Sentences with phrase «water resource stress»

But little is known about potential water resource stress in more remote areas.

The hotter, drier conditions are already contributing to water resource stress, particularly in the southern portion of the region.

While this is certainly a true statement, it does not follow that we should increase the frequency and magnitude of water resource stress by increasing evaporation, drought frequency, water loss from plants, etc., as the USGCRP report notes will occur as human - induced climate change increases.

But little is known about potential water resource stress in more remote areas.

Not exact matches

St. Croix, a water - stressed area, values fresh water as a critical natural resource.

Stefanie Covino, Coordinator of the Shaping the Future of Your Community program notes, «Our water resources are increasingly stressed, but conserving and restoring the natural landscape with native plants can offer social, environmental, and economic benefits such as improved air quality, property values, energy savings, and habitat — both locally and downstream.»

«And at a time of increased uncertainty regarding protection of clean air and water and other natural resources, Mass Audubon's mission to protect the nature of Massachusetts has never been more important,» Clayton stressed.

In every region, with the exception of a number of positive examples where lessons can be learned, biodiversity and nature's capacity to contribute to people are being degraded, reduced and lost due to a number of common pressures — habitat stress; overexploitation and unsustainable use of natural resources; air, land and water pollution; increasing numbers and impact of invasive alien species and climate change, among others.

«Ultimately, our next step will be looking at how interaction between the mother and the embryos can be affected, so if the mother is stressed during pregnancy — such as being exposed to a toxin or being deprived of resources such as food and water — we want to see how that can affect development of the embryos,» says Jennings.

Such a proposal may become reality as climate change increasingly stresses Colorado River water resources

«Our finding that vegetation plays a key role future in terrestrial hydrologic response and water stress is of utmost importance to properly predict future dryness and water resources,» says Gentine, whose research focuses on the relationship between hydrology and atmospheric science, land / atmosphere interaction, and its impact on climate change.

Columbia Engineering researchers have found that, to the contrary, vegetation plays a dominant role in Earth's water cycle and that plants will regulate and dominate the increasing stress placed on continental water resources in the future.

There could be three evolutionary processes could explain this adaptive radiation of hominins: 1) the occupation of novel niches for species living in a highly productive but spatially constrained region when there are deep fresh water lakes in the EARS [46] and 2) the lakes themselves creating spatial structure producing population isolation and vicariance and 3) repeated periods of increased resource availability stimulated adaptation and radiation followed by periods of environmental stress when the lakes rapidly dried up imposing strong selection pressures [28].

Providing great scratching posts in the right spots, doing what you can to help your cat with stress, and making sure all the cats in your home have plenty of access to the resources of litter boxes, food, water, beds, scratching posts, and playtime with you can all help solve this problem.

If your cat's scratching or marking has increased, this may be a sign of stress or anxiety, including a threat or restriction to their environmental resources (food, water, litter box, safe place to sleep, familiar territory, etc.).

The cage size is an important criteria — a larger size allows more flexibility in the arrangement, a greater separation of resources (bed, water bowl, food bowl and litter tray), greater freedom and choice of the cat, and therefore greatly helps to reduce stress during hospitalisation.

Some — especially those of us who live in areas whose water supply is stressed or at risk — may just wish to do our bit to help conserve a valuable resource.

The litigation, ignited by Our Children's Trust in 2015, relies on the public trust doctrine — a legal canon that stresses the government's hold on resources such as land, water or fisheries as treasure for the people.

Even in light of the complexities and uncertainties, Hulme et al. (2001) state that a «warming climate will nevertheless place additional stresses on water resources [in Africa], whether or not future rainfall is significantly altered» and they project reduced precipitation over Tunisia.

Rapid urbanization in China and India stresses energy grids and water resources in regions that are already water - stressed.

In the coming decades, lack of water will constrain development, stress natural resources, and increase competition for water among communities, agriculture, energy production, and wildlife and natural ecosystems.

Solar and wind energy require essentially no water at a time when stress on water resources is becoming an ever larger economic and ecological issue.

The energy sector faces multiple threats from climate change, in particular from extreme weather events and increasing stress on water resources.

