh w
Water Today, as Canada
Water Week kicks off across the country, RBC released its 10th annual Canadian Water Attitudes Study - an in - depth examination of how Canadians think, feel, and act in regard to our fresh w
Water Week kicks off across the country, RBC released its 10th annual Canadian
Water Attitudes Study - an in - depth examination of how Canadians think, feel, and act in regard to our fresh w
Water Attitudes
Study - an in - depth examination
of how Canadians think, feel, and act in regard to our fresh
waterwater.
As we continue the strong efforts
of the Governor's
Water Quality Rapid Response Team, the work
of the Finger Lakes
Water Hub and the state's investments to
study algae blooms will be valuable
resources in helping New Yorkers understand and mitigate this emerging issue,» said DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos.
The EPA
study is entitled «Study of Hydraulic Fracturing and Its Potential Impact on Drinking Water Resources.&r
study is entitled «
Study of Hydraulic Fracturing and Its Potential Impact on Drinking Water Resources.&r
Study of Hydraulic Fracturing and Its Potential Impact on Drinking
Water Resources.»
«We can't just drill deep and expect to run away from contaminants on the land surface,» says Scott Jasechko, a
study coauthor and
water resources scientist at the University
of Calgary in Canada.
Synthesizing about 1000 scientific
studies and reports, the scientists were now able to give a balanced report on the changes in all 14 ecosystem functions, including gas and climate regulation,
water regulation and supply, moderation
of extreme events, provision
of food and raw materials, as well as medicinal
resources.
The
study considered data from 1,766 sites in the western U.S., mostly from the U.S. Department
of Agriculture's Natural
Resources Conservation Service and the California Department
of Water Resources.
«Historically, when we developed areas we used gutters and storm drains as our way
of channeling that stormwater,» said Al Steinman, director
of Grand Valley State University's Annis
Water Resources Institute in Muskegon, who has been
studying Little Black Creek's stormwater problem since 2007.
Satellite imagery is used for all sorts
of climate
study, from identifying conditions that allow infectious diseases like West Nile virus and cholera to emerge, to creating models for predicting hurricanes, to distinguishing natural
resources such as wind,
water and sunlight.
The project
studies water resources in the Phoenix area with the goal
of understanding decisions about scarce
water resources and their impacts: How do
water managers think about climate uncertainty?
An example
of such translational engagement is the NOAA - funded Climate Impacts Group at the University
of Washington, Seattle, which
studies the impacts
of climate change on
water, fishery, coastal, and forest
resources in the Pacific Northwest.
To this end it carries out research in the fields
of water resources and desert soils; animal and poultry production; ecology and dry land agriculture, as well as socioeconomic
studies.
The
study is also in keeping with the theme
of the challenge «Sustainable
Resources: Food, Energy, and
Water,» which will develop strategies that link optimized agricultural practices, water management, and energy produ
Water,» which will develop strategies that link optimized agricultural practices,
water management, and energy produ
water management, and energy production
Worsening drought has led to over 80 percent
of water resources in Pakistan's southern Tharparker district becoming unfit for people to drink, a new
study says
The
study grew out
of work the authors undertook in the Pacific, where scientists met with community members and local, regional, and national government experts to examine issues such as food security, access to fresh
water, quality education, sustainable tourism, and protection
of marine and terrestrial
resources.
The Norwegian
Water Resources and Energy Directorate has also published a case
study of Longyearbyen that presented possible methods for protecting buildings and other structures from avalanches and damage from permafrost.
One large
study of America's ocean
waters, published in May by the Pew Oceans Commission, noted that U.S. policies have for decades focused on developing ocean
resources rather than emphasizing conservation.
Studying and mitigating the impacts
of increasing human activities including shipping, seismic exploration, fisheries and other
resource exploration in Arctic
waters.
A
study in the Journal
of the American
Water Resources Association published this spring outlined the potential difficulties of setting up a water trading system in the American West, including the fact that there is not an umbrella authority over states in the 1922 Colorado com
Water Resources Association published this spring outlined the potential difficulties
of setting up a
water trading system in the American West, including the fact that there is not an umbrella authority over states in the 1922 Colorado com
water trading system in the American West, including the fact that there is not an umbrella authority over states in the 1922 Colorado compact.
That's why assistant professor Rachel McDaniel, a
water resource engineer in the Department
of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, and professor Bruce Bleakley
of the Department
of Biology and Microbiology at South Dakota State University are
studying the behavior
of E. coli in sediment and in moving
water at Skunk Creek.
The
study assesses the food supply available to more than 140 nations (with populations greater than 1 million) and demonstrates that food security is becoming increasingly susceptible to perturbations in demographic growth, as humanity places increasing pressure on use
of limited land and
water resources.
«Continued monitoring
of shelf inputs to Arctic surface
waters is therefore vital to understand how the changing climate will affect the chemistry, biology, and economic
resources of the Arctic Ocean,» the
study's authors wrote.
IIASA researcher Simon Parkinson, who also worked on the
study, says, «The simplest way to reduce the pressure that the energy sector puts on
water resources is to reduce the amount
of energy that we use by increasing energy efficiency.
A
study by the World
Resources Institute last October showed 51 percent
of planned coal - power plants in China were in regions with severe
water shortages, potentially pitting energy production against agriculture and basic needs for clean
water.
