Clean water is scarce.

Clean water is scarce.

Hard Wisdom for Scarce Water

Pressure on water resources due to increased crop intensity brings about increased water resource competition in areas where water resources are scarce.

Desalination of salt water is another capital intensive option, which is used particularly in water scarce areas and for high value uses.

In Central Africa, they include the competition for scarce land and water resources in densely populated areas.

Water is becoming scarce, there are holes in the ozone layer and, along with biodiversity, the Amazon is being destroyed.

From scarce nothing, from scarce nothing seems to swell.

Hydropolitics along the Jordan River Scarce Water and Its Impact on the Arab Israel Conflict, by Aaron T. Wolf, UNU Press

Emergency flood plans are being developed and people advised on how to manage the scarce water resources in case of drought.

In Myanmar, a safe drinking water supply programme for water scarce rural areas has been carried out for years and will continue during the third short term plan period 2001 2005.

Resources are scarce.

Make yourself scarce.

Scarce labor drives wages.

Someday they may be scarce.

In the field of health and medicine, the Committee noted that a filter made of nanoaluminium oxide fibres could be used to remove impurities from drinking water in areas on Earth where water was scarce and potentially contaminated.

7 A. T. Wolf, Hydropolitics along the Jordan River Scarce Water and Its Impact on the Arab Israeli Conflict (UNU Press, 1995), and M. Murakami, Managing Water for Peace in the Middle East Alternative Strategies (UNU Press, 1995).

Developing countries must improve their policies governing the critical sectors of water, energy, transport and trade, including pricing policies. This would help reduce consumption of scarce natural resources.

You need to use scarce resources.

I don't know. Because it's scarce.

As the primary capacity building partner of Palestinian institutions such as the Palestinian Water and Environment Authorities, and through the implementation of several Global Environment Facility projects, UNDP also promotes environmental awareness and the protection of scarce natural resources, particularly water.

Refugees often create an unexpected and massive demand for scarce natural resources such as land, fuel, water, food and shelter materials, with long term implications for their sustainable regeneration.

I never knew they were so scarce

Accommodations in Palm Springs are very scarce.

10. Mountains were an important source of fresh water, which was not a renewable resource and would become increasingly scarce if global warming and population growth continued at the current pace.

Time is scarce, so what do we do?

Number two a declining population means scarce labor.

3. Reaffirms the concept of water as a scarce and vulnerable resource needed for the integrated development and management of land and water resources in the framework of the national planning process, including its linkages to economic and social objectives, land and ocean resources

Step out in the alley and make myself scarce.

110. It was necessary to develop cooperation between all levels of Governments, communities and non governmental organizations in order to establish a better understanding of the nature and value of scarce water resources.

Water stressed regions like Ethiopia and Sudan can adapt, at least in part, through improved technologies such as drip irrigation, rainwater harvesting, improved water storage facilities, deep wells, and agro forestry techniques that make best use of scarce rainfall. Better land management practices (the re planting of degraded forests, for example) can recharge underground water aquifers.

Twenty percent of global GDP already is produced in water scarce areas. According to the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), in the absence of more sustainable water management, the share could rise to 45 by 2050, placing a significant portion of global economic output at risk.

Accelerating trends of environmental degradation and poverty at the local, national and global levels lead to increased competition for scarce resources such as land and water, and can be potential flashpoints for violent conflict.

Because of its dependence on a healthy global environment, the tourism industry is acutely sensitive to environmental change and degradation, including from chemicals, wastes, increased pressure on scarce water resources and climate change effects.

Telephone booths are as scarce as hen's teeth around here.

The information passed to my Office is scarce and unconvincing.

Of course she ate. Food was scarce for so long.

(h) Scarce impact of the country strategy note on resource mobilization

Everything's scarce in this house, you don't have anything you need

Apart from those countries that are threatened partly or completely by rising sea levels, global warming will primarily affect the desert belts and their already precarious water supplies. And, while the conflicts in the Middle East are primarily about territory, this includes the scarce water resources so essential for survival.

52. The UNESCO Cairo Office cooperated with ALECSO and other partners in organizing the Seventh Regional Meeting of the Arab National Committees of the International Hydrological Programme and Workshop on Integration of Isotope Field Investigations into Water Projects in Water Scarce Areas, held at Rabat from 8 to 12 September 1997.

Girls get aborted before they're even born when there are scarce resources.

It is the ultimate scarce resource, the one planet that we share.

It's not like scarce objects, where sharing means we each get less.

It is a frustration at the waste of scarce United Nations funds.