Sentences with phrase «water resource system»

It offers guidelines for initiating and carrying out water resource system planning and management projects.

«In Southern Europe, adapting to some of the projected changes could only be achieved by a fundamental, and expensive, re-engineering of each city or water resource system, as significant adaptation to climate extremes has already been implemented and radical changes will be needed to achieve more,» the paper notes.

«We need water resource systems that are resilient to those extremes in systems due solely to natural variability,» Delworth said.

In addition, changes to the arrival time of floods could disrupt the breeding behaviour of fish that lay their eggs in submerged flood plains, says Prof Günter Blöschl, lead author of the new research and director of the Centre for Water Resource Systems at the Vienna University of Technology.

Water resource monitoring and water balance based modelling using remotely sensed data complement each other and offers a great opportunity to understand the dynamic of water resources systems and as relatively cheap and faster early warning system.

Climate factors, especially rainfall has significant impacts on availability and quality of water resources systems of the region.

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The new system could potentially supply the power human crews on the Martian surface would need to energize habitats and run processing equipment to transform resources such as ice on the planet into oxygen, water and fuel, NASA said.

Finally, I'd like to talk about three more companies in the water resources sector involved in the production of irrigation systems.

Our current global food system, which is dominated by industrial meat and dairy, is pushing our land and water resources to their absolute limit.

The online software system used by the Alliance will be enhanced so the wine community can more easily manage information on resource conservation practices to participate in greenhouse gas and water quality trading opportunities, energy and water use reduction incentive programs, and alternative compliance with new regulatory programs addressing air and water quality.

It is about supporting a system of sustainable agricultural management that promotes soil health and fertility through the use of such methods as crop rotation and cover cropping, which nourish plants, foster species diversity, help combat climate change, prevent damage to valuable water resources, and protect farmers and farmersâ $ ™ families from exposure to harmful chemicals.

Since water is perhaps our most valuable natural resource, we employ a system that allows us to reuse all the Creamery water at the Creamery and Straus Dairy Farm instead of letting all the water go down the drain.

As Jonathon Bloom of Wasted Food explained, the existing food system perpetuates the overproduction of commodities, artificially low prices, and disproportionate use of our resources (80 % of water, 50 % of land and 10 % of global oil is used in food production).

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The concept has a holistic approach and combines a variety of innovative technologies, such as energy positive homes, renewable energy, energy storage, door - step high - yield organic food production, vertical farming aquaponics / aeroponics, water management and waste - to - resource systems.

«I would bring local control back to town government, take advantage of our local resources, especially our water system, fight for the taxpayer at every level, especially state and federal, and get water and sewer projects back on track to be in the best interests of the town, not just a cost burden directed by others.»

Instead, he argues, the state should pool its financial resources to tackle big issues - highways, bridges and, yes, aging urban water systems.

«This act will continue our historic commitment to protecting and preserving New York's natural resources by infusing $ 2 billion in critical upgrades to water systems across the state.»

My campaign is calling for 100 % Clean Energy in New York by 2030, including a complete ban on fracking, a phase out of all nuclear plants, no new fossil fuel infrastructure, and the rapid development of a clean energy system based on distributed renewable energy production from solar, wind, and water resources and an interactive smart grid.

WAMC's David Guistina talks with Mike Spain of the Times Union about issues regarding free college tuition at SUNY / CUNY schools, a teenager who fell down an open manhole into an upstate sewer system, and the impact of winter road salt on area lakes and water resources.

• Many public water systems draw all or part of their supply from groundwater, so protecting the resource protects the public water supply and impacts treatment costs.

Craig Just's research interests vary widely from freshwater mussels and how they mitigate nitrogen contamination to water resources, food security and energy system design and implementation in resource - constrained communities.

Permanently shadowed craters on the moon are among the coldest known places in the solar system and have long been suspected to hide significant water deposits, a potential resource for future lunar outposts.

The ability to continue production will depend on how cropping systems adapt to the lower water allocations and stricter management of that resource.»

