Across the country,
water demand from power plants is combining with pressure from growing populations and other needs, and is straining our water resources — especially during droughts and heat waves.
However, water scarcity is expected to be a big challenge in many Asian regions because of increasing
water demand from population growth and consumption per capita with higher standards of living.
Not exact matches
In particular, «agricultural commodities are supported by the dynamics of
water shortages in Asia and the Western United States, the declining payback
from the green revolution in terms of improving crop yields and the increasing
demand from Asia for a diet based more on grains and meat as the population becomes wealthier,» the group responded by e-mail.
This spring, an investor closed on the warehouse for $ 30 per square foot, well below the going rate for the area, and started upgrading the power,
water, and ventilation systems in a speculative bet that a new marijuana law would spark a wave of
demand from growing operations.
Factor in population increases, aging infrastructure, increased
demand from agricultural applications and contamination issues and you are looking at a potential opportunity and windfall for
water related companies to take advantage.
Bottling and selling drinking
water has grown into a big business in India over the last 15 years with steadily rising
demand from country's thousands of urban and semi urban centres.
Cargill, one of the largest global agricultural companies, has joined Bill Gates and other business giants to invest in a nascent technology to make meat
from self - producing animal cells amid rising consumer
demand for protein that's less reliant on feed, land and
water.
In addition to the volume released
from Hume Dam, return flows and the Commonwealth's 151 GL of held South Australian allocation were delivered directly to the South Australian border to meet environmental
demands in the Lower River Murray, particularly for maintaining connectivity between the Lower Lakes and Coorong, and provide suitable habitat conditions (both salinity and
water levels) in the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation species.
In addition to this volume released
from Hume Dam and the volume approved for the Coorong, return flows and the Commonwealth's 134 GL of held South Australian allocation were delivered directly to the South Australian border for meeting environmental
demands in the Lower River Murray, particularly for maintaining connectivity between the Lower Lakes Coorong and providing suitable habitat conditions (salinity and
water levels) in the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation species.
Tetra Pak has seen a rising
demand among dairy processors for more sustainable filtration technology and
water recovery systems, and the company believes it can continue to achieve its environmental goals despite the US withdrawing
from the Paris Agreement.
The Goulburn Murray Irrigation District (GMID)
Water Leadership Group has launched a campaign
demanding what it says is a «fair flow»
from the Murray - Darling Basin Plan.
It's added that ultimately it looks like it will be very difficult for Man Utd to prise Kane away
from Tottenham this summer unless they're willing to make an eye -
watering bid to satisfy their
demands.
It will enable Nestle to capture that share of the market inside the state, which would necessitate them using even more
water to meet the new increased
demand, resulting
from the larger market share.
While you should still hydrate on
demand, cutting down on salt will help lower the amount of
water the milk can be created
from.
Most moms do what «sbest for their kids.And yes, there are women out there who legitimately can not bf, so formula is a WONDERFUL choice for them.I exclusively bf both of mine, but think it's okay to ff if you don't have enough milk.there are other situations where i think it's selfish.As for drugs during pregnancy and birth, I had to take 3 doses of medication while pregnant so that I could eat.my morning sickness was so bad I couldn't even keep
water down.I made the choice to do that so I didn't starve my unborn child, but I only took what was neccessary to keep something down, and then had no other drugs and plan not to until my son is done bf.And as for the «natural» baby, carcinogens are EVERYWHERE, even in your organic food.in this industrialized world you can not get away
from them, and to attack other moms for their choices is a sad statement of your morality and on how your child's persoality is going to turn out.also, having multiple kids is definately more
demanding than one.
The whole world falls away and we are somewhere far away
from the messy house, the daily
demands, and we are floating in soft, cool
water.
Roselle is asking that binding arbitration be used to settle a dispute with the Medinah Park District that stems
from Roselle's
demand to annex Park District land in exchange for
water and sewer services.
She can jump into as much cold
water as she would like, and her milk supply should be just fine Your milk supply works by supply and
demand, so as long as she is feeding or pumping milk
from her breasts she will continue to produce milk.
The increase in
demand for electricity, reduction in the quantity of
water at the Akosombo Dam, irregular gas supply
from the West Africa Gas Pipeline Company in Nigeria, irregular maintenance programmes and late procurement of crude oil to power generation plants, have conspired to plunge the country in the current power crisis.
Congress has launched a federal investigation into the
water - contamination crisis in upstate Hoosick Falls — with members
demanding answers
from Gov. Cuomo's administration.
Constructed between 1937 and 1945, the Delaware Aqueduct draws
from four reservoirs — the Cannonsville, Pepacton, Neversink and Rondout — to provide between 50 and 80 percent of the City's daily
water demand.
At the «Rally in the Valley», concerned residents
demanded that Department of Defense stop PFOS
from seeping into their drinking
water
It cites numerous ways in which climate change is already threatening Europe, including glacial retreat in Europe's mountain systems, flooding
from the melting ice - caps and increased
water demand in the Mediterranea.
