Sentences with phrase «water resources by»

According to the IPCC report, each degree of warming is projected to decrease renewable water resources by at least 20 percent for an additional 7 percent of the global population.

This rapid change might affect the availability of water resources by altering the rates of evaporation and precipitation.

UNECE: The Third workshop on water and climate change in transboundary basins: Making adaptation work will bring together more than 140 participants from all over the world on 25 and 26 April 2012 in Geneva to discuss how to prevent conflict in transboundary basins over dwindling water resources by cooperating at the transboundary level in [continue reading...]

While rain and snow would still help replenish Asian rivers in the absence of glaciers, the change could hamper efforts to manage seasonal water resources by altering when fresh water supplies are available in areas already prone to water shortages.

The greatest use of global water resources by far originates with growing and producing food and beverages, according the United Nations World Water Development Report 2015.

The organisation helps customers save money and reduce the strain on fresh water resources by decreasing consumption, CO2 emissions and operational costs through lower energy consumption, raw material and sewage treatment.

«We want to be good stewards of air and water resources by appropriately contributing to those related areas that help us as an entity and take care of our environment,» Matzke says.

The NDP has also pledged to protect Canada's water resources by placing some restrictions on the export of bulk water, encouraging more efficient water consumption, and improving water quality through stronger regulations.

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«The agency should include and explain the... investigations conducted in Dimock, Pennsylvania; Pavillion, Wyoming; and Parker County, Texas where hydraulic fracturing activities are perceived by many members of the public to have caused significant local impacts to drinking water resources,» states the advisory body's review.

Such withdrawals aren't subject to review by the compact's governing bodies, the Great Lakes St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Council and the Great Lakes St. Lawrence River Water Resources Regional Body, as long as the withdrawal consumes less than 5 million gallons daily.

Some farmers and city leaders worry that the fracking boom is consuming too much of a scarce resource, while others see the push for production as an opportunity to make money by selling water while furthering the nation's goal of energy independence.

However, the distortion of the debate by Trump and other politicians creates a danger that resources will be misdirected from more pressing infrastructure needs, such as aged water pipes leaching lead and schools - or from projects that will have a considerable regional economic impact.

Other practitioners of the pop - expert model include Canadian academic Thomas Homer - Dixon, who predicted the world was about to be wracked by cross-border wars fought over basic resources such as water.

«Labatt is one of Canada's founding businesses and oldest brewers and we're grateful to be able to give back to this country by leveraging our strengths and resources to get safe drinking water to Canadians in need,» said Angelakos.

The decision to return clean water to local communities wasn't an idea dreamt by a bright - eyed Coca - Cola employee, but rather a decision following years of mounting dissatisfaction from locals, consumers and NGOs who have seen the company exhaust local water resources in small communities in the developing world.

As a business, Planetary Resources is betting that by the time it extracts water from an asteroid, there will be a customer like NASA interested in buying water, hydrogen and oxygen.

Because they got their back to the water and their face to the sand, surrounded by enemies without natural resources,» McKenna said.

The maximum price of government price controlled 95 octane gasoline at self - service pumps in Israel will rise by NIS 0.11 to NIS 6.46 (a rise of 1.73 %) tonight at midnight, May 1, the Ministry of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources reports.

Water Criteria development has been led by a consortium consisting of the Climate Bonds Initiative, Ceres, World Resources Institute, CDP and the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA) which is supported by Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI).

In a blind headlong rush to gain profit by any means these forces have already begun to obliterate animal species, forest cover, fish stocks, water reserves, land and air, and have engaged upon a satanically mindless pilfering of finite resources by vandalism of Mother Earth, and have raised gigantic questions over human survival prospects.

He calls attention, as experts increasingly are doing, to the deterioration of the world's resources in arable land and forests and to the pollution of air and water by pesticides and waste products.

Actually these marginalised people lived by nature's bounties - the dalits through agricultural labour on land, the tribals by the resources of the forests, the fisherfolk of the sea and other water sources and the women by the organic functions of family life.

Marshalling convincing scientific data, they tell us that the environmental degradation caused by massive pollution of air water and land, threatens the very life of earth — fast depletion of non renewal resources, indeed of species themselves, the thinning of the ozone layer that exposes all living creatures to the danger of radiation, the build up of gases creating the greenhouse effect, increasing erosion by the sea — all these are brought out through their research.

