Sentences with phrase «water costs rise»

As water costs rise and municipalities mandate usage, the multifamily industry is undergoing a natural transformation to become more water efficient through new technology, improved operations and better maintenance techniques.

When water costs rise, as they inevitably will, investments in composting toilets and more water - efficient household appliances will become increasingly attractive to individual homeowners.

Not exact matches

May 1 (Reuters)- U.S. stock index futures treaded water on Tuesday, as strong earnings failed to excite investors who instead fretted about inflation, rising costs and protectionist policies.

AO Smith which makes water heaters and air purifications products is raising the price tag on its products by 12 percent because of higher steel prices, and rising freight costs.

But the cost of a 24 - can multi-pack of Coke, currently $ 16, would rise by $ 3.57 or about 22 per cent, while a six - pack of Mt Franklin bottled water could cost 17 per cent more.

That this House: (1) notes with concern the impact on the Dairy Industry of the Coles milk pricing strategy and that: (a) dairy farmers around the country are today seriously questioning their future having suffered through one of the worst decades in memory including droughts, floods, price cuts and rising cost of inputs such as energy and feed; (b) unsustainable retail milk prices will, over time, compel processors to renegotiate contracts with dairy farmers and the prospect that these contracts will be below the cost of production may force many to leave the industry; (c) the fact that supermarkets are now selling milk cheaper than many varieties of bottled water will be the straw that finally breaks the camel's back for many dairy farmers; and (d) the risk of other potential impacts includes: (i) decreased competition as name brands are forced from the shelves; and (ii) the possible loss of fresh milk supplies to some parts of the country as local fresh milk industries become unviable; and (2) calls on the Government to: (a) ask the ACCC to immediately examine the big supermarkets and milk wholesalers after recent price cuts to ensure they do not have too much market power and are not anti-competitive in their behaviour; and (b) support the new Senate inquiry into the ongoing milk price war between the country's major supermarket chains».

«The rising costs of energy, human - induced environment and land degradation, water scarcity, and extreme weather events all present challenges, some of which have been on the agenda for decades, others of which are new,» said Task Force co-Chair Dan Glickman.

To help mitigate rising utility costs and preserve affordability, the City will launch a new program to targeting mid-size and small buildings — in concert with local utilities and existing subsidy programs — to encourage energy and water - use retrofits in exchange for affordability commitments from building owners.

Some of the concerns opponents of the project at the press conference expressed were: perceived risk to public health of drinking Hudson River water; effect on wildlife of the Haverstraw Bay; and rising costs of water for United Water customers and Rockland businewater; effect on wildlife of the Haverstraw Bay; and rising costs of water for United Water customers and Rockland businewater for United Water customers and Rockland busineWater customers and Rockland businesses.

Hale was first elected in 2012 and has spent time focusing on issues relating to sexual assault on college campuses, rising utility costs and water resources.

An example: After Molyneux mentioned the need for a simple, low - cost respirator that could help a sick or fragile newborn breathe, bioengineering student Jocelyn Brown and a team of Rice University seniors rose to the challenge, fashioning a breathing machine out a $ 30 aquarium pump and a water bottle.

But it came at a cost: More than four million residents of towns, villages and cities in the path of the rising waters were forced to relocate, most of them to bustling Chongqing.

If groundwater levels keep rising, «the water rates would go up because of the costs associated with keeping the system functioning the way it's intended,» he said.

At the same time, farmers face unprecedented challenges of climate change, high oil prices driving demand for biofuels, and rising costs of land and water.

«Healthcare costs for infections linked to bacteria in water supply systems are rising.»

A new analysis of 100 million Medicare records from U.S. adults aged 65 and older reveals rising healthcare costs for infections associated with opportunistic premise plumbing pathogens — disease - causing bacteria, such as Legionella — which can live inside drinking water distribution systems, including household and hospital water pipes.

Leslie brings home the cost of such projects by following an engineer, a bureaucrat, and, most powerfully, activist Medha Patkar, who has threatened to drown herself in the rising waters behind India's giant Narmada dam.

The basic needs of food, water, clothing, and shelter are already rising costs.

Moore warns that we are facing seemingly insurmountable problems: rising energy costs, escalating competition for arable land for agrofuels, the grow of invasive species, the herbicide / glyphosate - resistant superweeds effect, aquifer depletion, and end of cheap water as global warming melts glaciers, and the weakening effectiveness of fertilizers on yield growth.

However, for the defensive income investor looking for a little dividend yield at the cost of total return, they're a safe bet... safe in the sense that water utilities won't be going out of business any time soon, though capital losses should be expected should rates rise.