Not only does more extreme weather threaten infrastructure like offshore oil platforms, but more droughts from global warming can create water stress, affecting hydropower and limiting resources for drilling.

Altogether, therefore, common sense suggests that with the plant productivity gains that result from the aerial fertilization effect of the ongoing rise in atmospheric CO2, plus its transpiration - reducing effect that boosts plant water use efficiency, along with its stress - alleviating effect that lessens the negative growth impacts of resource limitations and environmental constraints, the world's vegetation possesses an ideal set of abilities to reap a tremendous benefit from what the President inaccurately terms «carbon pollution» in the years and decades to come.

The concluding document of its fourth assessment report stated: «Climate change is expected to exacerbate current stresses on water resources from population growth and economic and land - use change, including urbanisation.»

Currently, overallocated water resources are being further stressed by increased demands due to population growth, tribal settlements, changes in land use, recreation needs, and mandated requirements for instream flows for ecosystem functioning and endangered - species preservation (6 — 9).

As a result of inappropriate management and rising levels of societal demand, in arid and semi-arid regions water resources are becoming increasingly stressed.

Understanding how these choices affect water use and water stress will help ensure that the dependence of power plants on water does not compromise that resource, the plants themselves, or the energy we rely on them to provide.

This report — the first on power plant water use and related water stress from the Energy and Water in a Warming World initiative (EW3)-- is the first systematic assessment of both the effects of power plant cooling on water resources across the United States, and the quality of information available to help public - and private - sector decision makers make water - smart energy chowater use and related water stress from the Energy and Water in a Warming World initiative (EW3)-- is the first systematic assessment of both the effects of power plant cooling on water resources across the United States, and the quality of information available to help public - and private - sector decision makers make water - smart energy chowater stress from the Energy and Water in a Warming World initiative (EW3)-- is the first systematic assessment of both the effects of power plant cooling on water resources across the United States, and the quality of information available to help public - and private - sector decision makers make water - smart energy choWater in a Warming World initiative (EW3)-- is the first systematic assessment of both the effects of power plant cooling on water resources across the United States, and the quality of information available to help public - and private - sector decision makers make water - smart energy chowater resources across the United States, and the quality of information available to help public - and private - sector decision makers make water - smart energy chowater - smart energy choices.

This technical document highlights the importance of water management, as growing populations, expanding cities and unsustainable natural resource management are increasing water stress on rural communities, while climate change and shocks are exacerbating flooding, landslides and saltwater intrusion into freshwater systems.

The places that will be hardest hit are the places that already have high water stress (a high fraction of available water already in use) and a low capacity of the community to adapt (ie, economic resources, water management plans).

Worse, the West is more densely populated in general and definitely more of a stress on the capabilities of the region they live in to support them (water aquifers being drained and not replenished is more common in the modernised west so indicating that they are exceeding the resources available).

Because much of the cost will be realized after the emissions occur, the funds would have to be invested in order to produce resources in the future to compensate or make the best of conditions then; this can be investment in infrastructure (aquaducts and flood water management planning) and such things as R&D for drought / flood resistant crops, efforts to save ecosystems (those parts that will survive the climate change, or otherwise planting trees, etc, where they will do well in the future, or otherwise reducing other stresses so that ecosystems will be more resilient to climate change)(remember that ecosystems provide us with ecosystem services), etc, and / or investment in the economy in general so that more resources will be available in the future to compensate for losses and pay for adaptation.

These same areas have high population growth rates (Africa much more so than India, but India's is still unsustainably high from a resource use perspective), which contributes to water stress now and in the future.

In the 2050s, differences in the population projections of the four SRES scenarios would have a greater impact on the number of people living in water - stressed river basins (defined as basins with per capita water resources of less than 1,000 m3 / year) than the differences in the emissions scenarios (Arnell, 2004b).

The change in the number of people under high water stress after the 2050s greatly depends on emissions scenario: substantial increase is projected for the A2 scenario; the speed of increase will be slower for the A1 and B1 emissions scenarios because of the global increase of renewable freshwater resources and the slight decrease in population (Oki and Kanae, 2006).