The company has set specific operational goals to improve efficiency in energy and water use, reduce manufacturing waste and conserve packaging resources by 2015.

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 Australian livestock export industry is regulated by the Federal Department of Agriculture and Water Resources (DAWR).

6 GL of Commonwealth environmental water was delivered by the South Australian Murray - Darling Basin Natural Resources Management Board to a number of important wetland sites through the South Australian Riverland.

The increased population size was likely a response to conservation efforts by the Natural Resources South Australian Murray - Darling Basin, including delivery of Commonwealth environmental water.

These watering actions will be managed by the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources.

946 ML of Commonwealth environmental water was delivered by the South Australian Murray - Darling Basin Natural Resources Management Board to two sites in the South Australian Riverland.

This watering action will be managed by Nature Foundation South Australia in collaboration with local landholders, Bookpurnong - Lock 4 Environmental Association, Loxton Waikerie District Council, Loxton Bookpurnong Local Action Planning Group, SA Water and the South Australian Government's Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources.

This M&E Plan has been prepared by a South Australian consortium of agencies: South Australian Research and Development Institute, the University of Adelaide, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR), the Environment Protection Authority and In Fusion Consulting.

Dr Pepper Snapple Group is doing their part by continuing to support The Nature Conservancy on several projects that protect vital water resources in Texas.

We do this by helping improve plant breeds, better manage increasingly scarce resources such as water, and keep pests and diseases at bay.

He said it was the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources which suspended export certification for pasteurised milk products produced by Camperdown Dairy.

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.

With the world's population expected to hit 10 billion by 2050, neither land nor water resources — let alone the environment — will be able to cope with the growing global appetite for meat.

With increasing water scarcity, constrained natural resources and declining biodiversity, we need to protect the future by making the right choices.

What is required for this to happen, more than anything else, Is not a technology revolution, but a mindset evolution away from old technology that has passed its use - by date, (such as extensive, polluting and smelly lagoons) and outdated attitudes that treat waste water as a cost or even place in which to hide process problems, rather than a resource for recycling and generation of green energy.

Perhaps surprising is that these firms are targeting meat eaters, not vegans or vegetarians, and they are doing so by focusing on the need for the entire population to cut down on animal consumption to conserve valuable water and land resources.

Global meat production is reaching new peaks, according a report by the Worldwatch Institute, and having a debilitating effect on land and water resources.

«This is a proven environmental initiative by Cadia that demonstrates its concern to optimize conservation of water as a resourced shared with the broader community,» said CST Waste Water Solutions Managing Director Michael Bambrwater as a resourced shared with the broader community,» said CST Waste Water Solutions Managing Director Michael BambrWater Solutions Managing Director Michael Bambridge.

Assistant Agriculture and Water Resources Minister Luke Hartsuyker — stepping in for Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce who is facing a by - election due to his citizenship disqualification — said National Agriculture Day was all about getting much - deserved recognition for the nation's $ 60 billion agriculture sector.

A statement released by the group upon its launch states: «Reducing food loss and waste can be a triple win: it can save money for farmers, companies, and households; wasting less can feed more people; and reductions can alleviate pressure on climate, water, and land resources.»

From 20 November 2016, Australia is changing the stamps, physical seals and carton seals used by the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources to certify Australian agricultural products for export.

Lately, the Australian Federal Department of Agriculture and Water Resources has proposed a compulsory treatment of seeds from crops like broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts and rocket with fungicides when they enter Australia to work against the increasing threat posed by seed - borne pathogens.

The purpose of the Basin Plan is to provide for the integrated management of the Basin water resources in a way that promotes the objects of this Act, in particular by providing for:

• Made by a brewery that has made concrete water recycling or other resource efficiency improvements in the production or delivery process in the last three years.

After careful evaluation, we learned that Hormel Foods does not have manufacturing operations in areas defined as water scarce regions by the World Resource Institute (annual renewable water supply per person < 1,700 cubic meters / person / year).

About Fish Brewing Company Founded in 1993, Fish Brewing Company is owned by over 400 beer drinking consumers, who pooled their resources to build a landmark brewery in Olympia, WA, which is known for its quality water and artesian wells.