Desalination technology has historically been more widely embraced by countries with scarce water resources, such as the Middle East.
Because solar power production makes the most sense in sunny, arid climates, this is precisely where consuming scarce water resources is most harmful to the environment.
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Farmers soak up about 85% of the border region's scarce water, and on the semi-arid land on both sides they grow thirsty cash crops like sugar cane.
The expansion of copper and gold mining in Chile and Peru has mainly occurred in arid areas and has led to competition for scarce water with both export agriculture and the needs of the indigenous population.
The Government of Kenya, which is hosting the meeting, said that while the country is still considered a water-scarce country with only water per capita of about 647m3 per year, studies are showing that Kenya has up to 60 billion cubic metres of groundwater potential that needs to be located.
Jordan is moving towards increased reliance on groundwater as an alternative to surface water and according to the 4th United Nations World Water Development Report 2012 co-authored by UNESCO, it is the fourth most water scarce country in the world.
The new process has obvious appeal in coastal areas where fresh water is scarce such as the Persian Gulf.
And in this desperately water-scarce country, the urban infrastructure does little to conserve.
Issues with running water, scarce electricity and more contributed to headaches big and small, according to passengers and their loved ones.
Implementing such measures is crucial in a place where water is scarce.
Doug Boykin, the state forester for Catron County, said water is scarce here, as many find out who try to dig a well.
Researchers at Monsanto and elsewhere are working quietly on the next potential breakthrough in agriculture: drought-resistant crops, which are meant to help farmers cope in an increasingly water-scarce world.
Over the next few months, though, the company hopes to install a pilot system at a dairy farm in Texas near the New Mexico border, where water is scarce.
Where water is scarce, the development of crop varieties that grow under conditions of low moisture or temporary drought could boost yields and lengthen the time that farmland is productive.
In her opening address, Ms Bokova stressed the importance to act where needs were most acute, pointing to Africa where over 300 of the 800 million people in the Sub-Saharan region live in a water-scarce environment.
The most likely answer, as he explains in a paper in the Journal of Experimental Biology, is that urine, though cheap to produce when water is plentiful, is a physiologically costly product when water is scarce.
Turtle kidneys have difficulty processing salt water, so for an animal that lives in a brackish environment potable water is always scarce.
This treatment and reuse approach has the additional benefit of requiring much less water in those areas where water is a scarce resource.
He is giving a talk "Water as a Scarce Resource: A Threat to Growth Targets in the East of England" to a Royal Town Planning Institute conference in Cambridge on Wednesday.
While large-scale desalination is not uncommon in those parts of the world where natural water resources are scarce -- such as Texas and Australia -- the UAE is by some margin, according to Iannelli, the industry's most active player.
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The conversation is always water is a human right and should be given to everyone free, or water is a scarce commodity and should be fully privatized, when, in truth, we have a world in which 1.3 billion people have no access to safe drinking water.
It is also crucial in a place like Malaysia where water is only occasionally scarce.
Systems like these are becoming more attractive as fresh water is becoming more scarce and expensive.
In developing nations where water and energy are scarce, simple solutions may work better than new, costly technologies that are prone to break, Scarborough said.
Businesses are developing products such as advanced filtration systems for sale in countries where water isn't just scarce, but also polluted.
That's the demand by local golfers, after viewing the Masters on television, for conditions equally lush, even in places where water and other resources are scarce and their use may be environmentally unsound.
But if they are sincere, it is probably because they believe they must plan for a world in which water and other natural resources are increasingly scarce.
For drinking water, they depend on cisterns that collect scarce rainwater and on wells.
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