Human societies have throughout history found new means to secure availability of water where they settled.
Where you make camp each night depends mostly on the availability of water.
The cost and availability of water has increasingly come into play as these features grow more popular.
Coca-Cola, for instance, is investing in preserving healthy watersheds to ensure the long-term availability of fresh water for its business and the communities in which it operates.
It suggests that the impact on human health, the availability of food and water, the loss of coastlines becomes progressively worse as the average temperature of the planet rises.
Diarrhoea kills millions of people every year in developing countries, but few in the rich ones because of clean water and the easy availability of elementary drugs.
Indeed life, as well as the environment and most human activities, depend on the availability of adequate quantities of water of an acceptable quality.
There is thus inevitably an economic aspect of water availability.
This conference aims to focus on the various interlinked aspects of water availability and hopes to provide a forum for chalking out strategies that may be useful to the developing countries.
The computer model in the study builds on decades of research that shows that most species of fish, especially large ones, have maximum growth sizes based on the availability of oxygen in the water.
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Dissenting Commissioner Troy Paredes notes the potential confusion that could result from having firms speculate on the "physical effects of climate change, such as effects on the severity of weather (for example, floods or hurricanes), sea levels, the arability of farmland, and water availability and quality" and harms to their reputation because of the public perception of data relating to its greenhouse gas emissions.
And climate change has already started to profoundly impact the availability, distribution, and quality of water.
"Roads, metro-rail, increased water supply, availability of more power - these are the aspects in which the government is taking active steps, " he explains.
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Between now and 2040, fresh water availability will not keep up with demand absent more effective management of water resources.
But unlike other alternative energy sources, such as sun or wind power, there's nothing fickle about the availability of the key raw ingredients--fresh water and sea water.
Furthermore, water availability must be understood within the context of the hydrological cycle, which is influenced by multiple factors, trends, uncertainties and the associated risks that extend beyond a narrow sectoral focus.
Environmental factors already influence investment decisions to some degree, as corporations and indeed individuals have to take projections of things such as sea level rise and water availability into account.
Increases in crop production and productivity, together with virtual-water trade, will mitigate the regional inequities of availability.
In addition to impacts on farming and ranching operations, a long-term, widespread drought will also have implications for wildfires, water availability, navigation, and power generation across much of the country and across other sectors.
Water availability is just one factor that influences where businesses locate, said Jason Morrison of the Pacific Institute, author of a report on likely economic fallout from a drier climate.
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