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of Science Delegation to China, 1980 CAST Science Writers Delegation to US, 1981 AAAS Environmental Planning Delegation to China, 1981 US - China Conference on Energy
Resources and Environment, 1982 Interferon
Study (Proposed), 1982 CAST Delegation to US, 1982 CAST Quality Control Delegation to US, 1982 Rumenant Productivity Symposium - US Papers, 1983 Rumenant Productivity Symposium - Chinese Papers, 1983 Photo Album
of Address by Song Jian, 1985 AAAS Board
of Directors Delegation to China, 1985 Chinese Delegation Visit (IIE), 1986 US Fish and Wildlife Service Delegation to China, 1986 FASAS International Climate Change Symposium (Proposal), 1986 CAST Delegation to US, 1986 Background Political Information, 1987 Law / Science Short Course (Proposal), 1987 Collected Information and Papers on Chinese
Water Management, 1987 CAST
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of Ethics, 1986 China Tech Company Information, (undated) AAAS / CAST Exchange Programs, 1978 - 1987 Correspondence with CAST International Director Wang Zheng, 1981 - 1982 Correspondence with CAST, 1981 - 1989 James Hartnett Complaint to CAST, 1988 - 1989 Chinese Academy
of Sciences, 1987 Hong Kong Association for the Advancement
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The
study also examined the impact
of international exports on
water resources, showing that production
of international exports in China's top exporting regions also draws on
water resources in
water - scarce northern provinces.
They called for the international scientific community to help «analyze design plans
of the canal and its subprojects for safety, social responsibility and sustainability; make recommendations to protect the region's
water resources and biodiversity; and draft statements urging the Nicaraguan government to halt construction until
studies can be performed and evaluated by experts.
The Berkeley Lab
study is the first
of its kind for Africa, using multiple criteria - such as quality
of the
resource, distance from transmission lines and roads, co-location potential, availability
of water resources, potential human impact, and many other factors - to characterize wind and solar
resources.
A new
study maps the trace concentrations
of water implanted in the lunar soil by the solar wind, a
water source that could be used as
resource in future lunar exploration.
This
study is the first to look at the impacts
of irrigation on both surface
water and groundwater
resources globally using the CMIP5 climate scenarios.
«Our
study shows that nitrogen weathering is a globally significant source
of nutrition to soils and ecosystems worldwide,» said co-lead author Ben Houlton, a professor in the UC Davis Department
of Land, Air and
Water Resources and director
of the UC Davis Muir Institute.
The
study was made possible through a partnership with Jason Green, Mark Vander Borgh and Elizabeth Fensin from the N.C. Department
of Environmental Quality's Division
of Water Resources.
A 2003
study by the nonprofit Natural
Resources Defense Council (NRDC) found that due to a combination
of pollution and deteriorating equipment and pipes, the public
water supplies in 19
of America's largest cities delivered drinking
water that contained contaminant levels exceeding EPA limits (either legal limits or unenforceable suggested limits) and may pose health risks to some residents.
This
resource contains the Deep
Water Horizon disaster as a case
study to explore the impact
of business on the environment, and the world
of coffee, the world's second highest traded commodity.
Students then go on to investigate the contrasting
resource security and vulnerability to climate change in India and South Africa through a number
of structured activities and
resources, including paired research, security indices and in depth case
studies of both climate change impacts and use
of the
water, food and energy nexus.
The Maritime Administration, along with the Maritime Environmental
Resource Center and Maryland Port Administration, has dedicated a new facility to
study the effectiveness
of technology to treat invasive species in ballast
water.
Drainage basin management covers the information dealt with the
study of water storage
resources, in the form
of reservoirs and flood protection.
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In fact, the I.P.C.C. WGII report, in the chapter on North America says «Research since the [last IPCC report] supports the conclusion that moderate climate change will likely increase yields on North American rain fed agriculture... Most
studies project likely climate - related yield increases
of 5 - 20 % over the first decades
of the century... Major challenges are projected for crops that are near the warm end
of their suitable range or depend on highly utilized
water resources.»
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The results
of the
study, which appeared in the journal Nature Geoscience today, are considered an important revelation towards managing the increasingly taxed
water resources throughout the world.
Michael J. Scott et al., «Climate Change and Adaptation in Irrigated Agriculture — A Case
Study of the Yakima River,» in UCOWR / NIWR Conference,
Water Allocation: Economics and the Environment (Carbondale, IL: Universities Council on
Water Resources, 2004); Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, «Global Warming to Squeeze Western Mountains Dry by 2050,» press release (Richland, WA: 16 February 2004).
However, with recent developments in modelling approaches and computational
resources examining the potential impacts
of changes in storminess has become feasible, as exemplified by
studies of Muis et al (2016), who used the first dynamic global storm surge model to simulate past
water levels for the global coast, or Vousdoukas et al (2016), who simulated future storm surge changes along the entire European coast.
As EPA nears the release
of its finalized hydraulic fracturing /
water report, the weight
of scientific
study and analysis backs the agency's preliminary conclusion that there's no evidence that fracking has led to «widespread, systemic impacts on drinking
water resources in the United States.»
In 2015, the legislature passed a moratorium intended to delay fracking while the state's Department
of Natural
Resources studied whether fracking — a method
of oil and gas production that uses large amounts
of chemical - and sand - laced
water to break up shale gas below ground, releasing deposits
of fossil fuels.
Tools for researchers,
water managers, community organizers, journalists, and just about anyone who is
studying the issues
of freshwater
resources, climate change, environmental justice, and globalization.
For the purpose
of this
study the term «desiccation» refers to the gradual reduction
of water resources in a geographical region.