Sentences with phrase «where water availability»

This issue is critical in Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador, where water availability has already been compromised either for consumption or for hydropower generation [13.2.4.1].

Abstract Higher transpiration efficiency (TE) has been proposed as a mechanism to increase crop yields in dry environments where water availability usually limits yield.

This mulch reduces evaporation, which promotes water conservation and can be extremely useful in arid areas where water availability is limited.

Not exact matches

As part of the AWS certification process, auditors look at a number of factors within the groundwater basins where facilities are located, such as water quality, the availability of existing water sources, and the health of water - related areas, such as marshes, in the region.

«But these results show us what the range of water availability across the surface is so we can start thinking about where we might want to go to get it and whether it makes economic sense to do so.»

You can imagine that such a «sensing and response» mechanism involving CRSP and EPF2 could be used to engineer crop varieties which are better able to perform in the current and future high CO2 global climate where fresh water availability for agriculture is dwindling.»

According to Peter Gleick and Meena Palaniappan, writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, water availability is a growing global problem, especially in regions like the Western U.S. where «almost all major rivers and aquifers and already tapped out.»

Possible increased growth and productivity concurrent with climate oscillations that increase water availability, particularly at higher elevations and where stand density is low; extreme high temperatures would have net negative impact, regardless of water availability

The site where the resort is built was chosen for reasons of accessibility (the roads are paved and well - maintained all the way from the airport to the resort), and the availability of electrical power, water and telecommunication links.

IPCC AR4 WG1 SPM says (under «Fresh water resources and their management» of «C. Current knowledge about future impacts») In the course of the century, water suppries stored in glaciers and snow cover are projected to decline, reducing water availability in regions supplied by meltwater from major mountain ranges, where more than one - sixth of the world population currently lives.

Clearly a lot of sampling skill is needed to discount trees that have taken root where subsoil variability comes into play, lest that inhomogeneity of nutrient and water availability blur or wash out the temperature component.

Efforts to offset declining surface water availability due to increasing precipitation variability will be hampered by the fact that groundwater recharge will decrease considerably in some already water - stressed regions (high confidence)[3.2, 3.4.2], where vulnerability is often exacerbated by the rapid increase in population and water demand (very high confidence)[3.5.1].

In the course of the century, water supplies stored in glaciers and snow cover are projected to decline, reducing water availability in regions supplied by meltwater from major mountain ranges, where more than one - sixth of the world population currently lives.

Thus, energy production and consumption can have a tremendous impact on water availability in arid climates or other areas where freshwater resources are scarce.

Rebuilding soil health is a no - risk, low - cost approach to store carbon in the ground where it provides multiple benefits for climate stability, food security, and fresh water availability.

Naturally, your specific foodprint depends on where you live, and the availability of such resources as soil, water, and sunlight.

This smaller decline is driven mainly by patterns in arid regions (e.g., northern Africa, Australia, and the Middle East), where losses in suitable plant growing days due to higher temperatures are reduced because those locations are already limited by water availability (compare yellow - and white - colored areas in Fig 2A and 2D).

Water may no longer fall where and when we need it, decreasing the availability of freshwater in many areas.

Intelligent distributed infrastructure also disrupts the traditional public versus private delineation of public services by extending the availability of reliable, measurable and effective systems right into residential properties where the rain falls and the demand for water originates.»