Sentences with phrase «urban water supply»

She then introduced keynote speaker Marc Edwards, the Charles P. Lunsford Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Tech and a nationally renowned expert in the chemistry and toxicity of urban water supplies in the United States.

It was launched in Pakistan in 1999, following a series of seminars organised by Nestlé PR company that suggested urban water supplies were contaminated and other bottled water tainted.

I am an award winning designer of «integrated urban water supplies» — integrating stormwater management, water supply sources and sewage treatment and recycling to meet human needs efficiently while conserving downstream environments.

The loss of glaciers, which are the source for as much as 50 percent of the water in the upper Amazon, could have a significant impact on agriculture and urban water supplies as well as the Amazon rainforest.

The Lebanese civil war, fought in the streets of Beirut, exhibited another side of the vulnerability of urban water supplies.

The marketing strategy began with a series of «awareness seminars,» organised by Nestlé's PR company and involving key government officials who claimed that urban water supplies were contaminated and other bottled water then on the market was tainted — Nestlé's connection with the seminars was not revealed.

As I speak, as of 2015, urban water supply had been taken to a whooping 80 % of the population.

More than 40 % of all urban water suppliers reduced their water use by 30 % or more.

We see urban rivers unearthed, riparian corridors reforested, and wetlands reclaimed and reconstructed within the city to purify the urban water supply.

From the Government Monitor, Minister for Water Senator Penny Wong says, «Urban water supplies are under increasing pressure from changing population patterns and the emerging effects of climate change... We know we have to use water more wisely.