In theory, the world should still have more than enough water to feed everyone under most circumstances, thanks to sodden places like Canada and Russia.
Ideally, when a chick becomes a candidate to become an egg-laying hen, it is put in a clean environment with clean water and feed, he said.
Without a new green revolution, farmers will need 60% more water to feed the 2 billion extra people who will be born between now and 2025.
To respond to immediate needs, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and other federal agencies are using their existing authorities wherever possible to address the hardships arising from the lack of water, feed, and forage.
But many of the necessary irrigation channels were themselves destroyed in the tsunami, while the water sources that feed them may also have been contaminated.
Bagged produce is often precut, releasing water and nutrients that feed bacteria.
Our hotels just feed and water people.
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In Arkansas, where conditions are the driest they've been since 1925, according to one widely used measure of short-term drought, ranchers have been selling off cattle to avoid having to feed and water them, said Arkansas Department of Agriculture spokesman Zach Taylor.
Investors are warming up to technology that promises to produce healthier crop efficiently and promote local consumption, given the challenge of managing the existing land, water and other resources to feed a growing population worldwide.
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Flamingos and pelicans feed in the deeper water, and African penguins and gannets breed on the offshore islands.
The power is used to pump water up into the reservoirs that feed the hydroelectric turbines.
Tiny particles of rock ground fine by the glaciers that feed it turn the water milky and give it this astonishing, alien colour.
He cleared land, built dams, planted out new strains of coffee bush and laid pipelines to drip feed the plants with water and fertiliser.
"These groups escaped the Spanish rule for 200 years because they fled to the Sierra de San Carlos where they had water, plants and animals to feed themselves, " she said.
As well as animal welfare concerns over rearing large numbers of farm animals in close proximity, the water use, farmland for animal feed, waste and greenhouse-gas emissions associated with meat production make it one of the most significant environmental problems in the world today.
McIntyre said a water company is willing to bring a feed line to the edge of the community and put a pump house in.
Weather isn't just about what to wear, although that matters, but about livestock: hay supplies, feed and corn, deicers and water flow, shelter from the wind and wet.
By hatching its own fish, carefully controlling feed and raising fish offshore in clean water, mercury and other pollutants can be kept to extremely low levels, contends Spencer.
Upstairs, he found that a frozen toilet had shattered and fallen away from the wall, snapping off the feed line at floor level, and water was jetting up to the ceiling.
In many unserved rural areas, people still fetch water for drinking and mix it with infant formula to feed their babies.
Your work with the Haitian government, our military, the U.N. and NGOs helped feed nearly 3 million Haitians, and provide water and sanitation services to much of the affected population.
'The Icefield is said to feed up to 80 per cent of Canada's drinking water, ' he says, 'but most of this glacier's volume has been lost since the 1920s.
It releases a surge of warm water from the equator which kills off the plankton causing the fish which feed on them to die of starvation and driving the survivors south into Chilean waters.
If the water stays for much longer she tells me she will have to take out a loan to feed her family.
It is envisaged that the conclusions of the seminar will provide inspiring messages to feed the programme of the UN International Year as well as the campaign for the World Water Day 2013, both coordinated by UNESCO in co-operation with UNECE and with the support of UNDESA, UNW-DPAC, UNW-DPC, on behalf of UN-Water.
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But what's novel about the CEAC design is that it incorporates a bio-regenerative life-support system -- the kind of technology that could one day not only feed an outpost on the moon or Mars, but also provide it with oxygen and recycle its water.
Agricultural irrigation along with cattle feed lots located near the plants to take advantage of the co-product distillers grain add to local water demands.
Trading in water rights may one day bring order to the 20m well-users in India, but not in time to feed the 1.4 billion Indian mouths expected by 2025.
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