Sentences with phrase «with scarce water resources»

Bali is an island with scarce water resources and ecosystems that are not very well protected and respected.

We need to do a better job with our scarce water resources.

The Fertile Crescent has been plagued with scarce water resources throughout history, Gleick said, adding that the region also has a long history of conflicts over water.

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With little development and even fewer mains, water is a scarce resource.

The project studies water resources in the Phoenix area with the goal of understanding decisions about scarce water resources and their impacts: How do water managers think about climate uncertainty?

«As surface water sources became more scarce during a given climate cycle, the only species to survive may have been those with adaptations for sufficient mobility to discover a new and more persistent groundwater source, or those already settled within home range of such a resource,» co-author Professor Gail Ashley, Rutgers University (US), said.

Legal battles have already been fought in the US over scarce water resources in regions with nuclear power plants, including the Catawba river basin in the Carolinas and the Apalachicola / Chattahoochee / Flint river basin in Georgia, Florida and Alabama.

He is a leading scientist on global water resources, and strategies to build resilience in water scarce regions of the world, with more than 15 years experience from applied water research in tropical regions, and more than 100 research publications in fields ranging from applied land and water management to global sustainability.

The plan is to drive non-stop across the desert to «The Green Place,» a Shangri - La rumored to be teeming with water, vegetation and other scarce natural resources.

With the number of visitors to the northern Cambodian province approaching 2 million a year, increasing pressure is being put on the scarce water resource.

These games set up a hostile environment where you start with nothing, they make the human players more of a threat than the creatures, they normally give you guns, and they make food and water scarce resources.

The global agriculture and beverage industries competes head on with the energy industry for scarce water resources.

You will conserve scarce water resources and reduce carbon emissions associated with inefficient agricultural technologies the drip irrigation systems replace.

With climate change leading to further decreases in already scarce resources like arable land and water, poor populations are going to be pushed further to, or even over, the edge.

With water particularly scarce in many Muslim countries, Islamic environment ministers agreed at a recent conference that «finding a solution was one of the «most important duties of our time»» — something that Arwa Aburawa of Green Prophet says could be achieved by reconnecting to Islamic water - management principles that hold that «every human has a right to clean water to quench their thirst and also that water is precious resource which must not be wasted even during abundance.»

Breslin states that the UN's declaration of water as a basic human right will «force countries to deal with the allocation of scarce resources.

The EU has told the UK we have to decrease, drastically our reliance on fossil fuels, they have also interfered with our policies on water supplies, by claiming it will be a scarce resource in our rapidly warming future.