The paper, «Simulated Effects of Winter Wheat Cover Crops on Cotton Production Systems of the Texas Rolling Plains,» is part of the «Crop Modeling and Decision Support for Optimizing Use of Limited Water» collection by the Natural Resources and Environmental Systems Community of ASABE at http://bit.ly/2izRZBY.

Year after year, as the rivers and streams have dwindled, the state's Department of Water Resources, which requires permits, has continued to issue them, allowing new groundwater wells, and not counting their withdrawals as part of a single system.

Andrew Rosenberg, a scientist who led one of the report's chapters on oceans and directs the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the report outlines changes that are happening now in various systems from agriculture to water resources to forestry to oceans.

But not all aquifers are exempted, and the system amounts to a patchwork of protected and unprotected water resources deep underground.

The natural systems that provide oxygen, clean water, food, storm and erosion protection, natural products, and the potential for future resources, such as new genetic stocks for cultivation, must be protected, not just because it is part of good stewardship but also so that they can take care of us.

«This is why we need to analyze the systems that provide access to finite resources like water.»

Production systems such as monocultures that cultivate crops (for example, palm oil and sugar cane) for global distribution may benefit local communities with employment and funding opportunities, but are often reliant on over-exploited water resources.

The Loa River water system of northern Chile's Atacama Desert, in the Antofagasta region, exemplifies the high stakes involved in sustainable management of scarce water resources.

While the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate has now started providing avalanche forecasts for Svalbard, Prokop says he wants to create a sustainable avalanche safety system that is based on the island archipelago itself.

Living up to all the ambitions of its official name, OSIRIS - REx would explore the origins of asteroids and thus the solar system itself, connect spectral colors observable from Earth to specific minerals on the asteroid, identify potential resources such as water for rocket fuel, help evaluate the threat of asteroids to Earth, and return some regolith (asteroid soil) for detailed analysis.

A study in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association published this spring outlined the potential difficulties of setting up a water trading system in the American West, including the fact that there is not an umbrella authority over states in the 1922 Colorado comWater Resources Association published this spring outlined the potential difficulties of setting up a water trading system in the American West, including the fact that there is not an umbrella authority over states in the 1922 Colorado comwater trading system in the American West, including the fact that there is not an umbrella authority over states in the 1922 Colorado compact.

As a senior scientist at the Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Muruganandam has been doing research on natural resource management and fisheries and aquatic system management, in particular, for more than 20 years.

This will require system innovations — to further reduce the use of resources such as water and minerals, to increase production per unit area, and to obtain the high - quality, healthy products that consumers want.

In the Hydrology and Earth System Sciences paper, the team focused on determining the water resources required to grow grain, the staple crop of the Roman civilisation, and how these resources were distributed within the Empire.

Dec. 28, 2017 - To address future climate change effects on water resources, scientists at five UC campuses, and Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories will study California's water systems, from the headwaters in the Sierra Nevada, through rivers, reservoirs and groundwater in the Central...

DOE's Accelerated Climate Modeling for Energy (ACME) project is focused on how global water cycles, water resources, biogeochemical cycles, and rapidly changing ice or snow interact with climate systems and climate change.

For example there is a major controversy over whether or not humans are changing the weather»), for Grade 6 on water resources and weather systems, and so on.

Coalition members are concerned about the impact of Quail Ranch on the already overextended water resources, transportation systems, and infrastructure needs in existing communities.

It would seem unlikely that if there are no Minor Planets in this system, such as we see with the asteroid belt here that that would provide water and other resources that could be exploited.

DALLAS — A Texas A&M AgriLife Research water conservation horticulturist said home and business owners should repair and maintain sprinkler systems to save money and time while reducing wasted water resources.

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The words included in the vocabulary booklets are: condensation, evaporation, freshwater, lake, natural resource, ocean, precipitation, saltwater, stream, system, water, and water cycle.

This will allow for modern assessments of water resources based on sound information systems and management approaches and it will also provide the foundation to move towards sustainable patterns of production and consumption.

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The NEU also states that more robust evidence is required for another reform of the skills system and the review of level 3 qualifications proposed and that unless T - level implementation is properly planned, resourced and funded, there is a risk that their standards will be watered down to make existing level 2 qualifications «fit».

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