Sentences with phrase «water policy»

Questions around agricultural water policy are complicated and the report clearly describes these different factors.

But they are also opportunities — a chance to put in place new, innovative water policies that are not discussed or implemented during wet or normal years.

Business - as - usual water policies and politics can not continue.

However, without significant changes in water policy, it won't solve the problem of sustaining a growing population in a region that is drying out.

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.

All stakeholders from the water world as well as other sectors with a story to tell should attend the Forum, to share their experiences with others and to influence water policies at every level.

«This is not perceived by people in the Legislature as a major issue that they want to invest their political capital in,» said Rhett Larson, an associate professor of Law at Arizona State University and a senior research fellow at the Kyl Center for Water Policy, whose family has farmed in Arizona for generations.

But it will not be the last drought and it is vital that we take the opportunity — amidst the serious problems farmers, cities, and the environment all face — to rethink those aspects of California water policy created in the 1900s and 2000s that no longer make sense in the 21st century.

TESTIMONIES Recommendations to Congress for Fundamental Changes in National Water Policy On December 8, 2011, Pacific Institute President Dr. Peter Gleick testified in Washington, D.C. before the before the Subcommittee on Water and Power of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources — Hearing on Opportunities and Challenges to Address Domestic and Global Water Supply Issues.

We've seen that sort of approach on water policy in Australia in the past decade.

Kansans who own water wells show more awareness of state water policy issues than those who rely on municipal water supplies, according to a study that could have implications for groundwater management and environmental policies.

«I believe it's just as important to study how human factors influence local water policy as it is to study the science of water quality or the costs of upgrading water infrastructure,» said Haeffner.

Hutch was re-elected to the County Commission in 2012, and his current committee participation includes the Governing Board for the GRACE Empowerment Homeless Shelter, the Metropolitan Transportation Planning Organization, and the Joint Water Policy Committee.

These groups are doing considerable work at the local, regional and national level, including working with their communities to develop an «Opportunities Framework» for addressing climate change and a «National Indigenous Water Policy».

Environmental water policies that show greater concern for bait fish than for food production, combined with years of drought, have strangled area farmers to the point that much of the arable land is returning to its natural semi-arid state.

Another source of stories and contacts is Water - L, an email - based mailing list for news and announcements about water policy around the world.

The research, which was the first to analyze several types of drought and to take into account land use changes in upstream Syria, could inform water policies in other arid countries with shared rivers.

Koundouri, Phoebe (2011): The Use of Economic Valuation in Environmental Policy: Providing Research Support for the Implementation of Eu Water Policy Under Aquastress.

Koundouri, Phoebe and Remoundou, Kyriaki (2011): The use of economic valuation in environmental policy: providing research support for the implementation of Eu Water Policy Under Aquastress.

The CJEU handed down an important judgment two weeks ago on EU water policy which concerns a number of interesting definitional issues as well as the more general issue of legal effects of directives prior to their transposition deadline.

The reasons for this are many: less cold water from Sierra snowpack, less cold freshwater being released from the Delta due to farming needs and other water policies, warm waters caused by El Nino flowing into the Bay, and other variables.

California needs to get to the next level in using groundwater recharge to help bring over-drafted San Joaquin Valley aquifers into sustainability, write Ellen Hanak of the PPIC Water Policy Center and Sarge Green of the California Water Institute.20 days ago

There is a partisan divide over water policies and fish protections in the Bay Delta region.

In Israel, professionals, not politicians, determine water policy.

We believe that governments have to take the lead in establishing over-arching water policies within which we and other water users can operate.

The Australian model could be useful for California because Australia recently emerged from a decade - long drought, during which it pioneered water policies that attracted interest from water - scarce countries around the world.

«Statewide water policy is important; and the consumer service part of that department is very important.

Richardson: You can't have sensible water policies without taking climate change and renewable energy and what we use into consideration.

«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 Boulder.

Sessions highlighted examples of actionable scientific research that is contributing to human rights - based water policies.

«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.

With savvy water policy, each country in the watershed could continue to improve in the future.»

Prior to becoming a PIO, Shipman worked as a reporter in Washington, D.C., covering issues related to environmental policy and public health for Inside EPA, Water Policy Report and Risk Policy Report.

WWAP, DHI Water Policy, PNUMA - DHI Centro para el Agua y el Medio Ambiente.

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.

E.P.A.'s Themes — Meeting the Challenge Ahead, published on the agency website, offers small hope she will reverse the failed water policies of previous administrations or cure the pervasive contamination that has threatened the nation's human and ecological health for decades....

We can not reverse climate change and its impact on water availability, but we can and must do a far better job with water management, including the modernization of national and international water policy.

After decades of poor water policy, «there was no resilience left in the system.»

Dr. Gleick testifed that a new 21st - Century Water Policy is needed in the face of new water challenges such as climate change, new pollutants, and decaying infrastructure, and presented recommendations for fundamental change.

Newsha K. Ajami Director, Urban Water Policy with Stanford University's Water in the West and NSF - ReNUWIt Initiatives

For the Gaskell CSP project, NRG said «the cooling technology is still being designed but the final selection will comply with CA water policy.

These nine water policy case studies document the regulatory successes achieved by several project teams and regulators around the country.