Sentences with phrase «surface water supplies»

In addition to causing changes to the timing and quantity of surface water supply, global warming is also causing more severe impacts from drought.

One - fifth of the world's fresh surface water supply lies here, and it is worth protecting.

Snowpack is expected to decline in the decades ahead, reducing surface water supplies in locations throughout the western US Photo: US Department of Agriculture Photo: NRCS

«By midcentury, we expect to see less reliable surface water supplies in several regions of the United States,» said the study's lead author, Kristen Averyt, associate director for science at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder.

So if you want to limit deep - well wastewater injection and also the risks of contaminating aquifers or surface water supplies from fracking, what do you do?

The impact of the variability and periodicity of rainfall on surface water supply systems in Scotland

Did you know that this past summer's growing season in southern New Mexico, south Texas, and northern Mexico only had one month of surface water supply before it was drawn dry in the Rio Grande Basin, caused by spring runoff at only 28 % of normal there?

Thus, while system attenuation of the climate change signal may occur through the capacity of large reservoir and conveyance systems to buffer altered hydrology, with modeled operation regimes unchanged, temperature - driven warming and its influence on modeled hydrology translates into decreased surface water supply reliability in these basins.

As droughts and decreased snowpack limit surface water supplies, a shift to groundwater is occurring in many areas.

In fact, the lakes comprise one - fifth of the world's fresh surface water supply and nine - tenths of the U.S. supply.

For example, snowpack is expected to continue to decrease over the coming decades, reducing surface water supplies in the Western US [5] In such a situation, groundwater becomes particularly critical, providing a buffer during dry years that helps protect water supplies and ensures a reliable food supply [6].

She rallied support among interest groups, embraced the assembly measure and wrote two more ambitious bills to drive the agenda: The bills would for the first time require the state — through its local agencies — to determine how much groundwater it had, how much was being taken and what effect that was having on the state's surface water supply.

With its surface water supply becoming increasingly unreliable, the county began to look for alternatives.

As of August, Antigua had no surface water supplies, and by October it was using 100 percent desalinated water.

Deep in agricultural counties, farmers are churning through the summer heat with little to no surface water supplies and digging deeper for groundwater — water buried underneath the earth's surface.