Higher undergraduate and graduate loan limits implemented in the early 1990s and 2007, the elimination of limits on PLUS loans in 1993, watering down of accountability rules, like the change to the «85/15» rule in 1998, expansions of loan eligibility to online programs (including online graduate programs) in 2006, and overall rising costs have allowed many more borrowers to accumulate not - before - seen levels of debt, and many will never be able to repay it.

The idea you're going to make windfall profits from plodding utilities is ludicrous: a) Like bonds, these safe stocks are rapidly becoming dangerous investments due to yield compression, and b) any secular rise (let alone a step - change) in water costs will inevitably sqeeze them, not help them — governments will impede / forbid them to raise prices accordingly!

The cost of pumping water rises — it now accounts for 30 — 50 % of the price of supplying water.

However, the accumulative effect of the rise in cost of living across various policies, including the carbon tax, water price hikes and GST hikes, will add up given recent budget announcements, said MP Lee Bee Wah in Parliament.

But globally and chronically, the net effect is negative, especially with respect to the costs of adaptations associated with weather catastrophes, water supplies and rising sea levels.

Rising temperatures and more extreme weather events cost lives directly, increase transmission and spread of infectious diseases, and undermine the environmental determinants of health, including clean air and water, and sufficient food.»

With electricity and natural gas prices continuing to rise, the costs of having a constant supply of hot water can really add up.

Rising temperatures, increased competition for water supply, and elevated storm surge risk will affect the cost and reliability of energy supply.

Favorable energy economics are just one of solar's many benefits — including less water use, lack of requirement for a centralized grid in undeveloped regions, low cost, zero air pollution, and in providing a mitigation for the rising problem of global climate change (which is primarily driven by human fossil fuel burning).

So it's trying to assess these costs and benefits — and the costs may come to water availability in certain areas of the world and the benefit may be come to less temperature rise in other parts.

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For example, chapter ten, «Ice melts, sea level rises,» discusses the disappearance of tropical mountain glaciers, estimates of sea level rise in the present century, estimates of its costs — the EPA estimated in 1991 that a one - meter rise would cost the US alone between $ 270 billion and $ 475 billion — evidence of past oceanic high - water marks and glacial extents, the dynamics of ice sheet disintegration, the thermal expansion of seawater, icequakes and meltponds, ice mass loss and gain in Greenland and Antarctica, the ozone hole, and the existence and significance of «marine ice sheets.»

If temperatures are not kept down then Africa faces a range of devastating threats such as crop yield reductions in places of as much 50 % in some countries by 2020; Increased pressure on water supplies for 70 — 250 million people by 2020 and 350 — 600 million by 2050; The cost of adaptation to sea level rises of at least 5 — 10 % of gross domestic product.

But it does show that the economics can work, and as transport costs rise, our water supply gets worse and food costs increase, the economics will only get better.

If the subject were the social costs of flooding and rising sea levels, some here would be pointing out the importance of water for drinking, bathing, and irrigation, and how water is important for economic growth.

These effects will be tempered by the use of heating and cooling technologies, but the costs of additional cooling will be more than offset by reduced expenditure on heating.While rising temperatures have the potential to increase the incidence of some diseases, such as diarrhea, these effects are likely to be moderated by the adoption of better technologies, including piped clean water and sewerage.

Farmers are faced with shrinking supplies of irrigation water, a diminishing response to additional fertilizer use, rising temperatures from global warming, the loss of cropland to non-farm uses, rising fuel costs, and a dwindling backlog of yield - raising technologies.

Strict regulations, rising transportation and treatment costs prompt operators to look at water differently.

If the United States doesn't do something soon to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it could cost the country $ 3.8 trillion annually from higher energy and water costs, real estate losses from hurricanes, rising sea levels and other problems, an environmental group predicted Thursday.

This is a type of gardening we're sure to hear more about as the cost of water rises and more people warm to conservationist issues.

Other people's excess usage plus the phenomenal rise in water costs for Sarasota area cost the HOA a staggering amt of money which they passed along in HOA increases.

With population growth putting pressure on water supplies, residential water costs are rising 8 % to 10 % annually — possibly even more in areas subject to droughts.

Additionally, most buildings are not sub-metered for water, thus making the ever - rising cost of water a big issue.

«With energy costs rising steeply and water an increasingly scarce commodity, landlords are beginning to realise that it is well worth the capital outlay to refit older buildings with key elements like eco-insulation, energy - efficient lighting, water - saving devices.

«With water tariffs rising so steeply, landlords can't be expected to just absorb this cost.

With energy costs on the rise, we want to do as much as we can to maximize our electricity and water usage.