Sentences with phrase «wasteful use of water»

In an interview with The Times, Lord Stern of Brentford said: «Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases.

The Green Revolution led to massive genetic erosion in farmers fields and knowledge, erosion among farming communities, besides leading to large scale environmental pollution due to use of toxic agrichemicals and wasteful use of water.

Not exact matches

Well, that's kind of what I was thinking: that it's potentially more wasteful to use family cloth if I can't combine it with some other laundry, and particularly if I'm using hot water and a hot dryer.

One of the most wasteful decisions ever made was to build a plumbing system that uses purified drinking water to flush toilets.

Doing a load of laundry with fewer than that can be wasteful in terms of water and energy used.

Trading off cotton farming for concentrating solar is a good example of smart planning — take out one of the most water - wasteful subsidized crops we don't grow very well, and replace it with a plant that uses less water and produces electricity.

Air travel, in particular, is a wasteful industry (not to mention the carbon footprint), with vast quantities of disposable cups, food service items, utensils, head phones, and single - use water bottles getting tossed.

Roughly 40 % of the state's farmland uses wasteful flood irrigation, in which water flows by gravity down open ditches or across fields.

The conservation groups notes, «A century of water management policies and practices that have promoted wasteful water use have put the river at a critical crossroads.»

Indeed, as I argue in this article, I think it will be absolutely essential that we shift much of our current wasteful fossil fuel use (e.g., shipping the same goods back and forth across the ocean, driving gas - powered private automobiles, and producing disposable consumer goods) toward building new infrastructure for long - term resilience (e.g., local food economies, low - energy housing, greenspace, water catchment and storage, clean energy systems, trains, and, yes, wind - powered sea vessels!).

Population density also lowers energy and water use in all categories, constrains family size, limits the consumption of all kinds of goods, reduces ownership of wasteful appliances, decreases the generation of solid waste, and forces most residents to live in some of the world's most inherently energy - efficient residential structures: apartment buildings.

The new rules — the first statewide curbs on water use since the current drought began nearly three years ago — can lead to fines of up to $ 500 per day for using a hose to clean a sidewalk, running ornamental fountains that do not recirculate water and other wasteful behaviors.

No water right grants any party the right to waste or make unreasonable use of water, a nd any water right can be curtailed or revoked if it is determined that the holder of that right has engaged in a wasteful or unreasonable use of water.