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.

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.

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.

Most of our countries are ill equipped, because of scarce resources, to defend themselves against such encroachments.

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.

This is particularly useful to small countries which have scarce human and financial resources to draft individual laws.

Scarce labor drives wages.

Recognizing the need for priority allocation for scarce grant resources to programmes and projects in low income countries, in particular the least developed countries,

Recognizing the need for priority allocation for scarce grant resources to programmes and projects in low income countries, in particular the least developed countries,

22. Reaffirms the need for priority allocation of scarce grant resources to programmes and projects in low income countries, in particular the least developed countries

Such international efforts are important for helping countries with scarce resources, especially developing countries, to focus their commitments and funding on attaining the agreed targets.

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).

Financial liberalization would attract foreign capital seeking high returns in capital scarce countries, allowing them to invest more than they saved.

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.

Finally, Internet policymaking and regulation is an area that requires levels of expertise and resources that are often scarce in developing countries.

According to the Secretary General apos s report, virtually all countries, such as countries having mainly arid territory and scarce water resources, in the Middle East and North Africa, were already net food importers, and food security in such countries would be closely tied to the solidity of their trading position and the availability of sufficient hard currency to finance their foodstuff imports.

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.

Then the developing countries applied soap and water, vaccination.

Some countries expressed a preference for using the terminology international water courses instead of transboundary water resources .

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

The international community must spare no effort to lighten the burden of host countries, especially developing countries with scarce resources, and to assist such countries to strengthen their capacity to host refugees and to reintegrate repatriated persons.

In particular, the existence of cartels in the medical industry has especially harmful effects in developing countries, where these vital goods and services are scarce.

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.