"Only through a convergence of biodiversity, greenhouse gas emissions and water-use policies can bioenergy find its proper environmental context and agricultural scale, " the report concludes.
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In Griffith, a town near Narrandera, militant farmers burned piled-up copies of the water-use plan, which would affect an area of 2m people that provides about 40% of the output from Australia's farms.
Similar scenes at 28 meetings have fired up rural Australia since the water-use plan was unveiled in early October by the authority responsible for managing the basin formed by two of Australia's longest rivers, the Murray and the Darling.
High demand for water amid the heat wave and problems with soil shrinking as the ground warms has resulted in burst pipes and low water pressure in Oklahoma City, prompting officials to issue mandatory water-use restrictions for the first time in at least a decade, according to utilities department spokeswoman Debbie Ragan.
The Summit focused on three themes: smart water, resource recovery, and water re-use and looked at similarities and relationships between water and other natural resources.
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So it makes no sense for politicians to allocate great swathes to golf courses, especially given ecological concerns -- primarily over water use -- that accompany their operational capacity and the association with the wealthy elite.
For things that are not "countable" - such as water in the river - use less.
Banish mites and mold by washing bedding in 130-degree water weekly and use a chlorine-bleach solution to keep fungus at bay in the bathroom.
But some investors and tech companies see lucrative and long-term opportunities in technologies for taking salt out of sea water, treating wastewater for re-use and other applications because water precise because water so indispensable for human health and economic growth.
The researchers found that for residential users heating water (showers, clothes washers, cooking, hot tubs, etc) accounted for 75% of water-related energy use.
People in rural areas and small towns don't pay for water, and it's only in the bigger cities that residents--those who are on the meter and aren't stealing water--pay for what they use.
Customers of seven companies covering the South East - including Southern Water, Thames Water, South East Water, Mid Kent Water and Folkestone and Dover Water - have been urged to use water sparingly.
These days it has managed to persuade Indians to stop boiling their otherwise undrinkable tap water and instead use a now-ubiquitous water purifier known as "Aquaguard, " which has a 75% market share.
Secondly, when considering end-to-end efficiency, it is much less energy-intensive to heat water by direct use of natural gas on-site, rather than by using that natural gas to first make electricity that is used to heat water because of the large conversion losses at power plants.
One can draw the analogy with current electricity and running-water systems, where end-users can use services from providers with ease, without being concerned with the technical complexity behind those systems.
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"There is almost no regulation concerning water or power use, no minimum standards for water-consuming appliances ... and very few energy requirements for buildings, " he laments.
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Despite the predictions by the dowsers - who use pointers to find underground water or minerals - there are no obvious signs that the fields at Greasley Castle Farm were home to a village.
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While the earth's occupancy has doubled in the past 100 years, overall water use has quintupled--largely due to the demands of manufacturing.
"The process also uses less water and energy - we simply use coloured bottles to avoid using dye, " says Alex Lo, the company's managing director.
They retooled their factories to sell new front-loading washers, which use half as much water as their top-loading counterparts.
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Aside from new varieties that have lower water requirements, pest- and disease-resistant gene-spliced crop varieties also make water use more efficient indirectly.
That's roughly one-third of urban water use, a fairly ambitious goal.
The current drought has forced disaster declarations in 26 states and a spate of emergency conservation orders, including in Warrenton, where the city ordered residents to stop watering their lawns, shut down commercial car washes and banned and just about every other non-essential use of water.
California's water bureaucrats figure homeowners could save 3 million acre-feet a year by being smarter about home water use.
This, it is said, will allocate water to the highest-value-added use.
Now they are trying to reduce the amount of water they use, from the 80-100 gallons (303-379 litres) a day used by the average American, down to seven.
"More than one-fourth of all the water we use worldwide is taken to grow over 1 billion tons of food that nobody eats, " said Torgny Holmgren, director of the Stockholm International Water Institute.
There are a number of different reactors in use, most commonly water-cooled pressurised or boiling water reactors - though other reactor types are kept cool with the help of liquid metal, gas or molten salt.
Media accounts of the incident said the man confessed that he was visiting Yangon on a tourist visa and was staying at a hotel when he swam through the lake using a 5-liter water bottle, presumably to use as a float.
Insufficient government investment in water infrastructure has led farmers, middle-class urbanites, and industry alike to use tubewells to supply their own water.
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