Legislative Joseph Meyers brought up a need to evaluate community
demand, mentioning that most population growth is coming
from Ramapo's Orthodox Jewish community, most of whom minimize use of
water through multifamily housing.
Labour had also come to the table with a
demand for some 28 % Energy Sector Levy to be scrapped as well as a reduction in
water tariff
from 67.2 % to 50 %, however, these were left untouched.
Potanovic says he hopes the money
from the rate increase goes toward reducing
demand for
water and conservation measures.
ALBANY — Angry residents
from Hoosick Falls stormed into the state Capitol on Wednesday to
demand a full accounting of why the state, federal and local government took so long to warn them about the dangerous toxic chemicals in their
water.
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Kathryn Phillips, 27 July 2001 Moving
from the research lab you know into the uncharted
waters of a new career often
demands a readiness to take a few risks.
Growing populations throughout the Great Plains region are also
demanding more municipal
water from the only available source: the aquifer.
«The prospect of using metal - organic frameworks for sustainable
water filtration is incredibly exciting
from a public - good perspective, while delivering a better way of extracting lithium ions to meet global
demand could create new industries,» said Anita Hill, CSIRO's chief scientist.
The challenge of the Ogallala is how to manage human
demands on the layer of
water that sprawls underneath parts of eight states
from South Dakota to Texas.
Walter sees the benefits of using methane as an energy source as twofold: «Not only does it prevent a potent greenhouse gas
from entering the atmosphere by converting it to weaker greenhouse gases —
water vapor and carbon dioxide — but using it on - site would also reduce the
demand for other fossil - fuel sources.»
Increased temperatures trigger more evaporation
from reservoirs, and accelerate
water loss
from soils needed for agricultural production — all factors that boost
demand for
water, he added.
In six charts presented in the document, there is no scenario the
Water Authority could conceive in which demand for water does not significantly outstrip the current supply, unless it completes the pipeline and begins to harvest water from other parts of the s
Water Authority could conceive in which
demand for
water does not significantly outstrip the current supply, unless it completes the pipeline and begins to harvest water from other parts of the s
water does not significantly outstrip the current supply, unless it completes the pipeline and begins to harvest
water from other parts of the s
water from other parts of the state.
«Given that the dried fish were served as the main naval ration for three of every seven days at this time, it is reasonable to infer that military needs contributed to the
demand for cod
from distant
waters,» the researchers write.
«We have a limited amount of
water in this country to use for everything
from drinking
water to raising livestock, and global population and
demand is growing,» said Sandia geochemist Pat Brady.
He believes it could also play a role in a future large - scale hydrogen generator, which would collect the energy
from sunlight in huge fields and then run that electric current through
water to produce vast amounts of hydrogen to meet, for example, the
demand from a future fleet of hydrogen - powered vehicles.
As
demand for green products grew, some producers switched to an aluminium - based material called zeolite A. Zeolites soften
water, but can not maintain pH or prevent dirt
from resettling on clothes, so a «co-builder» called polycarboxylic acid (PCA) had to be added.
The ability to meet this
demand is at risk as
water is increasingly under threat
from climate change and population growth.
Along with curtailing
demand, Australia is increasing supply by drawing potable
water from the ocean that surrounds the country on all sides.
In predicting how climate will affect irrigated crop yields in the future, the researchers also consider factors such as population and economic growth, as well as competing
demands for
water from various socioeconomic sectors, which are themselves projected to change as the climate warms.
Using an ensemble of five global hydrological models, the researchers examined the evolution of
water availability,
demand, and scarcity globally
from 1971 to 2010.
And
from a
water management standpoint, it's an entirely different way of thinking — to manipulate the local climate in order to manipulate
water demand.»
Then at peak
demand times, the ice or cold
water is used to cool air for large office or industrial buildings, meaning they need much less power
from the grid.
During the day, when
demand for electricity is higher, power will be generated by both the wind turbines and
water flowing
from the upper reservoir to the lower.
When
demand for electricity dies down at night, power generated by the wind turbines will be used to pump
water from the lower reservoir back to the upper reservoir, replenishing it.
To fulfill high production
demands,
water is drawn
from underground reservoirs (aquifers) in the northern provinces and used for irrigation more rapidly than it is replenished.
«Hydrogen (H2) produced
from water splitting by an electrochemical process, called
water electrolysis, has been considered to be a clean and sustainable energy resource to replace fossil fuels and meet the rising global energy
demand, since
water is both the sole starting material and byproduct when clean energy is produced by converting H2 back to
water,» the researchers wrote.
Between 2005 and 2030, the number of people living in areas where
water demand will exceed available supplies could rise 40 percent,
from 2.8 billion to 3.9 billion, the company said.
Booming energy sector speculation, combined with rising
demands from growing urban centers and diversions to the Southwest, has put pressure on
water sources.