Sentences with phrase «to fresh water»

On average, countries use 70 % of their fresh water to grow food.

By filtering seawater through holes that are about 0.5 nanometers wide, the desalination process captures all dissolved material, including salt, while the fresh water passes through.

Carnival said technicians have since restored fresh water, and toilets were operating in some parts of the ship.

The United Nations estimates that by 2050 more than 60 % of the world's population will lack fresh water for drinking and cooking.

When you can stroll over to a tap whenever you like and help yourself to a glass of clear, cool water, it is hard to believe that one of the biggest business opportunities of the 21st century — and one of the best opportunities for business to give back to society — lies in supplying fresh water.

Not long ago, the energy costs of producing fresh water from salt water outweighed the benefits.

Cities, because of their concentrated populations, put a huge strain on natural resources like fresh water supplies.

The American Petroleum Institute, the principal lobbying group for the industry, said its members are working to become less dependent on fresh water, and instead draw on other sources.

Gogáin also mentioned that this may be part of the way fish started to colonize inland fresh waters.

The oilsands industry has made important strides in recent years at cleaning up tailings ponds and reducing its fresh water use.

American businesses flush more than a billion gallons of fresh water down the toilet every working day and throw out 15 million plastic toner cartridges every year.

That means he's not trying to solve world poverty, bring fresh water to Africa, bring the internet to the farthest reaches of South America, or save species in the polar regions from going extinct.

We need to establish a lot more «well - funded and well - managed» reserves to protect species in the sea and fresh water, in the air and on land.

More than 25 percent of Earth's available landmass and fresh water is used for raising livestock.

Newer SAGD plants such as Connacher Oil and Gas's Great Divide have managed to nearly eliminate fresh water use — they use non-potable water from aquifers and recycle it — and reduce GHG emissions by about 20 % compared to the industry average through more efficient burning of natural gas, cogeneration of electricity and reduced heat loss on the steam's journey underground.

We all share 1 % of the world's fresh water supply.

Most of the potential causes of groundwater contamination, such as fluid or gases travelling along well bores, are avoidable and there are ways to conserve fresh water.

One of them was fresh water production as a new sustainable market opportunity.

Over the next two weeks, academics, innovators, business leaders, public officials and youth organization representatives will convene at workshops in San Francisco, Sao Paulo, London, Johannesburg, Oslo, Abu Dhabi, Mumbai and Shanghai to identify tangible opportunities related to five risks threatening our communities: extreme weather, continued lock - in to fossil fuels, urban breakdown, lack of fresh water and continued rise in non-communicable diseases.

This year, we presented three opportunities in our Global Opportunity Report that dealt with the risk of lack of fresh water — a risk closely connected to SDG # 6.

This implies that risks are not too big or overarching (like resource scarcity, rising levels of atmospheric CO2, or global warming) but are more focused e.g. extreme weather, increased greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture or from energy use, or a lack of fresh water.

These 15 risks are: Lack of Fresh Water, Unsustainable Urbanization, Continued Lock - in to Fossil Fuels, Chronic Diseases, Extreme Weather, Loss of Ocean Biodiversity, Resistance to Life - saving Medicine, Accelerating Transport Emissions, Youth Unemployment, Global Food Crisis, Unstable Regions, Soil Depletion, Rising Inequality, Cities Disrupted by Climate Change & Cyber Threats.

As the event opened, the panellists were presented with five global risk scenarios: uncontrolled city growth, lack of fresh water, extreme weather, continued fossil fuel lock - in and rising cases of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

How can one justify increased prices for fresh water during a once - in - a-generation humanitarian crisis?

USA Today made it to the town Arecibo on the Northern shore of the island, where residents hadn't heard any news from the outside world for four days, and the only source of fresh water is from a single fire hydrant.

Water + Energy > Fresh Water Production Creating new freshwater sources using renewably powered wastewater treatment and desalinisation offer a crucial opportunity to meet the demand for fresh water while providing new and essential markets for clean energy.

Read more about the risk and opportunities related to the lack of fresh water here.

The Bennett Dam built by BC on the Peace River has done huge actual damage to one of the largest fresh water deltas in the world (The Peace — Athabasca Delta, UNESCO World Heritage Site).

For example, obtaining fresh water for the world's population keeps getting more and more expensive.

The price is now five times greater and we humans are forced to dig up bitumen and boil off the oil using massive amounts of NG, fresh water and causing insane amounts of environmental damage.

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 water.

2016.05.18 Canadian Water Attitudes Study: climate change ranked the top threat to our fresh water But three - quarters of Canadians do not believe they live in an area prone to drought or flood...

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 water.

In sum, what started last April with a call to action to join the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe to prevent a mega fossil energy project from threatening a primary source of fresh water has grown into a public interest campaign with powerful implications for energy development, the environment, and the rule of law.

There is no question that, along with population increases around the world, global demand for fresh water will rise exponentially.

Ontario contains or borders on about one - fifth of the world's fresh water.

Headquartered in Bodrum, Turkey, Kiliç Deniz is the largest aquaculture company in the Mediterranean region, specializing in sea water (sea bream, sea bass, and blue - fin tuna) and fresh water (trout) fish production.

The Panama Canal Authority will reduce the maximum draft for vessels transiting the Neopanamax locks by 1 foot down to 48 feet or 14.63 meters tropical fresh water starting April 27.

«Everything we fight over — whether it's land or it's fresh water, whether it is energy — is in abundance in space.»

He talked about how cheap energy allows countries to create more fresh water which will allow more agriculture.

President Donald Trump on Sunday strenuously defended US efforts to bring relief to storm - battered Puerto Rico, even as one island official said Trump was trying to gloss over «things that are not going well,» two weeks after devastating Hurricane Maria left much of the island without electricity, fresh water or sufficient food.

If built as planned, the Dakota Access Pipeline will snake through the headwaters of the Missouri River, a life - giving source of fresh water for millions of people who live downstream, including Native Americans.

They should put their energy into building fresh water reservoirs.

Employees at Exxon Mobil put their own worries and concerns aside after being notified that the city of Beaumont had lost access to their water supply when the pumps that deliver fresh water had been compromised.

Eventually, you have salt water life and fresh water life.

BTW, supplies of fresh water are limited in many areas of the world, many of them are muslim desert countries.

I recall us in our pallor at the stand - offish kibbutz on its narrow shelf of shore past the Qumran scroll mines, how they had fresh water hoses afloat on the surface to wash our mouths and eyes if the clear Mars - gravity water got into them, as we drifted high as triremes.

Like many other parts of the world, Israel has a critical need to increase fresh water supplies.

Agriculture accounts for 65 percent of the global use of fresh water.

We are giving out of fresh water, of wood, or soil, of seafood, and of oil.