Sentences with phrase «water policies at»

Following the sixth goal of the SDGs for 2030, which seeks to ensure available and sustainable water management, the creation of a World Water Tribunal aims to control, evaluate, monitor, and implement water policies at the local, regional, and national scale.

David Grey, former senior water advisor at the World Bank and now visiting Professor of Water Policy at Oxford University, says that although there is insufficient data to come to an accurate long term assessment of what will happen to the Indus, there are deep anxieties.

Not exact matches

So far Coady's work at Enbridge has been about conducting outreach around specific areas such as water stewardship and updating climate change policies.

«[The banks] are trying to still the waters and let the dust settle a bit,» says Armine Yalnizyan, senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

In a letter to Obama at the time, Brennan said he was «a strong opponent of many of the policies of the Bush administration, such as the preemptive war in Iraq and coercive interrogation tactics, to include water boarding.»

In plain language, that brochure recalls the sky - high inflation of the 1970s (peaking at an eye - watering 27 % in Britain in August 1975) and also how monetary policy can be used to contain it.

(He also actively pursues issues relating to immigration policies, food security, safe water for First Nations, species at risk, the plastics problem, healthy living — the list goes on.)

In addition, Chipotle hired a new head of food safety who implemented a number of changes to policies at the Company's restaurants — for example, requiring all employees to wash their hands every half hour, mandating that two employees verified that certain ingredients had been immersed in hot water for at least five seconds to kill germs, and using Pascalization to pre-treat food ingredients.

During his 41 years at Calvary Baptist, Barbour served on a variety of city policy - developing committees, including the Chester Water Board and the Citizens Council on Urban Renewal.

Cares enormously about children in resettlement camps, who must drink water to fill their stomachs because there is no food; he cares about shivering women at Nyanga whose flimsy plastic shelters are being destroyed by police; He cares that the influx control system together with Bantunization are destroying black family life not accidentally but by deliberate government policy; He cares that people die mysteriously in detention; He cares that something horrible is happening in this country when a man will often mow down his family before turning the gun on himself; He cares that life seems so dirt cheap (cited in Maimela 1986:43).

Research shows that a majority of global consumers, and especially Millennials, support companies that are committed to minimizing environmental impacts and that prioritize sustainable approaches to operations.2 To share more about its water initiatives, Fetzer Vineyards developed a new page on its website containing facts about agricultural water use and details about the company's water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, water initiatives, Fetzer Vineyards developed a new page on its website containing facts about agricultural water use and details about the company's water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, water use and details about the company's water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, water policy support. Visit fetzer.com/water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, water for more on Fetzer Vineyards» water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, water initiatives, including its adoption of BioFiltro's BIDA ® treatment system and its support for water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, water conservation research and advocacy through collaborations with groups like the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (BIER) and Ceres» Connect the Drops, both of which were commended for their water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, water policy efforts at the White House Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, Water Summit on Building a Sustainable Water Future in the United States on March 22, Water Future in the United States on March 22, 2016.

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

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Located at the junction of the Delta and the Bay, the park offers an ideal vantage of how climate change, water policy and natural fluctuations in the weather and currents affect our region.

We need a water first policy in after school sports as well at school.

«Planning for both conservation and development together preserves clean water, natural areas, and community character while providing needed jobs and housing,» said Jack Clarke, Director of Public Policy and Government Relations at Mass Audubon.

Target is in hot water again after employees at a Houston Target store harassed a breastfeeding mother, in contravention of their own corporate breastfeeding policy.

In the first major act of rebellion at the autumn conference voters clearly rejected schools minister Sarah Teather's attempt to water down a motion stating that «conference is concerned by the establishment of academies and free schools under coalition government policy».

Commenting on the Met Office warnings of heavy rain in the north of England over Christmas Day and Boxing Day and the prospect of more flooding, Mark Shepherd, General Insurance Policy Manager at the Association of British Insurers (ABI), said: «Everyone hopes the flood waters stay away over the Christmas break, particularly for residents of Cumbria who have already seen their properties inundated more than once in the past few weeks.

A number of Tory MPs favouring free market policies, including some at senior ministerial level, feel the plan is far too interventionist for a Conservative government, and are aiming to water down the proposal in the next parliament.

The suit, being filed on behalf of CCOP and At - Risk Community Services, will ask the court to impose an independent monitor for NYCHA for what Walden deemed «systemic violations of law» surrounding lead paint monitoring and remediation, providing heat and hot water, providing economic opportunities for tenants and consulting them on policies that affect them.

The minister, while addressing the State House journalists shortly after the FEC meeting, said the policy looked at «all the different inter-sectoral issues that we have whether it is with water, health, power or agriculture and bring them in to have a multi-sectoral response.

Officials at the big ones, like the Thruway Authority, as well as the small ones — the Albany Water Board, Schenectady County Local Development Corp., Rensselaer County Industrial Development Agency and Saratoga Springs City Center Authority are among those that come to mind — have been asked what their policies are regarding the payment of bonuses.

