Sentences with phrase «water crisis facing»

The following lesson plan and classroom resources ask students to compare the water crisis facing Flint, Michigan to a different water crisis in China.

The following water lesson plan for English teachers, history teachers, humanities teachers and science teachers asks students to compare the water crisis facing Flint, Michigan to a different...

Given the difficulty of finding water for those 26,000 soldiers, it becomes easier to understand the severity of the ongoing and unsolved water crisis facing the five million to seven million residents of Darfur.

Not exact matches

Four months following news of PFOA water contamination in Hoosick Falls in upstate New York, a Hudson Valley city faced a water crisis of its own.

Health officials say in some Buffalo neighborhoods, 40 percent of kids have been exposed to lead, a rate eight times higher than in Flint, Michigan, a city that faced a water contamination crisis that drew national attention.

«It borders on morally being unacceptable to spend hundreds of millions of pounds on bottled water when we have pure drinking water, when at the same time one of the crises that is facing the world is the supply of water,» he told the BBC Panorama programme.

City officials are glad to know that 120 leaks in its water system have been identified and can be repaired, reducing the amount of water being lost as Newburgh continues to face its contamination crisis.

Health officials in New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration faced sharp questioning Tuesday at the first legislative hearing examining the water contamination crisis in the upstate village of Hoosick Falls.

«Coming from a country that for many decades suffered existential threats due to water shortages, I hope that Ghana does not find herself facing a water crisis in the future.»

Following last year's General Election, the country faced a dreadful crisis in monetary, fiscal and financial terms: inflation was well below target; the budget deficit was of eye - watering proportions; and the banks were feeble and hesitant.

Blessed with abundant land and water resources, exploring the agricultural sector will go a long way in boosting Nigeria's economy in the face of global oil crisis.

The release of blood test results in Hoosick Falls caused panic and confusion as residents there, facing a similar water crisis, tried to decipher the results and what they meant.

Governor Cuomo's Administration is facing greater scrutiny over handling of the Hoosick Falls water crisis.

India's Ministry of Water Resources has long suggested that tapping the aquifer for irrigation was exceeding the limited regional rainfall that replenishes its water, and the World Bank has warned that the country faces a water crWater Resources has long suggested that tapping the aquifer for irrigation was exceeding the limited regional rainfall that replenishes its water, and the World Bank has warned that the country faces a water crwater, and the World Bank has warned that the country faces a water crwater crisis.

But we are facing a potential global resource crisis as the use of water has increased six-fold while the world's population has only tripled.

Yet California and Arizona — the two states water experts say are facing the most severe water crises — continue to count and regulate groundwater and surface water as if they were entirely separate.

We're facing a growing water crisis in the Middle East, especially in Jordan and in some of the Arab areas adjoining Israel.

In the mid — 2000's — faced with a renewed crisis — she again found water by taking it out of residents» lawns and fountains.

The report ranked this impending water crisis as the most dangerous risk facing our civilisation, followed by fast - spreading pandemics.

It is the solution to deliver clean energy to regions that are facing water scarcity crisis and water economic issues.

The photograph is from her 2016 work Flint is Family, where Frazier spent five months with three generations of Flint women who suffer and still thrive as they face the water crisis in Flint — «the worst man - made environmental catastrophe in recent national memory.»

The east Mediterranean island faces an unprecedented water crisis which has seen reservoir reserves plunge dangerously low and desalination plants unable to cope with growing demand.

Without urgent action, we could face threats to water, food, biodiversity and other critical resources: these threats risk intensifying economic, ecological and social crises, creating the potential for a humanitarian emergency on a global scale.

In the following video, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer calls massive proposed drilling operations in the watershed that provides New York City with its drinking water is the «most alarming environmental news he has heard in a long time, and makes this the number one environmental crisis» they face in the city:

Listing new challenges facing the humanitarian community, this technical document emphasizes that «climate change, population growth, rapid and unplanned urbanization, and food and water insecurity are leaving more and more people at risk of crisis.»

Global water crises — from drought in the world's most productive farmlands to the hundreds of millions of peoples without access to safe drinking water — are among the biggest threats facing the planet over the next decade.

Years of harvesting pressure paired with the effects of warming waters and an ever - changing ocean ecosystem have led to the crisis we currently face in the groundfish fishery.

As Wall Street profits remain sky high and fat cat bonuses are doled out on silver spoons, the world's poor are struggling to deal with a climate crisis that they did not cause, facing increasingly severe droughts, floods, crop losses and water shortages.

The World Economic Forum's Global Risks 2015 Report has water crises in the top 10 of the most likely and highest impact problems that we will face in the next 10 years.

Environment Expert: More than 75 % of the countries in Asia and the Pacific are experiencing a serious lack of water security, with many of them facing an imminent water crisis unless immediate steps are taken to improve management of water resources, says a new study prepared jointly by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Asia - Pacific [continue reading...]

In many parts of the world, the water crisis is an in - your - face daily issue, with lots of time and energy spent just providing the basic water needs of a family.

The water crisis in Flint is unique in many respects, but the city isn't alone in facing allegations regarding lead in the water supply.