Sentences with phrase «water availability»

This is an example of significant change in water availability in response to natural climate variability.

Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in snow - dominated regions.

This has environmental impacts and potential future impacts on water availability for the entire country.

The general cooling and atmospheric circulation changes result in weaker peak river flows and vegetation productivity, which may raise issues of water availability and crop production.

Climate change would reduce water availability and lead to an increase in plant and animal pests and diseases.

Besides, these can help increase water availability for the crops.

Our study highlights the importance of changes in soil water availability to plants as a key element.

In the coming years, increasingly warm and dry conditions and longer droughts will affect water availability in many parts of the country.

But population growth, reduction in water availability from other sources is likely to change that.

Their findings could help scientists predict how water availability in regions throughout the world might be affected by future eruptions.

The drawback is that such land types provide a significant amount of moisture to the atmosphere that eventually becomes rain, so their conversion to farmland poses a threat to future water availability.

Looking at the spatial and temporal distribution of global water availability and demand.

The reason is that global warming is likely to increase droughts and change rainfall patterns, so water availability becomes even more critical than before.

It finds substantial impact differences in intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, regional water availability and agricultural yields, sea - level rise and risk of coral reef loss.

To make matters worse, researchers have recorded severe drop - offs in soil nutrients and water availability worldwide.

That means land that has very specific soil conditions, sufficient water availability, and road access.

Thus many populations face both reduced water availability and increased flood frequency and magnitude [76].

Other benefits such as increased water availability, reduced energy demands, and greater ecosystem productivity may also occur in specific regions over the short or long - term.

Potential impacts of a warming climate on water availability in a snow - dominated region.

If local temperatures rise beyond 1 to 3 °C, crop yields are likely to decline as rising heat affects water availability and plant development.

At this point, the effects of natural fluctuations in water availability in the form of extreme weather events become even more potentially disruptive than normal.

• «Decreased water availability due to increased temperature and longer periods of time between rainfall events, coupled with an increase in societal demand is very likely to affect many sectors of the Southeast's economy.»

You can imagine that such a «sensing and response» mechanism involving CRSP and EPF2 could be used to engineer crop varieties which are better able to perform in the current and future high CO2 global climate where fresh water availability for agriculture is dwindling.»

They found the consequences of the drought — which included temporary water shut - offs, a spike in dengue fever cases, and higher electricity prices — were a result of low water availability combined with the numbers of people involved and damage to the infrastructure system.

Additional benefits from avoiding deforestation include reduced soil erosion and improved water availability through the protection of watersheds.

Efforts to offset declining surface water availability due to increasing precipitation variability will be hampered by the fact that groundwater recharge will decrease considerably in some already water - stressed regions (high confidence)[3.2, 3.4.2], where vulnerability is often exacerbated by the rapid increase in population and water demand (very high confidence)[3.5.1].

I am inclined to dismiss the importance of land temperature — which is modulated by water availability over land which shifts with ENSO and other — and related — ocean patterns.

Abstract Higher transpiration efficiency (TE) has been proposed as a mechanism to increase crop yields in dry environments where water availability usually limits yield.

(There's a connection between water availability in school and lower obesity rates.)

On average, approximately 20 % of the global population has experienced a significant increase in water availability due to human interventions, such as building water storage, alleviating water scarcity experienced by 8 % of the population.

However, using the per capita water availability indicator, climate change would appear to reduce global water stress.

The BoM decided instead to add the ACORN anomaly that day to its Australian Water Availability Project (AWAP) network of stations to achieve an Australian area average of 40.30 C on 7 January 2013.

In this latest study, the team of researchers applied empirical and process - based models, to analyze local areas, as well as the global surface, and the effect of temperature and water availability variations on carbon exchange between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere.

The researchers» model helps reveal how conditions such as sunlight and shading affect crop growth — but many other factors such as water availability and microbial interactions determine the length of a corncob or width of a soybean.

According to USDA, the initiative has mounted efforts to improve and sustain rural economic growth, address water availability issues, increase food production, find new sources of energy, mitigate the impacts of climate variability, enhance resiliency of our food systems, and ensure food safety.

The company also benefited from increased water availability during the season resulted in 1823 hectares finishing as semi-irrigated cotton.

Carryover therefore provides water entitlement holders with greater flexibility to manage their own water availability across years.

To study changes in soil moisture, the researchers used the Palmer drought severity index to examine average water availability and loss over the study period.

Nearly all municipal and industrial wastewater is discharged into rivers and creeks without treatment, reducing clean water availability for rural populations.

Working together Initiatives that address water availability and access across supply chains are key to sustainability efforts and can reduce the risks to our business.

This has implications for the reliability of future climate projections and impact assessments, including water availability for hydropower generation, the length of the malaria transmission season, and future crop yields.