«The problems may not simply be with who runs the [Water Authority] but may require a larger public policy discussion about the utility of an authority at all.

On a positive note, Kingston Mayor Shayne Gallo, to his considerable credit, departed from long - established public hearing procedure to engage speakers at last week's hearing on amending the city charter on water policy.

I suggest to him that at the time of the announcement it looked like a party conference speech in search of a policy that put clear water between the Lib Dems and their coalition partners.

Good government and public policy advocates have taken withering looks at the water authority and other public utilities that have become frequent stops for political patronage appointees.

The meeting, held at AAAS headquarters, gathered scientists, engineers, health professionals, human rights advocates, community activists and policy makers to discuss water and human rights.

Government agencies urged people to stockpile water and peanut butter and tuna fish in preparation for what Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told the press would be «three years of a given hell....

According to a 2013 study of California farmers, factors like exposure to extreme weather events and perceived changes in water availability made farmers more likely to believe in climate change, while negative experiences with environmental policies can make farmers less likely to believe that climate change is occurring, said Meredith Niles, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Sustainability Science Program and lead author of the study.

Collin P. Kelley, senior research fellow at the Center for Climate & Security, a non-partisan security and foreign policy institute, called for more research to help regions better manage diminished water resources and to help better forecast water shortages to allow plans to be put into action.

The plan would create a Ministry of Ecological Environment: a «positive development» that would put a single entity in charge of policies related to climate change, water resource management, and pollution, says Dabo Guan, a climate change economist at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, U.K.

In May, NOVA aired «Poisoned Water,» an in - depth look at the distortion and dismissal of scientific research to support a misguided policy that exposed thousands of residents of Flint, Michigan to elevated levels of lead in their drinking wWater,» an in - depth look at the distortion and dismissal of scientific research to support a misguided policy that exposed thousands of residents of Flint, Michigan to elevated levels of lead in their drinking waterwater.

«There is a very small number of people that control a huge amount of water,» said Douglas Kenney, director of the Western Water Policy Program at the University of Colorado Law School in Bouwater,» said Douglas Kenney, director of the Western Water Policy Program at the University of Colorado Law School in BouWater Policy Program at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder.

Kibler now works as a researcher at the International Centre for Water Hazard & Risk Management in Tsukuba, Japan, and as an Associate Professor at Japan's National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo.

At the state level, suggestions that the «first - in - time» water rights policies might be modified triggers an equally radical reaction, conjuring fears of property seizure and a nearly religious opposition to change.

A new report by authors from UCLA School of Law's Emmett Center on Climate Change and the Environment and UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability explores the sources and impacts of plastic marine litter and offers domestic and international policy recommendations to tackle these growing problems — a targeted, multifaceted approach aimed at protecting ocean wildlife, coastal waters, coastal economies and human health.

«In the Southwest, water availability for irrigation is already a concern,» says first author Elodie Blanc, a research scientist at MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change.

But governments at all levels need to start setting policies and making investments in infrastructure for water conservation now.

Join a core business area — such as Environmental Protection or Water Management — at a policy (Head Office) or operational (field - based) level

«In general they're making progress, but at this point, early in the game, we're not able to draw definitive conclusions about how they're doing,» says water policy expert Kenneth Reckhow of RTI International in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, who chaired the panel.

Campaigning on ethanol, not water Ann Robinson, an agriculture policy specialist at the Iowa Environmental Council, said the lack of attention to agriculture seemed fairly typical for presidential campaigning in Iowa.

«The bottom line is: these rules fail to protect the nation's public lands — home to our last wild places, and sources of drinking water for millions of people — from the risks of fracking,» said Amy Mall, a senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a statement.

The collision of water, energy and climate change will reverberate through public policy decisions for decades to come, with unintended consequences at each step.

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Actually, «the federal government is looking at our water policy, realizing we have none, and wants to position itself as doing something,» contends Swackhamer, chair of the US Environmental Protection Agency's Scientific Advisory Board.

«Water quality is of great concern to California's Tribal governments not only for personal consumption, but also for the long term health and restoration of cultural habitats for traditional plants and animal life, ecosystems for healthy fish population, and access to traditional plants for food and ceremonial use,» adds Anecita Agustinez, a Tribal Policy Advisor at California's Department of Water Resources.

As part of the general awareness of World Day of Water, this article looks at the policy issues that led to the water supply crisis in the city of São PWater, this article looks at the policy issues that led to the water supply crisis in the city of São Pwater supply crisis in the city of São Paulo.

Specific regulations on beverages include a 12 - ounce cap on all drinks except water and milk with less than 2 percent fat, and at the elementary school level, a policy allowing only water, milk, and 100 percent fruit or vegetable juice.

Now apart from the obvious fact that no one actually practices this, Ramsey is simply muddying the waters here because a properly structured whole life policy is not really an investment at all.