Sentences with phrase «water scarcity problem»

In partnership with the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, or Sida, USAID is offering up $ 25 million in grants, ranging from $ 100,000 to $ 3 million, for big ideas that solve the water scarcity problems in the agricultural production chain.

But because more than 40 percent of the Earth's population lives about 60 miles from the coastline, the authors write that taking advantage of offshore groundwater could help dampen looming water scarcity problems likely to be compounded by sea - level rise and drought.

At the same time, another 23 % have experienced a significant decrease in water availability, for 9 % aggravating water scarcity problems.

But interventions tend to solve water scarcity problems at a local level, while aggravating water scarcity downstream.

In keeping with the spirit of the season - and our past coverage of North Carolina's water scarcity problems - we had to pass on this timely story detailing the effects the drought - the state's worst on record - has had on the state's Christmas tree population.

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Lall points out that the water scarcity could also pose huge problems for the burgeoning domestic energy industry.

As illustrated by recent headlines of South Africa's countdown to «Day Zero,» or the day the water taps are expected to run dry, water scarcity continues to be a growing problem across the globe.

Study coauthor Peter McIntyre, an ecologist at the University of Wisconsin, notes that wealthier nations can manage the problem with complex sanitation facilities and other engineering schemes while the underlying issues — water scarcity and pollution — continue to intensify.

So the STEM mantra won't create industries and innovations that drive a flourishing economy, and it won't bring through those who will solve the problems of climate change and energy, food and water scarcity.

Years of worsening water scarcity passed before those ranchers began to appreciate how their practices — and the laws guiding them — were contributing to the problem.

The good news is though that I think he does feel that it is still possible to take some kinds of actions to respond to problems of climate change, to do a better job of trying to conserve top soil, to try to address the problems of water scarcity all over the world and so forth; that we can actually head off a lot of these problems.

Chartres, C. & Varma, S. Out of Water: from Abundance to Scarcity and How to Solve the World's Water Problems (Pearson Education, 2011).

Water scarcity is not a problem just for the developing world.

But despite what appears to be an insurmountable problem, according to researchers from McGill and Utrecht University it is possible to turn the situation around and significantly reduce water scarcity in just over 35 years.

Instead, the report focuses on problems that are likely to disproportionately hit developing countries: coastal inundation from rising sea levels, plummeting food production and associated malnutrition, unprecedented heat waves, increasing fresh water scarcity, more frequent and intense tropical cyclones, and the loss of biodiversity.

«Importing water - intensive goods from one water - scarce region to another doesn't solve the problem of water scarcity — it just shifts the pressure to other regions,» says co-author Klaus Hubacek, a researcher at the University of Maryland and an alumnus of the IIASA Young Scientists Summer Program.

According to the United Nations Department of Economic Affairs (UNDESA), water scarcity is among the main problems to be faced by many societies and the world in the 21st century.

This eastern tip is known as the driest area in Bali and the scarcity of water is a daily problem in this area especially during the hot season.

564 SecularA said, «The «problem» will be «solved» long before that, by famine, water scarcity, disease and war.»

However, this potential can only be realised by also addressing problems associated with the large - scale production of biofuels, such as poverty, impacts on biodiversity and climate change, and water scarcity.

Impacts: Climate change is expected to amplify already existing problems of water scarcity, agricultural failure and food insecurity.

Living space, amount of fresh water, food scarcity — none of these problems will disappear if SLR is creeping instead of a flash flood.

Iraq's water scarcity, he explained, is a problem that was accelerated under the regime of Saddam Hussein.

The U.N. population projections do not consider how the environmental problems we create, such as water scarcity and climate change, may limit our ability to grow.

Those of us who are fortunate to live in water - rich regions of the world could learn a lot from these practices, because even though we may not have to worry about our taps running dry anytime soon, water scarcity in a growing problem worldwide, and we should all be striving to use less.

We already know that GPS systems can make traffic flow more smoothly, they can help you drive more fuel efficiently, and they can even be applied to track global problems like climate change or water scarcity.

declares that the «problem of water scarcity is going to escalate worldwide in the foreseeable future»

The controversy surrounding environmental policy has, perhaps surprisingly, arisen not so much from the issue of conserving non-renewable commodities such as fossil fuels or industrial metals, but from the increasing scarcity or overuse of renewable natural resources, causing problems such as water and air pollution, or damage to global commons such as the atmosphere or the ozone layer.